Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £273, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 165 156
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 276 222 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.65% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.78% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 159 209
10th Percentile £175 £163 £140
25th Percentile £200 £201 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -9.09% -21.54%
75th Percentile £402 £413 £375
90th Percentile £470 £475 £545
England median daily rate £226 £250 £234
% change year-on-year -9.80% +7.01% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £19.70 £18.83 £16.44
25th Percentile £22.14 £24.66 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £20.41
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +27.40% -4.82%
75th Percentile £26.25 £28.00 £27.59
90th Percentile £26.70 £30.05 £54.69
England median hourly rate £22.00 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +15.79%

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 18,705 12,491 15,254
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.91% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,164 8,408 10,681
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 206 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.04 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -12.77% -11.05%
75th Percentile £59.94 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £79.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%

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 19 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 19 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 +6 49 £240 -20.00% 13
West London -24 16 £226 -9.80% 4
East London - 5 £200 - 2
South London -11 4 £425 +70.00% 2
North London - 2 - -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 187 (67.75%) Windows
2 140 (50.72%) Active Directory
3 129 (46.74%) Microsoft
4 127 (46.01%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (23.19%) Customer Service
5 64 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (23.19%) Windows 10
6 61 (22.10%) Azure
7 60 (21.74%) ServiceNow
8 52 (18.84%) Entra ID
9 50 (18.12%) Mac OS
10 49 (17.75%) DNS
11 46 (16.67%) ITIL
11 46 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 46 (16.67%) PowerShell
12 40 (14.49%) TCP/IP
13 38 (13.77%) ITSM
14 35 (12.68%) SharePoint
15 34 (12.32%) Security Cleared
16 32 (11.59%) Degree
16 32 (11.59%) Migration
16 32 (11.59%) SLA
16 32 (11.59%) SQL
17 31 (11.23%) Apple
17 31 (11.23%) Microsoft Exchange
18 30 (10.87%) Asset Management
18 30 (10.87%) JIRA
19 29 (10.51%) DevOps
20 28 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
20 28 (10.14%) Linux

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 35 (12.68%) SharePoint
2 31 (11.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.09%) MTS
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) 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
1 127 (46.01%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (22.10%) Azure
3 52 (18.84%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.42%) OneDrive
5 24 (8.70%) AWS
6 14 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.71%) GCP
8 12 (4.35%) SaaS
9 5 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.81%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.45%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (1.45%) Google App Engine
10 4 (1.45%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.45%) PaaS
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.09%) Datadog
11 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.09%) IaaS
11 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 49 (17.75%) DNS
2 40 (14.49%) TCP/IP
3 28 (10.14%) VPN
4 26 (9.42%) DHCP
5 18 (6.52%) Internet
5 18 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (3.26%) Firewall
7 5 (1.81%) HTTP
7 5 (1.81%) LAN
7 5 (1.81%) WAN
8 4 (1.45%) Network Security
8 4 (1.45%) WebEx
9 3 (1.09%) SMTP
9 3 (1.09%) VLAN
10 2 (0.72%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.72%) Multicast
10 2 (0.72%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.72%) Value-Added Service
10 2 (0.72%) VSAN
11 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.09%) Big Data
3 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.09%) MySQL
3 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.72%) KDB
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.36%) MS Access
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (10.87%) JIRA
2 10 (3.62%) Git
3 4 (1.45%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 113 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 66 (23.91%) Finance
3 34 (12.32%) Banking
4 32 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.61%) Investment Banking
6 16 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (5.07%) Front Office
8 12 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.62%) Spanish Language
10 9 (3.26%) Legal
11 8 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.17%) Retail
13 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) French Language
14 3 (1.09%) Local Government
15 2 (0.72%) Japanese Language
16 1 (0.36%) Billing
16 1 (0.36%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.54%) .NET
2 5 (1.81%) SAML
3 4 (1.45%) OAuth
4 3 (1.09%) REST
4 3 (1.09%) RESTful
5 2 (0.72%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.36%) FpML
6 1 (0.36%) HTML
6 1 (0.36%) HTML5
6 1 (0.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.20%) Onboarding
2 25 (9.06%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (5.80%) Hedge funds
4 11 (3.99%) iPhone
5 10 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.17%) iPad
7 6 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.45%) BYOD
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) PKI
11 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.72%) Equities
11 2 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 187 (67.75%) Windows
2 64 (23.19%) Windows 10
3 50 (18.12%) Mac OS
4 28 (10.14%) Linux
5 22 (7.97%) Apple iOS
6 21 (7.61%) Windows Server
7 15 (5.43%) Android
8 8 (2.90%) Unix
8 8 (2.90%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.81%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.45%) Solaris
10 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.72%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.72%) VMS
11 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.72%) 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 64 (23.19%) Customer Service
1 64 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (16.67%) ITIL
3 38 (13.77%) ITSM
4 32 (11.59%) Migration
5 30 (10.87%) Asset Management
6 29 (10.51%) DevOps
7 28 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.06%) Runbook
8 25 (9.06%) Service Management
9 23 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 23 (8.33%) Problem Management
9 23 (8.33%) User Experience
10 21 (7.61%) Change Management
10 21 (7.61%) Service Delivery
11 16 (5.80%) Incident Management
12 14 (5.07%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (4.71%) High Availability
13 13 (4.71%) Inventory Management
13 13 (4.71%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.59%) SQL
3 21 (7.61%) Python
4 16 (5.80%) Java
5 14 (5.07%) C#
6 11 (3.99%) Bash
7 10 (3.62%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.17%) C++
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.09%) Tcl
10 2 (0.72%) Go
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.72%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.59%) Degree
3 17 (6.16%) DV Cleared
3 17 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.71%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CCNA
10 1 (0.36%) CCNP
10 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.59%) SLA
2 2 (0.72%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 140 (50.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.26%) Docker
3 9 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
6 2 (0.72%) zsh
7 1 (0.36%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (7.61%) SCCM
3 14 (5.07%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.07%) Terraform
4 8 (2.90%) Ansible
5 7 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.17%) WSUS
7 5 (1.81%) Grafana
7 5 (1.81%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.09%) Nagios
9 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.09%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) vMotion
10 2 (0.72%) Kibana
10 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.72%) vRealize
10 2 (0.72%) WMI
11 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 129 (46.74%) Microsoft
2 60 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 31 (11.23%) Apple
4 19 (6.88%) Google
5 17 (6.16%) VMware
6 12 (4.35%) Citrix
7 10 (3.62%) Cisco
7 10 (3.62%) Samsung
8 8 (2.90%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.90%) Oracle
9 7 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.54%) Okta
10 6 (2.17%) HP
10 6 (2.17%) iManage
10 6 (2.17%) ION Trading
10 6 (2.17%) Splunk
11 5 (1.81%) Meraki
11 5 (1.81%) Remedy
11 5 (1.81%) Symantec
12 4 (1.45%) Netskope
123 Support Engineer jobs in London