Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £260, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
31 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 171 160
Rank change year-on-year -22 -11 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 280 219 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.63% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.75% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 157 204
10th Percentile £173 £163 £143
25th Percentile £200 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £250 £273
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -8.26% -24.04%
75th Percentile £400 £399 £360
90th Percentile £500 £475 £538
England median daily rate £225 £238 £230
% change year-on-year -5.46% +3.48% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £23.65 £18.83 £18.13
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £19.07
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +24.91% -2.92%
75th Percentile £26.25 £28.00 £28.19
90th Percentile £26.70 £30.05 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £22.88
% change year-on-year -12.52% +9.95% +20.02%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,774 12,520 15,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,428 10,485
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.31 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +4.65%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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
Central London +3 51 £258 -6.36% 8
West London -20 18 £226 -9.80% 6
South London -18 4 £425 +70.00% 2
East London - 4 £180 - 2
North London - 3 - -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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 London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 192 (68.57%) Windows
2 140 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 137 (48.93%) Microsoft
4 133 (47.50%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 67 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (23.93%) Windows 10
7 59 (21.07%) Azure
8 54 (19.29%) ServiceNow
9 53 (18.93%) Mac OS
10 51 (18.21%) Entra ID
11 49 (17.50%) DNS
12 47 (16.79%) Microsoft Intune
13 46 (16.43%) ITIL
14 45 (16.07%) PowerShell
15 43 (15.36%) TCP/IP
16 41 (14.64%) ITSM
17 40 (14.29%) SharePoint
18 36 (12.86%) Migration
19 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
20 34 (12.14%) SLA
21 33 (11.79%) Apple
21 33 (11.79%) Microsoft Exchange
22 32 (11.43%) Asset Management
22 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
22 32 (11.43%) Degree
23 30 (10.71%) Linux
23 30 (10.71%) SQL
23 30 (10.71%) VPN
24 29 (10.36%) OneDrive

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 40 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 33 (11.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.43%) MTS
4 2 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 133 (47.50%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (21.07%) Azure
3 51 (18.21%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.36%) OneDrive
5 26 (9.29%) AWS
6 13 (4.64%) GCP
7 12 (4.29%) SaaS
8 8 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.79%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.43%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.43%) Google App Engine
10 4 (1.43%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.43%) PaaS
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.07%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.07%) IaaS
11 3 (1.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 49 (17.50%) DNS
2 43 (15.36%) TCP/IP
3 30 (10.71%) VPN
4 26 (9.29%) DHCP
5 19 (6.79%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.07%) Internet
7 11 (3.93%) Firewall
8 7 (2.50%) WAN
9 6 (2.14%) Network Security
10 5 (1.79%) HTTP
10 5 (1.79%) LAN
11 4 (1.43%) WebEx
12 3 (1.07%) BGP
12 3 (1.07%) MPLS
12 3 (1.07%) Multicast
12 3 (1.07%) OSPF
12 3 (1.07%) SMTP
12 3 (1.07%) VLAN
13 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.07%) Big Data
3 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.07%) KDB
3 3 (1.07%) MySQL
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.36%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.36%) MS Access
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (9.29%) JIRA
2 10 (3.57%) Git
3 4 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 115 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.93%) Finance
3 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.07%) Banking
5 20 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 17 (6.07%) Front Office
7 16 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.57%) Legal
9 10 (3.57%) Spanish Language
10 8 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.14%) Retail
12 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.07%) French Language
13 3 (1.07%) Local Government
14 2 (0.71%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.36%) Billing
15 1 (0.36%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.00%) Terraform
2 7 (2.50%) .NET
3 5 (1.79%) SAML
4 4 (1.43%) OAuth
5 3 (1.07%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.07%) REST
5 3 (1.07%) RESTful
6 2 (0.71%) Kafka
6 2 (0.71%) Node.js
7 1 (0.36%) FpML
7 1 (0.36%) HTML
7 1 (0.36%) HTML5
7 1 (0.36%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.57%) Onboarding
2 25 (8.93%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (5.71%) Hedge funds
4 11 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.57%) iPhone
6 7 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.79%) iPad
7 5 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.43%) BYOD
8 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.07%) PKI
10 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.71%) Equities
10 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 192 (68.57%) Windows
2 67 (23.93%) Windows 10
3 53 (18.93%) Mac OS
4 30 (10.71%) Linux
5 25 (8.93%) Apple iOS
6 22 (7.86%) Windows Server
7 18 (6.43%) Android
8 8 (2.86%) Unix
8 8 (2.86%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.43%) Solaris
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.71%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.71%) VMS
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 67 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.43%) ITIL
4 41 (14.64%) ITSM
5 36 (12.86%) Migration
6 32 (11.43%) Asset Management
6 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (9.64%) Service Management
8 24 (8.57%) DevOps
8 24 (8.57%) Runbook
9 23 (8.21%) User Experience
10 22 (7.86%) CI/CD
11 21 (7.50%) Problem Management
12 20 (7.14%) Service Delivery
13 18 (6.43%) Incident Management
13 18 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (5.71%) Change Management
14 16 (5.71%) High Availability
15 14 (5.00%) Inventory Management
16 13 (4.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.07%) PowerShell
2 30 (10.71%) SQL
3 26 (9.29%) Python
4 16 (5.71%) Java
5 13 (4.64%) Bash
6 10 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.21%) C#
8 6 (2.14%) C++
9 4 (1.43%) Tcl
10 3 (1.07%) Go
10 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.71%) VBA
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.43%) Degree
3 19 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.64%) A+ Certification
6 9 (3.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ACSP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) CCNP
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.36%) OCA
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.14%) SLA
2 2 (0.71%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 140 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.21%) Docker
4 7 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.07%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.07%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 2 (0.71%) zsh
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (16.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (7.14%) SCCM
3 14 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.57%) Ansible
5 8 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.14%) WSUS
8 5 (1.79%) Grafana
8 5 (1.79%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.07%) Nagios
10 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.07%) Puppet
10 3 (1.07%) vMotion
11 2 (0.71%) Kibana
11 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.71%) vRealize
12 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 137 (48.93%) Microsoft
2 54 (19.29%) ServiceNow
3 33 (11.79%) Apple
4 19 (6.79%) Google
5 15 (5.36%) VMware
6 12 (4.29%) Cisco
7 11 (3.93%) Samsung
8 10 (3.57%) Bloomberg
8 10 (3.57%) Citrix
9 9 (3.21%) Oracle
10 7 (2.50%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.50%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.50%) Okta
11 6 (2.14%) iManage
11 6 (2.14%) Splunk
12 5 (1.79%) Adobe
12 5 (1.79%) HP
12 5 (1.79%) Meraki
12 5 (1.79%) Remedy
12 5 (1.79%) Symantec
59 Support Engineer jobs in London