Support Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

Support Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £265 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 44 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 +38 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 29 66 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.83% 4.47% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 4.76% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 51 20
10th Percentile £133 £180 £137
25th Percentile £192 £201 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £240 £267
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -10.11% -14.56%
75th Percentile £475 £406 £388
90th Percentile £486 £500 £475
South East median daily rate £215 £250 £195
% change year-on-year -14.00% +28.21% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £28.65 £15.20
25th Percentile - £28.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £29.50 £18.43
Median % change year-on-year - +60.09% +27.09%
75th Percentile - £29.88 £20.56
90th Percentile - £29.95 £25.40
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £22.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -13.64% +24.72% -16.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,421 1,387 2,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.03% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 901 1,223
10th Percentile £363 £228 £260
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £623 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 110 158
10th Percentile £13.19 £18.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £34.69 £20.48 £16.30
Median hourly rate £57.35 £50.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +124.72% -21.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £43.95
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.65
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
Southampton +1 8 £280 +24.44% 2
Basingstoke -9 8 £298 -0.67% 6
Andover - 3 - -
Portsmouth -18 2 £250 +23.35% 3
Romsey - 2 £210 - 5
Fareham +28 1 - - 1
Havant - 1 £188 - 2
Winchester - 1 - -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (27.59%) Cisco
4 8 (27.59%) VMware
5 7 (24.14%) SCCM
6 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
6 6 (20.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
7 5 (17.24%) Linux
7 5 (17.24%) Juniper
7 5 (17.24%) Android
8 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (13.79%) VLAN
8 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (13.79%) Apple
8 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
9 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
9 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
9 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
9 3 (10.34%) Firewall
9 3 (10.34%) Agile
9 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
9 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
9 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (13.79%) VLAN
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
4 2 (6.90%) BGP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (6.90%) DHCP
4 2 (6.90%) HSRP
4 2 (6.90%) IPsec
4 2 (6.90%) LAN
4 2 (6.90%) OSPF
4 2 (6.90%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (6.90%) VoIP
4 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.90%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Hudson
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
1 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.90%) Automotive
2 2 (6.90%) French Language
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.90%) Portuguese Language
2 2 (6.90%) Spanish Language
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.90%) Video Editing
2 1 (3.45%) Clustering
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
2 1 (3.45%) Smart Meter
2 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Android
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.45%) Solaris
6 1 (3.45%) Unix
6 1 (3.45%) VMS
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Customer Service
2 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 2 (6.90%) Asset Management
4 2 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.90%) Inventory Management
4 2 (6.90%) ITIL
4 2 (6.90%) Logistics
4 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
4 2 (6.90%) Migration
4 2 (6.90%) Open Source
4 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.45%) CI/CD
5 1 (3.45%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (3.45%) Server Management
5 1 (3.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) SCCM
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.45%) Packer
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) vRealize
3 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Cisco
1 8 (27.59%) VMware
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Juniper
4 4 (13.79%) Apple
5 2 (6.90%) Dell
5 2 (6.90%) F5
5 2 (6.90%) MobileIron
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) Polycom
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.45%) Arqiva
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Freshdesk
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.45%) Veritas
6 1 (3.45%) Wyse