Systems Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 450 508
Rank change year-on-year +58 +58 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 11 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.029% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.031% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £126 £424 -
25th Percentile £152 £441 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £511 £538
90th Percentile - £530 £620
UK median daily rate £488 £485 £350
% change year-on-year +0.52% +38.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £15.82
25th Percentile - - £16.12
Median hourly rate £46.39 £21.67 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year +114.07% +27.90% -37.32%
75th Percentile - - £17.45
90th Percentile - - £17.56
UK median hourly rate £50.70 £21.67 £17.64
% change year-on-year +133.94% +22.85% -34.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
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 Systems Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +19 4 £183 -63.50% 2
East of England - 4 £500 -
Scotland +38 2 £126 - 1
South West +18 1 - - 1
Systems Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Systems 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) IIS
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) SCOM
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) SLA
4 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
4 2 (18.18%) French Language

Systems Support Engineer 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 4 (36.36%) IIS
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (18.18%) VLAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
1 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) French Language
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Portuguese Language
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Spanish Language
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS X
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
3 2 (18.18%) Logistics
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) VMware