Support Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Support Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £253 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 44 43 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 12 28 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.97% 3.85% 6.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 4.02% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 44
10th Percentile £169 £170 £163
25th Percentile £184 £205 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £253 £260 £250
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +4.00% +36.05%
75th Percentile £267 £338 £278
90th Percentile £275 £656 £299
South East median daily rate £215 £225 £213
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.30
25th Percentile - - £11.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £12.81
75th Percentile - - £13.83
90th Percentile - - £13.90
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £17.53
% change year-on-year -17.24% +65.43% -16.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 568 696 824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.74% 95.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 533 586
10th Percentile £250 £200 £188
25th Percentile £365 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £598
90th Percentile £698 £738 £684
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 22
10th Percentile £12.58 £34.25 £11.97
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +104.55%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.53 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £65.00 £48.63
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Reigate - 3 £267 -
Leatherhead - 2 £216 - 2
Redhill - 2 £263 -
Camberley +6 1 £130 -81.09% 4
Weybridge 0 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Surrey region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) SCCM
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (33.33%) Qualys
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (33.33%) Nessus
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Wireless
4 4 (33.33%) Firewall
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) WSUS
6 2 (16.67%) French Language
6 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (16.67%) vSphere
6 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
6 2 (16.67%) Change Control
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Entra ID

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) French Language
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Customer Service
1 5 (41.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Case Management
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 4 (33.33%) Nessus
3 3 (25.00%) WSUS
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (8.33%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Qualys
3 2 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (16.67%) Avaya
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (8.33%) Genesys
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow