Technical Support Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Support
England > South East

The median Technical Support daily rate in the South East is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 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
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 113 163
Rank change year-on-year -12 +50 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 45 67 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.28% 1.53% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.65% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 46
10th Percentile £163 £170 £148
25th Percentile £204 £203 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £248
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -17.17% +2.06%
75th Percentile £211 £208 £315
90th Percentile - - £365
England median daily rate £208 £205 £250
% change year-on-year +1.22% -18.00% -14.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.02 - -
Median hourly rate £16.86 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.86% - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile £17.78 - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £13.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -50.00% +52.94%

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 3,162 4,049 5,309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 92.23% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,398 3,590
10th Percentile £204 £244 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £652 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.52% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 272 258
10th Percentile £13.18 £16.00 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.38 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +12.48% +113.20%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £67.23
90th Percentile £71.15 £80.00 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.92% +73.48%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in the South East

Technical Support
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in the South East

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support in the South East over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support in the South East

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Support job vacancies in the South East

Technical Support
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Surrey +4 32 £208 +1.22% 6
Berkshire +10 11 £208 +15.28% 4
Thames Valley -7 11 £208 +15.28% 8
Hampshire +6 1 £365 -18.89% 6
Technical Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 2025, Technical Support 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 in the job title.

1 32 (71.11%) OO
2 30 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 30 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 29 (64.44%) Windows
4 28 (62.22%) Oracle
5 27 (60.00%) Java
6 26 (57.78%) MySQL
6 26 (57.78%) Unix
6 26 (57.78%) Relational Database
7 24 (53.33%) CSS
8 23 (51.11%) Linux
8 23 (51.11%) Browser DevTools
9 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
10 20 (44.44%) Perl
10 20 (44.44%) Python
11 17 (37.78%) SaaS
12 15 (33.33%) React
13 14 (31.11%) User Experience
13 14 (31.11%) AngularJS
13 14 (31.11%) ServiceNow
13 14 (31.11%) GraphQL
13 14 (31.11%) Mobile App
13 14 (31.11%) Mobile Application Development
13 14 (31.11%) Wireless
13 14 (31.11%) Ajax
14 13 (28.89%) Eclipse
14 13 (28.89%) Splunk
14 13 (28.89%) Xcode
14 13 (28.89%) Android
14 13 (28.89%) Android Studio

Technical Support 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 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.44%) SAS
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) SaaS
2 13 (28.89%) Sauce Labs
3 9 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) Wireless
2 8 (17.78%) HTTP
3 6 (13.33%) Wireshark
4 4 (8.89%) FTP
5 2 (4.44%) DNS
6 1 (2.22%) Network Security
6 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (57.78%) MySQL
1 26 (57.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.33%) MariaDB
3 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.44%) Power BI
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.44%) Tableau
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (2.22%) Power Query
5 1 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.22%) Sisense
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (51.11%) Browser DevTools
2 13 (28.89%) Android Studio
2 13 (28.89%) Eclipse
2 13 (28.89%) Xcode
3 9 (20.00%) Firebug
4 2 (4.44%) Fiddler
General
1 30 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) French Language
4 1 (2.22%) German Language
4 1 (2.22%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) CSS
2 15 (33.33%) React
3 14 (31.11%) Ajax
3 14 (31.11%) AngularJS
3 14 (31.11%) GraphQL
4 10 (22.22%) HTML
5 9 (20.00%) XML
6 4 (8.89%) REST
6 4 (8.89%) SOAP
7 3 (6.67%) OAuth
8 2 (4.44%) .NET
8 2 (4.44%) MDX
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Windows
2 26 (57.78%) Unix
3 23 (51.11%) Linux
4 13 (28.89%) Android
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.22%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) OO
2 14 (31.11%) Mobile Application Development
2 14 (31.11%) User Experience
3 13 (28.89%) Customer Service
4 10 (22.22%) OOP
4 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.33%) Analytics
5 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.11%) ITIL
7 4 (8.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.89%) Customer Experience
7 4 (8.89%) Escalation Management
7 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.89%) Process Improvement
8 3 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (6.67%) ITSM
8 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (4.44%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 27 (60.00%) Java
3 20 (44.44%) Perl
3 20 (44.44%) Python
4 7 (15.56%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
2 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Oracle
2 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (31.11%) ServiceNow
4 13 (28.89%) Splunk
5 3 (6.67%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.22%) Meraki
7 1 (2.22%) Okta