Support Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Support Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £220, 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 47 71 60
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.23% 1.91% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 2.09% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 30
10th Percentile £214 £120 £163
25th Percentile - £143 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £263 £202
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +29.95% +34.67%
75th Percentile - £295 £229
90th Percentile £324 £420 £400
South West median daily rate £225 £188 £200
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 401 860 1,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 91.10% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 641 866
10th Percentile £270 £263 £338
25th Percentile £463 £460 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £651
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Wiltshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Wiltshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Wiltshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Wiltshire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Wiltshire region 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
Salisbury -9 4 £220 -20.00%
Swindon -7 2 £200 +37.93%
Corsham +29 1 £530 +89.29% 1
Support Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Wiltshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) Software Licensing
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) Service Management
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Terraform
5 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) GitOps
5 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) MCP
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Service Management
2 6 (60.00%) Software Licensing
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GitOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google