Support Engineer Contracts in Gloucester

Support Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Gloucester is £230, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 6 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 6.59% 7.14% 8.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 7.69% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £207 - £225
25th Percentile £210 - £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £200 £350
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -42.86% +91.78%
75th Percentile £550 - £425
90th Percentile - - £513
Gloucestershire median daily rate £230 £195 £350
% change year-on-year +17.95% -44.29% +75.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 88 78 129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 92.86% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 60 98
10th Percentile £127 £324 £288
25th Percentile £265 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £600
90th Percentile £710 £706 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile £21.04 £18.90 £17.08
25th Percentile £21.89 - £26.19
Median hourly rate £23.30 £21.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -61.99% -
75th Percentile £24.71 £28.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £25.56 £32.50 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
% change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Job postings that featured Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Gloucester

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Gloucester.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Gloucester

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Gloucester

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Gloucester.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Gloucester

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (50.00%) iPad
4 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Time Management
4 3 (50.00%) iPhone
4 3 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (50.00%) McAfee
4 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
4 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (50.00%) Inventory Management
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (33.33%) Service Management
5 2 (33.33%) Firewall
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) iPad
1 3 (50.00%) iPhone
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Antivirus Management
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) McAfee
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle