Senior Support Engineer Contracts

Senior Support Engineer
UK

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £238 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 667 776
Rank change year-on-year +101 +109 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 25 38 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.066% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.069% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 58
10th Percentile £205 £209 £193
25th Percentile £214 £231 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £300 £313
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £303 £350 £388
90th Percentile £319 £503 £466
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £350 £350
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +51.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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
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 9 May 2024. 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 +96 14 £238 -20.83% 47
Work from Home +130 12 - - 13
London +90 8 £238 -5.00% 7
UK excluding London +28 6 £313 -10.71% 39
North of England +20 3 £225 -5.26% 12
Midlands +36 2 £313 - 10
West Midlands +23 2 £313 - 5
North West +10 2 - - 9
Yorkshire +15 1 £225 -5.26% 2
South East +13 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (48.00%) Elite 3E
2 12 (48.00%) High Availability
2 12 (48.00%) Replication
2 12 (48.00%) Migration
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 12 (48.00%) ETL
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (24.00%) Legal
4 6 (24.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (20.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.00%) VMware
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (16.00%) JIRA
6 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (16.00%) Intapp
6 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
7 3 (12.00%) SCCM
7 3 (12.00%) Degree
7 3 (12.00%) Marketing
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange

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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Slack
3 2 (8.00%) WhatsApp
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Internet
2 2 (8.00%) Skype
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) FTP
3 1 (4.00%) IGRP
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) RIP
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Data Centre
1 12 (48.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.00%) iPad
3 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) ETL
1 12 (48.00%) High Availability
1 12 (48.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Workflow
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.00%) Global Marketing
5 2 (8.00%) ITSM
5 2 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Ticket Management
5 2 (8.00%) Time Management
6 1 (4.00%) Coaching
6 1 (4.00%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.00%) Process Improvement
6 1 (4.00%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Korn
2 1 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CCNA
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Intapp
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) Apple
3 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.00%) Becrypt
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) Citrix
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Okta
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) SAP