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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 176 167
Rank change year-on-year -40 -9 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 274 210 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.57% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.69% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 145 184
10th Percentile £173 £163 £150
25th Percentile £200 £200 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £261 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £400 £369 £360
90th Percentile £528 £550 £525
England median daily rate £226 £235 £238
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 7
10th Percentile £19.82 £20.63 £16.70
25th Percentile £22.19 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +4.01% +12.78%
75th Percentile £24.88 £26.00 £28.19
90th Percentile £25.55 £29.60 £41.63
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -12.52% +4.01% +24.00%

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 18,842 12,404 15,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.57% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,171 8,277 9,921
10th Percentile £363 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 207 179
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.64% -21.71% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.60 £48.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £79.00
England median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%

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 10 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 10 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 0 50 £275 +18.28% 29
West London -16 16 £226 -9.80% 3
East London - 4 £180 - 2
North London 0 3 - -
South London -20 2 - - 5
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 188 (68.61%) Windows
2 131 (47.81%) Microsoft
2 131 (47.81%) Microsoft 365
3 122 (44.53%) Active Directory
4 80 (29.20%) Customer Service
5 70 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (20.80%) Windows 10
7 52 (18.98%) Mac OS
8 51 (18.61%) ServiceNow
9 46 (16.79%) ITSM
10 45 (16.42%) DNS
10 45 (16.42%) ITIL
11 42 (15.33%) Azure
11 42 (15.33%) PowerShell
12 41 (14.96%) Security Cleared
13 40 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
14 38 (13.87%) SLA
15 37 (13.50%) Entra ID
15 37 (13.50%) TCP/IP
16 36 (13.14%) Migration
17 35 (12.77%) SharePoint
17 35 (12.77%) VPN
18 33 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (12.04%) Linux
18 33 (12.04%) Microsoft Exchange
19 32 (11.68%) Asset Management
20 31 (11.31%) Apple
20 31 (11.31%) Degree
21 30 (10.95%) Service Management
22 28 (10.22%) 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 35 (12.77%) SharePoint
2 33 (12.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.82%) MTS
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) 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
1 131 (47.81%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (15.33%) Azure
3 37 (13.50%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.22%) OneDrive
5 27 (9.85%) AWS
6 12 (4.38%) SaaS
7 8 (2.92%) GCP
8 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.46%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.46%) Google App Engine
9 4 (1.46%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.46%) Slack
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (16.42%) DNS
2 37 (13.50%) TCP/IP
3 35 (12.77%) VPN
4 26 (9.49%) DHCP
5 18 (6.57%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (6.20%) Internet
7 15 (5.47%) Firewall
8 10 (3.65%) WAN
9 7 (2.55%) LAN
9 7 (2.55%) Network Security
9 7 (2.55%) WebEx
10 6 (2.19%) BGP
10 6 (2.19%) MPLS
10 6 (2.19%) OSPF
10 6 (2.19%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.46%) EIGRP
12 3 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (1.09%) Multicast
12 3 (1.09%) SMTP
12 3 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
2 4 (1.46%) 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%) GIS
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 22 (8.03%) JIRA
2 8 (2.92%) Git
3 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
3 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.36%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 110 (40.15%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.74%) Finance
3 39 (14.23%) Banking
4 30 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.30%) Investment Banking
6 18 (6.57%) Front Office
7 17 (6.20%) Financial Institution
7 17 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.01%) Legal
10 10 (3.65%) Spanish Language
11 9 (3.28%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.46%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.46%) Retail
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) French Language
13 1 (0.36%) Local Government
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.74%) Terraform
2 7 (2.55%) .NET
3 4 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.09%) CSS
4 3 (1.09%) HTML
4 3 (1.09%) React
4 3 (1.09%) REST
5 2 (0.73%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.73%) Kafka
5 2 (0.73%) RESTful
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 (20.80%) Onboarding
2 29 (10.58%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (6.57%) Hedge funds
4 15 (5.47%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.28%) iPhone
6 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.82%) iPad
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.46%) 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%) Equities
11 2 (0.73%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 188 (68.61%) Windows
2 57 (20.80%) Windows 10
3 52 (18.98%) Mac OS
4 33 (12.04%) Linux
5 24 (8.76%) Apple iOS
5 24 (8.76%) Windows Server
6 21 (7.66%) Android
7 8 (2.92%) Unix
8 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.82%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.46%) Solaris
9 4 (1.46%) VMS
9 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.73%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.20%) Customer Service
2 70 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.79%) ITSM
4 45 (16.42%) ITIL
5 36 (13.14%) Migration
6 33 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (11.68%) Asset Management
8 30 (10.95%) Service Management
9 27 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
10 25 (9.12%) Runbook
11 24 (8.76%) User Experience
12 21 (7.66%) Incident Management
13 20 (7.30%) DevOps
14 19 (6.93%) CI/CD
14 19 (6.93%) High Availability
14 19 (6.93%) Service Delivery
14 19 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (6.57%) Problem Management
16 16 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 14 (5.11%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.33%) PowerShell
2 26 (9.49%) Python
3 25 (9.12%) SQL
4 17 (6.20%) Java
5 12 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.65%) Bash
7 6 (2.19%) C#
8 5 (1.82%) C++
8 5 (1.82%) Tcl
9 3 (1.09%) Go
9 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.31%) Degree
3 23 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.11%) A+ Certification
6 9 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.09%) CCNP
9 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
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%) CCIE
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.87%) SLA
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (44.53%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.28%) Docker
3 9 (3.28%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
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 40 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (8.39%) SCCM
3 14 (5.11%) Ansible
3 14 (5.11%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.92%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.19%) Grafana
5 6 (2.19%) WSUS
6 5 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.09%) Puppet
7 3 (1.09%) vMotion
8 2 (0.73%) Kibana
8 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.73%) vRealize
9 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 131 (47.81%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.61%) ServiceNow
3 31 (11.31%) Apple
4 18 (6.57%) Cisco
4 18 (6.57%) VMware
5 17 (6.20%) Citrix
6 16 (5.84%) Google
7 14 (5.11%) Bloomberg
7 14 (5.11%) Oracle
8 10 (3.65%) Samsung
9 9 (3.28%) ION Trading
10 8 (2.92%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.55%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.55%) Splunk
12 6 (2.19%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.82%) MarketAxess
13 5 (1.82%) Remedy
13 5 (1.82%) Sybase
13 5 (1.82%) Symantec
13 5 (1.82%) Tradeweb