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 10 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 392 430
Rank change year-on-year +34 +38 -23
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 360 162 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.49% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.54% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 115 93
10th Percentile £163 £147 £125
25th Percentile £175 £160 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £250 £244 £250
90th Percentile £288 £292 £338
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £180
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 10
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.10 £18.35
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.28 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -10.91% +25.71%
75th Percentile £23.50 £24.75 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.80 £26.00 £24.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £23.59
% change year-on-year -5.00% -15.22% +27.51%

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 50,251 30,087 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.83% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,471 18,979 21,309
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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,065 1,640 1,482
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.91
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.74% -3.03%

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 10 October 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 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK

IT Support Engineer
Top 16 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 10 October 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 +19 320 £200 - 180
UK excluding London +47 260 £200 - 117
London -42 98 £200 - 78
South East -37 64 £260 +30.00% 15
East of England +21 61 £200 +12.68% 9
North of England -33 59 £200 +25.00% 32
North West -15 45 £200 +25.00% 20
Scotland +7 31 £210 -1.18% 8
Midlands -27 29 £200 - 17
Work from Home -57 20 £238 -5.00% 51
West Midlands -37 17 £185 -17.78% 13
Yorkshire -21 13 £190 -7.32% 8
East Midlands -6 12 £256 +50.74% 4
South West -40 12 £225 -10.00% 26
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 6
North East -44 1 £175 +65.09% 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 288 (80.00%) Windows
2 244 (67.78%) Microsoft
3 239 (66.39%) Microsoft 365
4 212 (58.89%) Active Directory
5 145 (40.28%) Customer Service
6 142 (39.44%) Windows 10
7 108 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (25.83%) ITIL
9 79 (21.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 75 (20.83%) ServiceNow
11 72 (20.00%) SharePoint
12 69 (19.17%) ITSM
13 66 (18.33%) Entra ID
14 65 (18.06%) Azure
15 51 (14.17%) VPN
16 48 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
17 44 (12.22%) Security Cleared
18 38 (10.56%) Asset Management
19 37 (10.28%) TCP/IP
20 36 (10.00%) Mac OS
21 35 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
21 35 (9.72%) OneDrive
22 34 (9.44%) Service Delivery
22 34 (9.44%) User Experience
23 33 (9.17%) Apple iOS
23 33 (9.17%) DNS
23 33 (9.17%) SC Cleared
24 30 (8.33%) DHCP
24 30 (8.33%) Windows Server
25 29 (8.06%) 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 72 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 48 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.06%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 239 (66.39%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (18.33%) Entra ID
3 65 (18.06%) Azure
4 35 (9.72%) OneDrive
5 10 (2.78%) AWS
6 8 (2.22%) SaaS
7 5 (1.39%) AWS Direct Connect
7 5 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.83%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.56%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.17%) VPN
2 37 (10.28%) TCP/IP
3 33 (9.17%) DNS
4 30 (8.33%) DHCP
5 26 (7.22%) LAN
6 22 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (5.56%) WAN
8 13 (3.61%) Firewall
9 6 (1.67%) Internet
9 6 (1.67%) VLAN
10 5 (1.39%) BGP
10 5 (1.39%) MPLS
10 5 (1.39%) OSPF
10 5 (1.39%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.39%) WLAN
11 4 (1.11%) Wireless
12 3 (0.83%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.83%) SAN
13 2 (0.56%) Network Security
13 2 (0.56%) 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 19 (5.28%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Git
General
1 209 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.94%) Manufacturing
4 22 (6.11%) Finance
5 11 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.94%) Marketing
8 6 (1.67%) Legal
8 6 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.11%) Retail
10 3 (0.83%) Banking
10 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Back Office
11 1 (0.28%) Front Office
11 1 (0.28%) Local Government
11 1 (0.28%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.28%) ODBC
1 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.89%) Onboarding
2 26 (7.22%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.06%) Blackberry
5 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.39%) iPad
8 4 (1.11%) CCTV
8 4 (1.11%) CMDB
8 4 (1.11%) iPhone
9 3 (0.83%) Digital Signage
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.56%) BYOD
10 2 (0.56%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.56%) Replication
10 2 (0.56%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.56%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.28%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 288 (80.00%) Windows
2 142 (39.44%) Windows 10
3 36 (10.00%) Mac OS
4 33 (9.17%) Apple iOS
5 30 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 20 (5.56%) Android
7 7 (1.94%) Linux
8 3 (0.83%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (40.28%) Customer Service
2 108 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (25.83%) ITIL
4 69 (19.17%) ITSM
5 38 (10.56%) Asset Management
6 35 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (9.44%) Service Delivery
7 34 (9.44%) User Experience
8 29 (8.06%) Service Management
9 24 (6.67%) Migration
10 19 (5.28%) Break/Fix
10 19 (5.28%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (4.72%) Inventory Management
12 16 (4.44%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (3.33%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
15 11 (3.06%) Process Improvement
16 10 (2.78%) Customer Experience
16 10 (2.78%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.39%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.94%) Python
2 7 (1.94%) SQL
3 2 (0.56%) Java
3 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.83%) A+ Certification
4 20 (5.56%) Degree
5 13 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.83%) CCNA
9 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.83%) MCSE
10 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.94%) SLA
2 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (58.89%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (21.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.94%) SCCM
3 5 (1.39%) Ansible
3 5 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.11%) WSUS
5 3 (0.83%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 244 (67.78%) Microsoft
2 75 (20.83%) ServiceNow
3 28 (7.78%) Apple
4 19 (5.28%) VMware
5 17 (4.72%) Cisco
6 11 (3.06%) Lotus
7 8 (2.22%) Samsung
8 7 (1.94%) iManage
9 6 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.39%) Citrix
10 5 (1.39%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.39%) Meraki
10 5 (1.39%) Remedy
11 4 (1.11%) Google
11 4 (1.11%) Sophos
12 3 (0.83%) Dell
12 3 (0.83%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.83%) Logitech
13 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (0.56%) Rapid7
208 IT Support Engineer jobs Nationwide