Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £213, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 128 89
Rank change year-on-year -2 -39 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 735 523 895
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.07% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 2.22% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 371 638
10th Percentile £151 £154 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £330 £375 £308
90th Percentile £500 £525 £453
UK median daily rate £213 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.65% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 24 59
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.67 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.10 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.29 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% +10.45% +2.56%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £48.88 £48.75 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +3.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 32,461 23,524 35,233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,559 15,031 23,599
10th Percentile £306 £296 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,114 739 2,210
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.20 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year - +2.31% -15.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £71.91
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.25
% change year-on-year -1.63% -0.57% -14.38%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in England

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -32 209 £263 -12.50% 67
South East -1 156 £225 +9.76% 126
North of England -31 110 £190 -13.64% 86
South West +3 106 £250 +11.11% 36
Midlands -11 98 £200 -18.37% 36
West Midlands -26 61 £220 -15.38% 19
East of England -3 58 £201 -6.40% 32
North West -25 57 £152 -29.53% 46
Yorkshire -37 44 £205 -11.83% 33
East Midlands -3 39 £200 +5.26% 17
North East -10 9 £106 -48.29% 11
Support Engineer
UK

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 370 (50.34%) Windows
2 274 (37.28%) Microsoft
3 244 (33.20%) Microsoft 365
4 223 (30.34%) Security Cleared
5 215 (29.25%) Active Directory
6 179 (24.35%) SC Cleared
7 171 (23.27%) Windows 10
8 156 (21.22%) Customer Service
9 129 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
10 99 (13.47%) Azure
11 94 (12.79%) ServiceNow
12 84 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 82 (11.16%) ITIL
14 73 (9.93%) Migration
15 70 (9.52%) Linux
16 66 (8.98%) PowerShell
17 61 (8.30%) ITSM
18 60 (8.16%) SCCM
19 57 (7.76%) SharePoint
20 55 (7.48%) DNS
20 55 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
21 51 (6.94%) DHCP
21 51 (6.94%) Entra ID
22 49 (6.67%) DV Cleared
22 49 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
23 47 (6.39%) Asset Management
23 47 (6.39%) Service Management
23 47 (6.39%) TCP/IP
24 45 (6.12%) Android
24 45 (6.12%) Workflow

