Technical Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Technical Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £180, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 197 209
Rank change year-on-year +46 +12 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.053% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.058% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £158 £138 £240
25th Percentile £166 £156 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £190 £275
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -30.91% +28.74%
75th Percentile £210 £221 £381
90th Percentile £228 £239 £423
England median daily rate £245 £175 £213
% change year-on-year +40.00% -17.65% -11.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,700 5,176 5,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.20% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 3,066 3,682
10th Percentile £226 £231 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £603
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 513 234
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £33.89 £48.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -4.00% +138.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.30 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley - 2 £155 - 12
Surrey +20 1 £180 -5.26% 9
West Sussex - 1 £240 - 2
Berkshire - 1 - - 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 £155 - 4
Technical Support Engineer
England

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Technical 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 South East region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Sisense
2 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (25.00%) SAS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Power Query
1 1 (25.00%) Sisense
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow