Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £255, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 178 157
Rank change year-on-year -25 -21 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 278 209 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.55% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.67% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 153 188
10th Percentile £173 £163 £150
25th Percentile £200 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £397 £400 £350
90th Percentile £500 £548 £525
England median daily rate £225 £238 £237
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.11% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile £23.65 £18.83 £17.42
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.53% +24.77%
75th Percentile £26.25 £28.00 £29.38
90th Percentile £26.70 £30.05 £58.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.58 £24.18
% change year-on-year -10.07% +5.77% +25.61%

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 18,991 12,491 15,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.75% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,268 8,370 10,243
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 206 181
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -5.25%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -3 50 £275 +10.00% 17
West London -23 17 £226 -9.80% 2
East London - 4 £180 - 2
North London +2 3 - -
South London -11 3 £425 +78.95% 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 194 (69.78%) Windows
2 135 (48.56%) Microsoft
3 134 (48.20%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (47.48%) Active Directory
5 76 (27.34%) Customer Service
6 67 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (22.66%) Windows 10
8 53 (19.06%) Mac OS
9 52 (18.71%) ServiceNow
10 50 (17.99%) Azure
11 46 (16.55%) ITIL
11 46 (16.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 45 (16.19%) DNS
13 44 (15.83%) Entra ID
13 44 (15.83%) ITSM
14 43 (15.47%) PowerShell
15 40 (14.39%) SharePoint
16 39 (14.03%) Security Cleared
16 39 (14.03%) TCP/IP
17 38 (13.67%) Migration
18 36 (12.95%) SLA
19 34 (12.23%) Asset Management
19 34 (12.23%) Microsoft Exchange
20 33 (11.87%) Apple
20 33 (11.87%) Degree
21 32 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
21 32 (11.51%) Linux
22 30 (10.79%) OneDrive
22 30 (10.79%) VPN
23 29 (10.43%) Service Management

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 40 (14.39%) SharePoint
2 34 (12.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.80%) MTS
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (6.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 134 (48.20%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (17.99%) Azure
3 44 (15.83%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.79%) OneDrive
5 25 (8.99%) AWS
6 12 (4.32%) SaaS
7 10 (3.60%) GCP
8 5 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.80%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.44%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.44%) Google App Engine
9 4 (1.44%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.44%) Slack
10 3 (1.08%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.08%) IaaS
10 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (16.19%) DNS
2 39 (14.03%) TCP/IP
3 30 (10.79%) VPN
4 26 (9.35%) DHCP
5 18 (6.47%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.12%) Internet
7 12 (4.32%) Firewall
8 8 (2.88%) WAN
9 7 (2.52%) WebEx
10 6 (2.16%) Network Security
11 5 (1.80%) LAN
12 4 (1.44%) BGP
12 4 (1.44%) MPLS
12 4 (1.44%) OSPF
12 4 (1.44%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (1.08%) Multicast
13 3 (1.08%) SMTP
13 3 (1.08%) VLAN
14 2 (0.72%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database
2 4 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.08%) Big Data
3 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.08%) KDB
3 3 (1.08%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (8.63%) JIRA
2 10 (3.60%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 115 (41.37%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.82%) Finance
3 35 (12.59%) Banking
4 30 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.83%) Front Office
7 16 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.68%) Financial Institution
9 12 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.32%) Legal
10 10 (3.60%) Spanish Language
11 8 (2.88%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.80%) Retail
13 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.08%) French Language
15 2 (0.72%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.72%) Local Government
16 1 (0.36%) Billing
16 1 (0.36%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.40%) Terraform
2 7 (2.52%) .NET
3 4 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.72%) HTML
4 2 (0.72%) Kafka
4 2 (0.72%) REST
4 2 (0.72%) RESTful
5 1 (0.36%) CSS
5 1 (0.36%) FpML
5 1 (0.36%) HTML5
5 1 (0.36%) Node.js
5 1 (0.36%) OAuth
5 1 (0.36%) React
5 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.14%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.71%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (6.47%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.60%) iPhone
6 7 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.80%) iPad
9 4 (1.44%) BYOD
10 3 (1.08%) Clustering
10 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.08%) PKI
11 2 (0.72%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.72%) Equities
11 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 194 (69.78%) Windows
2 63 (22.66%) Windows 10
3 53 (19.06%) Mac OS
4 32 (11.51%) Linux
5 25 (8.99%) Apple iOS
6 23 (8.27%) Windows Server
7 21 (7.55%) Android
8 8 (2.88%) Unix
9 7 (2.52%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.44%) Solaris
11 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.72%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.34%) Customer Service
2 67 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.55%) ITIL
4 44 (15.83%) ITSM
5 38 (13.67%) Migration
6 34 (12.23%) Asset Management
7 32 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.43%) Service Management
9 23 (8.27%) User Experience
10 22 (7.91%) DevOps
10 22 (7.91%) Runbook
11 21 (7.55%) CI/CD
11 21 (7.55%) Incident Management
11 21 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (7.19%) Problem Management
13 19 (6.83%) Service Delivery
14 18 (6.47%) High Availability
15 17 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (5.40%) Change Management
17 14 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.47%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.43%) SQL
3 25 (8.99%) Python
4 15 (5.40%) Java
5 11 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.60%) Bash
7 8 (2.88%) C#
8 6 (2.16%) C++
9 5 (1.80%) Tcl
10 3 (1.08%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.87%) Degree
3 22 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) A+ Certification
6 9 (3.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.72%) CCNP
10 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.72%) OCA
10 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ACSP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.95%) SLA
2 2 (0.72%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ITGC
3 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 132 (47.48%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.24%) Docker
4 8 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.72%) vSphere
7 2 (0.72%) zsh
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (16.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (7.91%) SCCM
3 14 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.32%) Ansible
5 8 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.16%) WSUS
7 5 (1.80%) Grafana
7 5 (1.80%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.08%) Nagios
9 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.08%) Puppet
9 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.08%) vMotion
10 2 (0.72%) Kibana
10 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.72%) vRealize
11 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 135 (48.56%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.71%) ServiceNow
3 33 (11.87%) Apple
4 19 (6.83%) Google
5 17 (6.12%) Cisco
5 17 (6.12%) VMware
6 14 (5.04%) Citrix
7 13 (4.68%) Bloomberg
8 11 (3.96%) Oracle
8 11 (3.96%) Samsung
9 8 (2.88%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.52%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.16%) iManage
11 6 (2.16%) Meraki
11 6 (2.16%) Splunk
12 5 (1.80%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.80%) Okta
12 5 (1.80%) Refinitiv
12 5 (1.80%) Symantec
12 5 (1.80%) Tradeweb
191 Support Engineer jobs in London