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 10 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 167 147
Rank change year-on-year -52 -20 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 217 191 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.56% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.67% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 132 223
10th Percentile £181 £176 £143
25th Percentile £200 £207 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £266 £250
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +6.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £415 £413 £353
90th Percentile £493 £431 £538
England median daily rate £210 £243 £215
% change year-on-year -13.40% +12.79% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 18
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.55 £17.57
25th Percentile £21.18 £24.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.89 £24.66 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +11.33% -10.51%
75th Percentile £27.19 £28.00 £23.91
90th Percentile £28.09 £29.35 £37.81
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.54% +9.35% +13.30%

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 17,308 11,455 16,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 93.56% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 7,752 11,944
10th Percentile £356 £341 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 164 328
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £15.98
25th Percentile £24.31 £24.14 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +15.97% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £77.43 £64.63 £67.30
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 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 10 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 -20 31 £220 -26.67% 7
East London - 9 £200 - 3
West London -31 8 £238 -5.00% 5
South London -16 2 £425 +69.66% 4
North London - 2 - - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 114 (52.53%) Windows
2 94 (43.32%) Active Directory
3 86 (39.63%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (38.71%) Microsoft
5 63 (29.03%) Azure
6 49 (22.58%) Windows 10
7 39 (17.97%) ServiceNow
8 37 (17.05%) Entra ID
9 36 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.21%) SQL
11 30 (13.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (13.36%) DevOps
13 28 (12.90%) ITIL
14 27 (12.44%) DNS
15 26 (11.98%) JIRA
16 25 (11.52%) Mac OS
17 24 (11.06%) Change Management
17 24 (11.06%) PowerShell
18 20 (9.22%) AWS
19 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (8.76%) C#
19 19 (8.76%) Customer Service
19 19 (8.76%) Migration
20 18 (8.29%) TCP/IP
21 17 (7.83%) Apple
21 17 (7.83%) Asset Management
21 17 (7.83%) DHCP
21 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
21 17 (7.83%) SCCM
22 16 (7.37%) Security Cleared

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 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
3 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 86 (39.63%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (29.03%) Azure
3 37 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 20 (9.22%) AWS
5 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.69%) GCP
7 7 (3.23%) SaaS
8 6 (2.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.30%) PaaS
10 4 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.84%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.84%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.84%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.92%) Datadog
11 2 (0.92%) IaaS
11 2 (0.92%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.92%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.92%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.44%) DNS
2 18 (8.29%) TCP/IP
3 17 (7.83%) DHCP
4 12 (5.53%) VPN
5 10 (4.61%) Internet
5 10 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.76%) Firewall
7 5 (2.30%) HTTP
8 4 (1.84%) LAN
8 4 (1.84%) WAN
9 3 (1.38%) Wireless
10 2 (0.92%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.92%) Network Security
10 2 (0.92%) PSTN
10 2 (0.92%) SMTP
10 2 (0.92%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.92%) VSAN
11 1 (0.46%) NGFW
11 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.92%) Big Data
5 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.46%) MS Access
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.98%) JIRA
2 7 (3.23%) Git
3 4 (1.84%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 83 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.66%) Finance
3 35 (16.13%) Banking
4 24 (11.06%) Investment Banking
5 20 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.69%) Front Office
8 7 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.76%) French Language
9 6 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.76%) Legal
9 6 (2.76%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.38%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.46%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.30%) SAML
2 4 (1.84%) .NET
2 4 (1.84%) OAuth
2 4 (1.84%) PySpark
2 4 (1.84%) REST
2 4 (1.84%) YAML
3 3 (1.38%) RESTful
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.46%) HTML
5 1 (0.46%) HTML5
5 1 (0.46%) JMS
5 1 (0.46%) Middleware
5 1 (0.46%) Node.js
5 1 (0.46%) Spring
5 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.22%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.61%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.15%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (3.69%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.23%) iPhone
5 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.38%) BYOD
7 3 (1.38%) PKI
8 2 (0.92%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.92%) Clustering
8 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.92%) IoT
8 2 (0.92%) iPad
9 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 114 (52.53%) Windows
2 49 (22.58%) Windows 10
3 25 (11.52%) Mac OS
4 14 (6.45%) Windows Server
5 13 (5.99%) Linux
6 8 (3.69%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.69%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.76%) Unix
8 4 (1.84%) Solaris
9 2 (0.92%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.36%) DevOps
3 28 (12.90%) ITIL
4 24 (11.06%) Change Management
5 19 (8.76%) Customer Service
5 19 (8.76%) Migration
6 17 (7.83%) Asset Management
7 15 (6.91%) Service Delivery
8 14 (6.45%) Agile
8 14 (6.45%) CI/CD
9 13 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (5.99%) Runbook
10 12 (5.53%) User Experience
11 11 (5.07%) Problem Management
11 11 (5.07%) Service Management
11 11 (5.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (4.61%) Incident Management
12 10 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (4.61%) ITSM
13 9 (4.15%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.21%) SQL
2 24 (11.06%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.76%) C#
4 12 (5.53%) Python
5 6 (2.76%) Bash
6 5 (2.30%) C++
7 4 (1.84%) Java
8 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.46%) C
9 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.45%) Degree
3 9 (4.15%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.30%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.92%) CCNA
7 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.07%) SLA
2 2 (0.92%) GDPR
2 2 (0.92%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.46%) ITGC
System Software
1 94 (43.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.61%) Hyper-V
3 9 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.38%) Docker
6 2 (0.92%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.92%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.46%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (13.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (7.83%) SCCM
3 7 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.84%) Ansible
4 4 (1.84%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.84%) Terraform
4 4 (1.84%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.92%) Kibana
5 2 (0.92%) Nagios
5 2 (0.92%) Puppet
5 2 (0.92%) vMotion
5 2 (0.92%) vRealize
5 2 (0.92%) WMI
6 1 (0.46%) Autotask
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.97%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.83%) Apple
4 10 (4.61%) Google
5 9 (4.15%) VMware
6 8 (3.69%) Citrix
7 6 (2.76%) HP
7 6 (2.76%) iManage
7 6 (2.76%) Okta
8 4 (1.84%) Cisco
8 4 (1.84%) Databricks
8 4 (1.84%) Meraki
8 4 (1.84%) Netskope
8 4 (1.84%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.38%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.38%) IBM
10 2 (0.92%) Dell
10 2 (0.92%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.92%) Reuters
10 2 (0.92%) Symantec
54 Support Engineer jobs in London