Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £260, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 167 148
Rank change year-on-year -50 -19 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 236 222 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.66% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.78% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 153 225
10th Percentile £175 £176 £145
25th Percentile £200 £206 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £263 £265
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -29.33%
75th Percentile £411 £413 £375
90th Percentile £471 £475 £542
England median daily rate £213 £238 £225
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 19
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.40 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.21 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £26.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +19.64% -13.85%
75th Percentile £27.00 £29.50 £24.73
90th Percentile £27.98 £30.13 £35.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.93% +13.65% +15.00%

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 18,164 12,468 16,484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.32% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,941 8,412 11,793
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 190 304
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.86 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.11 £20.24
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.66% +15.07% -25.68%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.63 £63.88 £67.70
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 37 £220 -26.67% 3
West London -19 14 £226 -9.80% 6
East London - 8 £200 - 1
South London -12 2 £425 +69.66% 2
North London - 2 - - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 147 (62.29%) Windows
2 117 (49.58%) Active Directory
3 102 (43.22%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (41.10%) Microsoft
5 60 (25.42%) Azure
6 55 (23.31%) Windows 10
7 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.07%) ServiceNow
9 44 (18.64%) Entra ID
10 38 (16.10%) Mac OS
11 37 (15.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 35 (14.83%) DNS
12 35 (14.83%) SQL
13 33 (13.98%) ITIL
14 31 (13.14%) Customer Service
15 30 (12.71%) PowerShell
16 29 (12.29%) DevOps
17 28 (11.86%) JIRA
18 26 (11.02%) Change Management
19 25 (10.59%) Apple
19 25 (10.59%) TCP/IP
20 23 (9.75%) Asset Management
20 23 (9.75%) Microsoft Exchange
20 23 (9.75%) Migration
21 22 (9.32%) Degree
22 21 (8.90%) SCCM
23 20 (8.47%) DHCP
24 19 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
24 19 (8.05%) C#
24 19 (8.05%) 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 23 (9.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (8.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (43.22%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (25.42%) Azure
3 44 (18.64%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.63%) AWS
6 9 (3.81%) GCP
6 9 (3.81%) OneDrive
6 9 (3.81%) SaaS
7 6 (2.54%) PaaS
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.69%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.27%) IaaS
9 3 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.85%) Datadog
10 2 (0.85%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.85%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.83%) DNS
2 25 (10.59%) TCP/IP
3 20 (8.47%) DHCP
4 14 (5.93%) Internet
4 14 (5.93%) VPN
5 13 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (3.81%) Firewall
7 5 (2.12%) HTTP
7 5 (2.12%) LAN
7 5 (2.12%) WAN
8 3 (1.27%) Network Security
8 3 (1.27%) SMTP
9 2 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.85%) PSTN
9 2 (0.85%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.85%) VSAN
9 2 (0.85%) WebEx
10 1 (0.42%) Multicast
10 1 (0.42%) NGFW
10 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.27%) Big Data
3 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.85%) MySQL
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.42%) KDB
5 1 (0.42%) MS Access
5 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.86%) JIRA
2 7 (2.97%) Git
3 4 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 95 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.88%) Finance
3 35 (14.83%) Banking
4 27 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.47%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.81%) Front Office
8 8 (3.39%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.97%) Spanish Language
10 6 (2.54%) Legal
10 6 (2.54%) Retail
11 4 (1.69%) French Language
12 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.85%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.42%) Korean Language
14 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.12%) .NET
1 5 (2.12%) SAML
2 4 (1.69%) OAuth
2 4 (1.69%) REST
3 3 (1.27%) RESTful
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.85%) PySpark
4 2 (0.85%) YAML
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) HTML5
5 1 (0.42%) JMS
5 1 (0.42%) Kafka
5 1 (0.42%) Middleware
5 1 (0.42%) Node.js
5 1 (0.42%) Spring
5 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.14%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.20%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (4.66%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.24%) iPhone
5 9 (3.81%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.69%) BYOD
7 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.27%) Clustering
8 3 (1.27%) iPad
8 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.27%) PKI
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 147 (62.29%) Windows
2 55 (23.31%) Windows 10
3 38 (16.10%) Mac OS
4 19 (8.05%) Linux
5 16 (6.78%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.81%) Apple iOS
7 8 (3.39%) Unix
8 6 (2.54%) Android
8 6 (2.54%) Windows 7
9 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.69%) Solaris
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (13.98%) ITIL
3 31 (13.14%) Customer Service
4 29 (12.29%) DevOps
5 26 (11.02%) Change Management
6 23 (9.75%) Asset Management
6 23 (9.75%) Migration
7 19 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.63%) Service Delivery
9 17 (7.20%) ITSM
10 16 (6.78%) Problem Management
11 15 (6.36%) Runbook
11 15 (6.36%) Service Management
11 15 (6.36%) User Experience
12 14 (5.93%) Agile
13 12 (5.08%) CI/CD
13 12 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (4.24%) High Availability
14 10 (4.24%) Incident Management
14 10 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.83%) SQL
2 30 (12.71%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.05%) C#
4 14 (5.93%) Python
5 8 (3.39%) Bash
6 7 (2.97%) Java
7 6 (2.54%) C++
8 3 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) C
10 1 (0.42%) Go
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (9.32%) Degree
2 19 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.97%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) CCNA
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) SLA
2 2 (0.85%) GDPR
2 2 (0.85%) QA
3 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.42%) ITGC
System Software
1 117 (49.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.66%) Hyper-V
2 11 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.69%) Docker
5 3 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.27%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.85%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 37 (15.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.90%) SCCM
3 7 (2.97%) Ansible
3 7 (2.97%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.12%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.69%) Terraform
6 3 (1.27%) Nagios
6 3 (1.27%) Puppet
6 3 (1.27%) vMotion
7 2 (0.85%) Grafana
7 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.85%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.85%) vRealize
7 2 (0.85%) WMI
8 1 (0.42%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.42%) Autotask
8 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 45 (19.07%) ServiceNow
3 25 (10.59%) Apple
4 11 (4.66%) Citrix
4 11 (4.66%) VMware
5 10 (4.24%) Google
6 7 (2.97%) HP
7 6 (2.54%) iManage
7 6 (2.54%) Okta
7 6 (2.54%) Samsung
8 4 (1.69%) Cisco
8 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.69%) Meraki
8 4 (1.69%) Netskope
8 4 (1.69%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.27%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.27%) IBM
9 3 (1.27%) Splunk
9 3 (1.27%) Symantec
10 2 (0.85%) PagerDuty
51 Support Engineer jobs in London