Hybrid/Remote Senior Support Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 300 317
Rank change year-on-year -61 +17 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 5 6 15
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.037% 0.061% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.065% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £303 £347 -
25th Percentile £344 £388 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £205
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +95.12% -54.44%
75th Percentile £488 £413 £400
90th Percentile £518 £416 £420
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £269
% change year-on-year -12.50% +48.84% -36.01%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,505 9,177 12,082
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 93.80% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,874 6,062 7,995
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £428 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -1.41%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 301 334
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.25 £17.20
25th Percentile £27.47 £19.07 £28.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.28 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.94% -17.16% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -0.73%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Support Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Support Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Support Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Support Engineer job vacancies

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Support Engineer over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Senior Support Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Support Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Support Engineer job vacancies

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 28 August 2026, Senior Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow