Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £213, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 131 88
Rank change year-on-year -1 -43 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 739 517 899
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 1.99% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.14% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 367 642
10th Percentile £151 £154 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £313 £356 £315
90th Percentile £500 £521 £486
UK median daily rate £210 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.65% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 22 58
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.36 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.77 £18.13 £17.79
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.85 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% -3.17% +2.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.05 £30.00
90th Percentile £35.75 £40.73 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £22.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year +4.40% +10.98% +5.77%

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 31,997 24,126 35,091
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.97% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,271 15,171 23,505
10th Percentile £305 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 722 2,146
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.01 £13.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.09 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.36 £33.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.70% -5.00% -10.26%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -31 209 £260 -5.45% 86
South East +6 164 £225 +9.76% 135
South West +16 106 £250 +11.11% 42
North of England -34 105 £183 -17.05% 89
Midlands -6 99 £200 -21.57% 46
West Midlands -23 63 £210 -20.00% 28
East of England -2 59 £203 -7.95% 49
North West -16 58 £152 -28.71% 49
East Midlands +3 38 £200 +5.26% 18
Yorkshire -44 38 £205 -8.89% 33
North East -13 9 £106 -61.80% 11
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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.

1 380 (51.42%) Windows
2 279 (37.75%) Microsoft
3 243 (32.88%) Microsoft 365
4 224 (30.31%) Security Cleared
5 214 (28.96%) Active Directory
6 180 (24.36%) SC Cleared
7 176 (23.82%) Windows 10
8 158 (21.38%) Customer Service
9 143 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (13.80%) Azure
11 93 (12.58%) ServiceNow
12 89 (12.04%) ITIL
13 84 (11.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 82 (11.10%) Linux
15 71 (9.61%) Migration
16 63 (8.53%) ITSM
17 61 (8.25%) DNS
17 61 (8.25%) SCCM
18 60 (8.12%) PowerShell
18 60 (8.12%) SharePoint
19 59 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
20 57 (7.71%) DHCP
20 57 (7.71%) Service Management
21 53 (7.17%) TCP/IP
22 48 (6.50%) Android
22 48 (6.50%) Asset Management
22 48 (6.50%) DV Cleared
23 47 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
24 46 (6.22%) Entra ID
24 46 (6.22%) Workflow

