Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £255, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 170 137
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 245 223 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.64% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.76% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 158 229
10th Percentile £175 £163 £142
25th Percentile £193 £204 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £250 £270
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% -22.86%
75th Percentile £400 £413 £350
90th Percentile £469 £483 £545
England median daily rate £225 £235 £225
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 12
10th Percentile £18.07 £17.19 £16.44
25th Percentile £19.43 £23.03 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £20.41
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +27.40% -13.16%
75th Percentile £26.75 £28.50 £27.59
90th Percentile £27.38 £30.08 £54.69
England median hourly rate £23.00 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +15.79%

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 18,752 12,672 15,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.93% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,269 8,586 10,953
10th Percentile £363 £326 £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 £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 201 213
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -14.48%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -2 45 £229 -23.75% 6
West London -18 14 £232 -7.40% 3
East London - 8 £200 - 2
South London -20 2 £425 +69.83% 2
North London - 2 - - 2
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 163 (66.53%) Windows
2 128 (52.24%) Active Directory
3 108 (44.08%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (43.27%) Microsoft
5 59 (24.08%) Windows 10
6 57 (23.27%) Azure
7 55 (22.45%) ServiceNow
8 52 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (18.37%) Entra ID
10 44 (17.96%) Customer Service
11 43 (17.55%) DNS
12 41 (16.73%) Mac OS
13 39 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
14 38 (15.51%) ITIL
15 35 (14.29%) PowerShell
16 31 (12.65%) SQL
16 31 (12.65%) TCP/IP
17 30 (12.24%) JIRA
18 29 (11.84%) Migration
19 27 (11.02%) Asset Management
20 26 (10.61%) Apple
20 26 (10.61%) Degree
20 26 (10.61%) DevOps
20 26 (10.61%) DHCP
21 25 (10.20%) Change Management
22 23 (9.39%) Security Cleared
22 23 (9.39%) SharePoint
23 22 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
23 22 (8.98%) ITSM
23 22 (8.98%) SLA

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 23 (9.39%) SharePoint
2 21 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 14 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 108 (44.08%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (23.27%) Azure
3 45 (18.37%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.53%) AWS
6 14 (5.71%) OneDrive
7 12 (4.90%) GCP
8 10 (4.08%) SaaS
9 4 (1.63%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.63%) PaaS
10 3 (1.22%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (1.22%) Google App Engine
10 3 (1.22%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.22%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.22%) IaaS
10 3 (1.22%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 43 (17.55%) DNS
2 31 (12.65%) TCP/IP
3 26 (10.61%) DHCP
4 19 (7.76%) VPN
5 17 (6.94%) Internet
6 13 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.27%) Firewall
8 5 (2.04%) HTTP
9 4 (1.63%) WebEx
10 3 (1.22%) LAN
10 3 (1.22%) Network Security
10 3 (1.22%) SMTP
10 3 (1.22%) WAN
11 2 (0.82%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.82%) VLAN
11 2 (0.82%) VSAN
12 1 (0.41%) Multicast
12 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.41%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.22%) Big Data
3 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.82%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.41%) KDB
5 1 (0.41%) MS Access
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.24%) JIRA
2 8 (3.27%) Git
3 4 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 105 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.86%) Finance
3 31 (12.65%) Banking
4 27 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.94%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.08%) Front Office
8 9 (3.67%) Spanish Language
9 8 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.27%) Legal
10 6 (2.45%) Retail
11 4 (1.63%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) French Language
12 3 (1.22%) Local Government
13 2 (0.82%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.45%) .NET
2 5 (2.04%) SAML
3 4 (1.63%) OAuth
4 3 (1.22%) REST
4 3 (1.22%) RESTful
5 1 (0.41%) HTML
5 1 (0.41%) HTML5
5 1 (0.41%) Kafka
5 1 (0.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.16%) Video Conferencing
3 14 (5.71%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.49%) iPhone
4 11 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.45%) iPad
6 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.63%) BYOD
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.22%) Clustering
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.22%) PKI
9 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 163 (66.53%) Windows
2 59 (24.08%) Windows 10
3 41 (16.73%) Mac OS
4 20 (8.16%) Linux
5 18 (7.35%) Windows Server
6 13 (5.31%) Apple iOS
7 10 (4.08%) Android
8 8 (3.27%) Windows 7
9 7 (2.86%) Unix
10 5 (2.04%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.63%) Solaris
11 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.41%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.41%) VMS
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (17.96%) Customer Service
3 38 (15.51%) ITIL
4 29 (11.84%) Migration
5 27 (11.02%) Asset Management
6 26 (10.61%) DevOps
7 25 (10.20%) Change Management
8 22 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.98%) ITSM
9 19 (7.76%) Runbook
9 19 (7.76%) Service Delivery
9 19 (7.76%) User Experience
10 18 (7.35%) Problem Management
11 16 (6.53%) Service Management
12 14 (5.71%) CI/CD
13 13 (5.31%) Incident Management
14 12 (4.90%) High Availability
14 12 (4.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (4.49%) Agile
16 10 (4.08%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 31 (12.65%) SQL
3 18 (7.35%) C#
4 11 (4.49%) Python
5 9 (3.67%) Bash
6 8 (3.27%) Java
7 6 (2.45%) C++
8 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) Go
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (10.61%) Degree
2 23 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.31%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.90%) A+ Certification
5 10 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) CCNA
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.98%) SLA
2 2 (0.82%) GDPR
2 2 (0.82%) QA
3 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (52.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.63%) Docker
6 3 (1.22%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.22%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.82%) vSphere
7 2 (0.82%) zsh
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (15.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.76%) SCCM
3 8 (3.27%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.86%) Terraform
5 6 (2.45%) Ansible
5 6 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.04%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.22%) Grafana
7 3 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.22%) Nagios
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
7 3 (1.22%) vMotion
8 2 (0.82%) Kibana
8 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.82%) vRealize
8 2 (0.82%) WMI
8 2 (0.82%) WSUS
9 1 (0.41%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.41%) Autotask
Vendors
1 106 (43.27%) Microsoft
2 55 (22.45%) ServiceNow
3 26 (10.61%) Apple
4 17 (6.94%) Google
5 15 (6.12%) VMware
6 12 (4.90%) Citrix
7 7 (2.86%) Cisco
7 7 (2.86%) HP
7 7 (2.86%) Okta
8 6 (2.45%) iManage
8 6 (2.45%) Samsung
9 5 (2.04%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.04%) Meraki
9 5 (2.04%) Oracle
9 5 (2.04%) Remedy
10 4 (1.63%) Netskope
10 4 (1.63%) Splunk
10 4 (1.63%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.22%) Reuters
55 Support Engineer jobs in London