Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £263, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 170 118
Rank change year-on-year -32 -52 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 209 195 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 1.47% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.57% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 133 274
10th Percentile £181 £176 £140
25th Percentile £190 £206 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £300 £264
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.74% -11.34%
75th Percentile £420 £413 £355
90th Percentile £519 £600 £601
England median daily rate £213 £230 £215
% change year-on-year -7.61% +6.98% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 18
10th Percentile £18.95 £18.99 £17.71
25th Percentile £21.46 £20.28 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.21 £22.59 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +5.16% -14.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.24 £23.07
90th Percentile £26.56 £27.14 £47.10
England median hourly rate £23.29 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.42% +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 14,583 12,403 17,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.60% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,778 8,134 12,341
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 142 339
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.99
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.31 £48.03
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £65.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year - +2.31% -15.53%

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 March 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 March 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 -10 30 £201 -35.86% 8
West London -23 9 £285 +18.75% 9
East London +9 8 £200 -18.37% 3
North London - 1 £510 - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 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 96 (45.93%) Windows
2 78 (37.32%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (33.97%) Microsoft
4 54 (25.84%) Windows 10
5 52 (24.88%) Active Directory
6 37 (17.70%) Azure
7 33 (15.79%) ServiceNow
8 31 (14.83%) Security Cleared
9 29 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (13.40%) ITIL
10 28 (13.40%) SQL
11 27 (12.92%) SCCM
12 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
13 24 (11.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (11.00%) Mac OS
15 22 (10.53%) Customer Service
16 20 (9.57%) Apple
16 20 (9.57%) PowerShell
17 19 (9.09%) Entra ID
17 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
18 18 (8.61%) DevOps
19 17 (8.13%) ITSM
20 16 (7.66%) DHCP
20 16 (7.66%) DNS
20 16 (7.66%) JIRA
21 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
21 15 (7.18%) User Experience
21 15 (7.18%) VPN
22 14 (6.70%) Change Management
22 14 (6.70%) Degree

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 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Shopify
2 5 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.48%) Eikon
3 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.32%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (17.70%) Azure
3 19 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.83%) AWS
7 7 (3.35%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.87%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.91%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.91%) SaaS
11 2 (0.96%) Datadog
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.96%) PaaS
11 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.48%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.66%) DHCP
1 16 (7.66%) DNS
2 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.18%) VPN
3 13 (6.22%) Wireless
4 12 (5.74%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (4.31%) Internet
6 8 (3.83%) Firewall
7 7 (3.35%) LAN
8 5 (2.39%) WAN
9 4 (1.91%) VLAN
10 3 (1.44%) Softphone
11 2 (0.96%) DMZ
11 2 (0.96%) Network Security
11 2 (0.96%) PSTN
11 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.96%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.48%) NGFW
12 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.96%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (7.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.14%) Finance
3 36 (17.22%) Banking
4 16 (7.66%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.83%) Front Office
7 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.91%) French Language
9 3 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.87%) Middleware
2 5 (2.39%) YAML
3 4 (1.91%) PySpark
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.96%) .NET
5 2 (0.96%) EDI
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.48%) JMS
6 1 (0.48%) Kafka
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) Spring
6 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.74%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.87%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.91%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.96%) IoT
7 2 (0.96%) iPhone
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.48%) CCTV
8 1 (0.48%) Equities
8 1 (0.48%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 96 (45.93%) Windows
2 54 (25.84%) Windows 10
3 23 (11.00%) Mac OS
4 12 (5.74%) Android
5 9 (4.31%) Linux
6 8 (3.83%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.35%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.87%) Unix
9 5 (2.39%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.40%) ITIL
3 22 (10.53%) Customer Service
4 18 (8.61%) DevOps
5 17 (8.13%) ITSM
6 15 (7.18%) User Experience
7 14 (6.70%) Change Management
8 13 (6.22%) Agile
9 12 (5.74%) Migration
10 10 (4.78%) Break/Fix
10 10 (4.78%) Mobile Device Management
11 9 (4.31%) Data Protection
11 9 (4.31%) Service Management
12 8 (3.83%) Asset Management
12 8 (3.83%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (3.83%) Incident Management
12 8 (3.83%) Mentoring
12 8 (3.83%) Zero Trust
13 7 (3.35%) CI/CD
13 7 (3.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.40%) SQL
2 20 (9.57%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.22%) C#
4 12 (5.74%) Python
5 6 (2.87%) Bash
6 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.96%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.48%) Java
7 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.48%) Tcl
7 1 (0.48%) VBA
7 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.70%) Degree
4 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.87%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.91%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.96%) CCNA
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.48%) MCITP
9 1 (0.48%) MCSA
9 1 (0.48%) MCSE
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.87%) SLA
2 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.96%) QA
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) GAAP
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS
4 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (24.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.91%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) SCCM
2 24 (11.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (6.22%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.96%) WSUS
6 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Autotask
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Terraform
6 1 (0.48%) WMI
Vendors
1 71 (33.97%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.57%) Apple
4 13 (6.22%) Dell
5 12 (5.74%) Cisco
5 12 (5.74%) HP
6 9 (4.31%) Bloomberg
6 9 (4.31%) Citrix
7 6 (2.87%) Remedy
8 5 (2.39%) Databricks
8 5 (2.39%) Google
8 5 (2.39%) VMware
9 4 (1.91%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.91%) Okta
9 4 (1.91%) Reuters
10 3 (1.44%) IBM
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) Solace
10 3 (1.44%) Zscaler