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 60 (8.12%) SharePoint
2 45 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.89%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.27%) IIS
5 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 6 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
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%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 243 (32.88%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (13.80%) Azure
3 46 (6.22%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.06%) OneDrive
5 27 (3.65%) AWS
6 25 (3.38%) SaaS
7 18 (2.44%) Google Workspace
8 14 (1.89%) Sauce Labs
9 10 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.35%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.95%) npm
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.41%) PaaS
13 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.25%) DNS
2 57 (7.71%) DHCP
3 53 (7.17%) TCP/IP
4 47 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
5 45 (6.09%) VPN
6 31 (4.19%) LAN
7 30 (4.06%) Firewall
7 30 (4.06%) Wireless
8 25 (3.38%) WAN
9 22 (2.98%) VLAN
10 15 (2.03%) Skype
11 14 (1.89%) Network Security
12 13 (1.76%) PABX
13 12 (1.62%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (1.62%) Junos
14 11 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.35%) MPLS
16 9 (1.22%) BGP
16 9 (1.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.84%) Relational Database
2 18 (2.44%) MySQL
3 14 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.95%) Power BI
5 6 (0.81%) 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%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.14%) GIS
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 31 (4.19%) JIRA
2 19 (2.57%) Browser DevTools
3 14 (1.89%) Android Studio
3 14 (1.89%) Eclipse
3 14 (1.89%) Xcode
4 9 (1.22%) Git
5 7 (0.95%) Maven
6 4 (0.54%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 330 (44.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.12%) Finance
3 54 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.28%) Banking
5 39 (5.28%) Manufacturing
6 27 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.03%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.89%) Law
11 13 (1.76%) Electronics
11 13 (1.76%) Marketing
12 9 (1.22%) Aviation
12 9 (1.22%) Front Office
13 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.95%) Legal
15 5 (0.68%) Automotive
16 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.98%) Middleware
2 19 (2.57%) CSS
3 15 (2.03%) Ajax
3 15 (2.03%) AngularJS
3 15 (2.03%) GraphQL
3 15 (2.03%) React
4 7 (0.95%) REST
4 7 (0.95%) SOAP
5 6 (0.81%) PySpark
6 5 (0.68%) YAML
7 4 (0.54%) HTML
7 4 (0.54%) JDO
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.54%) XML
8 2 (0.27%) .NET
8 2 (0.27%) ADO
8 2 (0.27%) EDI
8 2 (0.27%) OAuth
8 2 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.55%) Onboarding
2 36 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 23 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.98%) Smartphone
6 20 (2.71%) PKI
7 16 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.22%) iPhone
12 9 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.54%) CCTV
15 4 (0.54%) Hedge funds
15 4 (0.54%) iPad
16 3 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 380 (51.42%) Windows
2 176 (23.82%) Windows 10
3 82 (11.10%) Linux
4 48 (6.50%) Android
5 44 (5.95%) Mac OS
6 43 (5.82%) Windows Server
7 36 (4.87%) Apple iOS
8 31 (4.19%) Unix
9 12 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.95%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.54%) CentOS
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 Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (21.38%) Customer Service
2 143 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (12.04%) ITIL
4 71 (9.61%) Migration
5 63 (8.53%) ITSM
6 57 (7.71%) Service Management
7 48 (6.50%) Asset Management
8 46 (6.22%) Workflow
9 45 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (4.87%) User Experience
11 35 (4.74%) Workflow Management
12 27 (3.65%) Service Delivery
13 25 (3.38%) OO
14 24 (3.25%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (2.98%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (2.71%) Data Protection
17 19 (2.57%) Agile
17 19 (2.57%) Break/Fix
17 19 (2.57%) Cybersecurity
18 18 (2.44%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 60 (8.12%) PowerShell
2 35 (4.74%) Java
3 34 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 30 (4.06%) SQL
5 28 (3.79%) Python
6 18 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 17 (2.30%) Perl
8 12 (1.62%) Ada
8 12 (1.62%) C
8 12 (1.62%) C++
9 8 (1.08%) C#
10 7 (0.95%) Bash
11 2 (0.27%) AWK
11 2 (0.27%) Korn
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.14%) Magik
12 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 224 (30.31%) Security Cleared
2 180 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.50%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.33%) Degree
5 30 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (1.49%) A+ Certification
8 11 (1.49%) Server+ Certification
9 8 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.95%) CCNA
10 7 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.81%) MCSE
12 5 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.27%) MCSA
16 1 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.52%) SLA
2 8 (1.08%) 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%) GLP
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 214 (28.96%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.68%) vSphere
7 4 (0.54%) Docker
7 4 (0.54%) Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) NFS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
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 84 (11.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (8.25%) SCCM
3 27 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (2.17%) Ansible
5 14 (1.89%) vCenter Server
6 10 (1.35%) Grafana
7 9 (1.22%) Terraform
8 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.27%) SCOM
11 2 (0.27%) WSUS
12 1 (0.14%) Autotask
12 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 279 (37.75%) Microsoft
2 93 (12.58%) ServiceNow
3 42 (5.68%) VMware
4 35 (4.74%) Cisco
5 31 (4.19%) Oracle
6 29 (3.92%) Apple
7 22 (2.98%) Dell
8 21 (2.84%) Google
8 21 (2.84%) HP
9 20 (2.71%) Juniper
9 20 (2.71%) Red Hat
10 17 (2.30%) SAP
10 17 (2.30%) Splunk
11 16 (2.17%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.62%) Citrix
13 11 (1.49%) Remedy
14 8 (1.08%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.81%) Siemens
15 6 (0.81%) Twitter
16 5 (0.68%) Okta
402 Support Engineer jobs in England