Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 122 123
Rank change year-on-year -45 +1 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 763 642 636
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.33% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.54% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 421 443
10th Percentile £163 £160 £140
25th Percentile £185 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £230
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £338 £385 £350
90th Percentile £500 £538 £520
UK median daily rate £230 £238 £235
% change year-on-year -3.36% +1.28% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 67 35
10th Percentile £16.44 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £18.38 £20.64 £19.07
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +9.95% +20.02%
75th Percentile £36.00 £43.75 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £66.54
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.55% +14.32% +15.06%

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 42,208 25,248 30,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,337 16,299 19,707
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,268 1,358 1,625
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.34 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -38 281 £261 +4.50% 127
South East -40 158 £250 - 103
North of England -13 141 £200 - 61
North West -8 101 £200 -12.09% 31
East of England -2 66 £198 -10.23% 54
Midlands -65 65 £250 -9.09% 53
South West -59 52 £210 -10.64% 33
West Midlands -66 45 £250 -9.09% 30
Yorkshire -20 37 £210 -4.55% 22
East Midlands -12 19 £270 +47.54% 23
North East -53 4 £239 +22.44% 12
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 455 (59.63%) Windows
2 354 (46.40%) Microsoft
3 339 (44.43%) Active Directory
4 323 (42.33%) Microsoft 365
5 193 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (23.98%) Customer Service
7 169 (22.15%) Windows 10
8 150 (19.66%) ITIL
9 141 (18.48%) Security Cleared
10 128 (16.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 126 (16.51%) Azure
12 113 (14.81%) ITSM
13 110 (14.42%) SharePoint
14 108 (14.15%) Entra ID
15 103 (13.50%) ServiceNow
16 98 (12.84%) DNS
17 88 (11.53%) PowerShell
18 84 (11.01%) SC Cleared
19 75 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
20 72 (9.44%) Windows Server
21 71 (9.31%) Asset Management
22 67 (8.78%) Degree
23 66 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
23 66 (8.65%) SQL
23 66 (8.65%) TCP/IP
24 65 (8.52%) Linux
25 63 (8.26%) Service Management
26 61 (7.99%) Mac OS
26 61 (7.99%) VMware
27 59 (7.73%) Migration

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
1 110 (14.42%) SharePoint
2 66 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.79%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.66%) MTS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.33%) Microsoft 365
2 126 (16.51%) Azure
3 108 (14.15%) Entra ID
4 44 (5.77%) OneDrive
5 36 (4.72%) AWS
6 21 (2.75%) SaaS
7 18 (2.36%) GCP
8 11 (1.44%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.92%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.79%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.66%) IaaS
12 5 (0.66%) PaaS
13 4 (0.52%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (0.52%) Google App Engine
13 4 (0.52%) Google Compute Engine
13 4 (0.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (0.39%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 98 (12.84%) DNS
2 66 (8.65%) TCP/IP
3 55 (7.21%) VPN
4 52 (6.82%) DHCP
5 38 (4.98%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (3.54%) LAN
7 25 (3.28%) Firewall
8 24 (3.15%) WAN
9 20 (2.62%) Internet
10 11 (1.44%) VLAN
11 10 (1.31%) SAN
12 7 (0.92%) Network Security
12 7 (0.92%) Wireless
13 6 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.79%) Skype
14 5 (0.66%) HTTP
14 5 (0.66%) SMTP
14 5 (0.66%) WLAN
15 4 (0.52%) WebEx
16 3 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.01%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.10%) MySQL
3 9 (1.18%) Power BI
3 9 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 7 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (0.79%) Pentaho
5 6 (0.79%) SAP HANA
6 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.66%) MaxDB
6 5 (0.66%) Sybase ASE
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.39%) Big Data
8 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.39%) KDB
8 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (6.42%) JIRA
2 19 (2.49%) Git
3 9 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.39%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.39%) Xcode
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Firebug
7 1 (0.13%) GitLab
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (10.62%) Finance
4 38 (4.98%) Banking
5 35 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 27 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.75%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.36%) Front Office
10 14 (1.83%) Law
10 14 (1.83%) Legal
10 14 (1.83%) Retail
10 14 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.31%) Spanish Language
13 7 (0.92%) Marketing
13 7 (0.92%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.39%) Local Government
14 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.97%) Terraform
2 10 (1.31%) .NET
3 7 (0.92%) JDO
4 6 (0.79%) REST
5 5 (0.66%) CSS
5 5 (0.66%) LDAP
5 5 (0.66%) SAML
5 5 (0.66%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (0.66%) SAPUI5
6 4 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.52%) OAuth
6 4 (0.52%) React
7 3 (0.39%) Ajax
7 3 (0.39%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.39%) HTML
7 3 (0.39%) Jakarta EE
7 3 (0.39%) RESTful
7 3 (0.39%) Web Services
7 3 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (13.63%) Onboarding
2 29 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 20 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.10%) Hedge funds
7 14 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.57%) iPhone
9 11 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.18%) CMDB
12 8 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.92%) iPad
14 6 (0.79%) BYOD
14 6 (0.79%) PKI
14 6 (0.79%) Smartphone
15 5 (0.66%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 455 (59.63%) Windows
2 169 (22.15%) Windows 10
3 72 (9.44%) Windows Server
4 65 (8.52%) Linux
5 61 (7.99%) Mac OS
6 39 (5.11%) Apple iOS
7 33 (4.33%) Android
8 29 (3.80%) Unix
9 12 (1.57%) Windows 7
10 11 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (1.18%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.52%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.52%) Solaris
12 4 (0.52%) VMS
12 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.26%) CentOS
14 2 (0.26%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (23.98%) Customer Service
3 150 (19.66%) ITIL
4 113 (14.81%) ITSM
5 75 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (9.31%) Asset Management
7 63 (8.26%) Service Management
8 59 (7.73%) Migration
8 59 (7.73%) Service Delivery
9 53 (6.95%) Root Cause Analysis
9 53 (6.95%) User Experience
10 42 (5.50%) Incident Management
11 41 (5.37%) Problem Management
12 37 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (4.72%) Runbook
14 35 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 32 (4.19%) Change Management
16 27 (3.54%) Data Protection
16 27 (3.54%) Disaster Recovery
17 26 (3.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 88 (11.53%) PowerShell
2 66 (8.65%) SQL
3 41 (5.37%) Python
4 29 (3.80%) Java
5 22 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.23%) Bash
7 11 (1.44%) C#
8 10 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.92%) C++
10 5 (0.66%) Perl
10 5 (0.66%) Tcl
10 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.52%) Go
12 3 (0.39%) Korn
13 2 (0.26%) DCL
13 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.78%) Degree
4 49 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.88%) A+ Certification
6 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 11 (1.44%) CCNA
10 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.05%) MCSE
12 7 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.79%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.26%) CCNP
15 1 (0.13%) OCA
15 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.82%) SLA
2 5 (0.66%) QA
3 4 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.26%) GDPR
5 2 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.13%) GLP
6 1 (0.13%) GMP
6 1 (0.13%) GRC
6 1 (0.13%) ITGC
6 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 339 (44.43%) Active Directory
2 47 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.36%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.97%) vCloud
7 12 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.18%) Docker
9 7 (0.92%) vSphere
10 5 (0.66%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.39%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.26%) zsh
13 1 (0.13%) NFS
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 128 (16.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (6.03%) SCCM
3 29 (3.80%) vCenter Server
4 23 (3.01%) SCOM
5 17 (2.23%) Kubernetes
6 13 (1.70%) Ansible
6 13 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
6 13 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.57%) Grafana
8 7 (0.92%) WSUS
9 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.39%) Nagios
10 3 (0.39%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) vMotion
10 3 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 354 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 103 (13.50%) ServiceNow
3 61 (7.99%) VMware
4 34 (4.46%) Apple
5 28 (3.67%) Oracle
6 26 (3.41%) Cisco
7 25 (3.28%) Google
8 23 (3.01%) Citrix
9 17 (2.23%) Splunk
10 13 (1.70%) Bloomberg
10 13 (1.70%) iManage
10 13 (1.70%) Samsung
11 12 (1.57%) Okta
12 10 (1.31%) Dell
12 10 (1.31%) HP
12 10 (1.31%) Meraki
12 10 (1.31%) Sybase
13 9 (1.18%) Broadcom
13 9 (1.18%) SAP
14 8 (1.05%) ION Trading
397 Support Engineer jobs in England