Support Engineer Contracts in Reading

Support Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Reading is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 31 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.61% 0.87% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 0.91% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 27
10th Percentile - £150 £126
25th Percentile £213 £156 £129
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £199 £150
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +32.50% -57.14%
75th Percentile £275 £502 £175
90th Percentile £494 £600 £322
Berkshire median daily rate £215 £198 £160
% change year-on-year +8.86% +23.44% -52.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £23.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +31.43% -16.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,110 987 1,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.64% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 657 874
10th Percentile £213 £363 £184
25th Percentile £413 £455 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £599
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 25 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Reading region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (83.87%) Windows
2 22 (70.97%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (67.74%) Social Skills
3 21 (67.74%) SCCM
3 21 (67.74%) Microsoft
4 20 (64.52%) DV Cleared
4 20 (64.52%) Security Cleared
4 20 (64.52%) Customer Service
5 19 (61.29%) Windows 10
5 19 (61.29%) ITIL
5 19 (61.29%) HP
6 18 (58.06%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (58.06%) Hardware Maintenance
6 18 (58.06%) Driving Licence
6 18 (58.06%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (58.06%) Windows 7
7 4 (12.90%) Azure
7 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (12.90%) Apple
7 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
8 3 (9.68%) Degree
8 3 (9.68%) Change Management
8 3 (9.68%) Migration
8 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
8 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
9 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.45%) Coaching
9 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 18 (58.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (3.23%) ChatGPT
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) SGSN
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
1 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
General
1 21 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (58.06%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
1 1 (3.23%) LangChain
1 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) LIMS
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (83.87%) Windows
2 19 (61.29%) Windows 10
3 18 (58.06%) Windows 7
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.45%) Android
5 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.23%) Linux
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (64.52%) Customer Service
3 19 (61.29%) ITIL
4 18 (58.06%) Hardware Maintenance
5 3 (9.68%) Change Management
5 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.68%) Migration
6 2 (6.45%) Coaching
6 2 (6.45%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.45%) Project Management
7 1 (3.23%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (3.23%) Data Engineering
7 1 (3.23%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.23%) Matrix Organization
7 1 (3.23%) People Management
7 1 (3.23%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (3.23%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.23%) SDLC
7 1 (3.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (64.52%) DV Cleared
1 20 (64.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) CCNA
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) CEH
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (67.74%) SCCM
2 2 (6.45%) SCOM
3 1 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (61.29%) HP
3 4 (12.90%) Apple
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Ericsson
5 1 (3.23%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) EMC
5 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.23%) Juniper
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Symantec
5 1 (3.23%) Veeam
5 1 (3.23%) VMware