Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 162 148
Rank change year-on-year -43 -14 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 224 212 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.67% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.79% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 148 222
10th Percentile £182 £175 £143
25th Percentile £200 £206 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £255 £250
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -32.11%
75th Percentile £411 £400 £384
90th Percentile £473 £475 £544
England median daily rate £213 £238 £220
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 19
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 £17.75
25th Percentile £21.18 £23.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.89 £25.83 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +16.61% -12.64%
75th Percentile £27.19 £28.56 £24.73
90th Percentile £28.09 £29.58 £35.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.72 £23.05
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.59% +15.23%

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 17,759 11,870 16,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.49% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,724 8,036 11,854
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £760 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 182 316
10th Percentile £18.48 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +17.27% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £46.49
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -22 34 £220 -26.67% 5
West London -27 11 £226 -9.80% 6
East London - 8 £200 - 2
South London -12 2 £425 +69.66% 1
North London - 2 - - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 129 (57.59%) Windows
2 107 (47.77%) Active Directory
3 92 (41.07%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (40.18%) Microsoft
5 58 (25.89%) Azure
6 53 (23.66%) Windows 10
7 42 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (17.41%) Entra ID
9 38 (16.96%) ServiceNow
10 35 (15.63%) SQL
11 32 (14.29%) DNS
11 32 (14.29%) Mac OS
11 32 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 30 (13.39%) DevOps
13 28 (12.50%) ITIL
14 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
15 26 (11.61%) Change Management
15 26 (11.61%) JIRA
16 22 (9.82%) Customer Service
16 22 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
16 22 (9.82%) TCP/IP
17 21 (9.38%) Apple
18 20 (8.93%) AWS
18 20 (8.93%) Migration
18 20 (8.93%) SCCM
18 20 (8.93%) SharePoint
19 19 (8.48%) Asset Management
19 19 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (8.48%) C#
19 19 (8.48%) Degree

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 22 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (8.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.07%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (25.89%) Azure
3 39 (17.41%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.93%) AWS
5 19 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.02%) GCP
7 8 (3.57%) OneDrive
7 8 (3.57%) SaaS
8 6 (2.68%) PaaS
9 5 (2.23%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.79%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.34%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.34%) IaaS
11 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.89%) Datadog
12 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.29%) DNS
2 22 (9.82%) TCP/IP
3 19 (8.48%) DHCP
4 13 (5.80%) Internet
4 13 (5.80%) VPN
5 12 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (3.57%) Firewall
7 5 (2.23%) HTTP
7 5 (2.23%) LAN
7 5 (2.23%) WAN
8 3 (1.34%) Network Security
8 3 (1.34%) SMTP
9 2 (0.89%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.89%) PSTN
9 2 (0.89%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.89%) VSAN
9 2 (0.89%) Wireless
10 1 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.45%) VLAN
10 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.34%) Big Data
3 3 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.89%) MySQL
4 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.45%) KDB
5 1 (0.45%) MS Access
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.61%) JIRA
2 7 (3.13%) Git
3 4 (1.79%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.32%) Finance
3 33 (14.73%) Banking
4 24 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Front Office
8 7 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.68%) Retail
9 6 (2.68%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.23%) French Language
10 5 (2.23%) Legal
11 4 (1.79%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.89%) Local Government
13 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.45%) Korean Language
14 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.23%) .NET
1 5 (2.23%) SAML
2 4 (1.79%) OAuth
2 4 (1.79%) REST
3 3 (1.34%) PySpark
3 3 (1.34%) RESTful
3 3 (1.34%) YAML
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) HTML5
5 1 (0.45%) JMS
5 1 (0.45%) Kafka
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) Spring
5 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.16%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (4.91%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.57%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.13%) iPhone
5 7 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.79%) BYOD
6 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.79%) PKI
7 3 (1.34%) Clustering
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) iPad
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 129 (57.59%) Windows
2 53 (23.66%) Windows 10
3 32 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 18 (8.04%) Linux
5 16 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.57%) Unix
7 7 (3.13%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.79%) Solaris
9 3 (1.34%) Android
9 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (13.39%) DevOps
3 28 (12.50%) ITIL
4 26 (11.61%) Change Management
5 22 (9.82%) Customer Service
6 20 (8.93%) Migration
7 19 (8.48%) Asset Management
8 16 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (7.14%) Service Delivery
9 15 (6.70%) Agile
10 14 (6.25%) Runbook
11 13 (5.80%) CI/CD
11 13 (5.80%) User Experience
12 12 (5.36%) Problem Management
13 11 (4.91%) ITSM
13 11 (4.91%) Service Management
13 11 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (4.02%) Incident Management
15 9 (4.02%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.63%) SQL
2 27 (12.05%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.48%) C#
4 14 (6.25%) Python
5 8 (3.57%) Bash
6 7 (3.13%) Java
7 6 (2.68%) C++
8 3 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) Go
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.48%) Degree
1 19 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.02%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.79%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.89%) CCNA
5 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.36%) SLA
2 2 (0.89%) GDPR
2 2 (0.89%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.45%) ITGC
System Software
1 107 (47.77%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.91%) Hyper-V
2 11 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.79%) Docker
5 3 (1.34%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.34%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.89%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (8.93%) SCCM
3 7 (3.13%) Ansible
3 7 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.23%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.23%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.79%) Terraform
6 3 (1.34%) Nagios
6 3 (1.34%) Puppet
6 3 (1.34%) vMotion
7 2 (0.89%) Grafana
7 2 (0.89%) Kibana
7 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.89%) vRealize
7 2 (0.89%) WMI
8 1 (0.45%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.45%) Autotask
8 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (40.18%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.96%) ServiceNow
3 21 (9.38%) Apple
4 11 (4.91%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) VMware
5 9 (4.02%) Citrix
6 7 (3.13%) HP
7 6 (2.68%) iManage
7 6 (2.68%) Okta
8 5 (2.23%) Samsung
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco
9 4 (1.79%) Meraki
9 4 (1.79%) Netskope
9 4 (1.79%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.34%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.34%) Databricks
10 3 (1.34%) IBM
10 3 (1.34%) Oracle
10 3 (1.34%) Splunk
10 3 (1.34%) Symantec
44 Support Engineer jobs in London