IT Support Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £255 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 417 549
Rank change year-on-year +89 +132 -72
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 16 46 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 44
10th Percentile £179 £127 £163
25th Percentile £218 £156 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £200 £268
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -25.23% +12.63%
75th Percentile £338 £256 £388
90th Percentile - £306 £425
UK median daily rate £188 £190 £200
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £15.40 £12.26
25th Percentile - £17.13 £12.89
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +37.87%
75th Percentile - £21.88 £17.50
90th Percentile - £23.00 £18.25
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £17.70 £17.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% +1.14% +11.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,692 23,318 42,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.30% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,254 16,497 30,553
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 540 593
10th Percentile £14.19 £17.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.71 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.65 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £78.08 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Support Engineer.

IT Support Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Support Engineer over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

IT Support Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Support Engineer.

IT Support Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, IT 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
5 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
5 5 (31.25%) Internet
5 5 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (31.25%) Finance
6 4 (25.00%) Firewall
6 4 (25.00%) VMware
6 4 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (25.00%) LAN
6 4 (25.00%) SAN
6 4 (25.00%) Email Filtering
6 4 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
7 3 (18.75%) Slack
7 3 (18.75%) Asana
7 3 (18.75%) Zscaler
7 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (18.75%) VPN
7 3 (18.75%) JIRA
7 3 (18.75%) Investment Management
7 3 (18.75%) Azure
7 3 (18.75%) Migration

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Asana
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Slack
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Internet
1 5 (31.25%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) EPoS
4 1 (6.25%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 4 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (18.75%) Investment Management
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Workflow
6 1 (6.25%) Application Packaging
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.25%) Hardware Maintenance
6 1 (6.25%) Information Security
6 1 (6.25%) IT Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) ITIL
6 1 (6.25%) Project Roadmap
6 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) AirWatch
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
1 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 3 (18.75%) Zscaler
4 2 (12.50%) Apple
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Adobe
5 1 (6.25%) Avid
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (6.25%) Mitel
5 1 (6.25%) Okta
5 1 (6.25%) Planview
5 1 (6.25%) Progress
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
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