Support Engineer Contracts in the South West

Support Engineer
England > South West

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the South West is £178 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 89 72 48
Rank change year-on-year -17 -24 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 65 100 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.00% 2.96% 4.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 3.19% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 79 94
10th Percentile £129 £150 £130
25th Percentile £150 £183 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £200 £191
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +4.58% -4.38%
75th Percentile £210 £258 £240
90th Percentile £311 £438 £434
England median daily rate £215 £250 £213
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 14
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.01 £15.58
25th Percentile £12.19 £14.40 £16.66
Median hourly rate £13.85 £15.98 £18.67
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -14.39% +13.12%
75th Percentile £46.39 £20.50 £26.81
90th Percentile - £26.20 £27.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £20.60 £17.60
% change year-on-year +11.65% +17.05% +10.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,011 3,132 3,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.58% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 2,325 2,533
10th Percentile £213 £281 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 250 210
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.72 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.15 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +41.91% +1.57%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.69 £63.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.38
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire -22 16 £174 -15.04% 14
Devon +7 14 £165 +26.92% 3
Somerset +7 11 £275 +96.43% 13
Bristol -2 11 £205 +2.50% 14
Gloucestershire -11 8 £195 -44.29% 14
Dorset +10 5 £175 - 10
Cornwall -4 4 £150 -13.67% 1
Support Engineer
England

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

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 South West region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (52.31%) Windows
2 26 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
5 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
6 22 (33.85%) Active Directory
7 20 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
9 14 (21.54%) SLA
9 14 (21.54%) SCCM
9 14 (21.54%) Customer Service
10 10 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (15.38%) Line Management
10 10 (15.38%) Telecoms
10 10 (15.38%) ITIL
11 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
12 8 (12.31%) Degree
12 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (12.31%) Windows 10
12 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
13 7 (10.77%) Legal
13 7 (10.77%) Antivirus Management
14 6 (9.23%) Police
14 6 (9.23%) BT
14 6 (9.23%) VMware
14 6 (9.23%) Cisco
14 6 (9.23%) Coaching
14 6 (9.23%) Mobile Device Management
14 6 (9.23%) Windows 7

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.62%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.08%) Azure
3 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
1 3 (4.62%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) Broadband
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (3.08%) Skype
2 2 (3.08%) VoIP
2 2 (3.08%) VPN
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.54%) LAN
3 1 (1.54%) NAS
3 1 (1.54%) SAN
3 1 (1.54%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.54%) WAN
3 1 (1.54%) WebEx
3 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.54%) Wireless
General
1 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Legal
5 6 (9.23%) Police
6 5 (7.69%) Finance
6 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.08%) Electronics
9 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.08%) Marketing
9 2 (3.08%) Military
10 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) CMDB
2 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Driving Licence
2 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.08%) BYOD
3 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.08%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.54%) PKI
4 1 (1.54%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (52.31%) Windows
2 8 (12.31%) Windows 10
3 6 (9.23%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.54%) Customer Service
3 10 (15.38%) ITIL
3 10 (15.38%) Line Management
4 9 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (10.77%) Antivirus Management
6 6 (9.23%) Coaching
6 6 (9.23%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (7.69%) Customer Experience
7 5 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 5 (7.69%) Patch Management
8 4 (6.15%) Information Security
8 4 (6.15%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (6.15%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (6.15%) Project Delivery
8 4 (6.15%) Service Delivery
9 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (4.62%) Network Management
9 3 (4.62%) Project Management
9 3 (4.62%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.62%) Python
3 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (12.31%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) SLA
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (33.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (1.54%) Firmware
3 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) SCCM
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) BT
2 6 (9.23%) Cisco
2 6 (9.23%) VMware
3 2 (3.08%) Citrix
3 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Apple
4 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow