Technical Support Contract Job Trends in England

Technical Support
UK > England

The median Technical Support daily rate in England is £207, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 415 376
Rank change year-on-year +29 -39 +189
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 220 59 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.27% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 30 89
10th Percentile £150 £140 £143
25th Percentile £162 £201 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £207 £245 £210
Median % change year-on-year -15.51% +16.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £224 £289 £273
90th Percentile £363 £400 £350
UK median daily rate £207 £245 £210
% change year-on-year -15.51% +16.67% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 6 22
10th Percentile £15.93 £15.29 £11.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.00 £15.85
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +51.42% -25.31%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £37.50 £29.38 -
UK median hourly rate £20.09 £24.00 £15.85
% change year-on-year -16.29% +51.42% -30.66%

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 38,613 22,095 34,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 14,635 22,555
10th Percentile £322 £294 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,705 913 2,522
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Technical Support job vacancy trend in England

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in England

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support in England

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in England

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Support in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Support in England

Technical Support
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 Technical Support within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +5 67 £208 +33.87% 29
London -50 47 £196 -21.60% 3
East of England +8 45 £190 +35.71% 6
South West -4 34 £160 -36.00% 5
North of England -59 23 £186 -14.37% 22
North West -22 19 £225 +3.45% 9
West Midlands -58 3 £190 -30.91% 7
Midlands -58 3 £190 -30.91% 10
North East - 3 - - 4
Yorkshire -54 1 £148 - 10
Technical Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, Technical Support 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 Technical Support in the job title.

1 87 (39.55%) Windows
2 69 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 69 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (28.18%) Customer Service
4 57 (25.91%) Degree
5 34 (15.45%) Azure
6 32 (14.55%) ITIL
7 30 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 30 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (13.18%) Linux
8 29 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (12.73%) Active Directory
10 26 (11.82%) Oracle
11 24 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (10.91%) Time Management
11 24 (10.91%) Unix
12 22 (10.00%) Customer Experience
12 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
12 22 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
12 22 (10.00%) SLA
12 22 (10.00%) SQL
13 20 (9.09%) OO
14 19 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
15 18 (8.18%) Java
15 18 (8.18%) Mobile Device Management
15 18 (8.18%) MySQL
15 18 (8.18%) Relational Database
15 18 (8.18%) Windows 10
16 17 (7.73%) AI

Technical Support 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 7 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 19 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.45%) Azure
2 29 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.91%) SaaS
4 11 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.73%) Sauce Labs
7 5 (2.27%) GCP
8 4 (1.82%) AWS
9 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.18%) DNS
3 6 (2.73%) LAN
4 5 (2.27%) Internet
4 5 (2.27%) WAN
5 4 (1.82%) HTTP
6 3 (1.36%) Firewall
7 2 (0.91%) FTP
7 2 (0.91%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.91%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.45%) RS-232
8 1 (0.45%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) MySQL
1 18 (8.18%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.09%) Power BI
3 3 (1.36%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.91%) Ataccama
4 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.91%) Power Query
4 2 (0.91%) PowerPivot
4 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Browser DevTools
2 6 (2.73%) Android Studio
2 6 (2.73%) Eclipse
2 6 (2.73%) Xcode
3 3 (1.36%) Firebug
3 3 (1.36%) JIRA
General
1 76 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.27%) French Language
4 16 (7.27%) Retail
5 15 (6.82%) Aerospace
5 15 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.55%) Spanish Language
7 10 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.09%) Banking
8 9 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.09%) Law
9 8 (3.64%) Local Government
10 7 (3.18%) Aviation
11 5 (2.27%) Front Office
12 4 (1.82%) Legal
13 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.91%) Automotive
14 2 (0.91%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.09%) CSS
2 7 (3.18%) JDO
2 7 (3.18%) ONVIF
3 6 (2.73%) Ajax
3 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.73%) GraphQL
3 6 (2.73%) React
4 3 (1.36%) HTML
4 3 (1.36%) LDAP
4 3 (1.36%) Web Services
4 3 (1.36%) XML
5 2 (0.91%) REST
5 2 (0.91%) SAML
5 2 (0.91%) SOAP
6 1 (0.45%) .NET
6 1 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.64%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.18%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.27%) NHS
5 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.91%) CMDB
7 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (39.55%) Windows
2 29 (13.18%) Linux
3 24 (10.91%) Unix
4 18 (8.18%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.45%) Windows 7
6 9 (4.09%) Mac OS
6 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.73%) Android
7 6 (2.73%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (28.18%) Customer Service
3 32 (14.55%) ITIL
4 30 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 24 (10.91%) Time Management
6 22 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 22 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 20 (9.09%) OO
8 19 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (8.18%) Mobile Device Management
10 17 (7.73%) AI
11 16 (7.27%) Analytics
12 15 (6.82%) Incident Management
12 15 (6.82%) Process Improvement
13 14 (6.36%) OOP
14 11 (5.00%) Agile
15 10 (4.55%) Task Automation
16 9 (4.09%) User Experience
17 8 (3.64%) Asset Management
17 8 (3.64%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 22 (10.00%) SQL
2 18 (8.18%) Java
3 16 (7.27%) Python
4 15 (6.82%) Perl
5 9 (4.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.45%) Bash
7 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 57 (25.91%) Degree
2 30 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.09%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.18%) A+ Certification
5 7 (3.18%) CCNA
5 7 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.18%) MCSA
6 6 (2.73%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.27%) MCSE
7 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (12.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.09%) ServiceCenter
3 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.45%) Autotask
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.82%) Oracle
3 12 (5.45%) Apple
4 11 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.09%) Dell
5 9 (4.09%) HP
6 6 (2.73%) Siemens
6 6 (2.73%) Splunk
7 3 (1.36%) Okta
7 3 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.91%) Motorola
8 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.45%) Citrix
9 1 (0.45%) Google
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) Progress
9 1 (0.45%) Remedy