Hybrid/Remote Support Engineer Contract Job Trends

Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Support Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £288, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 201 148
Rank change year-on-year -16 -53 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 101 119 289
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 0.98% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.05% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 75 216
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £219 £213 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - +4.48%
75th Percentile £475 £459 £467
90th Percentile £550 £605 £750
UK median daily rate £225 £240 £238
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 13
10th Percentile £29.80 £19.37 £17.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £27.14 £19.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +85.71% +20.97%
75th Percentile £43.75 £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £53.60 - £23.40
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.74% +24.16% -2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 9,503 11,296 16,780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.10% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 7,149 11,556
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 206 378
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.26 £26.24
Median hourly rate £43.69 £38.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -27.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Support Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Support Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Support Engineer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Support Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (50.50%) Windows
2 39 (38.61%) Microsoft
3 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (29.70%) Azure
5 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
6 26 (25.74%) Linux
7 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
8 23 (22.77%) Active Directory
9 20 (19.80%) DNS
10 18 (17.82%) ITIL
10 18 (17.82%) TCP/IP
11 17 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (16.83%) VMware
12 16 (15.84%) DHCP
12 16 (15.84%) Java
13 15 (14.85%) Customer Service
13 15 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
14 14 (13.86%) AWS
14 14 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 13 (12.87%) Hyper-V
15 13 (12.87%) Microsoft Intune
15 13 (12.87%) Service Management
15 13 (12.87%) VLAN
16 12 (11.88%) Firewall
16 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (11.88%) SQL
17 11 (10.89%) Apple
17 11 (10.89%) Incident Management
17 11 (10.89%) PowerShell

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 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.99%) Smallworld
2 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.99%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.70%) Azure
2 17 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (13.86%) AWS
4 7 (6.93%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.95%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.98%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.99%) dbt
8 1 (0.99%) GCP
8 1 (0.99%) IaaS
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.99%) SaaS
8 1 (0.99%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.99%) Slack
8 1 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (19.80%) DNS
2 18 (17.82%) TCP/IP
3 16 (15.84%) DHCP
4 13 (12.87%) VLAN
5 12 (11.88%) Firewall
6 7 (6.93%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.94%) LAN
8 5 (4.95%) VPN
9 4 (3.96%) FTP
9 4 (3.96%) HTTP
9 4 (3.96%) Wireshark
10 3 (2.97%) WAN
11 1 (0.99%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.99%) NGFW
11 1 (0.99%) SAN
11 1 (0.99%) Skype
11 1 (0.99%) SSL
11 1 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.98%) Power BI
3 1 (0.99%) DB2
3 1 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.99%) GIS
3 1 (0.99%) Informix
3 1 (0.99%) MySQL
3 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.97%) Firebug
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) MSI
4 1 (0.99%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.99%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.99%) Xcode
General
1 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.83%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.98%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Local Government
7 2 (1.98%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.99%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.99%) French Language
8 1 (0.99%) German Language
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.99%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.99%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.99%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) Middleware
1 8 (7.92%) XML
2 5 (4.95%) JSON
2 5 (4.95%) SOAP
3 4 (3.96%) .NET
3 4 (3.96%) CSS
3 4 (3.96%) REST
4 3 (2.97%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.98%) PySpark
6 1 (0.99%) ADO
6 1 (0.99%) Ajax
6 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.99%) EDI
6 1 (0.99%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.99%) Node.js
6 1 (0.99%) React
6 1 (0.99%) RESTful
6 1 (0.99%) XMPP
6 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.97%) PKI
5 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) SCADA
5 2 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.99%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (0.99%) Clustering
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) FPGA
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) Verilog
6 1 (0.99%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 51 (50.50%) Windows
2 26 (25.74%) Linux
3 10 (9.90%) Unix
3 10 (9.90%) Windows 10
4 8 (7.92%) Apple iOS
4 8 (7.92%) Mac OS
5 7 (6.93%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.97%) Android
7 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (17.82%) ITIL
3 15 (14.85%) Customer Service
4 14 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (12.87%) Service Management
6 11 (10.89%) Incident Management
7 10 (9.90%) Preventative Maintenance
7 10 (9.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 8 (7.92%) OO
9 7 (6.93%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.93%) Migration
10 6 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (5.94%) DevOps
10 6 (5.94%) Software Engineering
11 5 (4.95%) Data Protection
11 5 (4.95%) Logistics
11 5 (4.95%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (3.96%) High Availability
12 4 (3.96%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.84%) Java
2 12 (11.88%) SQL
3 11 (10.89%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.89%) Python
4 8 (7.92%) Bash
5 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.97%) C#
6 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.98%) Perl
7 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.99%) Ada
8 1 (0.99%) C
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) Korn
8 1 (0.99%) Magik
8 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (9.90%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.90%) Network+ Certification
4 10 (9.90%) Server+ Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) SLA
2 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 23 (22.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (12.87%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.96%) Docker
5 2 (1.98%) vSphere
6 1 (0.99%) Firmware
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.99%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.99%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (9.90%) SCCM
3 7 (6.93%) Terraform
4 6 (5.94%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.95%) Ansible
6 4 (3.96%) AirWatch
6 4 (3.96%) Kibana
7 3 (2.97%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.98%) Grafana
8 2 (1.98%) SCOM
8 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.99%) Nagios
9 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.99%) TADDM
9 1 (0.99%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (38.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.83%) VMware
3 11 (10.89%) Apple
4 9 (8.91%) Oracle
5 5 (4.95%) Cisco
5 5 (4.95%) Citrix
5 5 (4.95%) New Relic
5 5 (4.95%) SAP
5 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.95%) Workday
6 4 (3.96%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.97%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.97%) Solace
8 2 (1.98%) Adobe
8 2 (1.98%) Foundry
8 2 (1.98%) HP
8 2 (1.98%) IBM
8 2 (1.98%) Okta
8 2 (1.98%) Palantir
8 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto