IT Support Engineer Contracts in the City of London

IT Support Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 161 165
Rank change year-on-year +43 +4 -15
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 12 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.34% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.35% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 26
10th Percentile £121 £105 £180
25th Percentile £123 £140 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £143 £250
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -43.00% -40.48%
75th Percentile £239 £199 £270
90th Percentile £400 £210 -
Central London median daily rate £200 £170 £250
% change year-on-year +17.65% -32.00% -40.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.88
Median hourly rate - - £14.25
75th Percentile - - £14.63
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 - £14.25
% change year-on-year - - +3.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,072 3,394 4,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.04% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,305 3,024
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £676
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £563
% change year-on-year -7.56% +5.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in the City of London

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the City of London

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the City of London

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the City of London

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, IT 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 City of London region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
4 4 (33.33%) iPhone
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) WAN
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (25.00%) Logistics
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 2 (16.67%) Citrix
6 2 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Bloomberg
6 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LAN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) iPhone
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) Logistics
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Apple