Support Engineer Contracts in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Central London is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 97 112
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 60 81 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.47% 2.15% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.26% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 65 81
10th Percentile £139 £133 £135
25th Percentile £184 £140 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £195 £250
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -22.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £350 £350 £323
90th Percentile £400 £535 £400
London median daily rate £255 £305 £250
% change year-on-year -16.39% +22.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile - £21.40 -
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £20.82 £23.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +64.91% +3.64%
75th Percentile £22.20 £24.50 £17.91
90th Percentile £22.68 £24.80 £34.43
London median hourly rate £22.15 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.59% +16.67% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,311 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £339 £325 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +28 50 £250 +38.89% 8
City of Westminster -7 2 £400 +71.12%
West End of London -3 1 £275 +12.24%
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Central London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (68.33%) Windows
2 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (43.33%) Active Directory
4 23 (38.33%) Finance
5 20 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (26.67%) Citrix
8 15 (25.00%) Cisco
9 14 (23.33%) Banking
9 14 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (23.33%) Firewall
9 14 (23.33%) Video Conferencing
10 13 (21.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (21.67%) Business Continuity
10 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
10 13 (21.67%) HP
11 12 (20.00%) EMC
11 12 (20.00%) Avaya
11 12 (20.00%) SAN
11 12 (20.00%) CheckPoint
11 12 (20.00%) SCCM
11 12 (20.00%) Windows 10
11 12 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (15.00%) Customer Service
13 8 (13.33%) Customer Experience
13 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
13 8 (13.33%) Apple
14 7 (11.67%) Mac OS X
14 7 (11.67%) Blackberry

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.67%) WhatsApp
3 3 (5.00%) Azure
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.33%) Slack
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.33%) Firewall
2 12 (20.00%) SAN
3 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) LAN
4 3 (5.00%) WAN
5 2 (3.33%) WebEx
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.67%) Skype
6 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) DB2
3 1 (1.67%) IDOL
3 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Hudson
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (38.33%) Finance
3 14 (23.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.33%) Japanese Language
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) French Language
7 1 (1.67%) German Language
7 1 (1.67%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) CSS
1 1 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
1 1 (1.67%) HTML5
1 1 (1.67%) JSON
1 1 (1.67%) SOAP
1 1 (1.67%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (1.67%) XML
1 1 (1.67%) XSD
1 1 (1.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (11.67%) Blackberry
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.67%) iPhone
5 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) EPoS
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (68.33%) Windows
2 13 (21.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 12 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 7 (11.67%) Mac OS X
6 6 (10.00%) Android
6 6 (10.00%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.33%) Linux
7 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.67%) CentOS
8 1 (1.67%) Unix
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (21.67%) Business Continuity
2 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 5 (8.33%) Analytical Modelling
6 5 (8.33%) Break/Fix
6 5 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 5 (8.33%) Workflow
7 3 (5.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.00%) Logistics
7 3 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (5.00%) Service Delivery
8 2 (3.33%) Application Virtualisation
8 2 (3.33%) Global Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Ticket Management
8 2 (3.33%) Time Management
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (1.67%) Bash
2 1 (1.67%) PHP
2 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (1.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) COBIT
1 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.67%) QA
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Citrix
2 15 (25.00%) Cisco
3 13 (21.67%) HP
3 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (20.00%) Avaya
4 12 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 12 (20.00%) EMC
5 8 (13.33%) Apple
6 6 (10.00%) Bloomberg
7 5 (8.33%) Adobe
7 5 (8.33%) Ivanti
7 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle
8 3 (5.00%) VMware
9 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
9 2 (3.33%) Google
9 2 (3.33%) Okta
9 2 (3.33%) Refinitiv
9 2 (3.33%) Reuters
10 1 (1.67%) Logitech