Customer Support Engineer Contracts

Customer Support Engineer
UK

The median Customer Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £240, 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 519 592 706
Rank change year-on-year +73 +114 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Customer Support Engineer 1 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.014% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.015% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £235 - £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 - £188
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.51%
75th Percentile £245 - £254
90th Percentile - - £291
UK excluding London median daily rate £240 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.70
25th Percentile - £180.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate - £184.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +235.45% -
75th Percentile - £188.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £36.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Customer Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Customer Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Customer Support Engineer in the UK

Customer Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Customer Support Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Customer Support Engineer in the UK

Customer Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Customer Support Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Customer Support Engineer in the UK

Customer Support Engineer
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Customer Support Engineer within the UK 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
UK excluding London +58 1 £240 - 14
England +53 1 £240 - 17
North of England - 1 £240 -
Yorkshire - 1 £240 -

Customer Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Customer 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 featuring Customer Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service

Customer Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware