Support Engineer Contracts in Reading

Support Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Reading is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 78 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 37 10 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.13% 0.95% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.39% 1.00% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 7 25
10th Percentile - £150 £126
25th Percentile £213 £163 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £200 £150
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +33.33% -54.48%
75th Percentile £608 £409 £230
90th Percentile - £599 £330
Berkshire median daily rate £300 £198 £155
% change year-on-year +52.03% +27.42% -50.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,092 1,000 1,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 95.42% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 652 881
10th Percentile £213 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £460 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +11.90% +3.47%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -2.38% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 23 8
10th Percentile £42.00 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £55.75 £58.32 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £66.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +135.71% -13.85%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.38 £33.10
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.06 £64.68 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.59% +207.98% -2.33%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 Reading region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (72.97%) Windows
2 26 (70.27%) DV Cleared
2 26 (70.27%) Security Cleared
3 22 (59.46%) SCCM
3 22 (59.46%) Microsoft
3 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
4 20 (54.05%) ITIL
5 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (40.54%) Azure
6 15 (40.54%) Customer Service
7 14 (37.84%) Windows 10
7 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
7 14 (37.84%) HP
8 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Office
8 13 (35.14%) Driving Licence
8 13 (35.14%) Hardware Maintenance
8 13 (35.14%) Windows 7
8 13 (35.14%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
10 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
10 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
11 9 (24.32%) Degree
12 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (21.62%) SCOM
13 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
13 7 (18.92%) DevOps
13 7 (18.92%) WSUS

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DHCP
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
1 7 (18.92%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) SGSN
2 2 (5.41%) VPN
2 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.70%) SAN
General
1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) CSS
2 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.70%) LangChain
2 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Driving Licence
2 6 (16.22%) PKI
2 6 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.70%) LIMS
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) Windows 10
3 13 (35.14%) Windows 7
4 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
5 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (18.92%) Linux
7 2 (5.41%) Android
7 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) ITIL
2 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (40.54%) Customer Service
4 13 (35.14%) Hardware Maintenance
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Service Management
6 6 (16.22%) Agile
6 6 (16.22%) Analytics
6 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.22%) Identity Management
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.22%) Log Analytics
6 6 (16.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (16.22%) Privileged Identity Management
6 6 (16.22%) RBAC
6 6 (16.22%) Release Management
7 3 (8.11%) Change Management
7 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.11%) Migration
8 2 (5.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 6 (16.22%) Bicep
2 6 (16.22%) C#
2 6 (16.22%) VB
2 6 (16.22%) VBScript
3 2 (5.41%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (70.27%) DV Cleared
1 26 (70.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) Degree
4 6 (16.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.70%) CCNA
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) CEH
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (16.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (59.46%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) SCOM
3 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (18.92%) WSUS
4 6 (16.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.70%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) HP
3 4 (10.81%) Apple
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.70%) 3PAR
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) EMC
5 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.70%) Juniper
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Symantec
5 1 (2.70%) Veeam
5 1 (2.70%) VMware