Senior Support Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in England is £313 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 618 712
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 15 32 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.067% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.071% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 57
10th Percentile £194 £208 £194
25th Percentile £208 £227 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £331 £350 £388
90th Percentile £344 £504 £469
UK median daily rate £313 £300 £338
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,713 45,324 67,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.59% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,377 32,182 47,955
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,449 1,335 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.51 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £77.50 £63.95
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
London +96 8 £225 -10.00% 11
Midlands +27 3 £313 - 5
West Midlands +25 3 £313 - 3
North of England +24 2 - - 8
North West +15 2 - - 6
South East +1 1 - - 9
Senior Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) SCCM
3 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (13.33%) Becrypt
6 2 (13.33%) Skype
6 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
6 2 (13.33%) Marketing
6 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (13.33%) JIRA
6 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
6 2 (13.33%) Skype for Business
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco
6 2 (13.33%) VPN
6 2 (13.33%) DNS

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (13.33%) CMS
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Slack
2 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
1 2 (13.33%) Skype
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) FTP
2 1 (6.67%) IGRP
2 1 (6.67%) MPLS
2 1 (6.67%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Aviation
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITSM
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
3 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) Coaching
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) ETL
4 1 (6.67%) Global Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) SDLC
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Debt
4 1 (6.67%) Ticket Management
4 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) Korn
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
1 1 (6.67%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Becrypt
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) F5
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) SAP