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 25 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 165 136
Rank change year-on-year -49 -29 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 212 210 325
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.65% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.76% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 143 238
10th Percentile £185 £182 £140
25th Percentile £193 £208 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £300 £258
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +16.50% -14.17%
75th Percentile £415 £413 £350
90th Percentile £500 £495 £571
England median daily rate £210 £245 £215
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.95% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 21
10th Percentile £18.37 £19.57 -
25th Percentile £19.54 £21.80 £18.93
Median hourly rate £21.46 £24.42 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +17.32% -15.90%
75th Percentile £25.77 £27.17 £23.09
90th Percentile £27.60 £28.21 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.15 £20.82
% change year-on-year -10.54% +20.83% +4.08%

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 16,261 11,918 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,837 8,182 12,042
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 146 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.73 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -21.55%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -32 30 £220 -32.31% 4
West London -25 10 £230 -4.06% 2
East London +3 9 £200 -18.37% 2
South London -14 2 £425 +30.77% 2
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 100 (47.17%) Windows
2 83 (39.15%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (34.91%) Active Directory
3 74 (34.91%) Microsoft
4 62 (29.25%) Azure
5 58 (27.36%) Windows 10
6 38 (17.92%) SQL
7 35 (16.51%) ServiceNow
8 34 (16.04%) Entra ID
9 29 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (13.21%) ITIL
11 27 (12.74%) DevOps
12 26 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (11.79%) JIRA
14 23 (10.85%) SCCM
15 22 (10.38%) Change Management
16 21 (9.91%) PowerShell
16 21 (9.91%) Security Cleared
17 20 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (9.43%) Customer Service
17 20 (9.43%) DNS
18 19 (8.96%) C#
19 18 (8.49%) Migration
20 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
20 16 (7.55%) User Experience
21 15 (7.08%) Mac OS
21 15 (7.08%) TCP/IP
22 14 (6.60%) Apple
22 14 (6.60%) Degree
22 14 (6.60%) SC 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 13 (6.13%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Shopify
2 5 (2.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.47%) Eikon
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 83 (39.15%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (29.25%) Azure
3 34 (16.04%) Entra ID
4 20 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.66%) AWS
6 10 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.83%) GCP
8 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.36%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.89%) Datadog
9 4 (1.89%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.89%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.89%) SaaS
10 3 (1.42%) PaaS
10 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.94%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.94%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.94%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.43%) DNS
2 15 (7.08%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.66%) DHCP
4 9 (4.25%) Wireless
5 6 (2.83%) Internet
5 6 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.36%) HTTP
7 4 (1.89%) Firewall
7 4 (1.89%) LAN
7 4 (1.89%) VPN
7 4 (1.89%) WAN
8 3 (1.42%) Softphone
9 2 (0.94%) DMZ
9 2 (0.94%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.94%) PSTN
9 2 (0.94%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.94%) VSAN
10 1 (0.47%) NGFW
10 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.30%) SQL Server
1 7 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.94%) Tableau
4 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.47%) MS Access
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (11.79%) JIRA
2 7 (3.30%) Git
3 4 (1.89%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 88 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.87%) Finance
3 34 (16.04%) Banking
4 18 (8.49%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.19%) Front Office
7 9 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.83%) French Language
10 5 (2.36%) Legal
10 5 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.42%) Retail
12 2 (0.94%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.94%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.47%) Korean Language
13 1 (0.47%) Law
13 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.36%) SAML
1 5 (2.36%) YAML
2 4 (1.89%) .NET
2 4 (1.89%) OAuth
2 4 (1.89%) PySpark
3 3 (1.42%) Middleware
3 3 (1.42%) REST
4 2 (0.94%) EDI
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.94%) RESTful
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) HTML5
5 1 (0.47%) JMS
5 1 (0.47%) Kafka
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) Spring
5 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.83%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.36%) iPhone
5 4 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.94%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.47%) Derivative
8 1 (0.47%) Equities
8 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.47%) iPad
8 1 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.47%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 100 (47.17%) Windows
2 58 (27.36%) Windows 10
3 15 (7.08%) Mac OS
4 10 (4.72%) Apple iOS
5 9 (4.25%) Android
5 9 (4.25%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.77%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.83%) Linux
8 4 (1.89%) Unix
9 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.21%) ITIL
3 27 (12.74%) DevOps
4 22 (10.38%) Change Management
5 20 (9.43%) Customer Service
6 18 (8.49%) Migration
7 16 (7.55%) User Experience
8 13 (6.13%) CI/CD
8 13 (6.13%) ITSM
9 12 (5.66%) Problem Management
10 10 (4.72%) Agile
11 9 (4.25%) Incident Management
11 9 (4.25%) Risk Assessment
11 9 (4.25%) Service Management
12 8 (3.77%) Asset Management
12 8 (3.77%) SDLC
12 8 (3.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (3.30%) Break/Fix
13 7 (3.30%) ERP
13 7 (3.30%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.92%) SQL
2 21 (9.91%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.96%) C#
4 13 (6.13%) Python
5 5 (2.36%) Bash
6 4 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.42%) Java
8 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) C++
9 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.60%) Degree
2 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.25%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.94%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.94%) CCNA
6 2 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) MCITP
7 1 (0.47%) MCSE
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.36%) SLA
2 2 (0.94%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) GAAP
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) IFRS
3 1 (0.47%) ITGC
3 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (34.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.83%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.94%) vSphere
4 1 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (10.85%) SCCM
3 8 (3.77%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.89%) Terraform
6 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.94%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.94%) vRealize
7 2 (0.94%) WMI
7 2 (0.94%) WSUS
8 1 (0.47%) Ansible
8 1 (0.47%) Autotask
8 1 (0.47%) Grafana
8 1 (0.47%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.51%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.60%) Apple
4 10 (4.72%) Cisco
4 10 (4.72%) Dell
4 10 (4.72%) HP
5 9 (4.25%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.77%) Google
7 6 (2.83%) Citrix
7 6 (2.83%) iManage
7 6 (2.83%) VMware
8 5 (2.36%) Databricks
8 5 (2.36%) Okta
8 5 (2.36%) Remedy
8 5 (2.36%) Reuters
9 4 (1.89%) Meraki
9 4 (1.89%) Netskope
9 4 (1.89%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.42%) IBM
10 3 (1.42%) ION Trading
29 Support Engineer jobs in London