Support Engineer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Support Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £356 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 21 21 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 4.44% 6.10% 7.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.63% 6.67% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 21
10th Percentile £246 £198 £128
25th Percentile £289 £308 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £315 £175
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% +80.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile - £350 £400
90th Percentile £361 - £450
East Midlands median daily rate £200 £250 £185
% change year-on-year -20.00% +35.14% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.13 £22.50
Median hourly rate - £18.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.48% +50.82%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £20.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -16.26% -9.78% +54.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 216 225 352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 91.46% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 177 278
10th Percentile £310 £198 £179
25th Percentile £356 £308 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £505 £514
90th Percentile £620 £588 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 33
10th Percentile £10.90 £14.19 £11.05
25th Percentile £11.83 £17.82 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.02 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% -30.85% -38.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £35.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.50 £20.71 £19.46
% change year-on-year -15.48% +6.41% +32.36%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Northamptonshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Northamptonshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Northamptonshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Northamptonshire

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Northampton -2 8 £356 +31.85% 3
Kettering - 2 £215 - 1
Support Engineer
East Midlands

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

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 Northamptonshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) JBoss
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
3 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 5 (50.00%) Git
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Splunk
3 5 (50.00%) Build Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (50.00%) Docker
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Kibana
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) AppDynamics
3 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
1 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (20.00%) Automotive
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Perl
1 5 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kibana
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow