IT Support Engineer Contracts in the South West

IT Support Engineer
England > South West

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in the South West is £183 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 129 147 146
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 -20
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 18 23 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.64% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.69% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £120 £146 £123
25th Percentile £126 £156 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £183 £178 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -11.25% +26.98%
75th Percentile £226 £214 £425
90th Percentile £291 £469 £438
England median daily rate £200 £200 £200
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - £12.87 £15.48
25th Percentile £12.00 £13.44 £15.81
Median hourly rate £12.19 £14.94 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% -13.41% +4.55%
75th Percentile £12.75 £19.73 £18.26
90th Percentile £13.41 £25.89 £18.74
England median hourly rate £21.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -5.71% +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,975 3,338 3,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.52% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,501 2,548
10th Percentile £209 £263 £225
25th Percentile £384 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +8.99%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £714 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 266 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +37.57% +11.18%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.38 £69.12
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in the South West

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the South West

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the South West

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the South West

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Somerset +10 7 £145 - 4
Wiltshire +8 5 £200 +11.11% 4
Bristol +8 5 £300 +71.43% 7
Devon -4 1 £143 - 3
IT Support Engineer
England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, IT 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 West region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Customer Service
3 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
6 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
7 4 (22.22%) SLA
7 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (22.22%) Azure
7 4 (22.22%) Android
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) SCCM
8 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
8 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 3 (16.67%) ITSM
8 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (16.67%) VPN
8 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
9 2 (11.11%) MCP
9 2 (11.11%) SAP
9 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (11.11%) LAN
9 2 (11.11%) WAN

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Skype
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) WebEx
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) BYOD
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) ITSM
3 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
4 2 (11.11%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 2 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Ticket Management
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) VMware