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 24 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 405 435
Rank change year-on-year +51 +30 -19
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 363 155 134
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.52% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 106 85
10th Percentile £162 £150 £124
25th Percentile £173 £161 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £246 £250 £260
90th Percentile £288 £303 £350
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £180
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 12
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.00 £20.05
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £22.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -12.26% +28.64%
75th Percentile £23.50 £25.04 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.70 £26.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.25 £22.80
% change year-on-year -1.30% -15.55% +28.64%

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 50,643 30,010 35,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.03% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,934 18,949 21,605
10th Percentile £325 £277 £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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,909 1,607 1,616
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.57 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.08 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.49% -42.88% +0.83%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +36 326 £200 - 152
UK excluding London +48 263 £200 - 116
London -44 98 £200 -8.57% 65
South East -31 64 £250 +25.00% 29
North of England -18 62 £190 +18.75% 23
East of England +20 58 £200 +12.68% 9
North West -15 47 £200 +25.00% 18
Midlands -30 30 £200 - 21
Scotland 0 28 £210 -6.67% 17
Work from Home -62 20 £238 -5.00% 47
West Midlands -36 18 £185 -7.50% 10
South West -39 17 £225 -14.29% 11
Yorkshire -23 14 £190 -1.30% 2
East Midlands -10 12 £256 +50.74% 10
Wales -13 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 6
North East -44 1 £175 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 287 (79.06%) Windows
2 242 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 237 (65.29%) Microsoft 365
4 212 (58.40%) Active Directory
5 150 (41.32%) Customer Service
6 140 (38.57%) Windows 10
7 110 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (26.45%) ITIL
9 80 (22.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 75 (20.66%) ServiceNow
11 71 (19.56%) ITSM
12 70 (19.28%) SharePoint
13 64 (17.63%) Entra ID
14 62 (17.08%) Azure
15 47 (12.95%) VPN
16 46 (12.67%) Microsoft Exchange
17 42 (11.57%) Security Cleared
18 38 (10.47%) Asset Management
18 38 (10.47%) TCP/IP
19 36 (9.92%) Mac OS
20 35 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 35 (9.64%) User Experience
21 34 (9.37%) Service Delivery
22 33 (9.09%) Apple iOS
22 33 (9.09%) OneDrive
22 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
23 32 (8.82%) DNS
24 29 (7.99%) DHCP
24 29 (7.99%) Service Management
25 27 (7.44%) 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 (19.28%) SharePoint
2 46 (12.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.03%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.55%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 237 (65.29%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (17.63%) Entra ID
3 62 (17.08%) Azure
4 33 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 9 (2.48%) AWS
6 8 (2.20%) SaaS
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.83%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.55%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.95%) VPN
2 38 (10.47%) TCP/IP
3 32 (8.82%) DNS
4 29 (7.99%) DHCP
5 23 (6.34%) LAN
6 22 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (4.96%) WAN
8 12 (3.31%) Firewall
9 7 (1.93%) Internet
9 7 (1.93%) SAN
10 5 (1.38%) VLAN
10 5 (1.38%) WLAN
11 4 (1.10%) BGP
11 4 (1.10%) MPLS
11 4 (1.10%) OSPF
11 4 (1.10%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.10%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) EIGRP
12 2 (0.55%) Network Security
12 2 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (0.28%) Db2
1 1 (0.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (5.79%) JIRA
2 3 (0.83%) Git
General
1 211 (58.13%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (6.34%) Finance
4 22 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.93%) Marketing
8 6 (1.65%) Legal
9 5 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.10%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Back Office
12 1 (0.28%) Front Office
12 1 (0.28%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.28%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.28%) ODBC
1 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.34%) Video Conferencing
3 20 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.03%) Blackberry
5 5 (1.38%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.38%) iPad
5 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.10%) CCTV
6 4 (1.10%) iPhone
7 3 (0.83%) CMDB
7 3 (0.83%) Digital Signage
7 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.83%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.55%) BYOD
8 2 (0.55%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.55%) Replication
8 2 (0.55%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.28%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 287 (79.06%) Windows
2 140 (38.57%) Windows 10
3 36 (9.92%) Mac OS
4 33 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 27 (7.44%) Windows Server
6 22 (6.06%) Android
7 7 (1.93%) Linux
8 3 (0.83%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (41.32%) Customer Service
2 110 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (26.45%) ITIL
4 71 (19.56%) ITSM
5 38 (10.47%) Asset Management
6 35 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (9.64%) User Experience
7 34 (9.37%) Service Delivery
8 29 (7.99%) Service Management
9 24 (6.61%) Migration
10 21 (5.79%) Break/Fix
11 17 (4.68%) Inventory Management
12 14 (3.86%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (3.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (3.31%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (3.03%) Data Protection
15 11 (3.03%) Process Improvement
16 10 (2.75%) High Availability
16 10 (2.75%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.34%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.48%) SQL
3 6 (1.65%) Python
4 3 (0.83%) C#
5 2 (0.55%) Java
5 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.89%) A+ Certification
4 21 (5.79%) Degree
5 14 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (3.58%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (1.93%) CCNA
7 7 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.93%) MCSE
8 5 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.61%) SLA
2 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.28%) GxP
3 1 (0.28%) ITGC
3 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (58.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (22.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.89%) SCCM
3 5 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.10%) Ansible
5 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.83%) WSUS
6 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 242 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 75 (20.66%) ServiceNow
3 27 (7.44%) Apple
4 17 (4.68%) VMware
5 13 (3.58%) Cisco
6 11 (3.03%) Lotus
7 9 (2.48%) Samsung
8 7 (1.93%) Dell
8 7 (1.93%) iManage
9 5 (1.38%) Citrix
9 5 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.38%) Remedy
10 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.10%) Google
10 4 (1.10%) Sophos
11 3 (0.83%) Freshdesk
11 3 (0.83%) Logitech
11 3 (0.83%) Meraki
12 2 (0.55%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.55%) Veeam
186 IT Support Engineer jobs Nationwide