Technical Support Contract Job Trends in England

Technical Support
UK > England

The median Technical Support daily rate in England is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 418 411
Rank change year-on-year +84 -7 +252
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 214 95 154
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.36% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 58 124
10th Percentile £144 £175 £148
25th Percentile £171 £203 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £250
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -18.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £211 £261 £315
90th Percentile £288 £469 £542
UK median daily rate £208 £205 £250
% change year-on-year +1.22% -18.00% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 5 6
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.36 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.75 £16.24
Median hourly rate £18.50 £24.00 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +19.34% +27.20%
75th Percentile £25.00 £48.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £30.99 - £27.75
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £24.00 £20.11
% change year-on-year -22.92% +19.34% +27.20%

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 28,847 26,756 34,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.94% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,393 16,655 23,374
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,772 837 1,370
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% -22.58% +39.02%
75th Percentile £60.34 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 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
South East -2 60 £208 +1.22% 37
East of England +30 53 £171 -51.14% 19
London +13 41 £225 -24.69% 22
Midlands -23 29 £205 -55.07% 28
North of England -34 20 £148 -37.89% 29
West Midlands -12 18 £190 -58.36% 20
North West -19 14 £225 -5.26% 15
East Midlands -9 11 £210 - 7
South West -1 9 £160 -70.91% 15
Yorkshire -32 5 £148 - 9
North East - 1 - - 6
Technical Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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.

1 111 (51.87%) Windows
2 83 (38.79%) Microsoft
3 65 (30.37%) Oracle
4 54 (25.23%) OO
5 52 (24.30%) Degree
6 51 (23.83%) JavaScript
7 48 (22.43%) Java
7 48 (22.43%) MySQL
7 48 (22.43%) Relational Database
8 47 (21.96%) Customer Service
8 47 (21.96%) Unix
9 46 (21.50%) Linux
10 41 (19.16%) Perl
10 41 (19.16%) Python
11 38 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (16.36%) Asset Management
13 32 (14.95%) Browser DevTools
13 32 (14.95%) CSS
14 27 (12.62%) ServiceNow
14 27 (12.62%) User Experience
15 26 (12.15%) Wireless
16 25 (11.68%) Android
17 24 (11.21%) ITIL
17 24 (11.21%) SaaS
18 23 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
18 23 (10.75%) OOP
19 22 (10.28%) Ajax
19 22 (10.28%) AngularJS
19 22 (10.28%) GraphQL
19 22 (10.28%) Mobile Application Development

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 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.21%) SaaS
2 23 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (9.81%) Sauce Labs
4 11 (5.14%) Azure
5 5 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.40%) AWS
7 3 (1.40%) GCP
7 3 (1.40%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.93%) Slack
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.15%) Wireless
2 20 (9.35%) TCP/IP
3 18 (8.41%) LAN
4 9 (4.21%) WAN
5 7 (3.27%) HTTP
6 6 (2.80%) Internet
6 6 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (2.80%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.87%) FTP
8 3 (1.40%) DNS
8 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.93%) DHCP
9 2 (0.93%) RS-232
9 2 (0.93%) VLAN
9 2 (0.93%) VPN
9 2 (0.93%) X.400
10 1 (0.47%) Firewall
10 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.43%) MySQL
1 48 (22.43%) Relational Database
2 11 (5.14%) Oracle Database
2 11 (5.14%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.27%) MariaDB
5 5 (2.34%) Power BI
6 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (14.95%) Browser DevTools
2 21 (9.81%) Android Studio
2 21 (9.81%) Eclipse
2 21 (9.81%) Xcode
3 10 (4.67%) Firebug
4 2 (0.93%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 113 (52.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.21%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.61%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.67%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.80%) Retail
8 5 (2.34%) Automotive
8 5 (2.34%) Electronics
8 5 (2.34%) Finance
8 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.34%) Marketing
9 4 (1.87%) French Language
9 4 (1.87%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.93%) Military
11 2 (0.93%) Publishing
12 1 (0.47%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.95%) CSS
2 22 (10.28%) Ajax
2 22 (10.28%) AngularJS
2 22 (10.28%) GraphQL
2 22 (10.28%) React
3 10 (4.67%) HTML
3 10 (4.67%) XML
4 4 (1.87%) JDO
4 4 (1.87%) REST
4 4 (1.87%) SOAP
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.93%) OAuth
6 1 (0.47%) MDX
6 1 (0.47%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.28%) Mobile App
2 18 (8.41%) CMDB
3 15 (7.01%) NHS
4 12 (5.61%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.14%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.93%) HTC Vive
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.47%) CCTV
10 1 (0.47%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (51.87%) Windows
2 47 (21.96%) Unix
3 46 (21.50%) Linux
4 25 (11.68%) Android
5 18 (8.41%) Windows Server
6 17 (7.94%) Windows 10
7 14 (6.54%) Windows 7
7 14 (6.54%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (5.14%) AIX
8 11 (5.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.34%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.87%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.23%) OO
2 47 (21.96%) Customer Service
3 38 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.36%) Asset Management
5 27 (12.62%) User Experience
6 24 (11.21%) ITIL
7 23 (10.75%) OOP
8 22 (10.28%) Mobile Application Development
8 22 (10.28%) Process Improvement
9 20 (9.35%) Computer Science
10 16 (7.48%) Time Management
11 13 (6.07%) Proactive Monitoring
12 12 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (5.61%) Incident Management
13 11 (5.14%) Kalman Filter
13 11 (5.14%) Workflow
14 10 (4.67%) ITSM
14 10 (4.67%) Migration
14 10 (4.67%) Network Monitoring
14 10 (4.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.83%) JavaScript
2 48 (22.43%) Java
3 41 (19.16%) Perl
3 41 (19.16%) Python
4 20 (9.35%) SQL
5 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 52 (24.30%) Degree
2 21 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.01%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.21%) MCP
5 9 (4.21%) MCSE
6 8 (3.74%) HNC
6 8 (3.74%) HND
7 6 (2.80%) ECDL
8 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.47%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.88%) SLA
2 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (9.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.40%) SCCM
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.93%) Grafana
3 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.47%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 83 (38.79%) Microsoft
2 65 (30.37%) Oracle
3 27 (12.62%) ServiceNow
4 21 (9.81%) Splunk
5 18 (8.41%) Citrix
6 9 (4.21%) SAP
7 6 (2.80%) Apple
7 6 (2.80%) Google
7 6 (2.80%) HP
7 6 (2.80%) IBM
8 3 (1.40%) Cisco
8 3 (1.40%) Okta
9 2 (0.93%) New Relic
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.93%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.47%) Meraki
10 1 (0.47%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.47%) VMware