Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Support Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Lancashire is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 24 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.66% 2.38% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.95% 2.49% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile - - £131
25th Percentile - - £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £200 £183
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.59% +12.31%
75th Percentile - £234 £316
90th Percentile - £296 £350
North West median daily rate £220 £200 £223
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.11% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year - -42.50% +17.88%
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.71
% change year-on-year +75.77% +36.53% -14.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 152 201 232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 95.71% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 70 130
10th Percentile £295 £247 £299
25th Percentile £419 £325 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £634
90th Percentile £674 £646 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 57 54
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.58 £20.37
25th Percentile £25.37 £18.00 £27.20
Median hourly rate £47.12 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -12.68% +18.71%
75th Percentile £71.13 £46.18 £47.42
90th Percentile £77.35 £76.75 £70.57
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% +5.71% +50.21%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Lancashire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Lancashire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Burnley 0 4 - -
Preston -4 2 £250 +25.00% 2
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Lancashire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (66.67%) Time Management
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 8
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 4 (66.67%) Canon
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) Proactive Maintenance
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (66.67%) Business Case

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

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 8
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 4 (66.67%) Business Case
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Canon
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow