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 18 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 127 80
Rank change year-on-year +14 -47 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 758 609 1,103
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 1.98% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 2.13% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 426 791
10th Percentile £153 £150 £140
25th Percentile £188 £188 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £238
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +4.17%
75th Percentile £343 £350 £400
90th Percentile £537 £522 £600
UK median daily rate £225 £240 £240
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 31 56
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.22 £13.89
25th Percentile £19.76 £19.60 £17.44
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +27.26% -5.66%
75th Percentile £30.00 £40.75 £21.75
90th Percentile £64.40 £60.00 £24.00
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £23.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +3.86% +24.16% -2.56%

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 27,471 28,532 37,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.99% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,625 17,415 25,662
10th Percentile £281 £300 £294
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
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 1,664 1,067 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -10 220 £238 -20.83% 181
South East +28 188 £238 +0.42% 152
South West +35 105 £250 +13.90% 48
Midlands -1 98 £253 -4.72% 76
North of England -15 97 £200 - 89
West Midlands -2 72 £261 -1.51% 48
North West -13 53 £190 -5.00% 52
East of England -17 48 £220 -1.12% 46
Yorkshire -31 32 £205 -2.38% 31
East Midlands -5 26 £188 -21.05% 28
North East +1 12 £106 -34.77% 7
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 419 (55.28%) Windows
2 306 (40.37%) Microsoft
3 239 (31.53%) Microsoft 365
4 234 (30.87%) Security Cleared
5 229 (30.21%) Active Directory
6 178 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (22.56%) SC Cleared
8 157 (20.71%) Windows 10
9 154 (20.32%) Customer Service
10 119 (15.70%) ITIL
11 100 (13.19%) ServiceNow
12 98 (12.93%) Azure
12 98 (12.93%) Microsoft Office
13 94 (12.40%) Linux
14 90 (11.87%) DNS
15 86 (11.35%) Microsoft Intune
16 81 (10.69%) DHCP
17 74 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
17 74 (9.76%) Service Management
17 74 (9.76%) SharePoint
17 74 (9.76%) VPN
18 73 (9.63%) TCP/IP
19 72 (9.50%) ITSM
19 72 (9.50%) SCCM
20 59 (7.78%) DV Cleared
21 55 (7.26%) Migration
22 54 (7.12%) Cisco
23 52 (6.86%) Android
24 51 (6.73%) Windows Server
25 49 (6.46%) PowerShell

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 74 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 74 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.56%) Skype for Business
3 11 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2013
4 10 (1.32%) Office Communications Server
5 6 (0.79%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (12.93%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
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 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.66%) Primavera
3 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Eikon
4 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 239 (31.53%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (12.93%) Azure
3 34 (4.49%) Entra ID
4 27 (3.56%) AWS
5 25 (3.30%) OneDrive
5 25 (3.30%) SaaS
6 19 (2.51%) Google Workspace
7 18 (2.37%) Sauce Labs
8 12 (1.58%) Power Platform
9 6 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.79%) npm
10 5 (0.66%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.40%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.40%) Slack
12 2 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 90 (11.87%) DNS
2 81 (10.69%) DHCP
3 74 (9.76%) VPN
4 73 (9.63%) TCP/IP
5 41 (5.41%) WAN
6 38 (5.01%) Firewall
6 38 (5.01%) Wireless
7 37 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (3.69%) LAN
9 23 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
10 22 (2.90%) VLAN
11 20 (2.64%) Junos
12 18 (2.37%) MPLS
12 18 (2.37%) Skype
13 17 (2.24%) BGP
13 17 (2.24%) IPsec
14 15 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
15 13 (1.72%) PABX
15 13 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.49%) Relational Database
2 25 (3.30%) MySQL
3 17 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.19%) Power BI
5 6 (0.79%) MariaDB
6 5 (0.66%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.40%) DB2
8 3 (0.40%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.40%) Tableau
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) Informix
10 1 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (3.69%) Browser DevTools
2 18 (2.37%) Android Studio
2 18 (2.37%) Eclipse
2 18 (2.37%) Xcode
3 16 (2.11%) JIRA
4 9 (1.19%) Firebug
5 8 (1.06%) Git
6 6 (0.79%) Maven
7 3 (0.40%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 339 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 80 (10.55%) Finance
3 66 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 54 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.75%) Manufacturing
6 34 (4.49%) Banking
7 29 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.24%) Marketing
10 16 (2.11%) Electronics
11 12 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.58%) Front Office
12 9 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.92%) Law
14 7 (0.92%) Legal
14 7 (0.92%) Retail
15 6 (0.79%) Automotive
15 6 (0.79%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.83%) CSS
2 23 (3.03%) Middleware
3 21 (2.77%) React
4 19 (2.51%) Ajax
4 19 (2.51%) AngularJS
4 19 (2.51%) GraphQL
5 16 (2.11%) XML
6 10 (1.32%) HTML
7 7 (0.92%) JSON
8 5 (0.66%) .NET
8 5 (0.66%) REST
8 5 (0.66%) SOAP
9 4 (0.53%) JDO
9 4 (0.53%) OAuth
10 3 (0.40%) ADO
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.40%) XMPP
11 2 (0.26%) Kafka
11 2 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 31 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (3.96%) Data Centre
3 26 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.03%) PKI
5 21 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.77%) Driving Licence
6 20 (2.64%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.11%) Smartphone
8 14 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
9 13 (1.72%) iPhone
10 12 (1.58%) Replication
11 11 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.92%) iPad
12 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.92%) NHS
13 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.79%) Operational Technology
14 5 (0.66%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.53%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 419 (55.28%) Windows
2 157 (20.71%) Windows 10
3 94 (12.40%) Linux
4 52 (6.86%) Android
5 51 (6.73%) Windows Server
6 43 (5.67%) Apple iOS
7 42 (5.54%) Mac OS
8 32 (4.22%) Unix
9 13 (1.72%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (1.06%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.66%) CentOS
14 4 (0.53%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (20.32%) Customer Service
3 119 (15.70%) ITIL
4 74 (9.76%) Service Management
5 72 (9.50%) ITSM
6 55 (7.26%) Migration
7 45 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 41 (5.41%) Asset Management
9 39 (5.15%) Workflow
10 34 (4.49%) User Experience
11 32 (4.22%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (4.22%) OO
12 28 (3.69%) Service Delivery
13 26 (3.43%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (3.30%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (3.17%) Data Protection
15 24 (3.17%) Workflow Management
16 23 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (2.90%) High Availability
18 20 (2.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (6.46%) PowerShell
2 43 (5.67%) JavaScript
3 41 (5.41%) Java
4 33 (4.35%) Python
5 25 (3.30%) SQL
6 20 (2.64%) Perl
7 15 (1.98%) C
7 15 (1.98%) Shell Script
8 13 (1.72%) Bash
9 12 (1.58%) Ada
9 12 (1.58%) C++
10 4 (0.53%) C#
11 3 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.26%) AWK
12 2 (0.26%) Magik
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) ABAP
13 1 (0.13%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
13 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 234 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 171 (22.56%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 46 (6.07%) Degree
5 29 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.45%) CCNA
9 11 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.06%) A+ Certification
11 8 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.66%) MCSE
13 4 (0.53%) MCP
13 4 (0.53%) MCSA
14 3 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.88%) SLA
2 11 (1.45%) QA
3 9 (1.19%) GDPR
4 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) GAAP
7 1 (0.13%) GMP
7 1 (0.13%) GxP
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS
7 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 229 (30.21%) Active Directory
2 32 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 20 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (2.11%) VMware NSX
5 10 (1.32%) Brightmail
5 10 (1.32%) ISA Server
5 10 (1.32%) vSphere
6 7 (0.92%) Docker
7 5 (0.66%) Firmware
8 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.26%) NFS
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (11.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (9.50%) SCCM
3 26 (3.43%) Jamf Pro
4 21 (2.77%) Ansible
5 18 (2.37%) vCenter Server
6 11 (1.45%) Terraform
7 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (1.32%) SCOM
8 7 (0.92%) Grafana
9 6 (0.79%) Kubernetes
9 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.66%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.26%) AppManager
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.26%) OpenView
13 2 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 306 (40.37%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.19%) ServiceNow
3 54 (7.12%) Cisco
4 47 (6.20%) Oracle
5 45 (5.94%) VMware
6 41 (5.41%) Apple
7 33 (4.35%) Juniper
8 25 (3.30%) SolarWinds
9 24 (3.17%) SAP
10 23 (3.03%) Citrix
10 23 (3.03%) HP
11 22 (2.90%) Splunk
12 20 (2.64%) Google
12 20 (2.64%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.72%) Remedy
14 11 (1.45%) Dell
15 9 (1.19%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.92%) McAfee
16 7 (0.92%) Starlink
17 6 (0.79%) Meraki
562 Support Engineer jobs in England