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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 157 123
Rank change year-on-year -54 -34 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 208 217 353
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.72% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.84% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 148 266
10th Percentile £185 £179 £140
25th Percentile £190 £207 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £308 £260
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +18.27% -13.33%
75th Percentile £415 £413 £350
90th Percentile £500 £566 £575
England median daily rate £210 £240 £215
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 19
10th Percentile £18.51 £19.28 £18.39
25th Percentile £20.02 £21.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £21.46 £24.18 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +16.17% -17.91%
75th Percentile £25.33 £24.66 £22.65
90th Percentile £27.53 £26.91 £39.83
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.86% +10.45% -

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 15,597 11,820 16,837
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,451 8,096 12,160
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 150 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.00 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%

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 31 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 31 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 -27 28 £203 -37.69% 11
East London +8 9 £200 -18.37% 5
West London -24 8 £319 +32.81% 8
South London -21 2 £425 +30.77% 3
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 99 (47.60%) Windows
2 78 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (33.65%) Microsoft
4 67 (32.21%) Active Directory
5 59 (28.37%) Windows 10
6 52 (25.00%) Azure
7 36 (17.31%) SQL
8 33 (15.87%) ServiceNow
9 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (14.42%) Entra ID
11 28 (13.46%) ITIL
12 24 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (11.54%) SCCM
13 23 (11.06%) DevOps
13 23 (11.06%) PowerShell
14 22 (10.58%) JIRA
14 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
15 21 (10.10%) Change Management
15 21 (10.10%) Customer Service
16 19 (9.13%) DNS
16 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
17 18 (8.65%) C#
17 18 (8.65%) Mac OS
18 17 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
18 17 (8.17%) User Experience
19 15 (7.21%) Apple
19 15 (7.21%) ITSM
20 14 (6.73%) Degree
20 14 (6.73%) DHCP

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 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Shopify
2 5 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.48%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.48%) Eikon
3 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (25.00%) Azure
3 30 (14.42%) Entra ID
4 17 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.77%) AWS
6 10 (4.81%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.88%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.40%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.92%) Datadog
9 4 (1.92%) SaaS
10 3 (1.44%) GCP
10 3 (1.44%) PaaS
10 3 (1.44%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.96%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.13%) DNS
1 19 (9.13%) TCP/IP
2 14 (6.73%) DHCP
3 9 (4.33%) Internet
3 9 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (4.33%) Wireless
4 8 (3.85%) VPN
5 5 (2.40%) HTTP
5 5 (2.40%) LAN
5 5 (2.40%) WAN
6 4 (1.92%) Firewall
7 3 (1.44%) Softphone
8 2 (0.96%) DMZ
8 2 (0.96%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.96%) Network Security
8 2 (0.96%) PSTN
8 2 (0.96%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.96%) VLAN
9 1 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.37%) SQL Server
1 7 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.96%) Tableau
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.48%) MS Access
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.48%) Power BI
4 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.58%) JIRA
2 4 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (1.92%) Git
3 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 91 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.71%) Finance
3 32 (15.38%) Banking
4 15 (7.21%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.85%) Front Office
9 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.92%) Legal
11 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.44%) French Language
11 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.96%) Local Government
12 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 1 (0.48%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.48%) Korean Language
13 1 (0.48%) Law
13 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.40%) SAML
1 5 (2.40%) YAML
2 4 (1.92%) .NET
2 4 (1.92%) OAuth
2 4 (1.92%) PySpark
3 3 (1.44%) Middleware
4 2 (0.96%) EDI
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.96%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) HTML5
5 1 (0.48%) JMS
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) Node.js
5 1 (0.48%) RESTful
5 1 (0.48%) Spring
5 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.88%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.92%) iPhone
6 4 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.96%) IoT
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.48%) Derivative
9 1 (0.48%) Equities
9 1 (0.48%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.48%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 99 (47.60%) Windows
2 59 (28.37%) Windows 10
3 18 (8.65%) Mac OS
4 11 (5.29%) Android
5 9 (4.33%) Apple iOS
5 9 (4.33%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.37%) Linux
7 5 (2.40%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.92%) Unix
9 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.46%) ITIL
3 23 (11.06%) DevOps
4 21 (10.10%) Change Management
4 21 (10.10%) Customer Service
5 17 (8.17%) User Experience
6 15 (7.21%) ITSM
7 14 (6.73%) Migration
8 13 (6.25%) Agile
9 10 (4.81%) CI/CD
9 10 (4.81%) Problem Management
9 10 (4.81%) Service Management
10 9 (4.33%) Mobile Device Management
11 8 (3.85%) Break/Fix
11 8 (3.85%) Data Protection
11 8 (3.85%) Task Automation
12 7 (3.37%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (3.37%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (3.37%) Service Delivery
12 7 (3.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.31%) SQL
2 23 (11.06%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.65%) C#
4 14 (6.73%) Python
5 7 (3.37%) Bash
6 4 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.96%) Java
8 2 (0.96%) VBA
9 1 (0.48%) C
9 1 (0.48%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.48%) Tcl
9 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.73%) Degree
4 9 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.44%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.96%) CCNA
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.48%) MCITP
8 1 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.92%) SLA
2 2 (0.96%) QA
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.48%) GAAP
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) IFRS
3 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 67 (32.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 24 (11.54%) SCCM
2 10 (4.81%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.96%) WMI
4 2 (0.96%) WSUS
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Autotask
5 1 (0.48%) Grafana
5 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.87%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.21%) Apple
4 11 (5.29%) Dell
5 10 (4.81%) HP
6 9 (4.33%) Bloomberg
7 8 (3.85%) Cisco
8 7 (3.37%) Citrix
9 6 (2.88%) Google
10 5 (2.40%) Databricks
10 5 (2.40%) Okta
10 5 (2.40%) Remedy
10 5 (2.40%) Reuters
10 5 (2.40%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.92%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.92%) Netskope
11 4 (1.92%) VMware
12 3 (1.44%) IBM
12 3 (1.44%) Oracle
12 3 (1.44%) SAP