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 £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 372 426
Rank change year-on-year +50 +54 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 18 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.094% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 16
10th Percentile £184 £150 £170
25th Percentile £195 £154 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £165 £211
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.89% -15.50%
75th Percentile £275 £206 £328
90th Percentile £445 £240 £375
UK median daily rate £245 £175 £213
% change year-on-year +40.00% -17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -56.36% +117.82% +9.78%

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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
South West +34 5 £250 +51.52% 16
North of England +19 5 £215 -18.87% 12
North West - 5 £215 - 3
South East +45 4 £180 -5.26% 34
Wales - 2 £200 - 3
Scotland - 2 £275 - 2
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 20 May 2025, 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 11 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
5 6 (33.33%) SLA
5 6 (33.33%) Firewall
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
6 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
7 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
7 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
7 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
7 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
7 4 (22.22%) Linux
7 4 (22.22%) LAN
7 4 (22.22%) WAN
7 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (16.67%) Information Security
8 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (16.67%) VoIP
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) SQL
8 3 (16.67%) Remedy
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) LAN
2 4 (22.22%) WAN
3 3 (16.67%) VoIP
4 2 (11.11%) Internet
4 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) DNS
5 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Power Query
3 1 (5.56%) Sisense
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
3 1 (5.56%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.56%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) IVR
4 1 (5.56%) CMDB
4 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Android
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (16.67%) Information Security
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) BCP
3 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Service Management
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.56%) CRM
4 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.56%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Remedy
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Dell
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Sophos
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) MicroStrategy