Senior Support Engineer Contracts

Senior Support Engineer
UK

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 663 787
Rank change year-on-year +92 +124 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 23 34 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.061% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.065% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 63
10th Percentile £235 £208 £198
25th Percentile £306 £226 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £344 £350 £394
90th Percentile - £505 £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK

Senior Support Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Work from Home +108 13 - - 9
England +81 11 £313 +8.70% 29
UK excluding London +24 6 £313 +4.17% 24
London +81 4 £225 -10.00% 6
Midlands +18 3 £313 - 5
West Midlands +14 3 £313 - 1
North of England +19 2 - - 8
North West +9 2 - - 8
South East +6 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Elite 3E
2 13 (56.52%) Data Centre
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) High Availability
2 13 (56.52%) Migration
2 13 (56.52%) Replication
2 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) ETL
3 6 (26.09%) Legal
3 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
4 5 (21.74%) Intapp
5 4 (17.39%) Workflow
5 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
5 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
5 4 (17.39%) SCCM
6 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
7 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
7 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
7 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (8.70%) Resource Management
7 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (8.70%) Becrypt

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Skype
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) IGRP
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Legal
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Data Centre
1 13 (56.52%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) ETL
1 13 (56.52%) High Availability
1 13 (56.52%) Migration
2 4 (17.39%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) Workflow
3 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
3 2 (8.70%) ITSM
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (8.70%) Resource Management
3 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.35%) Change Management
4 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.35%) SDLC
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) CCNA
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Intapp
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Becrypt
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) Citrix
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) F5