Support Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Support Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 41 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 17 36 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.31% 4.10% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 4.25% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile £178 £120 £180
25th Percentile £188 £128 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £190 £215
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £213 £280 £269
90th Percentile £236 £343 £407
West Midlands median daily rate £225 £250 £206
% change year-on-year -10.00% +21.21% +27.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £15.65 £15.46
25th Percentile - £16.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year - +4.52% +12.38%
75th Percentile - £21.25 £18.00
90th Percentile - £22.75 £18.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +26.99% +1.24% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 686 847 1,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 96.36% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 559 920
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £338 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 22
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.40 £12.52
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +16.01% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.50 £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +10.03%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Birmingham

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Birmingham

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Birmingham

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 Birmingham region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) WAN
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Windows
4 7 (41.18%) VPN
4 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (35.29%) Windows 10
5 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
6 5 (29.41%) Firewall
6 5 (29.41%) DNS
6 5 (29.41%) LAN
6 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
6 5 (29.41%) SCCM
7 4 (23.53%) Junos
7 4 (23.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
7 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (23.53%) Juniper
7 4 (23.53%) MPLS
7 4 (23.53%) BGP
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
7 4 (23.53%) IPsec
7 4 (23.53%) PKI
8 3 (17.65%) VLAN
8 3 (17.65%) VMware
8 3 (17.65%) Clustering
8 3 (17.65%) Fujitsu
8 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
8 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) WAN
2 7 (41.18%) VPN
3 5 (29.41%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 5 (29.41%) LAN
4 4 (23.53%) BGP
4 4 (23.53%) IPsec
4 4 (23.53%) Junos
4 4 (23.53%) MPLS
5 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 3 (17.65%) VLAN
5 3 (17.65%) VoIP
5 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (5.88%) DHCP
7 1 (5.88%) Ethereal
7 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
7 1 (5.88%) Wireless
7 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Driving Licence
3 2 (11.76%) iPad
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
1 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Quality Management
3 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.76%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (11.76%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO 9000
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCCM
2 3 (17.65%) Autotask
2 3 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (5.88%) OpenView
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Juniper
3 3 (17.65%) Apple
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Datto
3 3 (17.65%) Fujitsu
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) McAfee
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Sun