Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 171 165
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 275 209 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.56% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.68% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 152 189
10th Percentile £173 £163 £150
25th Percentile £200 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £397 £375 £350
90th Percentile £500 £538 £525
England median daily rate £225 £235 £235
% change year-on-year -4.26% - -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £23.65 £18.83 £17.77
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £18.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.57% +16.09%
75th Percentile £26.25 £28.00 £28.78
90th Percentile £26.70 £30.05 £57.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.58 £24.18
% change year-on-year -12.02% +5.77% +26.46%

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 18,829 12,455 15,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.73% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,346 10,175
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 +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 205 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.73 £74.69
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

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 16 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 16 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 -7 50 £275 +4.76% 17
West London -22 17 £226 -9.80% 2
East London - 4 £180 - 2
North London +2 3 - -
South London -10 3 £425 +78.95%
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 192 (69.82%) Windows
2 136 (49.45%) Microsoft
3 135 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (48.36%) Active Directory
5 75 (27.27%) Customer Service
6 66 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (23.27%) Windows 10
8 53 (19.27%) Mac OS
9 52 (18.91%) ServiceNow
10 49 (17.82%) Azure
11 46 (16.73%) ITIL
11 46 (16.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 45 (16.36%) DNS
13 44 (16.00%) Entra ID
14 43 (15.64%) ITSM
14 43 (15.64%) PowerShell
15 41 (14.91%) SharePoint
16 40 (14.55%) TCP/IP
17 39 (14.18%) Security Cleared
18 37 (13.45%) Migration
19 35 (12.73%) SLA
20 34 (12.36%) Asset Management
20 34 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
21 33 (12.00%) Apple
21 33 (12.00%) Degree
22 32 (11.64%) Linux
23 31 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
24 30 (10.91%) OneDrive
24 30 (10.91%) VPN
25 29 (10.55%) 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 41 (14.91%) SharePoint
2 34 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.82%) MTS
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) 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
1 135 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (17.82%) Azure
3 44 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.91%) OneDrive
5 24 (8.73%) AWS
6 12 (4.36%) SaaS
7 10 (3.64%) GCP
8 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.82%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.45%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.45%) Google App Engine
9 4 (1.45%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.45%) Slack
10 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.09%) IaaS
10 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (16.36%) DNS
2 40 (14.55%) TCP/IP
3 30 (10.91%) VPN
4 26 (9.45%) DHCP
5 19 (6.91%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.18%) Internet
7 11 (4.00%) Firewall
8 8 (2.91%) WAN
9 7 (2.55%) WebEx
10 6 (2.18%) Network Security
11 5 (1.82%) LAN
12 3 (1.09%) BGP
12 3 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (1.09%) MPLS
12 3 (1.09%) Multicast
12 3 (1.09%) OSPF
12 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.09%) SMTP
12 3 (1.09%) VLAN
13 2 (0.73%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
2 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.09%) Big Data
3 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.09%) KDB
3 3 (1.09%) 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 (8.73%) JIRA
2 10 (3.64%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.36%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 115 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 67 (24.36%) Finance
3 33 (12.00%) Banking
4 30 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.64%) Investment Banking
6 17 (6.18%) Front Office
7 16 (5.82%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.36%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (4.36%) Legal
9 10 (3.64%) Spanish Language
10 8 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.82%) Retail
12 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.09%) French Language
14 2 (0.73%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.73%) Local Government
15 1 (0.36%) Billing
15 1 (0.36%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.45%) Terraform
2 7 (2.55%) .NET
3 4 (1.45%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.73%) HTML
4 2 (0.73%) Kafka
4 2 (0.73%) REST
4 2 (0.73%) 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 55 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.82%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (6.55%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.64%) iPhone
6 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.82%) iPad
9 4 (1.45%) BYOD
10 3 (1.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) PKI
11 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.73%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.73%) Equities
11 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 192 (69.82%) Windows
2 64 (23.27%) Windows 10
3 53 (19.27%) Mac OS
4 32 (11.64%) Linux
5 26 (9.45%) Apple iOS
6 23 (8.36%) Windows Server
7 22 (8.00%) Android
8 8 (2.91%) Unix
9 7 (2.55%) Windows 7
10 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.45%) Solaris
11 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.73%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.73%) VMS
12 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 66 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.73%) ITIL
4 43 (15.64%) ITSM
5 37 (13.45%) Migration
6 34 (12.36%) Asset Management
7 31 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.55%) Service Management
9 22 (8.00%) DevOps
9 22 (8.00%) User Experience
10 21 (7.64%) CI/CD
10 21 (7.64%) Runbook
11 20 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (6.91%) Incident Management
12 19 (6.91%) Problem Management
12 19 (6.91%) Service Delivery
13 17 (6.18%) High Availability
14 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (4.73%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.64%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.55%) SQL
3 24 (8.73%) Python
4 15 (5.45%) Java
5 11 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.64%) Bash
7 8 (2.91%) C#
8 6 (2.18%) C++
9 5 (1.82%) Tcl
10 3 (1.09%) Go
10 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.00%) Degree
3 22 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.55%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.09%) A+ Certification
6 9 (3.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) CCNP
10 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.73%) OCA
10 2 (0.73%) 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 35 (12.73%) SLA
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ITGC
System Software
1 133 (48.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.27%) Docker
4 8 (2.91%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.73%) vSphere
7 2 (0.73%) zsh
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (16.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (7.64%) SCCM
3 14 (5.09%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.00%) Ansible
5 8 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.18%) WSUS
7 5 (1.82%) Grafana
7 5 (1.82%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.09%) Nagios
9 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.09%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.09%) vMotion
10 2 (0.73%) Kibana
10 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.73%) vRealize
11 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 136 (49.45%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.91%) ServiceNow
3 33 (12.00%) Apple
4 19 (6.91%) Google
5 17 (6.18%) VMware
6 16 (5.82%) Cisco
7 13 (4.73%) Citrix
8 11 (4.00%) Bloomberg
8 11 (4.00%) Oracle
8 11 (4.00%) Samsung
9 8 (2.91%) ION Trading
10 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.18%) iManage
11 6 (2.18%) Meraki
11 6 (2.18%) Splunk
12 5 (1.82%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.82%) Okta
12 5 (1.82%) Remedy
12 5 (1.82%) Symantec
12 5 (1.82%) Tradeweb