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 6 May 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
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 79 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 32 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.71% 0.97% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.91% 1.01% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 25
10th Percentile - £150 £126
25th Percentile £213 £156 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £199 £150
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +32.50% -54.48%
75th Percentile £413 £502 £195
90th Percentile £543 £600 £330
Berkshire median daily rate £215 £194 £155
% change year-on-year +10.97% +25.00% -54.07%
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 1,098 988 1,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 95.64% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 668 882
10th Percentile £213 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £460 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £657 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £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 £74.40 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.65 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% +170.88% -0.24%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (68.75%) SCCM
2 22 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (65.63%) DV Cleared
3 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
3 21 (65.63%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (62.50%) ITIL
5 19 (59.38%) Customer Service
6 18 (56.25%) HP
6 18 (56.25%) Windows 10
7 17 (53.13%) Driving Licence
7 17 (53.13%) Hardware Maintenance
7 17 (53.13%) Windows 7
7 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Office
7 17 (53.13%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
8 6 (18.75%) Azure
8 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
9 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
9 5 (15.63%) Degree
10 4 (12.50%) Apple
10 4 (12.50%) SCOM
10 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
11 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (9.38%) DevOps
11 3 (9.38%) Entra ID

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.13%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DHCP
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) SGSN
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
2 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
General
1 22 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (53.13%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) CSS
2 1 (3.13%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.13%) LangChain
2 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) LIMS
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Windows 10
3 17 (53.13%) Windows 7
4 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (9.38%) Linux
7 2 (6.25%) Android
7 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (62.50%) ITIL
3 19 (59.38%) Customer Service
4 17 (53.13%) Hardware Maintenance
5 3 (9.38%) Change Management
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Service Management
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Analytics
6 2 (6.25%) Coaching
6 2 (6.25%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.25%) Identity Management
6 2 (6.25%) Log Analytics
6 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (6.25%) Privileged Identity Management
6 2 (6.25%) Project Management
6 2 (6.25%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) Bicep
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) VB
2 2 (6.25%) VBScript
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (65.63%) DV Cleared
1 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (68.75%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) SCOM
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.38%) WSUS
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (56.25%) HP
3 4 (12.50%) Apple
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Ericsson
5 1 (3.13%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) EMC
5 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Symantec
5 1 (3.13%) Veeam
5 1 (3.13%) VMware
24 Support Engineer jobs in Berkshire