Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 169 119
Rank change year-on-year -34 -50 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 217 209 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 1.60% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.71% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 142 271
10th Percentile £186 £175 £140
25th Percentile £190 £208 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £301 £260
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +15.87% -13.33%
75th Percentile £438 £413 £353
90th Percentile £519 £600 £575
England median daily rate £218 £230 £215
% change year-on-year -5.43% +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 £20.41
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +10.69% -19.51%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.24 £22.83
90th Percentile £26.56 £27.14 £47.10
England median hourly rate £22.75 £21.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.91% +8.43% -

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 15,176 12,215 16,982
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.68% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,174 8,211 12,276
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 238 142 337
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.02 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.26 £24.66 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +26.59% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £64.72
England median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%

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 15 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 15 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 -15 30 £203 -35.46% 2
West London -16 10 £280 +16.67% 6
East London +8 9 £200 -18.37% 4
South London -20 1 £425 +30.77% 3
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 98 (45.16%) Windows
2 77 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (32.72%) Microsoft
4 61 (28.11%) Active Directory
5 57 (26.27%) Windows 10
6 46 (21.20%) Azure
7 34 (15.67%) ServiceNow
8 33 (15.21%) SQL
9 32 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.82%) Security Cleared
11 28 (12.90%) ITIL
12 26 (11.98%) SCCM
13 25 (11.52%) Entra ID
13 25 (11.52%) Microsoft Intune
14 24 (11.06%) Mac OS
15 23 (10.60%) PowerShell
15 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
16 22 (10.14%) Customer Service
17 21 (9.68%) DevOps
17 21 (9.68%) DNS
18 20 (9.22%) Apple
19 19 (8.76%) Change Management
19 19 (8.76%) JIRA
19 19 (8.76%) TCP/IP
20 18 (8.29%) User Experience
21 17 (7.83%) DHCP
21 17 (7.83%) ITSM
21 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
22 16 (7.37%) C#
23 15 (6.91%) Azure DevOps

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 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Shopify
2 5 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.46%) Eikon
3 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.48%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (21.20%) Azure
3 25 (11.52%) Entra ID
4 15 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.07%) AWS
6 10 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.76%) Google Workspace
7 6 (2.76%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.30%) SaaS
9 4 (1.84%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.84%) Datadog
10 3 (1.38%) GCP
10 3 (1.38%) PaaS
10 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.92%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.92%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.46%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.68%) DNS
2 19 (8.76%) TCP/IP
3 17 (7.83%) DHCP
4 13 (5.99%) VPN
4 13 (5.99%) Wireless
5 10 (4.61%) Internet
5 10 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (3.23%) LAN
7 6 (2.76%) Firewall
8 5 (2.30%) HTTP
8 5 (2.30%) WAN
9 4 (1.84%) VLAN
10 3 (1.38%) Softphone
11 2 (0.92%) DMZ
11 2 (0.92%) Network Security
11 2 (0.92%) PSTN
11 2 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.46%) NGFW
12 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.23%) SQL Server
1 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.92%) Tableau
4 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.46%) MS Access
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Power BI
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (8.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.92%) Git
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 91 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.89%) Finance
3 33 (15.21%) Banking
4 15 (6.91%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.15%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.23%) Front Office
9 4 (1.84%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) French Language
10 3 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.46%) Law
12 1 (0.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.30%) YAML
2 4 (1.84%) Middleware
2 4 (1.84%) OAuth
2 4 (1.84%) PySpark
2 4 (1.84%) SAML
3 3 (1.38%) .NET
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.92%) EDI
4 2 (0.92%) REST
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.46%) JMS
5 1 (0.46%) Kafka
5 1 (0.46%) Node.js
5 1 (0.46%) RESTful
5 1 (0.46%) Spring
5 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.07%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.76%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.84%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.38%) iPhone
8 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.92%) IoT
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.46%) Equities
9 1 (0.46%) iPad
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (45.16%) Windows
2 57 (26.27%) Windows 10
3 24 (11.06%) Mac OS
4 12 (5.53%) Android
5 9 (4.15%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.69%) Linux
7 7 (3.23%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.30%) Unix
8 5 (2.30%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (12.90%) ITIL
3 22 (10.14%) Customer Service
4 21 (9.68%) DevOps
5 19 (8.76%) Change Management
6 18 (8.29%) User Experience
7 17 (7.83%) ITSM
8 13 (5.99%) Agile
8 13 (5.99%) Migration
9 10 (4.61%) Break/Fix
10 9 (4.15%) CI/CD
10 9 (4.15%) Data Protection
10 9 (4.15%) Problem Management
10 9 (4.15%) Service Management
11 8 (3.69%) Mentoring
11 8 (3.69%) Mobile Device Management
11 8 (3.69%) Zero Trust
12 7 (3.23%) Coaching
12 7 (3.23%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (3.23%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.21%) SQL
2 23 (10.60%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.37%) C#
4 13 (5.99%) Python
5 9 (4.15%) Bash
6 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.38%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.92%) Java
7 2 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.92%) VBA
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.46%) Tcl
8 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.99%) Degree
4 9 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.38%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.38%) CCNA
6 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.46%) MCITP
8 1 (0.46%) MCSA
8 1 (0.46%) MCSE
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.30%) SLA
2 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.92%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) GAAP
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) IFRS
4 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (28.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (11.98%) SCCM
2 25 (11.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.99%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.92%) WMI
5 2 (0.92%) WSUS
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.46%) Ansible
6 1 (0.46%) Autotask
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (32.72%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.67%) ServiceNow
3 20 (9.22%) Apple
4 13 (5.99%) Dell
5 12 (5.53%) Cisco
5 12 (5.53%) HP
6 9 (4.15%) Bloomberg
6 9 (4.15%) Citrix
7 7 (3.23%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.30%) Databricks
8 5 (2.30%) Google
8 5 (2.30%) Okta
8 5 (2.30%) Remedy
8 5 (2.30%) Reuters
8 5 (2.30%) VMware
9 4 (1.84%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.84%) Netskope
10 3 (1.38%) IBM
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle
10 3 (1.38%) SAP