Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £210, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 120 113
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 657 566 733
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.33% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.52% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 370 518
10th Percentile £153 £153 £140
25th Percentile £185 £195 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £240 £211
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.61% -15.50%
75th Percentile £330 £385 £300
90th Percentile £450 £503 £422
UK median daily rate £210 £236 £210
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 41 48
10th Percentile £17.10 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.50 £17.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +14.32% +10.00%
75th Percentile £28.00 £65.00 £33.44
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £24.66 £20.82
% change year-on-year -3.39% +18.47% +4.08%

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 37,604 22,499 34,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,450 14,977 22,653
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 914 2,443
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.06 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.36 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.81% -18.34% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.68 £36.65
% change year-on-year +53.44% -21.76% -18.56%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -47 210 £275 -8.33% 57
South East -32 133 £208 -17.00% 96
North of England -63 96 £190 -11.63% 67
Midlands -29 88 £200 -27.27% 39
South West -35 74 £210 -8.70% 39
North West -35 59 £190 -11.63% 34
East of England -16 57 £200 -10.11% 33
West Midlands -47 54 £238 -17.39% 30
Yorkshire -39 36 £190 -19.15% 26
East Midlands -5 35 £200 -5.88% 9
North East -32 1 - - 10
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 305 (46.42%) Windows
2 241 (36.68%) Microsoft
3 222 (33.79%) Microsoft 365
4 217 (33.03%) Active Directory
5 150 (22.83%) Windows 10
6 136 (20.70%) Customer Service
7 132 (20.09%) Security Cleared
8 122 (18.57%) Azure
9 113 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (16.29%) SC Cleared
11 93 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
12 89 (13.55%) ITIL
13 71 (10.81%) ServiceNow
14 69 (10.50%) Entra ID
15 56 (8.52%) Migration
16 50 (7.61%) JIRA
16 50 (7.61%) PowerShell
16 50 (7.61%) SharePoint
16 50 (7.61%) SQL
17 47 (7.15%) ITSM
18 42 (6.39%) DNS
19 41 (6.24%) SCCM
20 38 (5.78%) Wi-Fi
21 36 (5.48%) Degree
22 35 (5.33%) Windows Server
23 34 (5.18%) Asset Management
23 34 (5.18%) LAN
23 34 (5.18%) Linux
23 34 (5.18%) Unix
24 33 (5.02%) 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 50 (7.61%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.61%) IIS
4 3 (0.46%) Confluence
4 3 (0.46%) NetWeaver
4 3 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (1.07%) Shopify
2 6 (0.91%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.15%) assyst
4 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 222 (33.79%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (18.57%) Azure
3 69 (10.50%) Entra ID
4 21 (3.20%) AWS
4 21 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (3.20%) SaaS
5 18 (2.74%) OneDrive
6 12 (1.83%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.52%) GCP
8 10 (1.52%) Google Workspace
9 6 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (0.76%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.76%) PaaS
11 4 (0.61%) Datadog
11 4 (0.61%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.61%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.46%) npm
13 2 (0.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.39%) DNS
2 38 (5.78%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (5.18%) LAN
4 31 (4.72%) DHCP
5 30 (4.57%) VPN
6 26 (3.96%) TCP/IP
7 21 (3.20%) WAN
8 18 (2.74%) Firewall
9 16 (2.44%) SAN
10 12 (1.83%) Wireless
11 10 (1.52%) Internet
12 9 (1.37%) VLAN
13 7 (1.07%) HTTP
13 7 (1.07%) WLAN
14 5 (0.76%) Network Security
14 5 (0.76%) Skype
15 4 (0.61%) Unified Communications
16 3 (0.46%) AMQP
16 3 (0.46%) SNMP
16 3 (0.46%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.04%) MySQL
1 20 (3.04%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 12 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.52%) Power BI
5 9 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.07%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.46%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.30%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (0.30%) Tableau
11 1 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.15%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 50 (7.61%) JIRA
2 18 (2.74%) Git
3 13 (1.98%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (0.91%) Android Studio
4 6 (0.91%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.91%) Xcode
5 3 (0.46%) Firebug
5 3 (0.46%) Maven
