Technical Support Engineer Contracts in England

Technical Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Technical Support Engineer daily rate in England is £205, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 511 708
Rank change year-on-year +28 +197 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 31 78 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.100% 0.19% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 61 44
10th Percentile £170 £198 £156
25th Percentile £198 £210 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £250 £261
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -4.31% +14.84%
75th Percentile £231 £315 £400
90th Percentile £440 £400 £527
UK median daily rate £205 £250 £261
% change year-on-year -18.00% -4.31% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.13 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +82.69% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year +82.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in England

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in England

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support Engineer in England

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in England

Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South East +22 16 £200 -35.48% 23
London +30 4 £215 -18.10% 4
East of England +22 4 £350 +16.67% 8
Midlands - 3 £463 - 10
West Midlands - 3 £463 - 3
North of England +27 2 £213 - 15
South West +18 2 - - 6
North West +24 1 £225 +10.43% 5
Yorkshire +16 1 £200 -8.57% 9
Technical Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (38.71%) ITIL
3 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
4 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
4 11 (35.48%) MySQL
4 11 (35.48%) Oracle
4 11 (35.48%) OO
4 11 (35.48%) Relational Database
4 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
5 9 (29.03%) Python
5 9 (29.03%) Perl
5 9 (29.03%) Java
5 9 (29.03%) Unix
6 8 (25.81%) ITSM
6 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (22.58%) Google
7 7 (22.58%) Degree
7 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
7 7 (22.58%) Azure
8 6 (19.35%) AWS
8 6 (19.35%) Data Extraction
8 6 (19.35%) REST
8 6 (19.35%) CMDB
8 6 (19.35%) IMAP
8 6 (19.35%) SAML
8 6 (19.35%) ODBC
8 6 (19.35%) JDBC
8 6 (19.35%) SOAP

Technical 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 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) HTTP
1 6 (19.35%) IMAP
1 6 (19.35%) POP3
1 6 (19.35%) SMTP
1 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) Internet
2 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) VoIP
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) MySQL
1 11 (35.48%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (6.45%) Firebug
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Automotive
2 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.23%) Electronics
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) JDBC
1 6 (19.35%) LDAP
1 6 (19.35%) ODBC
1 6 (19.35%) REST
1 6 (19.35%) SAML
1 6 (19.35%) SOAP
1 6 (19.35%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) XML
3 1 (3.23%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) CMDB
2 3 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) IVR
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Linux
3 9 (29.03%) Unix
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.68%) AIX
5 3 (9.68%) Solaris
5 3 (9.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
7 1 (3.23%) Android
7 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) ITIL
2 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
2 11 (35.48%) OO
3 8 (25.81%) ITSM
4 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
5 6 (19.35%) Data Extraction
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Change Management
7 4 (12.90%) Service Management
8 3 (9.68%) Migration
8 3 (9.68%) OOP
9 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (6.45%) Problem Management
9 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (6.45%) Workload Management
10 1 (3.23%) Analytics
10 1 (3.23%) Cybersecurity
10 1 (3.23%) Mobile Device Management
10 1 (3.23%) Network Monitoring
10 1 (3.23%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
2 9 (29.03%) Java
2 9 (29.03%) Perl
2 9 (29.03%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) Oracle
3 7 (22.58%) Google
4 6 (19.35%) Okta
5 4 (12.90%) VMware
6 3 (9.68%) HP
6 3 (9.68%) Veritas
7 1 (3.23%) Apple
7 1 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.23%) Veeam