Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £263, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 165 143
Rank change year-on-year -47 -22 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 258 226 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.65% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.78% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 162 216
10th Percentile £175 £163 £141
25th Percentile £200 £201 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £250 £280
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% -20.00%
75th Percentile £400 £413 £364
90th Percentile £454 £475 £545
England median daily rate £225 £238 £234
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.66% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile - £20.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.07 £25.33 £18.13
Median hourly rate £24.00 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 £25.59
90th Percentile £26.60 £30.10 £29.38
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% +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 18,760 12,713 15,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,229 8,604 10,759
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.66%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%

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 10 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 10 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 -12 47 £258 -14.17% 10
West London -19 15 £226 -9.80% 3
East London - 6 £200 -
South London -19 3 £425 +69.83% 1
North London - 2 - -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 176 (68.22%) Windows
2 136 (52.71%) Active Directory
3 117 (45.35%) Microsoft
4 116 (44.96%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (23.64%) Windows 10
6 60 (23.26%) Azure
7 59 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (21.71%) ServiceNow
9 54 (20.93%) Customer Service
10 51 (19.77%) Entra ID
11 46 (17.83%) DNS
12 45 (17.44%) Mac OS
13 41 (15.89%) Microsoft Intune
14 40 (15.50%) ITIL
14 40 (15.50%) PowerShell
15 35 (13.57%) TCP/IP
16 31 (12.02%) ITSM
17 30 (11.63%) Migration
17 30 (11.63%) Security Cleared
17 30 (11.63%) SQL
18 29 (11.24%) Apple
18 29 (11.24%) Asset Management
18 29 (11.24%) Degree
18 29 (11.24%) SharePoint
19 28 (10.85%) JIRA
20 27 (10.47%) DevOps
20 27 (10.47%) SLA
21 26 (10.08%) DHCP
21 26 (10.08%) Microsoft Exchange
22 24 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement

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 29 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 26 (10.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.39%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 116 (44.96%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (23.26%) Azure
3 51 (19.77%) Entra ID
4 20 (7.75%) AWS
4 20 (7.75%) OneDrive
5 16 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.04%) GCP
7 11 (4.26%) SaaS
8 4 (1.55%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (1.55%) Google App Engine
8 4 (1.55%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (1.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (1.55%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.55%) PaaS
9 3 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.16%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.16%) IaaS
9 3 (1.16%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.83%) DNS
2 35 (13.57%) TCP/IP
3 26 (10.08%) DHCP
4 24 (9.30%) VPN
5 18 (6.98%) Internet
5 18 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (3.49%) Firewall
7 5 (1.94%) HTTP
7 5 (1.94%) LAN
7 5 (1.94%) WAN
8 4 (1.55%) Network Security
8 4 (1.55%) WebEx
9 3 (1.16%) SMTP
10 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.78%) Multicast
10 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.78%) VLAN
10 2 (0.78%) VSAN
11 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.39%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.16%) Big Data
3 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.78%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.39%) KDB
5 1 (0.39%) MS Access
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (10.85%) JIRA
2 8 (3.10%) Git
3 4 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 108 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.26%) Finance
3 32 (12.40%) Banking
4 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.88%) Front Office
8 10 (3.88%) Spanish Language
9 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.10%) Legal
10 6 (2.33%) Retail
10 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.55%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.16%) French Language
12 3 (1.16%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.39%) Korean Language
14 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.33%) .NET
2 5 (1.94%) SAML
3 4 (1.55%) OAuth
4 3 (1.16%) REST
4 3 (1.16%) RESTful
5 1 (0.39%) HTML
5 1 (0.39%) HTML5
5 1 (0.39%) Kafka
5 1 (0.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.60%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.14%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (6.20%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.26%) iPhone
5 9 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.33%) iPad
7 5 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.55%) BYOD
8 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.16%) Clustering
9 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.16%) PKI
10 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.39%) NHS
11 1 (0.39%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 176 (68.22%) Windows
2 61 (23.64%) Windows 10
3 45 (17.44%) Mac OS
4 21 (8.14%) Linux
5 20 (7.75%) Windows Server
6 17 (6.59%) Apple iOS
7 12 (4.65%) Android
8 9 (3.49%) Windows 7
9 7 (2.71%) Unix
10 5 (1.94%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (1.55%) Solaris
12 2 (0.78%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.78%) VMS
12 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (20.93%) Customer Service
3 40 (15.50%) ITIL
4 31 (12.02%) ITSM
5 30 (11.63%) Migration
6 29 (11.24%) Asset Management
7 27 (10.47%) DevOps
8 24 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (8.91%) Change Management
10 22 (8.53%) Problem Management
10 22 (8.53%) Runbook
11 21 (8.14%) Service Management
11 21 (8.14%) User Experience
12 20 (7.75%) Service Delivery
13 19 (7.36%) CI/CD
14 14 (5.43%) Incident Management
15 12 (4.65%) High Availability
16 11 (4.26%) Inventory Management
16 11 (4.26%) Process Improvement
16 11 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.50%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.63%) SQL
3 16 (6.20%) C#
4 15 (5.81%) Python
5 12 (4.65%) Java
6 9 (3.49%) Bash
7 7 (2.71%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.33%) C++
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) C
10 1 (0.39%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.24%) Degree
3 15 (5.81%) DV Cleared
3 15 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.65%) A+ Certification
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CCNA
9 1 (0.39%) CCNP
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.47%) SLA
2 2 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 136 (52.71%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.71%) Docker
5 5 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.16%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.16%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.78%) vSphere
7 2 (0.78%) zsh
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (15.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (7.75%) SCCM
3 12 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.26%) Terraform
5 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.33%) Ansible
7 5 (1.94%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.94%) WSUS
8 3 (1.16%) Grafana
8 3 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.16%) Nagios
8 3 (1.16%) Puppet
8 3 (1.16%) vMotion
9 2 (0.78%) Kibana
9 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.78%) vRealize
9 2 (0.78%) WMI
10 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 117 (45.35%) Microsoft
2 56 (21.71%) ServiceNow
3 29 (11.24%) Apple
4 18 (6.98%) Google
5 16 (6.20%) VMware
6 12 (4.65%) Citrix
7 9 (3.49%) Cisco
8 8 (3.10%) Samsung
9 7 (2.71%) HP
9 7 (2.71%) Okta
10 6 (2.33%) iManage
10 6 (2.33%) Oracle
11 5 (1.94%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.94%) Meraki
11 5 (1.94%) Remedy
12 4 (1.55%) Netskope
12 4 (1.55%) Splunk
12 4 (1.55%) Symantec
12 4 (1.55%) Zscaler
61 Support Engineer jobs in London