Support Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Support Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 56 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 85 123 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.16% 3.75% 3.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.42% 3.97% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 68 107
10th Percentile £122 £142 £128
25th Percentile £150 £181 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £250 £198
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.58% +16.18%
75th Percentile £300 £350 £281
90th Percentile £356 £490 £405
England median daily rate £215 £250 £213
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 21
10th Percentile - £15.15 £15.00
25th Percentile - £17.73 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.38 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £20.38 £22.03 £18.00
90th Percentile £22.40 £23.68 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.08 £20.60 £17.60
% change year-on-year +7.16% +17.05% +6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,101 4,798
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.54% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,180 3,495
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +14.91%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 116 164
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £10.87
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.58
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +16.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.88
90th Percentile £52.45 £61.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
West Midlands -8 46 £225 -10.00% 50
East Midlands +14 39 £200 -20.00% 40
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (57.65%) Windows
2 32 (37.65%) Active Directory
3 28 (32.94%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
5 22 (25.88%) Windows 10
6 21 (24.71%) WAN
7 19 (22.35%) SCCM
7 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
8 16 (18.82%) Cisco
9 15 (17.65%) DNS
9 15 (17.65%) Windows Server
10 14 (16.47%) Customer Service
10 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
11 13 (15.29%) Juniper
12 12 (14.12%) VPN
12 12 (14.12%) PKI
13 11 (12.94%) Linux
13 11 (12.94%) MPLS
13 11 (12.94%) BGP
13 11 (12.94%) IPsec
14 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (10.59%) Junos
15 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
15 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (10.59%) LAN
15 9 (10.59%) Degree
15 9 (10.59%) Load Balancing
16 8 (9.41%) JIRA
16 8 (9.41%) DHCP

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.88%) JBoss
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
3 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.94%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (7.06%) Azure
3 5 (5.88%) AWS
3 5 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.35%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.71%) WAN
2 15 (17.65%) DNS
3 12 (14.12%) VPN
4 11 (12.94%) BGP
4 11 (12.94%) IPsec
4 11 (12.94%) MPLS
5 9 (10.59%) Junos
5 9 (10.59%) LAN
6 8 (9.41%) DHCP
6 8 (9.41%) Ethernet
7 7 (8.24%) Firewall
7 7 (8.24%) SD-WAN
7 7 (8.24%) TCP/IP
8 6 (7.06%) Wireless
9 5 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (5.88%) Ethereal
9 5 (5.88%) Wireshark
10 3 (3.53%) VLAN
10 3 (3.53%) VoIP
10 3 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (5.88%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Automotive
5 2 (2.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) PKI
2 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) iPad
5 3 (3.53%) Clustering
5 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) SCADA
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (57.65%) Windows
2 22 (25.88%) Windows 10
3 15 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 11 (12.94%) Linux
5 10 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (9.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (8.24%) Windows 7
8 6 (7.06%) Mac OS
9 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (4.71%) Windows Vista
11 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (2.35%) Android
13 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.47%) Customer Service
2 9 (10.59%) Load Balancing
2 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (8.24%) DevOps
3 7 (8.24%) ITIL
4 6 (7.06%) Computer Science
4 6 (7.06%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (5.88%) Asset Management
5 5 (5.88%) Build Automation
5 5 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 5 (5.88%) Code Quality
5 5 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (5.88%) Microservices
5 5 (5.88%) Migration
5 5 (5.88%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (4.71%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (4.71%) Decision-Making
6 4 (4.71%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (4.71%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.88%) Perl
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (1.18%) SQL
3 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) Degree
3 7 (8.24%) CCNA
3 7 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) ISO 9000
2 2 (2.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (37.65%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.88%) Docker
3 3 (3.53%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.53%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) SCCM
2 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.06%) Autotask
4 5 (5.88%) Kibana
4 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.88%) OpenView
4 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.53%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.53%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.18%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Cisco
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.29%) Juniper
4 7 (8.24%) Apple
5 5 (5.88%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.88%) Fujitsu
5 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.88%) Splunk
5 5 (5.88%) VMware
6 4 (4.71%) HP
6 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.53%) Datto
7 3 (3.53%) Remedy
8 2 (2.35%) Aruba
8 2 (2.35%) Dell
8 2 (2.35%) Sun
9 1 (1.18%) BMC
9 1 (1.18%) CA
9 1 (1.18%) Citrix
9 1 (1.18%) NetApp