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 30 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 398 433
Rank change year-on-year +45 +35 -8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 366 157 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 109 85
10th Percentile £163 £150 £124
25th Percentile £173 £160 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £250 £250 £254
90th Percentile £288 £301 £345
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £180
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 11
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.00 £18.70
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.29 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -14.01% +32.08%
75th Percentile £23.50 £25.04 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.70 £26.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.80
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.26% +27.63%

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 50,615 29,871 34,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 90.97% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,878 18,887 21,169
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £623 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,942 1,601 1,551
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.16%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +24 327 £200 - 161
UK excluding London +49 263 £200 - 105
London -42 101 £200 -5.88% 75
South East -29 63 £255 +27.50% 22
North of England -32 62 £190 +18.75% 15
East of England +25 59 £200 +12.68% 11
North West -11 48 £200 +25.00% 11
Scotland +7 30 £210 -6.67% 12
Midlands -24 29 £200 - 22
Work from Home -68 20 £238 -5.00% 44
West Midlands -39 17 £185 -7.50% 13
South West -43 16 £225 -10.00% 16
Yorkshire -32 13 £190 -1.30% 3
East Midlands -9 12 £256 +50.74% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 5
Wales -15 1 - - 3
North East -39 1 £175 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 (79.23%) Windows
2 247 (67.49%) Microsoft
3 239 (65.30%) Microsoft 365
4 215 (58.74%) Active Directory
5 147 (40.16%) Customer Service
6 142 (38.80%) Windows 10
7 110 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (26.50%) ITIL
9 80 (21.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 77 (21.04%) ServiceNow
11 71 (19.40%) SharePoint
12 70 (19.13%) ITSM
13 68 (18.58%) Entra ID
14 65 (17.76%) Azure
15 50 (13.66%) VPN
16 48 (13.11%) Microsoft Exchange
17 43 (11.75%) Security Cleared
18 38 (10.38%) Asset Management
18 38 (10.38%) TCP/IP
19 37 (10.11%) Mac OS
20 35 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
20 35 (9.56%) OneDrive
21 34 (9.29%) Service Delivery
21 34 (9.29%) User Experience
22 33 (9.02%) Apple iOS
22 33 (9.02%) SC Cleared
23 32 (8.74%) DNS
24 29 (7.92%) Apple
24 29 (7.92%) DHCP
24 29 (7.92%) Service Management

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 71 (19.40%) SharePoint
2 48 (13.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.01%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.55%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 239 (65.30%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (18.58%) Entra ID
3 65 (17.76%) Azure
4 35 (9.56%) OneDrive
5 9 (2.46%) AWS
6 8 (2.19%) SaaS
7 4 (1.09%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.82%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.55%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.66%) VPN
2 38 (10.38%) TCP/IP
3 32 (8.74%) DNS
4 29 (7.92%) DHCP
5 23 (6.28%) LAN
6 22 (6.01%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (4.92%) WAN
8 12 (3.28%) Firewall
9 6 (1.64%) Internet
9 6 (1.64%) SAN
10 5 (1.37%) VLAN
10 5 (1.37%) WLAN
11 4 (1.09%) BGP
11 4 (1.09%) MPLS
11 4 (1.09%) OSPF
11 4 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.09%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) EIGRP
12 2 (0.55%) Network Security
12 2 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (0.27%) Db2
1 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (5.74%) JIRA
2 3 (0.82%) Git
General
1 211 (57.65%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (6.28%) Finance
3 23 (6.28%) Manufacturing
4 10 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (1.91%) Marketing
6 6 (1.64%) Legal
6 6 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.09%) Retail
8 2 (0.55%) Banking
8 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Back Office
9 1 (0.27%) Front Office
9 1 (0.27%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.27%) Local Government
9 1 (0.27%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.27%) ODBC
1 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.58%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.56%) Video Conferencing
3 19 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.01%) Blackberry
5 10 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.37%) iPad
8 4 (1.09%) CCTV
8 4 (1.09%) iPhone
9 3 (0.82%) CMDB
9 3 (0.82%) Digital Signage
9 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.55%) BYOD
10 2 (0.55%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.55%) Replication
10 2 (0.55%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.55%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 290 (79.23%) Windows
2 142 (38.80%) Windows 10
3 37 (10.11%) Mac OS
4 33 (9.02%) Apple iOS
5 28 (7.65%) Windows Server
6 21 (5.74%) Android
7 7 (1.91%) Linux
8 3 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (40.16%) Customer Service
2 110 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (26.50%) ITIL
4 70 (19.13%) ITSM
5 38 (10.38%) Asset Management
6 35 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (9.29%) Service Delivery
7 34 (9.29%) User Experience
8 29 (7.92%) Service Management
9 25 (6.83%) Migration
10 21 (5.74%) Break/Fix
11 16 (4.37%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (4.37%) Inventory Management
11 16 (4.37%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (3.28%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (3.28%) Vulnerability Management
14 11 (3.01%) Process Improvement
15 10 (2.73%) Customer Experience
15 10 (2.73%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.28%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.46%) SQL
3 6 (1.64%) Python
4 3 (0.82%) C#
5 2 (0.55%) Java
5 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.56%) A+ Certification
4 21 (5.74%) Degree
5 13 (3.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.28%) Network+ Certification
7 8 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.64%) CCNA
8 6 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.64%) MCSE
9 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.56%) SLA
2 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) GxP
3 1 (0.27%) ITGC
3 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 215 (58.74%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.01%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (21.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (6.56%) SCCM
3 5 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.09%) Ansible
5 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.82%) WSUS
6 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 247 (67.49%) Microsoft
2 77 (21.04%) ServiceNow
3 29 (7.92%) Apple
4 19 (5.19%) VMware
5 16 (4.37%) Cisco
6 11 (3.01%) Lotus
7 9 (2.46%) Samsung
8 7 (1.91%) iManage
9 6 (1.64%) Dell
10 5 (1.37%) Citrix
10 5 (1.37%) Meraki
10 5 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.37%) Remedy
11 4 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.09%) Google
11 4 (1.09%) Sophos
12 3 (0.82%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.82%) Logitech
13 2 (0.55%) Rapid7
13 2 (0.55%) Veeam
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