6 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 262 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 57 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (6.70%) Finance
4 36 (5.48%) Banking
5 34 (5.18%) Manufacturing
6 21 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.44%) Law
9 12 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.52%) Front Office
10 10 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.37%) Legal
12 7 (1.07%) Aviation
13 6 (0.91%) French Language
13 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.76%) Retail
15 4 (0.61%) Advertising
16 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 9 (1.37%) CSS
3 8 (1.22%) REST
4 7 (1.07%) JDO
5 6 (0.91%) Ajax
5 6 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.91%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.91%) React
6 5 (0.76%) .NET
6 5 (0.76%) Middleware
6 5 (0.76%) SAML
6 5 (0.76%) YAML
7 4 (0.61%) HTML
7 4 (0.61%) OAuth
7 4 (0.61%) PySpark
8 3 (0.46%) JSP
8 3 (0.46%) LDAP
8 3 (0.46%) Web Services
8 3 (0.46%) XML
9 2 (0.30%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.54%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (2.74%) Driving Licence
6 13 (1.98%) Smartphone
7 12 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.52%) iPhone
9 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.37%) PKI
10 8 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.61%) iPad
14 3 (0.46%) CCTV
14 3 (0.46%) CMDB
14 3 (0.46%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.30%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 305 (46.42%) Windows
2 150 (22.83%) Windows 10
3 35 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 34 (5.18%) Linux
4 34 (5.18%) Unix
5 33 (5.02%) Mac OS
6 21 (3.20%) Android
6 21 (3.20%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.83%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (20.70%) Customer Service
2 113 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (13.55%) ITIL
4 56 (8.52%) Migration
5 47 (7.15%) ITSM
6 34 (5.18%) Asset Management
7 33 (5.02%) User Experience
8 32 (4.87%) Change Management
9 29 (4.41%) DevOps
9 29 (4.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 29 (4.41%) Service Management
10 26 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (3.65%) Break/Fix
11 24 (3.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (3.65%) Workflow
12 22 (3.35%) Incident Management
13 20 (3.04%) Service Delivery
14 18 (2.74%) Problem Management
15 17 (2.59%) Agile
15 17 (2.59%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 50 (7.61%) PowerShell
1 50 (7.61%) SQL
2 23 (3.50%) Python
3 21 (3.20%) Java
4 20 (3.04%) C#
4 20 (3.04%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.44%) Shell Script
6 10 (1.52%) Korn
6 10 (1.52%) Perl
7 5 (0.76%) Bash
8 2 (0.30%) C++
9 1 (0.15%) C
9 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.15%) VBA
9 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 132 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 107 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.48%) Degree
4 27 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.74%) A+ Certification
7 17 (2.59%) CCNA
7 17 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.98%) MCSE
8 13 (1.98%) Network+ Certification
9 10 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.15%) CCNP
15 1 (0.15%) City & Guilds
15 1 (0.15%) HND
15 1 (0.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.35%) SLA
2 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.46%) GDPR
3 3 (0.46%) QA
4 2 (0.30%) GLP
4 2 (0.30%) GMP
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) GRC
5 1 (0.15%) GxP
5 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 217 (33.03%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.76%) vSphere
8 3 (0.46%) Firmware
8 3 (0.46%) vCloud
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.15%) Docker
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 93 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (6.24%) SCCM
3 16 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (2.13%) Grafana
5 11 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 8 (1.22%) Ansible
7 8 (1.22%) Terraform
8 6 (0.91%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.61%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.46%) SCOM
10 3 (0.46%) vRealize
10 3 (0.46%) WSUS
11 2 (0.30%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.30%) WMI
12 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.15%) Kibana
12 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 241 (36.68%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.81%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.26%) Dell
3 28 (4.26%) Oracle
4 25 (3.81%) VMware
5 20 (3.04%) Apple
5 20 (3.04%) HP
6 19 (2.89%) Cisco
7 14 (2.13%) Google
8 11 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.52%) McAfee
10 9 (1.37%) Citrix
10 9 (1.37%) Remedy
11 8 (1.22%) Denodo
11 8 (1.22%) SAP
11 8 (1.22%) Splunk
11 8 (1.22%) Starlink
11 8 (1.22%) Talend
12 6 (0.91%) iManage
12 6 (0.91%) Okta
312 Support Engineer jobs in England