Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Support Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 92 69
Rank change year-on-year -13 -23 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 34 34 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.39% 1.86% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.98% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 39
10th Percentile £175 £172 £133
25th Percentile £180 £216 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £290 £250
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £300 £410 £350
90th Percentile £533 £483 £410
Central London median daily rate £220 £300 £258
% change year-on-year -26.67% +16.50% +53.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £24.87 -
25th Percentile £27.25 £25.18 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £26.58 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +27.70% -
75th Percentile £27.75 £28.85 £25.39
90th Percentile - £29.69 £27.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £26.58 £21.91
% change year-on-year +3.46% +21.33% -12.37%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,288 1,713 2,026
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.50% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 1,090 1,391
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £32.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £39.81 £62.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the City of London

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 July 2026, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 21 (61.76%) Microsoft
3 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 14 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (23.53%) Mac OS
6 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
7 7 (20.59%) DNS
7 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (17.65%) Azure
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) DHCP
8 6 (17.65%) Firewall
8 6 (17.65%) High Availability
8 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 5 (14.71%) Apple
9 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
9 5 (14.71%) AWS
9 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
9 5 (14.71%) HP
9 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
9 5 (14.71%) Software Deployment
9 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
10 4 (11.76%) Ansible
10 4 (11.76%) Citrix
10 4 (11.76%) DevOps
10 4 (11.76%) GCP
10 4 (11.76%) Google

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.82%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) DNS
2 6 (17.65%) DHCP
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) VPN
4 3 (8.82%) SMTP
5 1 (2.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.82%) Big Data
1 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.82%) Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.88%) BYOD
4 2 (5.88%) iPhone
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Mac OS
2 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
4 4 (11.76%) Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (17.65%) High Availability
3 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
3 5 (14.71%) Software Deployment
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 4 (11.76%) ITIL
4 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (8.82%) AI
5 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
6 2 (5.88%) Change Management
6 2 (5.88%) Data Protection
6 2 (5.88%) ITSM
6 2 (5.88%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.88%) Project Management
6 2 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
2 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.82%) BitLocker
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (8.82%) Terminal Services
3 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Nagios
3 3 (8.82%) Puppet
3 3 (8.82%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.82%) vMotion
4 2 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.94%) Autotask
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Apple
2 5 (14.71%) HP
3 4 (11.76%) Citrix
3 4 (11.76%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) iManage
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.76%) VMware
4 3 (8.82%) Symantec
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.94%) Charles River
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.94%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.94%) Meraki
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk