IT Support Engineer Contracts in Hertfordshire

IT Support Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £143, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 64 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 -2
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.95% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £136 - £116
25th Percentile £138 £258 £118
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £143 £265 £123
Median % change year-on-year -46.23% +116.33% -
75th Percentile £150 £273 £200
90th Percentile £153 - £246
East of England median daily rate £175 £206 £153
% change year-on-year -15.15% +35.25% -15.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.64 - -
Median hourly rate £21.28 - -
75th Percentile £21.92 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 356 695 728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.56% 88.31% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 289 402
10th Percentile £225 £223 £231
25th Percentile £413 £315 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.58% -14.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 274 149
10th Percentile £20.13 £22.08 £17.72
25th Percentile £31.64 £43.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.56 £70.00 £88.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.90 £43.63
% change year-on-year -3.19% +0.62% +123.74%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in Hertfordshire

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in Hertfordshire

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer in Hertfordshire

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Welwyn Garden City - 2 - -
Stevenage +13 1 £150 -43.40%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £135 -
IT Support Engineer
East of England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, IT 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 Hertfordshire region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) iPhone
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) iPad
2 2 (50.00%) MobileIron
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Nexthink
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPad
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) MobileIron
1 2 (50.00%) Nexthink
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft