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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 185 122
Rank change year-on-year 0 -63 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 203 192 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.39% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.49% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 136 282
10th Percentile £178 £165 £143
25th Percentile £190 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £285 £275
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £425 £400 £400
90th Percentile £519 £600 £631
England median daily rate £220 £230 £225
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £19.64 £17.14 £18.51
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.21 £24.18 £20.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.72% -17.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.41 £23.07
90th Percentile - £47.36 £24.97
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.86% +10.45% +2.56%

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 13,448 12,904 17,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.56% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,933 8,274 12,424
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £778
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 140 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £19.05
Median hourly rate £33.73 £35.00 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +18.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.50 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.98
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 31 £201 -23.33% 7
West London -13 13 £293 +21.88% 3
East London +2 4 £200 -18.37% 2
South London -9 1 £175 -46.15% 2
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 26 January 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 94 (46.31%) Windows
2 74 (36.45%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (35.47%) Microsoft
4 51 (25.12%) Windows 10
5 44 (21.67%) Active Directory
6 32 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (14.78%) Customer Service
7 30 (14.78%) Security Cleared
8 29 (14.29%) Azure
9 28 (13.79%) SCCM
10 27 (13.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (13.30%) ServiceNow
11 26 (12.81%) ITIL
11 26 (12.81%) SC Cleared
12 24 (11.82%) Mac OS
12 24 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
13 22 (10.84%) Apple
14 20 (9.85%) ITSM
15 17 (8.37%) SQL
15 17 (8.37%) VPN
16 16 (7.88%) PowerShell
16 16 (7.88%) TCP/IP
17 14 (6.90%) Cisco
17 14 (6.90%) Degree
17 14 (6.90%) Entra ID
17 14 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
17 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
17 14 (6.90%) Wireless
18 13 (6.40%) Android
18 13 (6.40%) Linux

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 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.49%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.49%) Pro Tools
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (2.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.45%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (14.29%) Azure
3 14 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.93%) AWS
5 9 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.96%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.46%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.97%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.99%) Datadog
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.99%) SaaS
9 2 (0.99%) Slack
9 2 (0.99%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.49%) GitHub
10 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.37%) VPN
2 16 (7.88%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.90%) Wireless
4 11 (5.42%) DHCP
4 11 (5.42%) DNS
5 10 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (4.43%) Firewall
7 6 (2.96%) LAN
8 5 (2.46%) Internet
9 4 (1.97%) VLAN
9 4 (1.97%) WAN
10 3 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.48%) Softphone
10 3 (1.48%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.99%) DMZ
11 2 (0.99%) Network Security
11 2 (0.99%) SSH
12 1 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.49%) NAS
12 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.99%) Tableau
5 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Git
2 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.49%) Fiddler
General
1 84 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.17%) Finance
3 35 (17.24%) Banking
4 15 (7.39%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.40%) Front Office
6 12 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.46%) French Language
9 5 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.97%) Law
10 4 (1.97%) Legal
11 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.49%) Electronics
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.45%) Middleware
2 5 (2.46%) YAML
3 4 (1.97%) PySpark
4 2 (0.99%) .NET
4 2 (0.99%) EDI
4 2 (0.99%) Kafka
4 2 (0.99%) REST
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.49%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.49%) JMS
5 1 (0.49%) JSON
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.49%) OAuth
5 1 (0.49%) RSS
5 1 (0.49%) Spring
5 1 (0.49%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.49%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (0.49%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.42%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.42%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.96%) Driving Licence
2 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
4 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.48%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.99%) CCTV
6 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.99%) iPhone
6 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Replication
6 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.49%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.49%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.31%) Windows
2 51 (25.12%) Windows 10
3 24 (11.82%) Mac OS
4 13 (6.40%) Android
4 13 (6.40%) Linux
5 10 (4.93%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.43%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.45%) Unix
8 5 (2.46%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (14.78%) Customer Service
3 26 (12.81%) ITIL
4 20 (9.85%) ITSM
5 13 (6.40%) Mobile Device Management
5 13 (6.40%) User Experience
6 11 (5.42%) Migration
7 10 (4.93%) Agile
7 10 (4.93%) Asset Management
7 10 (4.93%) Incident Management
8 9 (4.43%) DevOps
9 8 (3.94%) Break/Fix
9 8 (3.94%) CI/CD
9 8 (3.94%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (3.94%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (3.94%) Data Protection
9 8 (3.94%) Mentoring
9 8 (3.94%) Service Management
9 8 (3.94%) Zero Trust
10 7 (3.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.37%) SQL
2 16 (7.88%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.42%) Python
4 7 (3.45%) Bash
5 2 (0.99%) C#
5 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.49%) Java
6 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.49%) Tcl
6 1 (0.49%) VBA
6 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.90%) Degree
4 7 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.97%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.99%) CCNA
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.99%) MCP
7 2 (0.99%) MCSA
7 2 (0.99%) MCSE
8 1 (0.49%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.49%) MCITP
8 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.97%) SLA
2 3 (1.48%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.49%) GAAP
3 1 (0.49%) IFRS
3 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Docker
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.49%) vSphere
5 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (13.79%) SCCM
2 27 (13.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.48%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.99%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.99%) Terraform
6 2 (0.99%) WSUS
7 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.49%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) logstash
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (35.47%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.30%) ServiceNow
3 22 (10.84%) Apple
4 14 (6.90%) Cisco
5 12 (5.91%) Dell
5 12 (5.91%) HP
6 10 (4.93%) Bloomberg
6 10 (4.93%) Citrix
7 7 (3.45%) Remedy
8 6 (2.96%) VMware
9 5 (2.46%) Databricks
9 5 (2.46%) Solace
10 4 (1.97%) Google
10 4 (1.97%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.97%) Reuters
10 4 (1.97%) SAP
11 3 (1.48%) Okta
11 3 (1.48%) Oracle
11 3 (1.48%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.99%) PagerDuty