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 26 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
26 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 139 84
Rank change year-on-year +20 -55 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 734 494 911
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 1.87% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 2.01% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 348 654
10th Percentile £150 £155 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £230 £225
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £338 £350 £325
90th Percentile £500 £545 £500
UK median daily rate £220 £225 £225
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 21 54
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.56 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.60 £18.13 £17.83
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% +10.45% +2.56%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.41 £25.02
90th Percentile £38.38 £48.75 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.26% +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 29,574 24,600 35,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.00% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,859 15,166 23,647
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,840 745 1,921
10th Percentile £14.82 £16.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.64
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.56 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -13.33% +8.49%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 0 203 £260 -8.77% 51
South East +11 162 £238 +16.10% 142
South West +22 110 £250 +11.11% 36
North of England -3 107 £195 -13.33% 70
Midlands +2 101 £200 -21.57% 53
West Midlands -10 66 £250 -3.85% 34
North West +2 59 £152 -29.53% 38
East of England +3 53 £200 -9.09% 40
Yorkshire -24 38 £205 -8.89% 24
East Midlands +1 37 £180 -19.10% 19
North East -6 10 £106 -48.29% 11
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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.

1 377 (51.36%) Windows
2 282 (38.42%) Microsoft
3 235 (32.02%) Security Cleared
4 224 (30.52%) Microsoft 365
5 205 (27.93%) Active Directory
6 182 (24.80%) SC Cleared
7 163 (22.21%) Windows 10
8 157 (21.39%) Customer Service
9 146 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (13.90%) Azure
11 89 (12.13%) ITIL
11 89 (12.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 89 (12.13%) ServiceNow
12 86 (11.72%) Linux
13 70 (9.54%) Migration
14 67 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
15 64 (8.72%) ITSM
15 64 (8.72%) SCCM
16 63 (8.58%) SharePoint
17 61 (8.31%) DNS
18 60 (8.17%) Service Management
19 57 (7.77%) DHCP
20 56 (7.63%) DV Cleared
20 56 (7.63%) TCP/IP
20 56 (7.63%) VPN
21 54 (7.36%) PowerShell
22 49 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 49 (6.68%) Microsoft Exchange
23 48 (6.54%) Android
24 47 (6.40%) Windows Server

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 63 (8.58%) SharePoint
2 49 (6.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.45%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.54%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 67 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.14%) Pro Tools
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.95%) Shopify
2 5 (0.68%) Primavera
3 3 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.14%) assyst
4 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.14%) Eikon
4 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 224 (30.52%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (13.90%) Azure
3 44 (5.99%) Entra ID
4 26 (3.54%) AWS
5 25 (3.41%) SaaS
6 24 (3.27%) OneDrive
7 17 (2.32%) Google Workspace
8 16 (2.18%) Sauce Labs
9 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.09%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.95%) npm
12 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.54%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.41%) Slack
15 2 (0.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (0.27%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.31%) DNS
2 57 (7.77%) DHCP
3 56 (7.63%) TCP/IP
3 56 (7.63%) VPN
4 35 (4.77%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (4.36%) Firewall
5 32 (4.36%) Wireless
6 26 (3.54%) WAN
7 21 (2.86%) VLAN
8 18 (2.45%) Junos
8 18 (2.45%) LAN
9 16 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
10 15 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
10 15 (2.04%) MPLS
10 15 (2.04%) Skype
11 14 (1.91%) BGP
11 14 (1.91%) IPsec
11 14 (1.91%) Network Security
12 13 (1.77%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.41%) Relational Database
2 21 (2.86%) MySQL
3 13 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.95%) Power BI
5 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.41%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.14%) GIS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 22 (3.00%) Browser DevTools
2 16 (2.18%) Android Studio
2 16 (2.18%) Eclipse
2 16 (2.18%) Xcode
3 15 (2.04%) JIRA
4 9 (1.23%) Git
5 7 (0.95%) Maven
6 5 (0.68%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 325 (44.28%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.13%) Finance
3 53 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (5.59%) Banking
6 32 (4.36%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.18%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.91%) Electronics
11 14 (1.91%) Law
11 14 (1.91%) Marketing
12 13 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.77%) Front Office
13 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.09%) Legal
14 6 (0.82%) Automotive
15 5 (0.68%) Aviation
15 5 (0.68%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.41%) Middleware
2 22 (3.00%) CSS
3 17 (2.32%) Ajax
3 17 (2.32%) AngularJS
3 17 (2.32%) GraphQL
3 17 (2.32%) React
4 6 (0.82%) PySpark
4 6 (0.82%) REST
4 6 (0.82%) XML
5 5 (0.68%) HTML
5 5 (0.68%) SOAP
5 5 (0.68%) YAML
6 4 (0.54%) JDO
7 2 (0.27%) .NET
7 2 (0.27%) ADO
7 2 (0.27%) EDI
7 2 (0.27%) Kafka
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.27%) OAuth
7 2 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.81%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.41%) PKI
5 23 (3.13%) Smartphone
6 21 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.63%) iPhone
10 12 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.95%) iPad
13 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.82%) Replication
15 3 (0.41%) Hedge funds
15 3 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 377 (51.36%) Windows
2 163 (22.21%) Windows 10
3 86 (11.72%) Linux
4 48 (6.54%) Android
5 47 (6.40%) Windows Server
6 43 (5.86%) Mac OS
7 36 (4.90%) Apple iOS
8 30 (4.09%) Unix
9 12 (1.63%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.23%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.54%) CentOS
12 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.14%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (21.39%) Customer Service
2 146 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (12.13%) ITIL
4 70 (9.54%) Migration
5 64 (8.72%) ITSM
6 60 (8.17%) Service Management
7 49 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 45 (6.13%) Asset Management
8 45 (6.13%) Workflow
9 35 (4.77%) User Experience
9 35 (4.77%) Workflow Management
10 27 (3.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (3.68%) Service Delivery
11 26 (3.54%) OO
12 21 (2.86%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (2.86%) Data Protection
13 20 (2.72%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (2.72%) Logistics
13 20 (2.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (2.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 54 (7.36%) PowerShell
2 37 (5.04%) JavaScript
3 34 (4.63%) Java
4 29 (3.95%) Python
5 24 (3.27%) SQL
6 18 (2.45%) Perl
7 15 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.63%) Ada
8 12 (1.63%) C
8 12 (1.63%) C++
9 7 (0.95%) Bash
10 2 (0.27%) AWK
10 2 (0.27%) C#
10 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.14%) Magik
11 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.14%) Tcl
11 1 (0.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 235 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 182 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 34 (4.63%) Degree
5 25 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (1.50%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (1.23%) A+ Certification
10 8 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.54%) MCP
14 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.41%) CCNA
14 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.41%) MCSE
15 2 (0.27%) MCSA
16 1 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.68%) SLA
2 7 (0.95%) GDPR
3 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.54%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.14%) GAAP
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 205 (27.93%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.18%) VMware NSX
5 15 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.68%) Docker
6 5 (0.68%) Firmware
6 5 (0.68%) vSphere
7 4 (0.54%) Brightmail
7 4 (0.54%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) NFS
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 89 (12.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (8.72%) SCCM
3 26 (3.54%) Jamf Pro
4 18 (2.45%) vCenter Server
5 17 (2.32%) Ansible
6 11 (1.50%) Grafana
7 9 (1.23%) Terraform
8 6 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
11 3 (0.41%) SCOM
12 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.27%) WSUS
13 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.14%) Kibana
13 1 (0.14%) logstash
13 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 282 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 89 (12.13%) ServiceNow
3 43 (5.86%) Cisco
3 43 (5.86%) VMware
4 32 (4.36%) Apple
4 32 (4.36%) Oracle
5 29 (3.95%) Juniper
6 24 (3.27%) HP
7 21 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 20 (2.72%) Google
9 19 (2.59%) Dell
9 19 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 19 (2.59%) Splunk
10 17 (2.32%) SAP
11 12 (1.63%) Citrix
12 10 (1.36%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.23%) Remedy
14 7 (0.95%) McAfee
14 7 (0.95%) Starlink
15 5 (0.68%) Databricks
365 Support Engineer jobs in England