Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 122 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 -25 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 733 532 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.16% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 2.32% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 379 614
10th Percentile £151 £153 £136
25th Percentile £185 £188 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £338 £375 £306
90th Percentile £500 £500 £450
UK median daily rate £220 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -2.22% +4.65% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 23 59
10th Percentile £17.14 £16.67 £15.57
25th Percentile £19.89 £18.13 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.75 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +10.45% +3.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.33 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.25 £39.95 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.49% +13.75% +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 33,621 22,950 35,200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 93.03% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,202 15,047 23,545
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
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 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 759 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.86 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year +4.79% +2.77% -23.53%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -31 216 £275 -8.33% 44
South East -12 141 £238 +18.75% 91
North of England -38 119 £190 -13.64% 68
South West +7 109 £250 +11.11% 33
Midlands -26 91 £200 -10.11% 30
North West -22 64 £152 -29.53% 38
East of England -5 58 £203 -7.95% 35
West Midlands -47 54 £250 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire -28 46 £205 -11.83% 26
East Midlands -4 38 £200 +5.26% 12
North East -16 9 £106 -45.64% 8
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 356 (48.57%) Windows
2 271 (36.97%) Microsoft
3 239 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
4 221 (30.15%) Security Cleared
5 216 (29.47%) Active Directory
6 181 (24.69%) SC Cleared
7 170 (23.19%) Windows 10
8 158 (21.56%) Customer Service
9 121 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (13.92%) Azure
11 95 (12.96%) ServiceNow
12 86 (11.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 84 (11.46%) ITIL
14 72 (9.82%) Migration
15 70 (9.55%) PowerShell
16 59 (8.05%) Linux
17 58 (7.91%) DNS
17 58 (7.91%) ITSM
18 56 (7.64%) SharePoint
19 54 (7.37%) Entra ID
19 54 (7.37%) SCCM
20 52 (7.09%) DHCP
21 51 (6.96%) Asset Management
21 51 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
22 49 (6.68%) TCP/IP
23 45 (6.14%) DV Cleared
23 45 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
23 45 (6.14%) Workflow
24 41 (5.59%) JIRA
24 41 (5.59%) Mac OS

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 56 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 39 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.05%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.95%) Shopify
2 6 (0.82%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.14%) assyst
5 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.14%) Eikon
5 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 239 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (13.92%) Azure
3 54 (7.37%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.96%) OneDrive
5 22 (3.00%) SaaS
6 19 (2.59%) AWS
6 19 (2.59%) Google Workspace
7 14 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.50%) Sauce Labs
9 10 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 6 (0.82%) npm
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.68%) PaaS
12 4 (0.55%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.55%) Datadog
12 4 (0.55%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.41%) GCP
13 3 (0.41%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.91%) DNS
2 52 (7.09%) DHCP
3 51 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
4 49 (6.68%) TCP/IP
5 41 (5.59%) VPN
6 34 (4.64%) LAN
7 26 (3.55%) WAN
8 24 (3.27%) Firewall
9 23 (3.14%) Wireless
10 16 (2.18%) Skype
11 13 (1.77%) Network Security
11 13 (1.77%) PABX
11 13 (1.77%) VLAN
12 11 (1.50%) Internet
13 9 (1.23%) SAN
14 8 (1.09%) HTTP
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.95%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.32%) MySQL
3 16 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.09%) Power BI
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (0.41%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.41%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.41%) Tableau
9 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 41 (5.59%) JIRA
2 18 (2.46%) Browser DevTools
3 12 (1.64%) Git
4 11 (1.50%) Android Studio
4 11 (1.50%) Eclipse
4 11 (1.50%) Xcode
5 6 (0.82%) Maven
