Support Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £235, 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 67 65 74
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 25 35 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.46% 2.07% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% 2.26% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 39
10th Percentile £148 £145 £150
25th Percentile £201 £185 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £203 £200
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% +1.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £248 £288 £256
90th Percentile £275 £338 £325
England median daily rate £245 £215 £250
% change year-on-year +13.95% -14.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - - £12.38
25th Percentile £18.10 - £12.94
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +44.26% -9.16%
75th Percentile £24.25 - £16.94
90th Percentile £34.60 - £17.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% +10.00% +14.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +16 15 £235 -27.69% 19
South Yorkshire +2 5 £126 -37.00% 10
North Yorkshire +4 3 £255 +27.50% 8
Support Engineer
England

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

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 Yorkshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (60.00%) Windows
3 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (56.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (40.00%) Windows 10
6 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (36.00%) VPN
7 8 (32.00%) Citrix
8 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (24.00%) OneDrive
8 6 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (24.00%) DNS
8 6 (24.00%) SharePoint
8 6 (24.00%) DHCP
9 5 (20.00%) LAN
9 5 (20.00%) VoIP
9 5 (20.00%) WAN
9 5 (20.00%) ITIL
9 5 (20.00%) AppManager
9 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (20.00%) Degree
9 5 (20.00%) Ivanti
9 5 (20.00%) SCCM
9 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
9 5 (20.00%) ITSM
9 5 (20.00%) VMware

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (24.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (24.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) VPN
2 6 (24.00%) DHCP
2 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (20.00%) LAN
3 5 (20.00%) VLAN
3 5 (20.00%) VoIP
3 5 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (8.00%) IMAP
4 2 (8.00%) Network Security
4 2 (8.00%) POP3
4 2 (8.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (8.00%) SMTP
5 1 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.00%) iPhone
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) ITSM
3 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Case Management
4 4 (16.00%) Coaching
4 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.00%) Time Management
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Threat Detection
7 1 (4.00%) Customer Experience
7 1 (4.00%) Incident Response
7 1 (4.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.00%) Patch Management
7 1 (4.00%) People Management
7 1 (4.00%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (4.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (4.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) AppManager
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Citrix
3 5 (20.00%) Ivanti
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Apple
4 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.00%) Splunk
6 1 (4.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) HP
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce