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 4 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 169 173
Rank change year-on-year -40 +4 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 278 210 251
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.56% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.68% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 145 185
10th Percentile £173 £163 £151
25th Percentile £200 £200 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £261 £250 £295
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -15.25% -15.71%
75th Percentile £400 £375 £360
90th Percentile £519 £545 £533
England median daily rate £225 £235 £240
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile £19.82 £20.63 £17.06
25th Percentile £22.19 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £25.22
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -0.26% +30.11%
75th Percentile £24.88 £26.00 £36.41
90th Percentile £25.55 £29.60 £58.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -12.52% +4.01% +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 18,867 12,514 15,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.70% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,183 8,360 9,987
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 206 177
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £24.15
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -22.91% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.25 £50.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +7 51 £275 +18.28% 25
West London -21 17 £226 -9.80% 3
East London - 4 £180 - 2
North London +2 3 - -
South London -11 2 - - 6
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 191 (68.71%) Windows
2 135 (48.56%) Microsoft
3 133 (47.84%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (45.32%) Active Directory
5 80 (28.78%) Customer Service
6 69 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (21.22%) Windows 10
8 53 (19.06%) Mac OS
9 52 (18.71%) ServiceNow
10 47 (16.91%) Azure
10 47 (16.91%) ITIL
11 46 (16.55%) DNS
12 45 (16.19%) ITSM
13 43 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
13 43 (15.47%) PowerShell
14 40 (14.39%) Entra ID
14 40 (14.39%) Security Cleared
15 38 (13.67%) SLA
16 37 (13.31%) TCP/IP
17 36 (12.95%) Migration
17 36 (12.95%) SharePoint
18 34 (12.23%) Asset Management
18 34 (12.23%) VPN
19 33 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 33 (11.87%) Microsoft Exchange
20 32 (11.51%) Apple
20 32 (11.51%) Degree
20 32 (11.51%) Linux
21 29 (10.43%) Service Management
22 28 (10.07%) OneDrive

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 36 (12.95%) SharePoint
2 33 (11.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.80%) MTS
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 18 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.36%) Windchill
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
1 133 (47.84%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (16.91%) Azure
3 40 (14.39%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.07%) OneDrive
5 27 (9.71%) AWS
6 12 (4.32%) SaaS
7 10 (3.60%) GCP
8 5 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.80%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.80%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
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%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.55%) DNS
2 37 (13.31%) TCP/IP
3 34 (12.23%) VPN
4 26 (9.35%) DHCP
5 18 (6.47%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.12%) Internet
7 15 (5.40%) Firewall
8 10 (3.60%) WAN
9 7 (2.52%) LAN
9 7 (2.52%) Network Security
9 7 (2.52%) WebEx
10 6 (2.16%) BGP
10 6 (2.16%) MPLS
10 6 (2.16%) OSPF
10 6 (2.16%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.44%) EIGRP
12 3 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (1.08%) Multicast
12 3 (1.08%) SMTP
13 2 (0.72%) Unified Communications
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 23 (8.27%) JIRA
2 9 (3.24%) Git
3 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.36%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 111 (39.93%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.34%) Finance
3 39 (14.03%) Banking
4 30 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.83%) Front Office
7 17 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (5.76%) 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 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.44%) Retail
13 2 (0.72%) French Language
14 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
14 1 (0.36%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.40%) Terraform
2 6 (2.16%) .NET
3 4 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.08%) REST
5 2 (0.72%) CSS
5 2 (0.72%) HTML
5 2 (0.72%) Kafka
5 2 (0.72%) React
5 2 (0.72%) RESTful
6 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.36%) FpML
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) JSP
6 1 (0.36%) Node.js
6 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.50%) Onboarding
2 28 (10.07%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (6.47%) Hedge funds
4 15 (5.40%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.24%) 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
9 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
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%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.72%) Equities
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 191 (68.71%) Windows
2 59 (21.22%) Windows 10
3 53 (19.06%) Mac OS
4 32 (11.51%) Linux
5 24 (8.63%) Apple iOS
6 23 (8.27%) Windows Server
7 21 (7.55%) Android
8 8 (2.88%) Unix
9 6 (2.16%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.44%) Solaris
11 4 (1.44%) VMS
11 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.72%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.78%) Customer Service
2 69 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (16.91%) ITIL
4 45 (16.19%) ITSM
5 36 (12.95%) Migration
6 34 (12.23%) Asset Management
7 33 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.43%) Service Management
9 25 (8.99%) Root Cause Analysis
9 25 (8.99%) Runbook
10 24 (8.63%) User Experience
11 21 (7.55%) CI/CD
11 21 (7.55%) DevOps
11 21 (7.55%) Incident Management
12 19 (6.83%) High Availability
12 19 (6.83%) Problem Management
12 19 (6.83%) Service Delivery
12 19 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.47%) PowerShell
2 27 (9.71%) SQL
3 25 (8.99%) Python
4 16 (5.76%) Java
5 11 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.24%) Bash
7 7 (2.52%) C#
8 5 (1.80%) C++
8 5 (1.80%) Tcl
9 3 (1.08%) Go
9 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.51%) Degree
3 23 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) A+ Certification
6 9 (3.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.08%) CCNP
9 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
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%) CCIE
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.67%) 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
1 126 (45.32%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.24%) Docker
3 9 (3.24%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
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 43 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (8.27%) SCCM
3 14 (5.04%) Ansible
3 14 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.16%) WSUS
6 5 (1.80%) Grafana
6 5 (1.80%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.08%) Puppet
8 3 (1.08%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) Kibana
9 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.72%) vRealize
10 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 135 (48.56%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.71%) ServiceNow
3 32 (11.51%) Apple
4 20 (7.19%) Cisco
5 18 (6.47%) Google
5 18 (6.47%) VMware
6 17 (6.12%) Citrix
7 14 (5.04%) Bloomberg
8 12 (4.32%) Oracle
9 11 (3.96%) Samsung
10 8 (2.88%) ION Trading
11 7 (2.52%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.52%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.16%) Fortinet
12 6 (2.16%) iManage
12 6 (2.16%) Meraki
12 6 (2.16%) Splunk
13 5 (1.80%) MarketAxess
13 5 (1.80%) Sybase
13 5 (1.80%) Tradeweb
312 Support Engineer jobs in London