Remote Support Engineer Contracts

Remote Support Engineer
UK

The median Remote Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 565 691
Rank change year-on-year +53 +126 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Remote Support Engineer 8 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.039% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.042% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 18
10th Percentile £252 £151 £200
25th Percentile £347 £165 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £325
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £492 £356 £491
90th Percentile £523 £508 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £282 £278
% change year-on-year +11.09% +1.53% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £41.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +209.86%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +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 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Remote Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Support Engineer in the UK

Remote Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Support Engineer in the UK

Remote Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Support Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Support Engineer in the UK

Remote Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Support Engineer in the UK

Remote Support Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Work from Home +36 6 £472 +177.35% 4
England +50 4 £425 +70.00% 2
UK excluding London +64 3 £313 +11.09% 2
London +31 1 £450 +80.00% 1
East of England +30 1 £226 -
North of England +19 1 £400 +18.52%
North West +17 1 £400 +18.52%
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Remote Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Remote 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 Remote Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) POP3
5 2 (25.00%) SMTP
5 2 (25.00%) Unix
5 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) IMAP
5 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) Splunk
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (12.50%) SS7
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (12.50%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) SaaS
6 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 1 (12.50%) F#
6 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V

Remote 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) IMAP
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) POP3
1 2 (25.00%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (12.50%) GGSN
2 1 (12.50%) SS7
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) F#
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Huawei
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia