Support Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Support Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £250 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 111 124
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 49 67 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.21% 1.83% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 1.92% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 65
10th Percentile £138 £133 £133
25th Percentile £180 £140 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £175 £235
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -25.53% -30.88%
75th Percentile £350 £350 £270
90th Percentile £393 £600 £400
Central London median daily rate £260 £188 £240
% change year-on-year +38.67% -21.88% -29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £19.58 £15.75 £13.88
Median hourly rate £20.82 £16.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% +15.79% +3.64%
75th Percentile £21.41 £17.25 £17.91
90th Percentile - - £34.43
Central London median hourly rate £20.82 £22.00 £14.25
% change year-on-year -5.39% +54.39% +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 2,107 3,495 4,020
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.26% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,366 3,035
10th Percentile £350 £350 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the City of London

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer 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 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the City of London

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
3 20 (40.82%) Finance
4 19 (38.78%) Active Directory
5 15 (30.61%) Cisco
5 15 (30.61%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (30.61%) Firewall
5 15 (30.61%) Citrix
5 15 (30.61%) Video Conferencing
6 14 (28.57%) Banking
6 14 (28.57%) HP
6 14 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (26.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (26.53%) EMC
7 13 (26.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (26.53%) Avaya
7 13 (26.53%) SAN
7 13 (26.53%) CheckPoint
7 13 (26.53%) Business Continuity
7 13 (26.53%) SCCM
8 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.33%) Customer Experience
9 8 (16.33%) Customer Service
9 8 (16.33%) Windows 10
9 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
10 7 (14.29%) Apple
10 7 (14.29%) Windows 7
11 6 (12.24%) Android
11 6 (12.24%) Mac OS X

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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.12%) Azure
2 3 (6.12%) WhatsApp
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.08%) Slack
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) Firewall
2 13 (26.53%) SAN
3 2 (4.08%) LAN
3 2 (4.08%) VPN
3 2 (4.08%) WAN
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.04%) WebEx
4 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) MySQL
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) DB2
2 1 (2.04%) IDOL
2 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 20 (40.82%) Finance
3 14 (28.57%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) French Language
7 1 (2.04%) German Language
7 1 (2.04%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.04%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) CSS
1 1 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (2.04%) HTML
1 1 (2.04%) HTML5
1 1 (2.04%) JSON
1 1 (2.04%) SOAP
1 1 (2.04%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (2.04%) XML
1 1 (2.04%) XSD
1 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (12.24%) Blackberry
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.12%) iPhone
5 1 (2.04%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) iPad
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (61.22%) Windows
2 14 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (26.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (16.33%) Windows 10
5 7 (14.29%) Windows 7
6 6 (12.24%) Android
6 6 (12.24%) Mac OS X
7 5 (10.20%) Windows 8
8 2 (4.08%) Linux
8 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
9 1 (2.04%) CentOS
9 1 (2.04%) Unix
9 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
9 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (26.53%) Business Continuity
3 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) Customer Experience
4 8 (16.33%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.20%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (10.20%) Asset Management
5 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis
5 5 (10.20%) Workflow
6 4 (8.16%) Break/Fix
7 3 (6.12%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.12%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.08%) Application Virtualisation
8 2 (4.08%) Computer Science
8 2 (4.08%) Global Marketing
8 2 (4.08%) ITIL
8 2 (4.08%) Logistics
8 2 (4.08%) Problem Management
8 2 (4.08%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.08%) SQL
2 1 (2.04%) Bash
2 1 (2.04%) PHP
2 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
2 1 (2.04%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Degree
1 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) COBIT
1 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) vSphere
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) SCCM
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.04%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Cisco
1 15 (30.61%) Citrix
2 14 (28.57%) HP
3 13 (26.53%) Avaya
3 13 (26.53%) CheckPoint
3 13 (26.53%) EMC
4 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (14.29%) Apple
6 4 (8.16%) Adobe
6 4 (8.16%) Bloomberg
6 4 (8.16%) Ivanti
7 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (4.08%) Google
8 2 (4.08%) Okta
8 2 (4.08%) Oracle
8 2 (4.08%) Refinitiv
8 2 (4.08%) VMware
9 1 (2.04%) Dell
9 1 (2.04%) Intel