Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 70 74
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 124 171 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.20% 3.02% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 3.19% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 124 168
10th Percentile £141 £170 £140
25th Percentile £182 £200 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £225 £213
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% +1.19%
75th Percentile £288 £333 £296
90th Percentile £608 £500 £388
England median daily rate £215 £250 £213
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 24
10th Percentile - £15.65 £12.73
25th Percentile £18.00 £23.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +65.43% -16.72%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £44.00 £30.60 £21.04
England median hourly rate £23.00 £20.60 £17.60
% change year-on-year +11.65% +17.05% +11.68%

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 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
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 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
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% +11.47%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +9 62 £225 - 61
Berkshire +2 45 £300 +52.03% 31
Hampshire -27 24 £210 -0.59% 34
Kent +21 18 £205 +215.38% 21
Surrey -1 12 £253 -2.88% 22
Buckinghamshire +16 10 £225 - 12
Oxfordshire -3 7 £143 -59.29% 18
West Sussex +4 5 £145 -27.50% 10
Home Counties +4 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £190 - 1
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 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 South East region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (65.32%) Windows
2 57 (45.97%) Microsoft
3 42 (33.87%) Active Directory
4 41 (33.06%) Security Cleared
5 38 (30.65%) Windows 10
5 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
6 36 (29.03%) SCCM
6 36 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (28.23%) Customer Service
8 28 (22.58%) Azure
8 28 (22.58%) ITIL
9 27 (21.77%) DV Cleared
10 26 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
12 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
12 20 (16.13%) PowerShell
12 20 (16.13%) Windows Server
13 19 (15.32%) Finance
14 18 (14.52%) Linux
14 18 (14.52%) Microsoft Exchange
14 18 (14.52%) Windows 7
15 17 (13.71%) Windows Server 2019
16 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
16 15 (12.10%) HP
16 15 (12.10%) NHS
16 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
17 14 (11.29%) Driving Licence
17 14 (11.29%) Degree
17 14 (11.29%) Firewall
17 14 (11.29%) Manufacturing

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 18 (14.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (22.58%) Azure
3 12 (9.68%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (4.84%) Azure Storage
5 5 (4.03%) AWS
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (0.81%) ChatGPT
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.81%) GCP
6 1 (0.81%) GitHub
6 1 (0.81%) IaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.81%) OCI
6 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.29%) Firewall
2 13 (10.48%) DNS
3 12 (9.68%) DHCP
4 8 (6.45%) VLAN
4 8 (6.45%) VPN
5 6 (4.84%) SAN
5 6 (4.84%) Wireless
6 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (3.23%) LAN
7 4 (3.23%) Network Security
7 4 (3.23%) VoIP
7 4 (3.23%) WAN
7 4 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.42%) BGP
8 3 (2.42%) IPsec
8 3 (2.42%) NAS
9 2 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.61%) OSPF
9 2 (1.61%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.23%) MySQL
4 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.81%) Power BI
5 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Git
1 1 (0.81%) GitLab
1 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.32%) Finance
3 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.29%) Manufacturing
4 14 (11.29%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (11.29%) Telecoms
5 12 (9.68%) Electronics
5 12 (9.68%) Marketing
6 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.23%) French Language
8 2 (1.61%) Automotive
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.61%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.61%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) ARM Templates
2 2 (1.61%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.81%) CSS
3 1 (0.81%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.81%) LangChain
3 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) NHS
2 14 (11.29%) Driving Licence
3 11 (8.87%) PKI
4 8 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.42%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.42%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.42%) Video Editing
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.61%) Replication
7 2 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.81%) Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) LIMS
8 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (65.32%) Windows
2 38 (30.65%) Windows 10
3 20 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 18 (14.52%) Linux
4 18 (14.52%) Windows 7
5 17 (13.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (6.45%) Android
8 5 (4.03%) Apple iOS
8 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.42%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.81%) Solaris
12 1 (0.81%) Unix
12 1 (0.81%) VMS
12 1 (0.81%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.23%) Customer Service
2 28 (22.58%) ITIL
3 26 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (10.48%) Hardware Maintenance
5 12 (9.68%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (9.68%) Programme Management
6 9 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (6.45%) Agile
7 8 (6.45%) Migration
7 8 (6.45%) Service Management
8 7 (5.65%) CI/CD
8 7 (5.65%) DevOps
8 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (5.65%) Mentoring
8 7 (5.65%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (4.84%) Log Analytics
9 6 (4.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 6 (4.84%) Privileged Identity Management
9 6 (4.84%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.84%) Bicep
2 6 (4.84%) C#
2 6 (4.84%) SQL
2 6 (4.84%) VB
2 6 (4.84%) VBScript
3 3 (2.42%) Python
4 1 (0.81%) Bash
4 1 (0.81%) Java
4 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.77%) DV Cleared
3 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.29%) Degree
5 7 (5.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.61%) CCNA
7 2 (1.61%) CCNP
7 2 (1.61%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CEH
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 42 (33.87%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) SCCM
2 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (10.48%) WSUS
4 9 (7.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (6.45%) SCOM
6 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
6 7 (5.65%) Nessus
7 4 (3.23%) Ansible
7 4 (3.23%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.42%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.81%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.81%) Terraform
9 1 (0.81%) vRealize
9 1 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (45.97%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.10%) HP
3 13 (10.48%) Apple
3 13 (10.48%) VMware
4 12 (9.68%) SAP
5 11 (8.87%) Cisco
6 7 (5.65%) Oracle
7 6 (4.84%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.23%) Juniper
8 4 (3.23%) Polycom
8 4 (3.23%) Qualys
8 4 (3.23%) Veeam
9 3 (2.42%) F5
10 2 (1.61%) Avaya
10 2 (1.61%) Dell
10 2 (1.61%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.61%) IBM
10 2 (1.61%) MobileIron
11 1 (0.81%) EMC