6 4 (0.55%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 321 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.19%) Finance
3 43 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.73%) Manufacturing
5 41 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 37 (5.05%) Banking
7 27 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.77%) Electronics
11 13 (1.77%) Marketing
12 10 (1.36%) Law
13 9 (1.23%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Aviation
14 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Front Office
16 4 (0.55%) Advertising
16 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.86%) Middleware
2 15 (2.05%) CSS
3 11 (1.50%) Ajax
3 11 (1.50%) AngularJS
3 11 (1.50%) GraphQL
3 11 (1.50%) React
4 9 (1.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (0.68%) OAuth
5 5 (0.68%) REST
5 5 (0.68%) YAML
6 4 (0.55%) HTML
6 4 (0.55%) JDO
6 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.55%) PySpark
6 4 (0.55%) SAML
6 4 (0.55%) XML
7 3 (0.41%) .NET
8 2 (0.27%) EDI
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.55%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.68%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.14%) Smartphone
6 14 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.91%) PKI
7 12 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.64%) iPhone
7 12 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.82%) iPad
12 6 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.55%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.41%) CCTV
15 2 (0.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 356 (48.57%) Windows
2 170 (23.19%) Windows 10
3 59 (8.05%) Linux
4 41 (5.59%) Mac OS
5 40 (5.46%) Android
6 37 (5.05%) Windows Server
7 31 (4.23%) Unix
8 28 (3.82%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.64%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.82%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.41%) CentOS
11 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (21.56%) Customer Service
2 121 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (11.46%) ITIL
4 72 (9.82%) Migration
5 58 (7.91%) ITSM
6 51 (6.96%) Asset Management
7 45 (6.14%) Workflow
8 38 (5.18%) User Experience
9 36 (4.91%) Service Management
10 35 (4.77%) Workflow Management
11 33 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (3.68%) Root Cause Analysis
13 26 (3.55%) Service Delivery
14 25 (3.41%) Change Management
15 24 (3.27%) Break/Fix
16 21 (2.86%) DevOps
17 20 (2.73%) Knowledge Transfer
18 19 (2.59%) Agile
18 19 (2.59%) Data Protection
18 19 (2.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.55%) PowerShell
2 41 (5.59%) SQL
3 30 (4.09%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.82%) Java
5 27 (3.68%) Python
6 25 (3.41%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.05%) C#
8 13 (1.77%) Perl
9 12 (1.64%) Ada
9 12 (1.64%) C
9 12 (1.64%) C++
10 9 (1.23%) Bash
10 9 (1.23%) Korn
11 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.27%) AWK
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.14%) Magik
13 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 221 (30.15%) Security Cleared
2 181 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.14%) DV Cleared
4 26 (3.55%) Degree
5 23 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.77%) A+ Certification
7 11 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.36%) CCNA
8 10 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.23%) MCSE
10 8 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.41%) Server+ Certification
14 1 (0.14%) HND
14 1 (0.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.96%) SLA
2 9 (1.23%) GDPR
3 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.41%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 216 (29.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.82%) Firmware
6 3 (0.41%) Docker
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.27%) NFS
7 2 (0.27%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 86 (11.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (7.37%) SCCM
3 27 (3.68%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (1.77%) Grafana
5 11 (1.50%) Ansible
6 9 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.95%) Terraform
8 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.27%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.27%) WMI
8 2 (0.27%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.14%) Autotask
9 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 271 (36.97%) Microsoft
2 95 (12.96%) ServiceNow
3 33 (4.50%) Oracle
4 26 (3.55%) Apple
4 26 (3.55%) Cisco
4 26 (3.55%) Dell
4 26 (3.55%) VMware
5 21 (2.86%) HP
6 20 (2.73%) SAP
7 18 (2.46%) Google
8 15 (2.05%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.91%) Juniper
9 14 (1.91%) Splunk
10 10 (1.36%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.36%) Citrix
10 10 (1.36%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.23%) Remedy
12 8 (1.09%) Zscaler
13 7 (0.95%) McAfee
13 7 (0.95%) Starlink
278 Support Engineer jobs in England