2nd Line Support Engineer Contracts in Wales

Second Line Support Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Second Line Support Engineer daily rate in Wales is £135 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% - 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £133 - £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
75th Percentile £138 - -
90th Percentile - - £245
UK median daily rate £200 £225 £194
% change year-on-year -11.11% +16.13% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate - - £15.50
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.40% +14.29% +9.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 358 604 978
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 95.27% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 469 719
10th Percentile £186 £165 £179
25th Percentile £345 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 40
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £13.06 £15.25 £12.81
Median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%
75th Percentile £31.02 £19.98 £27.00
90th Percentile £86.54 £44.25 £46.93
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

2nd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Wales

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Wales.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Wales

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Wales

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South Wales - 1 £135 - 2
2nd Line Support Engineer
UK

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 2nd Line 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 across the Wales region featuring 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory