Support Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Support Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 76 68
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 22 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.44% 1.32% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 1.38% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 26
10th Percentile £155 £142 £173
25th Percentile £179 £169 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £220 £315
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -30.16% +80.00%
75th Percentile £406 £265 £450
90th Percentile £420 £343 £544
North West median daily rate £215 £160 £280
% change year-on-year +34.38% -42.86% +49.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £17.70
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +52.94% +13.33% +62.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 840 1,379 1,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.56% 96.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 956 1,282
10th Percentile £300 £309 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £465 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 84 43
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.87
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.83 £28.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +9.62% +33.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £63.13 £44.38
90th Percentile £78.38 £73.75 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £30.54
% change year-on-year -12.60% +7.71% +31.51%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Bolton - 8 £190 - 2
Stockport - 1 £145 - 8
Oldham - 1 £200 -
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 Manchester region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 10 (45.45%) Windows
4 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 7 (31.82%) Bloomberg
5 7 (31.82%) Unix
5 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 7 (31.82%) Sybase
5 7 (31.82%) Kondor
5 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
5 7 (31.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (31.82%) Cash Management
5 7 (31.82%) Refinitiv
6 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (27.27%) VPN
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (22.73%) DHCP
7 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (22.73%) Azure
7 5 (22.73%) Degree
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
8 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (18.18%) GCP
8 4 (18.18%) ITSM
8 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
8 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 4 (18.18%) French Language

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) VPN
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 4 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security
5 1 (4.55%) VoIP
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) French Language
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.55%) iPhone
4 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Android
4 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 7 (31.82%) Cash Management
2 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
2 7 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) ITSM
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (9.09%) Data Management
6 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) SIEM
7 1 (4.55%) Coaching
7 1 (4.55%) High Availability
7 1 (4.55%) IT Asset Management
7 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) Bloomberg
2 7 (31.82%) Refinitiv
2 7 (31.82%) Sybase
3 4 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Thycotic
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) HP