Support Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Support Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 86 56
Rank change year-on-year +41 -30 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 29 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.29% 1.20% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.44% 1.31% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 32
10th Percentile £209 £127 £144
25th Percentile £313 £168 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £210 £219
Median % change year-on-year +173.81% -4.00% -41.67%
75th Percentile £600 £285 £260
90th Percentile - £299 £373
South East median daily rate £250 £215 £235
% change year-on-year +16.28% -8.51% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £40.00 £13.16
% change year-on-year -38.35% +203.95% -25.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 842 1,602 1,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 91.39% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 955 781
10th Percentile £256 £363 £236
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £612
90th Percentile £660 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 178 103
10th Percentile £19.88 £14.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £32.10 £26.25 £21.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +110.00%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.75
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Basingstoke +35 22 £575 +325.93% 12
Portsmouth +17 2 £200 - 9
Andover -3 2 £300 - 1
Fareham - 2 - - 5
Winchester +6 1 £200 - 4
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 Hampshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (82.76%) Windows
3 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
3 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
4 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
5 15 (51.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (51.72%) DHCP
5 15 (51.72%) VPN
5 15 (51.72%) DNS
6 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
7 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (34.48%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (31.03%) Hyper-V
9 9 (31.03%) Google
9 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
9 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
10 8 (27.59%) vCenter Server
10 8 (27.59%) BitLocker
10 8 (27.59%) Data Centre
10 8 (27.59%) AWS
10 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
10 8 (27.59%) Big Data
10 8 (27.59%) Software Deployment
10 8 (27.59%) IaaS
10 8 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (27.59%) OpenShift
10 8 (27.59%) Ansible
10 8 (27.59%) Docker
10 8 (27.59%) DevOps

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 15 (51.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (24.14%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (24.14%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (24.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (24.14%) SharePoint Server
2 7 (24.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) GCP
1 8 (27.59%) IaaS
1 8 (27.59%) OpenShift
1 8 (27.59%) PaaS
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) DHCP
1 15 (51.72%) DNS
1 15 (51.72%) VPN
2 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 8 (27.59%) SMTP
3 7 (24.14%) DDNS
3 7 (24.14%) SAN
4 2 (6.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (27.59%) Big Data
1 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Clustering
1 8 (27.59%) Data Centre
1 8 (27.59%) PKI
2 7 (24.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (31.03%) Windows Server
4 8 (27.59%) Linux
5 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
2 8 (27.59%) Software Deployment
3 7 (24.14%) Architectural Design
3 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) Content Management
3 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Content Management
3 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Search
3 7 (24.14%) High Availability
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 6 (20.69%) ITSM
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.90%) Data Security
6 2 (6.90%) Ticket Management
7 1 (3.45%) Business Continuity
7 1 (3.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) Degree
4 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (31.03%) Hyper-V
3 8 (27.59%) BitLocker
3 8 (27.59%) Docker
3 8 (27.59%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (27.59%) Terminal Services
3 8 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (24.14%) Brightmail
4 7 (24.14%) ISA Server
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
1 8 (27.59%) Nagios
1 8 (27.59%) Puppet
1 8 (27.59%) vCenter Server
1 8 (27.59%) vMotion
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Clustering
3 6 (20.69%) SCCM
3 6 (20.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (31.03%) Google
3 8 (27.59%) Citrix
3 8 (27.59%) HP
3 8 (27.59%) Symantec
3 8 (27.59%) VMware
4 6 (20.69%) SolarWinds