Technical Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £165 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 433 471
Rank change year-on-year +58 +38 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 20 19 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.078% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.083% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 22
10th Percentile £150 - £156
25th Percentile £154 £173 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £205 £228
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% -9.89% +3.41%
75th Percentile £206 £328 £283
90th Percentile £240 £375 £300
UK median daily rate £175 £210 £235
% change year-on-year -16.67% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £24.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +124.49% +6.52% +67.27%

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 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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

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

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 West +30 13 £165 -21.43% 6
Midlands +40 3 £225 - 13
West Midlands +34 3 £225 - 5
South East +13 2 £190 -47.59% 13
North of England +28 1 £265 +51.43% 16
Yorkshire +25 1 £265 +32.50% 8
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Technical Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) SLA
3 10 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (40.00%) Windows
5 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (40.00%) SCCM
6 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (35.00%) ITIL
7 6 (30.00%) BT
7 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (30.00%) Coaching
7 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Line Management
7 6 (30.00%) Police
8 4 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
8 4 (20.00%) Degree
9 3 (15.00%) Legal
9 3 (15.00%) Project Management
9 3 (15.00%) DHCP
9 3 (15.00%) DNS
9 3 (15.00%) Python
9 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (15.00%) BitLocker
9 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (15.00%) Windows Server

Technical 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 1 (5.00%) SAS
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Police
3 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (35.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) Coaching
4 6 (30.00%) Line Management
5 4 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (15.00%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (15.00%) Case Management
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
7 1 (5.00%) Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
7 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.00%) ERP
7 1 (5.00%) ITSM
7 1 (5.00%) Kalman Filter
7 1 (5.00%) Operations Management
7 1 (5.00%) Service Management
7 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) BT
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle