Support Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £218, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 97 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 100 91 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.03% 1.91% 2.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.25% 2.05% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 69 103
10th Percentile £153 £140 £154
25th Percentile £162 £155 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £218 £195 £225
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £250 £250 £325
90th Percentile £382 £338 £375
England median daily rate £245 £215 £250
% change year-on-year +13.95% -14.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 4
10th Percentile - - £13.13
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.72 £14.81
Median hourly rate £18.35 £24.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% -8.33% +60.24%
75th Percentile £24.25 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £34.60 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% +10.00% +14.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +29 61 £215 +34.38% 62
Yorkshire -2 25 £235 +16.05% 46
North East +6 14 £195 +11.43% 11
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (53.00%) Active Directory
3 49 (49.00%) Windows
4 45 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (45.00%) Social Skills
5 34 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (33.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (30.00%) ITIL
8 28 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
9 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
10 23 (23.00%) Azure
10 23 (23.00%) Customer Service
11 22 (22.00%) SC Cleared
11 22 (22.00%) Windows 10
12 20 (20.00%) VPN
13 19 (19.00%) Service Delivery
14 18 (18.00%) SharePoint
15 17 (17.00%) Management Information System
16 16 (16.00%) Entra ID
16 16 (16.00%) SCCM
16 16 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
17 15 (15.00%) ITSM
17 15 (15.00%) Degree
18 13 (13.00%) LAN
19 12 (12.00%) DHCP
19 12 (12.00%) DNS
19 12 (12.00%) Linux
19 12 (12.00%) SQL
19 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
19 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 33 (33.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (18.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.00%) Mattermost
3 5 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (23.00%) Azure
3 16 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 4 (4.00%) GCP
5 4 (4.00%) SaaS
6 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.00%) AWS
8 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) VPN
2 13 (13.00%) LAN
3 12 (12.00%) DHCP
3 12 (12.00%) DNS
4 9 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
5 8 (8.00%) WAN
6 7 (7.00%) Firewall
6 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (6.00%) VoIP
7 6 (6.00%) WebEx
8 5 (5.00%) Skype
8 5 (5.00%) Softphone
8 5 (5.00%) Unified Communications
8 5 (5.00%) VLAN
9 4 (4.00%) Network Security
9 4 (4.00%) Wireless
10 3 (3.00%) Internet
10 3 (3.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Hudson
General
1 45 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Banking
4 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) French Language
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.00%) IVR
4 3 (3.00%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.00%) iPhone
5 2 (2.00%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.00%) CMDB
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) iPad
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.00%) Windows
2 22 (22.00%) Windows 10
3 12 (12.00%) Linux
4 10 (10.00%) Unix
5 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (7.00%) Apple iOS
7 6 (6.00%) Windows 7
7 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (5.00%) Android
8 5 (5.00%) Windows 8
8 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (5.00%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.00%) AIX
9 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (30.00%) ITIL
3 23 (23.00%) Customer Service
4 19 (19.00%) Service Delivery
5 15 (15.00%) ITSM
6 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 9 (9.00%) Asset Management
7 9 (9.00%) Incident Management
7 9 (9.00%) Service Management
8 8 (8.00%) Proactive Maintenance
8 8 (8.00%) Time Management
9 7 (7.00%) Cash Management
9 7 (7.00%) Problem Management
9 7 (7.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (6.00%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.00%) Mentoring
11 5 (5.00%) Business Case
11 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.00%) SQL
2 11 (11.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.00%) A+ Certification
6 6 (6.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.00%) Dell Certification
9 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 53 (53.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (3.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) SCCM
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.00%) AppManager
3 5 (5.00%) SCOM
4 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Citrix
2 8 (8.00%) VMware
3 7 (7.00%) Apple
3 7 (7.00%) Bloomberg
3 7 (7.00%) Refinitiv
3 7 (7.00%) Splunk
3 7 (7.00%) Sybase
4 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.00%) Canon
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco
5 5 (5.00%) Ivanti
5 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.00%) Google
7 2 (2.00%) Dell
7 2 (2.00%) HP
7 2 (2.00%) Thycotic
8 1 (1.00%) Bomgar
8 1 (1.00%) IBM
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle