2nd Line Support Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Second Line Support Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Second Line Support Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £195, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 -4
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.68% 0.34% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 0.37% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile - £204 £227
25th Percentile £188 £211 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £228 £250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £211 £251 £304
90th Percentile £217 £261 £310
South East median daily rate £204 £194 £225
% change year-on-year +5.16% -13.89% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.33 - -
25th Percentile £28.81 - -
Median hourly rate £30.25 - -
75th Percentile £32.31 - -
90th Percentile £33.18 - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 - £24.50
% change year-on-year - - +58.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

2nd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Surrey

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Surrey

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Surrey

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 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
Guildford - 3 £220 -
Leatherhead - 2 £195 -
2nd Line Support Engineer
South East

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 2nd Line 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 Surrey region featuring 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Softphone
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Softphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Dell