IT Support Engineer Contract Job Trends

IT Support Engineer
UK

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 417 437
Rank change year-on-year +77 +20 -7
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 370 146 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.44% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.49% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 99 81
10th Percentile £160 £149 £123
25th Percentile £173 £164 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £244 £250 £250
90th Percentile £295 £325 £338
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £170
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 14
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.35 £15.18
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.50 £20.13
Median hourly rate £20.63 £20.29 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -7.80% +24.15%
75th Percentile £23.50 £25.79 £24.18
90th Percentile £26.50 £31.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £18.51 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% -15.89% +24.15%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 50,382 30,069 35,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.09% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,936 18,968 22,276
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,746 1,571 1,738
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.04 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.59
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.83% +12.32%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IT Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Engineer over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
England +41 331 £200 - 106
UK excluding London +56 265 £200 - 103
London -28 103 £206 -8.33% 23
South East -20 67 £250 +25.00% 39
North of England -23 64 £190 +18.75% 14
East of England +26 54 £195 +9.86% 12
North West -8 48 £200 +25.00% 10
Scotland +1 29 £210 -6.67% 12
Midlands -35 28 £200 - 18
South West -39 18 £225 -18.18% 10
Work from Home -61 18 £250 - 35
West Midlands -42 17 £185 -7.50% 10
Yorkshire -33 15 £190 +22.58% 2
East Midlands -9 11 £300 +76.47% 8
Wales -17 3 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -45 1 £175 - 2

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, IT Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 290 (78.38%) Windows
2 243 (65.68%) Microsoft
3 241 (65.14%) Microsoft 365
4 219 (59.19%) Active Directory
5 152 (41.08%) Customer Service
6 140 (37.84%) Windows 10
7 106 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (25.95%) ITIL
9 82 (22.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 77 (20.81%) ServiceNow
11 71 (19.19%) ITSM
12 70 (18.92%) SharePoint
13 68 (18.38%) Entra ID
14 62 (16.76%) Azure
15 47 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
16 46 (12.43%) VPN
17 42 (11.35%) Security Cleared
18 39 (10.54%) User Experience
19 37 (10.00%) Asset Management
19 37 (10.00%) TCP/IP
20 36 (9.73%) Mac OS
21 35 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
22 34 (9.19%) Apple iOS
22 34 (9.19%) OneDrive
22 34 (9.19%) Service Delivery
23 33 (8.92%) DNS
23 33 (8.92%) SC Cleared
24 30 (8.11%) DHCP
25 29 (7.84%) Service Management
26 27 (7.30%) Apple

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 70 (18.92%) SharePoint
2 47 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.97%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.54%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 241 (65.14%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (18.38%) Entra ID
3 62 (16.76%) Azure
4 34 (9.19%) OneDrive
5 8 (2.16%) AWS
5 8 (2.16%) SaaS
6 6 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.81%) Google Workspace
7 3 (0.81%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.43%) VPN
2 37 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 33 (8.92%) DNS
4 30 (8.11%) DHCP
5 23 (6.22%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (5.68%) LAN
7 16 (4.32%) WAN
8 9 (2.43%) Firewall
9 7 (1.89%) Internet
9 7 (1.89%) SAN
10 6 (1.62%) VLAN
11 5 (1.35%) WLAN
12 3 (0.81%) Wireless
13 2 (0.54%) BGP
13 2 (0.54%) MPLS
13 2 (0.54%) Network Security
13 2 (0.54%) OSPF
13 2 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (6.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.08%) Git
General
1 217 (58.65%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.76%) Finance
4 21 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 11 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.89%) Marketing
8 6 (1.62%) Legal
9 5 (1.35%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.08%) Retail
11 3 (0.81%) Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Front Office
13 1 (0.27%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.27%) Local Government
13 1 (0.27%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 65 (17.57%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.22%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (4.86%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.97%) Blackberry
5 5 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.35%) iPad
5 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.08%) CCTV
6 4 (1.08%) iPhone
7 3 (0.81%) CMDB
7 3 (0.81%) Digital Signage
7 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.81%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.54%) BYOD
8 2 (0.54%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.54%) Replication
8 2 (0.54%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 290 (78.38%) Windows
2 140 (37.84%) Windows 10
3 36 (9.73%) Mac OS
4 34 (9.19%) Apple iOS
5 23 (6.22%) Windows Server
6 22 (5.95%) Android
7 7 (1.89%) Linux
8 3 (0.81%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (41.08%) Customer Service
2 106 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (25.95%) ITIL
4 71 (19.19%) ITSM
5 39 (10.54%) User Experience
6 37 (10.00%) Asset Management
7 35 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (9.19%) Service Delivery
9 29 (7.84%) Service Management
10 21 (5.68%) Migration
11 20 (5.41%) Break/Fix
12 17 (4.59%) Inventory Management
13 13 (3.51%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (3.24%) Data Protection
14 12 (3.24%) Problem Management
15 11 (2.97%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (2.97%) Process Improvement
16 10 (2.70%) High Availability
16 10 (2.70%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (6.49%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.97%) SQL
3 6 (1.62%) C#
4 4 (1.08%) Python
5 2 (0.54%) Java
5 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (11.35%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.76%) A+ Certification
4 22 (5.95%) Degree
5 14 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (1.89%) CCNA
7 7 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.89%) MCSE
8 5 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.22%) SLA
2 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) GxP
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) ITGC
4 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 219 (59.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.97%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (22.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.03%) SCCM
3 5 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.81%) WSUS
6 2 (0.54%) Ansible
7 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 243 (65.68%) Microsoft
2 77 (20.81%) ServiceNow
3 27 (7.30%) Apple
4 17 (4.59%) VMware
5 11 (2.97%) Cisco
5 11 (2.97%) Lotus
6 9 (2.43%) Samsung
7 7 (1.89%) Dell
7 7 (1.89%) iManage
8 5 (1.35%) Citrix
8 5 (1.35%) Remedy
9 4 (1.08%) Google
9 4 (1.08%) Sophos
10 3 (0.81%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.81%) Logitech
10 3 (0.81%) Meraki
10 3 (0.81%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.54%) Okta
11 2 (0.54%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.54%) Veeam
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