Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £261, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 176 113
Rank change year-on-year -16 -63 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 202 191 378
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.40% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.49% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 133 280
10th Percentile £181 £165 £142
25th Percentile £193 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £261 £275 £270
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £428 £400 £396
90th Percentile £519 £600 £631
England median daily rate £220 £240 £220
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 16
10th Percentile £19.66 £17.14 £18.63
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.11 £24.18 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +12.56% -14.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.41 £23.02
90th Percentile £25.46 £47.36 £24.77
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £20.25
% change year-on-year +1.86% +9.09% +2.53%

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 13,582 12,805 17,342
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.64% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,020 8,170 12,542
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £778
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 139 338
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.66 £19.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.27% -17.03%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £49.68
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.64% +2.71%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -8 29 £201 -23.33% 17
West London -20 13 £293 +21.88% 3
East London +1 4 £200 -18.37% 4
South London -8 1 £175 -46.15% 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 2 February 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 92 (45.54%) Windows
2 76 (37.62%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (35.64%) Microsoft
4 51 (25.25%) Windows 10
5 41 (20.30%) Active Directory
6 31 (15.35%) Security Cleared
7 30 (14.85%) Azure
7 30 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (13.86%) Customer Service
8 28 (13.86%) SCCM
8 28 (13.86%) ServiceNow
9 27 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (12.87%) ITIL
10 26 (12.87%) SC Cleared
11 23 (11.39%) Microsoft Office
12 22 (10.89%) Mac OS
13 20 (9.90%) Apple
14 19 (9.41%) ITSM
14 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
14 19 (9.41%) SQL
15 17 (8.42%) VPN
16 15 (7.43%) Degree
16 15 (7.43%) Entra ID
16 15 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
16 15 (7.43%) TCP/IP
17 14 (6.93%) Cisco
17 14 (6.93%) Wireless
18 13 (6.44%) Android
18 13 (6.44%) Jamf Pro
18 13 (6.44%) Mobile Device 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 15 (7.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (11.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.50%) Pro Tools
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (2.97%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.50%) Eikon
2 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 76 (37.62%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (14.85%) Azure
3 15 (7.43%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.95%) AWS
5 9 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.96%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.48%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.98%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.98%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.99%) Datadog
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.99%) PaaS
10 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.99%) Slack
10 2 (0.99%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.42%) VPN
2 15 (7.43%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.93%) Wireless
4 12 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (5.45%) DHCP
5 11 (5.45%) DNS
6 9 (4.46%) Firewall
7 8 (3.96%) LAN
8 6 (2.97%) WAN
9 5 (2.48%) Internet
10 4 (1.98%) VLAN
11 3 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.49%) Softphone
11 3 (1.49%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.99%) DMZ
12 2 (0.99%) Network Security
12 2 (0.99%) PSTN
12 2 (0.99%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.50%) MPLS
13 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.99%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 82 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.28%) Finance
3 34 (16.83%) Banking
4 15 (7.43%) Investment Banking
5 12 (5.94%) Front Office
5 12 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.48%) French Language
8 5 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.98%) Law
9 4 (1.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Electronics
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.97%) Middleware
2 5 (2.48%) YAML
3 4 (1.98%) PySpark
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.99%) .NET
5 2 (0.99%) EDI
5 2 (0.99%) REST
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.50%) JMS
6 1 (0.50%) JSON
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) OAuth
6 1 (0.50%) RSS
6 1 (0.50%) Spring
6 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.50%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.45%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (2.97%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.49%) 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%) IoT
6 2 (0.99%) iPhone
6 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 92 (45.54%) Windows
2 51 (25.25%) Windows 10
3 22 (10.89%) Mac OS
4 13 (6.44%) Android
5 12 (5.94%) Linux
6 9 (4.46%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.96%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.97%) Unix
9 5 (2.48%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.86%) Customer Service
3 26 (12.87%) ITIL
4 19 (9.41%) ITSM
5 13 (6.44%) Mobile Device Management
5 13 (6.44%) User Experience
6 12 (5.94%) Agile
7 11 (5.45%) Migration
8 10 (4.95%) Asset Management
8 10 (4.95%) DevOps
8 10 (4.95%) Incident Management
9 9 (4.46%) Mentoring
9 9 (4.46%) Service Management
10 8 (3.96%) Break/Fix
10 8 (3.96%) CI/CD
10 8 (3.96%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (3.96%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (3.96%) Data Protection
10 8 (3.96%) Zero Trust
11 7 (3.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.41%) PowerShell
1 19 (9.41%) SQL
2 13 (6.44%) Python
3 7 (3.47%) Bash
4 3 (1.49%) C#
5 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.50%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.50%) Tcl
6 1 (0.50%) VBA
6 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.43%) Degree
4 8 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.98%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.99%) CCNA
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.99%) MCSA
8 2 (0.99%) MCSE
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.50%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.50%) MCITP
9 1 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.98%) SLA
2 3 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.50%) GAAP
3 1 (0.50%) IFRS
3 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (20.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Docker
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (13.86%) SCCM
2 27 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (6.44%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.98%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.99%) Terraform
6 2 (0.99%) WSUS
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) logstash
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (35.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.86%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.90%) Apple
4 14 (6.93%) Cisco
5 12 (5.94%) Dell
5 12 (5.94%) HP
6 10 (4.95%) Bloomberg
6 10 (4.95%) Citrix
7 7 (3.47%) Remedy
8 6 (2.97%) VMware
9 5 (2.48%) Databricks
10 4 (1.98%) Google
10 4 (1.98%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.98%) SAP
10 4 (1.98%) Solace
11 3 (1.49%) Okta
11 3 (1.49%) Oracle
11 3 (1.49%) Reuters
11 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.99%) New Relic