Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Support Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 13 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.30% - 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% - 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £320
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.74%
75th Percentile £441 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £267 £300 £200
% change year-on-year -11.00% +50.00% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £22.03 - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £20.25
% change year-on-year +18.37% -10.47% +16.87%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 518 115 80
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 89.15% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 70 47
10th Percentile £357 £210 £236
25th Percentile £402 £352 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -9.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £536
90th Percentile £562 £525 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £23.98 - £14.94
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%
75th Percentile £65.25 £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -19.42% +25.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Telford - 11 £415 - 3
Support Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 18 March 2026, 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 Shropshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) Data Integration
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (46.15%) Denodo
3 6 (46.15%) Git
3 6 (46.15%) Grafana
3 6 (46.15%) MySQL
3 6 (46.15%) Talend
4 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
4 5 (38.46%) Observability
4 5 (38.46%) Pentaho
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Management
5 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
5 2 (15.38%) Computacenter
5 2 (15.38%) Dell
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Ticket Management
5 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
6 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (7.69%) AWS
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Confluence
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (7.69%) Fujitsu
6 1 (7.69%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Java

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
1 7 (53.85%) Data Integration
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
2 5 (38.46%) Observability
2 5 (38.46%) Proactive Management
3 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
3 2 (15.38%) Ticket Management
4 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (7.69%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (7.69%) Kanban
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) TDD
4 1 (7.69%) Workflow
4 1 (7.69%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Perl
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Denodo
1 6 (46.15%) Talend
2 2 (15.38%) Computacenter
2 2 (15.38%) Dell
2 2 (15.38%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) Fujitsu
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat