Technical Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Technical Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £190 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 209 230
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 3 3 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.053% 0.053% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.056% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 21
10th Percentile £138 £240 £156
25th Percentile £156 £243 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £275 £214
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +28.74% +7.08%
75th Percentile £221 £381 £264
90th Percentile £239 £423 £296
England median daily rate £175 £213 £243
% change year-on-year -17.65% -12.37% +21.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,201 5,337 7,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.61% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,081 3,698 5,052
10th Percentile £234 £218 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £589
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 237 309
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.11
Median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Surrey +15 2 £190 -28.97% 1
Home Counties +3 1 - -
Technical Support Engineer
England

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 South East region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) SmoothWall
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft