Senior Support Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Support Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 383 485
Rank change year-on-year +42 +102 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 12 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.045% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.048% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £243 £202 £204
25th Percentile £337 £208 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £238 £300
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £422 £256 £325
90th Percentile £423 - -
England median daily rate £400 £231 £300
% change year-on-year +72.97% -22.92% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.18 - -
England median hourly rate £24.18 - £18.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in London

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in London

Senior Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Support Engineer in London

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in London

Senior Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
East London - 2 £245 -
Senior Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (75.00%) Windows
4 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
4 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (66.67%) OneDrive
5 7 (58.33%) Slack
5 7 (58.33%) Asana
5 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
5 7 (58.33%) Finance
6 6 (50.00%) VPN
6 6 (50.00%) SaaS
7 5 (41.67%) Azure
7 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
8 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
8 4 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
8 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
8 4 (33.33%) Android
8 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
8 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
9 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (25.00%) Zscaler
9 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
9 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (66.67%) OneDrive
3 7 (58.33%) Asana
3 7 (58.33%) Slack
4 6 (50.00%) SaaS
5 5 (41.67%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (16.67%) Google Workspace
7 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) VoIP
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Android
3 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 4 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Management
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) AppManager
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Plesk
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (25.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (16.67%) Ivanti
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Meraki
5 1 (8.33%) Rackspace