Senior Support Engineer Contracts

Senior Support Engineer
UK

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £370, 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 498 559 676
Rank change year-on-year +61 +117 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 22 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.053% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.057% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 29
10th Percentile - £202 £211
25th Percentile £243 £209 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £231 £325
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -28.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £420 £256 £350
90th Percentile £423 - £501
UK excluding London median daily rate £245 £225 £350
% change year-on-year +8.89% -35.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50

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%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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
England +65 20 £400 +72.97% 44
London +42 12 £400 +68.42% 19
Work from Home +38 9 £400 - 18
UK excluding London +66 7 £245 +8.89% 34
East of England - 2 £245 - 4
South West - 2 £600 - 2
South East +46 1 £263 - 9
North of England +17 1 £245 +8.89% 7
Yorkshire +8 1 £245 +8.89% 2
Wales - 1 £180 - 3

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

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

1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (59.09%) Windows
4 11 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (50.00%) OneDrive
5 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
6 9 (40.91%) VPN
7 8 (36.36%) Windows 10
8 7 (31.82%) Slack
8 7 (31.82%) Asana
8 7 (31.82%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (31.82%) Finance
8 7 (31.82%) Onboarding
8 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
9 6 (27.27%) VMware
9 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
9 6 (27.27%) SaaS
10 5 (22.73%) VLAN
10 5 (22.73%) Ivanti
10 5 (22.73%) SCCM
10 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (22.73%) Azure
10 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
10 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
10 5 (22.73%) DNS
10 5 (22.73%) LAN
10 5 (22.73%) VoIP
10 5 (22.73%) WAN

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 7 (31.82%) Asana
3 7 (31.82%) Slack
4 6 (27.27%) SaaS
5 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.09%) Google Workspace
7 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) VPN
2 7 (31.82%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) LAN
3 5 (22.73%) VLAN
3 5 (22.73%) VoIP
3 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) DB2
2 1 (4.55%) Informix
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Arabic Language
3 1 (4.55%) French Language
3 1 (4.55%) German Language
3 1 (4.55%) Japanese Language
3 1 (4.55%) Korean Language
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 4 (18.18%) Android
3 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
4 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
2 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
2 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Identity Management
3 4 (18.18%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (9.09%) User Experience
5 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (4.55%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.55%) Information Security
6 1 (4.55%) ITIL
6 1 (4.55%) ITSM
6 1 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) Korn
2 1 (4.55%) Perl
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) Firmware
4 1 (4.55%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) AppManager
1 5 (22.73%) SCCM
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Plesk
4 1 (4.55%) TADDM
4 1 (4.55%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Ivanti
4 4 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.64%) Zscaler
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) Google
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle
6 2 (9.09%) Sage
7 1 (4.55%) IBM
7 1 (4.55%) Meraki
7 1 (4.55%) Rackspace