Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Support Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 78 56
Rank change year-on-year +45 -22 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 49 12 41
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.79% 1.00% 3.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.34% 1.08% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 7 12
10th Percentile £195 £208 £129
25th Percentile £313 £222 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £268 £231
Median % change year-on-year +86.57% +15.89% -38.33%
75th Percentile £588 £292 £262
90th Percentile £600 £388 £269
South East median daily rate £238 £245 £215
% change year-on-year -2.86% +13.95% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.03
25th Percentile £19.00 - £19.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £26.25
75th Percentile £25.15 - £33.19
90th Percentile - - £37.28
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +100.00% -1.23%

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 917 1,111 1,252
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 92.82% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 726 712
10th Percentile £213 £355 £270
25th Percentile £429 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £650 £700 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.57% -0.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 78 92
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £27.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £66.68 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -62.28% +28.32% +19.45%
75th Percentile £41.00 £74.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.29 £76.13 £73.46
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.79 £51.90
% change year-on-year -64.13% +11.35% +62.64%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +32 33 £500 - 5
Southampton +2 2 - - 6
Andover -6 2 £213 -
Winchester - 2 £300 -
Fareham - 2 £325 - 6
Portsmouth -1 1 £200 -29.33%
Havant - 1 - -
Aldershot - 1 - - 2
Eastleigh - 1 £188 - 2
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, Support Engineer 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 Hampshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (69.39%) Security Cleared
1 34 (69.39%) Windows
2 30 (61.22%) DV Cleared
3 29 (59.18%) Active Directory
4 22 (44.90%) ITSM
5 21 (42.86%) SolarWinds
6 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
7 16 (32.65%) Service Management
8 15 (30.61%) Windows Server
9 14 (28.57%) Cisco
9 14 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
9 14 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
9 14 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
9 14 (28.57%) Juniper
9 14 (28.57%) Junos
9 14 (28.57%) vCenter Server
9 14 (28.57%) VMware NSX
10 12 (24.49%) ITIL
10 12 (24.49%) Microsoft Office
11 11 (22.45%) SharePoint
12 10 (20.41%) Architectural Design
12 10 (20.41%) Brightmail
12 10 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (20.41%) Content Management
12 10 (20.41%) DDNS
12 10 (20.41%) DHCP
12 10 (20.41%) DNS
12 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Content Management
12 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Search
12 10 (20.41%) Exchange Server 2003

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 11 (22.45%) SharePoint
2 10 (20.41%) Exchange Server 2003
2 10 (20.41%) Exchange Server 2007
2 10 (20.41%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (20.41%) Exchange Server 2013
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (20.41%) Office Communications Server
2 10 (20.41%) SharePoint Server
2 10 (20.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.08%) Azure
4 1 (2.04%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
1 14 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
1 14 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
1 14 (28.57%) Junos
2 10 (20.41%) DDNS
2 10 (20.41%) DHCP
2 10 (20.41%) DNS
2 10 (20.41%) SAN
2 10 (20.41%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) Firewall
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Back Office
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Replication
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 34 (69.39%) Windows
2 15 (30.61%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.41%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) ITSM
2 16 (32.65%) Service Management
3 12 (24.49%) ITIL
4 10 (20.41%) Architectural Design
4 10 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (20.41%) Content Management
4 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Content Management
4 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Search
4 10 (20.41%) High Availability
5 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
5 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.12%) Problem Management
7 3 (6.12%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 2 (4.08%) Inventory Management
8 2 (4.08%) Migration
8 2 (4.08%) Ticket Management
8 2 (4.08%) Workflow
8 2 (4.08%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (69.39%) Security Cleared
2 30 (61.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (59.18%) Active Directory
2 14 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 10 (20.41%) Brightmail
3 10 (20.41%) ISA Server
4 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (16.33%) SCCM
4 7 (14.29%) SCOM
5 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) SolarWinds
2 20 (40.82%) Microsoft
3 14 (28.57%) Cisco
3 14 (28.57%) Juniper
4 3 (6.12%) Datto
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow