Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Support Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Telford 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 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £452 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £415 - £320
% change year-on-year - - -40.74%
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 - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 474 95 65
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 89.62% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 62 40
10th Percentile £363 £313 £368
25th Percentile £408 £411 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £461 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -13.79% -0.93%
75th Percentile £522 £504 £536
90th Percentile £562 £529 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £467 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +3.05% -9.33% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
% change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

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

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 Telford region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (36.36%) Denodo
3 4 (36.36%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 4 (36.36%) MySQL
3 4 (36.36%) Talend
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Pentaho
4 3 (27.27%) Proactive Management
5 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
5 2 (18.18%) Computacenter
5 2 (18.18%) Dell
5 2 (18.18%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
5 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
6 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Confluence
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
6 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (9.09%) Java

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (18.18%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) Pentaho
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) MSI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Analytics
1 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
2 3 (27.27%) Observability
2 3 (27.27%) Proactive Management
3 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 2 (18.18%) Ticket Management
4 1 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) Kanban
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) TDD
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Denodo
1 4 (36.36%) Talend
2 2 (18.18%) Computacenter
2 2 (18.18%) Dell
2 2 (18.18%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat