Support Engineer Contracts in the North West

Support Engineer
England > North West

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the North West is £160 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 75 79
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 41 84 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.53% 2.71% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 2.85% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 58 78
10th Percentile £131 £170 £125
25th Percentile £140 £200 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £285 £180
Median % change year-on-year -43.86% +58.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £236 £372 £250
90th Percentile £318 £522 £396
England median daily rate £213 £250 £210
% change year-on-year -15.00% +19.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £17.72 - £19.02
25th Percentile £24.12 £36.25 £21.31
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -0.73% +153.71%
75th Percentile £43.75 £38.75 £54.24
90th Percentile - - £55.13
England median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.53
% change year-on-year +10.00% +14.09% +6.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,533 2,946 3,847
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 94.88% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 2,100 2,814
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 123 163
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +46.45% +16.99%
75th Percentile £46.91 £51.19 £43.13
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £58.25
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the North West

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the North West

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North West

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the North West

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North West

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +6 18 £220 -30.16% 15
Merseyside +9 10 £153 -26.51% 12
Cheshire -1 10 £122 -59.33% 20
Lancashire -8 2 £140 -34.12% 9
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 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 North West region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 17 (41.46%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (34.15%) Windows 10
4 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
5 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (24.39%) SCCM
5 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.95%) Azure
6 9 (21.95%) Firewall
7 8 (19.51%) Mac OS
8 7 (17.07%) Customer Service
8 7 (17.07%) Degree
8 7 (17.07%) Apple
8 7 (17.07%) Cisco
9 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (14.63%) VMware
9 6 (14.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
10 5 (12.20%) FMEA
10 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
10 5 (12.20%) Smart Manufacturing
10 5 (12.20%) Asset Management
10 5 (12.20%) Project Management
10 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
10 5 (12.20%) Validation
10 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (21.95%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.76%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) VoIP
3 4 (9.76%) LAN
3 4 (9.76%) VLAN
3 4 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.32%) VPN
4 3 (7.32%) WAN
5 2 (4.88%) Broadband
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Power BI
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Hudson
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Life Science
2 4 (9.76%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.32%) Clustering
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.44%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.44%) LIMS
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Social Media
5 1 (2.44%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 14 (34.15%) Windows 10
3 8 (19.51%) Mac OS
4 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (9.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (7.32%) Windows 7
6 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.44%) Linux
7 1 (2.44%) Windows 8
7 1 (2.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (17.07%) Customer Service
3 5 (12.20%) Analytics
3 5 (12.20%) Asset Management
3 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (12.20%) Data Analytics
3 5 (12.20%) Data Extraction
3 5 (12.20%) FMEA
3 5 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
3 5 (12.20%) Project Management
3 5 (12.20%) Smart Manufacturing
3 5 (12.20%) Test Scripting
3 5 (12.20%) Validation
4 4 (9.76%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (9.76%) Inventory Management
4 4 (9.76%) ITIL
4 4 (9.76%) Service Management
4 4 (9.76%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) SQL
2 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) CCNA
2 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.32%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.88%) CCNP
4 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.44%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) GAMP
1 5 (12.20%) GxP
1 5 (12.20%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (24.39%) SCCM
3 4 (9.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (7.32%) Autotask
4 3 (7.32%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (7.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Apple
2 7 (17.07%) Cisco
3 6 (14.63%) VMware
4 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.32%) Datto