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 57 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 44 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.90%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Shopify
2 6 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) assyst
5 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.14%) Eikon
5 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 244 (33.20%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (13.47%) Azure
3 51 (6.94%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.08%) OneDrive
5 23 (3.13%) SaaS
6 19 (2.59%) Google Workspace
7 18 (2.45%) AWS
8 14 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.77%) Sauce Labs
10 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.36%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.95%) npm
12 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.54%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.54%) PaaS
14 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.41%) Snowflake
15 2 (0.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.48%) DNS
2 51 (6.94%) DHCP
3 49 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 47 (6.39%) TCP/IP
5 41 (5.58%) VPN
6 31 (4.22%) LAN
7 29 (3.95%) Firewall
8 27 (3.67%) Wireless
9 23 (3.13%) WAN
10 15 (2.04%) Skype
10 15 (2.04%) VLAN
11 13 (1.77%) Network Security
11 13 (1.77%) PABX
12 11 (1.50%) Junos
13 10 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 10 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
13 10 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (1.22%) Internet
15 7 (0.95%) BGP
15 7 (0.95%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.59%) Relational Database
1 19 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.18%) MySQL
3 7 (0.95%) Power BI
3 7 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.41%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (0.27%) Tableau
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) GIS
8 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (5.03%) JIRA
2 17 (2.31%) Browser DevTools
3 13 (1.77%) Android Studio
3 13 (1.77%) Eclipse
3 13 (1.77%) Xcode
4 9 (1.22%) Git
5 7 (0.95%) Maven
6 4 (0.54%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
General
1 324 (44.08%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.16%) Finance
3 45 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.71%) Banking
4 42 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 40 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 28 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.04%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.77%) Electronics
10 13 (1.77%) Marketing
11 11 (1.50%) Law
12 8 (1.09%) Aviation
12 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.09%) Front Office
13 7 (0.95%) Legal
14 5 (0.68%) Automotive
15 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.13%) Middleware
2 17 (2.31%) CSS
3 13 (1.77%) Ajax
3 13 (1.77%) AngularJS
3 13 (1.77%) GraphQL
3 13 (1.77%) React
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 6 (0.82%) PySpark
4 6 (0.82%) REST
5 5 (0.68%) SOAP
5 5 (0.68%) YAML
6 4 (0.54%) HTML
6 4 (0.54%) JDO
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.54%) XML
7 2 (0.27%) .NET
7 2 (0.27%) ADO
7 2 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.27%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.99%) Onboarding
2 37 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.67%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.99%) Smartphone
6 18 (2.45%) PKI
7 14 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.09%) iPhone
10 8 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.54%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.41%) CCTV
13 3 (0.41%) iPad
13 3 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 370 (50.34%) Windows
2 171 (23.27%) Windows 10
3 70 (9.52%) Linux
4 45 (6.12%) Android
5 44 (5.99%) Mac OS
6 40 (5.44%) Windows Server
7 33 (4.49%) Apple iOS
7 33 (4.49%) Unix
8 12 (1.63%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.95%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.54%) CentOS
13 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (21.22%) Customer Service
2 129 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (11.16%) ITIL
4 73 (9.93%) Migration
5 61 (8.30%) ITSM
6 47 (6.39%) Asset Management
6 47 (6.39%) Service Management
7 45 (6.12%) Workflow
8 37 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (4.76%) User Experience
9 35 (4.76%) Workflow Management
10 27 (3.67%) Service Delivery
11 23 (3.13%) Root Cause Analysis
12 22 (2.99%) Break/Fix
12 22 (2.99%) DevOps
12 22 (2.99%) OO
13 21 (2.86%) Data Protection
13 21 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (2.59%) Agile
14 19 (2.59%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.98%) PowerShell
2 36 (4.90%) SQL
3 32 (4.35%) Java
3 32 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.81%) Python
5 22 (2.99%) Shell Script
6 15 (2.04%) Perl
7 13 (1.77%) C#
8 12 (1.63%) Ada
8 12 (1.63%) C
8 12 (1.63%) C++
9 6 (0.82%) Bash
9 6 (0.82%) Korn
10 2 (0.27%) AWK
10 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.27%) VBScript
11 1 (0.14%) Magik
11 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 223 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 179 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.35%) Degree
5 26 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.77%) A+ Certification
7 12 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (1.09%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.95%) CCNA
10 7 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.95%) MCSE
11 5 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.68%) Server+ Certification
12 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.14%) City & Guilds
14 1 (0.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.81%) SLA
2 9 (1.22%) GDPR
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.41%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.14%) GAAP
5 1 (0.14%) GLP
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 215 (29.25%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.90%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.63%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.82%) Firmware
5 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.54%) Docker
6 4 (0.54%) vSphere
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.27%) NFS
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 84 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (8.16%) SCCM
3 27 (3.67%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (1.90%) Ansible
5 13 (1.77%) vCenter Server
6 11 (1.50%) Grafana
7 8 (1.09%) Terraform
8 6 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 6 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.27%) Kubernetes
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
12 2 (0.27%) WSUS
13 1 (0.14%) Autotask
13 1 (0.14%) McAfee ePO
13 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 274 (37.28%) Microsoft
2 94 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 34 (4.63%) Oracle
4 33 (4.49%) VMware
5 32 (4.35%) Cisco
6 29 (3.95%) Apple
7 25 (3.40%) Dell
8 21 (2.86%) Google
9 20 (2.72%) HP
10 19 (2.59%) SAP
11 18 (2.45%) Juniper
12 17 (2.31%) Red Hat
13 16 (2.18%) Splunk
14 14 (1.90%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.36%) Citrix
16 9 (1.22%) Bloomberg
16 9 (1.22%) Remedy
17 6 (0.82%) Siemens
17 6 (0.82%) Twitter
18 5 (0.68%) Databricks
352 Support Engineer jobs in England