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 6 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 129 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 -53 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 759 606 1,116
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.58% 1.95% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 2.10% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 413 799
10th Percentile £157 £150 £140
25th Percentile £188 £188 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £240
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £338 £350 £400
90th Percentile £526 £538 £608
UK median daily rate £225 £240 £244
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 32 58
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.05 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +25.61% -8.33%
75th Percentile £30.25 £42.19 £21.75
90th Percentile £66.74 £69.81 £27.20
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £23.89 £19.00
% change year-on-year +4.67% +25.71% -6.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 26,862 28,918 36,986
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.00% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,264 17,647 25,665
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,582 1,089 1,403
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.44 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 -23 216 £250 -15.25% 343
South East +34 195 £238 -0.83% 328
South West +42 107 £250 +13.90% 62
Midlands +7 100 £250 -9.09% 92
North of England -11 94 £203 +1.25% 123
West Midlands +5 74 £255 -8.93% 50
North West -7 51 £190 -5.00% 86
East of England -14 45 £220 - 57
Yorkshire -21 29 £205 +2.50% 27
East Midlands -7 26 £188 -31.82% 42
North East 0 14 £106 -34.77% 11
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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.

1 422 (55.60%) Windows
2 313 (41.24%) Microsoft
3 242 (31.88%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (31.75%) Active Directory
5 220 (28.99%) Security Cleared
6 180 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
7 161 (21.21%) Windows 10
8 160 (21.08%) SC Cleared
9 155 (20.42%) Customer Service
10 131 (17.26%) ITIL
11 103 (13.57%) ServiceNow
12 100 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
13 99 (13.04%) Azure
14 94 (12.38%) Linux
15 93 (12.25%) DNS
16 88 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
17 82 (10.80%) DHCP
18 81 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
19 77 (10.14%) VPN
20 74 (9.75%) ITSM
21 73 (9.62%) SharePoint
21 73 (9.62%) TCP/IP
22 72 (9.49%) SCCM
22 72 (9.49%) Service Management
23 54 (7.11%) DV Cleared
24 53 (6.98%) Cisco
24 53 (6.98%) PowerShell
25 51 (6.72%) Migration
26 50 (6.59%) Windows Server
27 49 (6.46%) Android

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 81 (10.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (9.62%) SharePoint
3 31 (4.08%) Skype for Business
4 11 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (1.32%) Office Communications Server
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.53%) Mattermost
9 3 (0.40%) Apache
9 3 (0.40%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 100 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.13%) Pro Tools
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Primavera
1 5 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.26%) Eikon
3 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 242 (31.88%) Microsoft 365
2 99 (13.04%) Azure
3 34 (4.48%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.82%) AWS
5 24 (3.16%) OneDrive
5 24 (3.16%) SaaS
6 19 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 17 (2.24%) Sauce Labs
8 13 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 6 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.66%) Slack
10 5 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.53%) npm
11 4 (0.53%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.40%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (12.25%) DNS
2 82 (10.80%) DHCP
3 77 (10.14%) VPN
4 73 (9.62%) TCP/IP
5 43 (5.67%) WAN
6 37 (4.87%) Firewall
7 36 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (4.35%) Wireless
9 31 (4.08%) LAN
10 23 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
11 22 (2.90%) Skype
11 22 (2.90%) VLAN
12 20 (2.64%) Junos
13 18 (2.37%) MPLS
14 17 (2.24%) BGP
14 17 (2.24%) IPsec
15 15 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
16 14 (1.84%) VoIP
17 13 (1.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.22%) Relational Database
2 24 (3.16%) MySQL
3 17 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.32%) Power BI
5 6 (0.79%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.40%) DB2
7 3 (0.40%) GIS
7 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.26%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.26%) Tableau
9 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) Informix
9 1 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (3.56%) Browser DevTools
2 17 (2.24%) Android Studio
2 17 (2.24%) Eclipse
2 17 (2.24%) Xcode
3 15 (1.98%) JIRA
4 9 (1.19%) Firebug
5 6 (0.79%) Git
6 4 (0.53%) Maven
7 3 (0.40%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 347 (45.72%) Social Skills
2 78 (10.28%) Finance
3 66 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 54 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.74%) Manufacturing
