Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Support Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 75 49
Rank change year-on-year +40 -26 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 47 15 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.88% 1.09% 3.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.30% 1.18% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 8 20
10th Percentile £200 £200 £139
25th Percentile £372 £208 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £253 £250
Median % change year-on-year +117.82% +1.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £287 £273
90th Percentile - £366 £353
South East median daily rate £250 £248 £225
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.44 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -51.41% +100.00% -4.76%

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 886 1,276 1,195
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.07% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 810 681
10th Percentile £213 £358 £263
25th Percentile £422 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 115 104
10th Percentile £16.17 £22.03 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.94 £51.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +4.27% +61.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £72.50 £66.84
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.99 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.71
% change year-on-year -56.26% +13.39% +111.29%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Hampshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 18 September 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 +37 38 £575 - 11
Fareham - 2 £325 - 2
Portsmouth +2 1 £200 -29.33% 2
Southampton -1 1 - - 11
Andover -3 1 £213 - 1
Eastleigh - 1 £188 - 1
Winchester - 1 £200 -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 39 (82.98%) Windows
2 36 (76.60%) Security Cleared
3 34 (72.34%) DV Cleared
4 32 (68.09%) Active Directory
5 29 (61.70%) Microsoft
6 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (44.68%) VPN
6 21 (44.68%) DNS
6 21 (44.68%) DHCP
7 17 (36.17%) Windows Server
8 16 (34.04%) vCenter Server
8 16 (34.04%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (34.04%) ITSM
9 15 (31.91%) Microsoft Office
9 15 (31.91%) SolarWinds
10 14 (29.79%) ITIL
10 14 (29.79%) SharePoint
10 14 (29.79%) Public Sector
11 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Clustering
11 13 (27.66%) Architectural Design
11 13 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (27.66%) ISA Server
11 13 (27.66%) DDNS
11 13 (27.66%) SAN
11 13 (27.66%) Replication
11 13 (27.66%) Content Management
11 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2003
11 13 (27.66%) SharePoint Server
11 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2007
11 13 (27.66%) Enterprise Content Management

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 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (29.79%) SharePoint
3 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2007
3 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (27.66%) Exchange Server 2013
3 13 (27.66%) Office Communications Server
3 13 (27.66%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (27.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
1 8 (17.02%) GCP
1 8 (17.02%) IaaS
1 8 (17.02%) OpenShift
1 8 (17.02%) PaaS
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.26%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (44.68%) DHCP
1 21 (44.68%) DNS
1 21 (44.68%) VPN
2 13 (27.66%) DDNS
2 13 (27.66%) SAN
3 9 (19.15%) Firewall
4 8 (17.02%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (17.02%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (17.02%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (17.02%) Junos
4 8 (17.02%) SMTP
5 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (17.02%) Big Data
1 8 (17.02%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
General
1 14 (29.79%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Back Office
4 1 (2.13%) Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Replication
2 8 (17.02%) Clustering
2 8 (17.02%) Data Centre
2 8 (17.02%) PKI
3 1 (2.13%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 39 (82.98%) Windows
2 17 (36.17%) Windows Server
3 16 (34.04%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (17.02%) Linux
5 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) ITSM
2 14 (29.79%) ITIL
3 13 (27.66%) Architectural Design
3 13 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (27.66%) Content Management
3 13 (27.66%) Enterprise Content Management
3 13 (27.66%) Enterprise Search
3 13 (27.66%) High Availability
4 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (21.28%) Service Management
6 8 (17.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (17.02%) DevOps
6 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
6 8 (17.02%) Software Deployment
7 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.38%) Customer Service
8 3 (6.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (4.26%) Problem Management
9 2 (4.26%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 2 (4.26%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (76.60%) Security Cleared
2 34 (72.34%) DV Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (68.09%) Active Directory
2 13 (27.66%) Brightmail
2 13 (27.66%) ISA Server
3 9 (19.15%) Hyper-V
4 8 (17.02%) BitLocker
4 8 (17.02%) Docker
4 8 (17.02%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (17.02%) Terminal Services
4 8 (17.02%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (17.02%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) vCenter Server
2 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (17.02%) Ansible
3 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.02%) Nagios
3 8 (17.02%) Puppet
3 8 (17.02%) SCCM
3 8 (17.02%) vMotion
4 7 (14.89%) SCOM
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (61.70%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.91%) SolarWinds
3 8 (17.02%) Cisco
3 8 (17.02%) Citrix
3 8 (17.02%) Google
3 8 (17.02%) HP
3 8 (17.02%) Juniper
3 8 (17.02%) Symantec
3 8 (17.02%) VMware
4 2 (4.26%) Datto