IT Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

IT Support Engineer
England > North East

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in the North East is £106, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 37 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +33
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.68% 0.35% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.40% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £203
25th Percentile £103 - £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £106 - £215
75th Percentile £109 - £223
90th Percentile - - £227
England median daily rate £200 £200 £190
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -15.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 268 250 219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 88.34% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 105 170
10th Percentile £180 £264 £255
25th Percentile £338 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £470 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +6.82% -16.19%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £573
90th Percentile £650 £683 £629
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 9
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.34 £32.70 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +103.17%
75th Percentile £32.16 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £52.56 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.32% +73.82%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

IT Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the North East

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the North East

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Durham +6 1 - - 2
Tyne and Wear - 1 £106 - 3
IT Support Engineer
England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 7 October 2025, IT 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 North East region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) VMware