6 30 (3.95%) Banking
7 28 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.24%) Marketing
11 16 (2.11%) Electronics
12 12 (1.58%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.32%) Front Office
15 9 (1.19%) Automotive
16 7 (0.92%) Law
16 7 (0.92%) Retail
17 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.79%) Legal
17 6 (0.79%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.69%) CSS
2 23 (3.03%) Middleware
3 20 (2.64%) React
4 18 (2.37%) Ajax
4 18 (2.37%) AngularJS
4 18 (2.37%) GraphQL
5 16 (2.11%) XML
6 10 (1.32%) HTML
7 7 (0.92%) JSON
8 6 (0.79%) XMPP
9 5 (0.66%) .NET
9 5 (0.66%) REST
9 5 (0.66%) SOAP
10 4 (0.53%) JDO
10 4 (0.53%) OAuth
11 3 (0.40%) ADO
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
12 2 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (0.26%) PySpark
12 2 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (3.43%) Data Centre
3 25 (3.29%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.90%) PKI
5 20 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 16 (2.11%) Smartphone
8 14 (1.84%) iPhone
8 14 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.84%) Replication
8 14 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.05%) iPad
12 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.92%) NHS
13 6 (0.79%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.66%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.53%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 422 (55.60%) Windows
2 161 (21.21%) Windows 10
3 94 (12.38%) Linux
4 50 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 49 (6.46%) Android
6 44 (5.80%) Apple iOS
7 42 (5.53%) Mac OS
8 30 (3.95%) Unix
9 13 (1.71%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (1.32%) Windows 7
10 10 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.53%) CentOS
11 4 (0.53%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.26%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.13%) VMS
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (20.42%) Customer Service
3 131 (17.26%) ITIL
4 74 (9.75%) ITSM
5 72 (9.49%) Service Management
6 51 (6.72%) Migration
7 45 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (5.01%) Asset Management
9 36 (4.74%) Workflow
10 34 (4.48%) User Experience
11 33 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (4.08%) OO
13 30 (3.95%) Service Delivery
14 27 (3.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 25 (3.29%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (3.29%) High Availability
16 23 (3.03%) Data Protection
16 23 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (2.64%) Disaster Recovery
17 20 (2.64%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.98%) PowerShell
2 41 (5.40%) JavaScript
3 38 (5.01%) Java
4 34 (4.48%) Python
5 31 (4.08%) SQL
6 19 (2.50%) Perl
7 15 (1.98%) Bash
7 15 (1.98%) C
8 14 (1.84%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.58%) Ada
9 12 (1.58%) C++
10 4 (0.53%) C#
11 3 (0.40%) Magik
11 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.40%) VBScript
12 2 (0.26%) AWK
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) ABAP
13 1 (0.13%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 220 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 160 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.11%) DV Cleared
4 47 (6.19%) Degree
5 29 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.84%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.45%) CCNA
9 11 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (1.19%) A+ Certification
10 9 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.66%) MCP
14 4 (0.53%) MCSA
14 4 (0.53%) MCSE
15 2 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.80%) SLA
2 9 (1.19%) GDPR
2 9 (1.19%) QA
3 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) GMP
5 1 (0.13%) GxP
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 241 (31.75%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 20 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.58%) vSphere
6 10 (1.32%) Brightmail
6 10 (1.32%) ISA Server
7 6 (0.79%) Docker
8 5 (0.66%) Firmware
9 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.26%) XenApp
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (9.49%) SCCM
3 25 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
4 21 (2.77%) Ansible
5 18 (2.37%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.71%) SCOM
7 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.19%) Terraform
9 8 (1.05%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.66%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.66%) Grafana
12 4 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) AppManager
14 2 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
14 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.26%) OpenView
15 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 313 (41.24%) Microsoft
2 103 (13.57%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.98%) Cisco
4 44 (5.80%) Oracle
4 44 (5.80%) VMware
5 38 (5.01%) Apple
6 33 (4.35%) Juniper
7 25 (3.29%) SolarWinds
8 24 (3.16%) Citrix
8 24 (3.16%) Splunk
9 23 (3.03%) Red Hat
9 23 (3.03%) SAP
10 21 (2.77%) Google
10 21 (2.77%) HP
11 12 (1.58%) Remedy
12 9 (1.19%) Dell
13 7 (0.92%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.92%) McAfee
13 7 (0.92%) Okta
13 7 (0.92%) Starlink
843 Support Engineer jobs in England