Support Technician Contracts in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Technician daily rate in the UK excluding London is £188, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 316 310
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 26 83 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.40% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.43% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 44 89
10th Percentile £163 £127 £131
25th Percentile £176 £149 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £200 £180
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.11% +9.92%
75th Percentile £207 £223 £205
90th Percentile £230 £255 £227
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £188
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 8
10th Percentile £15.63 - £15.50
25th Percentile £16.56 £7.43 £17.59
Median hourly rate £18.75 £11.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +63.04% -43.41% +16.11%
75th Percentile £30.80 £15.65 £22.52
90th Percentile £37.65 £16.00 £28.03
UK median hourly rate £13.77 £11.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +19.74% -41.03% -2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Support Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Technician in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Technician in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Support Technician in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Technician in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Technician in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Support Technician in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Technician in the UK excluding London

Support Technician
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +14 13 £188 +25.00% 34
Yorkshire +10 9 £200 +29.03% 12
South East +13 6 £190 -5.00% 28
East Midlands +14 4 £175 +18.64% 8
Midlands +11 4 £175 -12.50% 15
Scotland +15 3 £450 - 7
North East -6 3 £188 +25.00% 5
North West +6 1 £175 +37.25% 18
Support Technician
UK

Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Support Technician 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 UK excluding London region featuring Support Technician in the job title.

1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (46.15%) Windows 10
4 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 11 (42.31%) Customer Service
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (34.62%) SLA
5 9 (34.62%) DBS Check
6 7 (26.92%) Google
6 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
7 6 (23.08%) Wireless
7 6 (23.08%) Google Workspace
7 6 (23.08%) SmoothWall
7 6 (23.08%) GDPR
7 6 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (19.23%) LAN
9 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (15.38%) A+ Certification
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (11.54%) Dell
10 3 (11.54%) CCNA
10 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
10 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (11.54%) VLAN
10 3 (11.54%) Time Management
10 3 (11.54%) CCENT

Support Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (23.08%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Wireless
2 5 (19.23%) LAN
3 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Customer Service
2 6 (23.08%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) Time Management
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) ITIL
5 2 (7.69%) ITSM
5 2 (7.69%) Service Management
5 2 (7.69%) Storage Management
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.85%) Business Strategy
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (3.85%) Inventory Management
6 1 (3.85%) Mathematics
6 1 (3.85%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (3.85%) Programme Management
6 1 (3.85%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) DBS Check
2 4 (15.38%) A+ Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CCENT
3 3 (11.54%) CCNA
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) MCSA
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) SLA
2 6 (23.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) SmoothWall
2 2 (7.69%) Malwarebytes
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Google
3 3 (11.54%) Dell
4 2 (7.69%) Citrix
4 2 (7.69%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) Spiceworks