Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £240, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 160 94
Rank change year-on-year -32 -66 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 216 236 470
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.56% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.67% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 170 369
10th Percentile £163 £162 £143
25th Percentile £188 £201 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £301 £300
Median % change year-on-year -20.33% +0.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £420 £360 £488
90th Percentile £538 £588 £713
England median daily rate £225 £240 £238
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 11
10th Percentile £19.54 £17.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.00 £18.54
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +42.63% -24.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.41 £19.86
90th Percentile £26.00 £47.36 £24.25
England median hourly rate £24.00 £22.05 £19.06
% change year-on-year +8.87% +15.66% -5.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,145 14,173 17,825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 9,174 12,891
10th Percentile £340 £338 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 152 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

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 15 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer 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 15 December 2025. 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 -7 32 £220 -32.31% 6
West London -17 12 £293 +21.88% 4
East London +4 2 - - 3
South London -8 2 £200 -38.46% 3
North London - 1 £510 - 2
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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.

1 106 (49.07%) Windows
2 77 (35.65%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (35.19%) Microsoft
4 57 (26.39%) Active Directory
5 53 (24.54%) Windows 10
6 39 (18.06%) Customer Service
7 35 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (15.74%) Security Cleared
9 31 (14.35%) ServiceNow
10 30 (13.89%) Apple
10 30 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
12 28 (12.96%) SCCM
13 27 (12.50%) ITSM
13 27 (12.50%) Mac OS
14 26 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
15 25 (11.57%) ITIL
16 24 (11.11%) Azure
16 24 (11.11%) TCP/IP
17 22 (10.19%) VPN
18 19 (8.80%) DNS
18 19 (8.80%) Jamf Pro
19 16 (7.41%) DHCP
20 15 (6.94%) Citrix
20 15 (6.94%) Degree
20 15 (6.94%) SQL
21 14 (6.48%) Android
21 14 (6.48%) Cisco
21 14 (6.48%) HP
21 14 (6.48%) Migration

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 13 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.46%) Smallworld
Applications
1 26 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.46%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.46%) Pro Tools
5 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.31%) Shopify
3 2 (0.93%) Eikon
3 2 (0.93%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.46%) Eze OMS
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.65%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (11.11%) Azure
3 11 (5.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.78%) AWS
4 6 (2.78%) OneDrive
5 5 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.31%) Google Workspace
6 4 (1.85%) Slack
7 3 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.39%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.93%) Datadog
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.93%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.46%) dbt
9 1 (0.46%) GitHub
9 1 (0.46%) IaaS
9 1 (0.46%) OCI
9 1 (0.46%) PaaS
9 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 22 (10.19%) VPN
3 19 (8.80%) DNS
4 16 (7.41%) DHCP
5 12 (5.56%) Wireless
6 11 (5.09%) Firewall
7 10 (4.63%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (3.70%) Internet
8 8 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.78%) LAN
10 4 (1.85%) VLAN
11 3 (1.39%) Softphone
11 3 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (1.39%) WAN
12 2 (0.93%) DMZ
12 2 (0.93%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.93%) SSH
12 2 (0.93%) WebEx
13 1 (0.46%) NAS
13 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Power BI
2 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (0.93%) Tableau
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.46%) GIS
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.46%) Fiddler
General
1 104 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.30%) Finance
3 27 (12.50%) Banking
4 12 (5.56%) Front Office
5 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.39%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.93%) French Language
11 2 (0.93%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Aviation
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.78%) Middleware
2 2 (0.93%) .NET
2 2 (0.93%) EDI
2 2 (0.93%) Kafka
3 1 (0.46%) ADO
3 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.46%) JSF
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.46%) OAuth
3 1 (0.46%) React
3 1 (0.46%) REST
3 1 (0.46%) RSS
3 1 (0.46%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (0.46%) Ultra Messaging
3 1 (0.46%) XML
3 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.39%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) CCTV
8 2 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.93%) iPhone
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Replication
8 2 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.46%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 106 (49.07%) Windows
2 53 (24.54%) Windows 10
3 27 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 14 (6.48%) Android
5 13 (6.02%) Apple iOS
6 11 (5.09%) Linux
7 9 (4.17%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.78%) Unix
9 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.06%) Customer Service
2 35 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.50%) ITSM
4 25 (11.57%) ITIL
5 14 (6.48%) Migration
5 14 (6.48%) Mobile Device Management
6 13 (6.02%) Agile
6 13 (6.02%) User Experience
7 12 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (4.63%) Asset Management
8 10 (4.63%) Data Protection
9 9 (4.17%) Break/Fix
9 9 (4.17%) Incident Management
9 9 (4.17%) Server Management
9 9 (4.17%) Service Management
9 9 (4.17%) Workflow
10 8 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (3.70%) Zero Trust
11 7 (3.24%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.94%) SQL
2 13 (6.02%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.70%) Bash
4 7 (3.24%) Python
5 2 (0.93%) C#
5 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.46%) C
6 1 (0.46%) Java
6 1 (0.46%) Magik
6 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.46%) Tcl
6 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.46%) VBA
6 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) Degree
4 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.93%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CCNA
7 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) MCP
7 2 (0.93%) MCSA
7 2 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) MCITP
8 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.24%) SLA
2 5 (2.31%) QA
3 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) GAAP
5 1 (0.46%) IFRS
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (26.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.39%) Firmware
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.46%) Docker
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.46%) vSphere
6 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (12.96%) SCCM
3 19 (8.80%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.85%) AirWatch
4 4 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.39%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.39%) Terraform
6 2 (0.93%) Grafana
6 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.93%) WSUS
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.46%) Ansible
7 1 (0.46%) Autotask
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.35%) ServiceNow
3 30 (13.89%) Apple
4 15 (6.94%) Citrix
5 14 (6.48%) Cisco
5 14 (6.48%) HP
6 12 (5.56%) Bloomberg
6 12 (5.56%) Dell
7 9 (4.17%) Remedy
8 7 (3.24%) VMware
9 6 (2.78%) Reuters
10 5 (2.31%) Solace
11 4 (1.85%) Google
11 4 (1.85%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.85%) Oracle
11 4 (1.85%) SAP
12 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.39%) Okta
12 3 (1.39%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.39%) Zscaler