Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 178 112
Rank change year-on-year -11 -66 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 199 196 382
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.41% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.51% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 140 287
10th Percentile £163 £163 £142
25th Percentile £190 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £298 £275
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £420 £398 £400
90th Percentile £519 £600 £634
England median daily rate £220 £240 £225
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile £19.64 £17.14 £18.38
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.21 £24.18 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +27.73% -24.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.41 £23.09
90th Percentile - £47.36 £25.08
England median hourly rate £23.58 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.72% +10.45% +1.27%

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 13,211 12,987 16,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 93.56% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,751 8,344 12,206
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 140 268
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £16.18
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £18.93
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +15.40% -10.56%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year -18.57% -13.21% +15.21%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -1 30 £201 -26.15% 9
West London -16 12 £293 +21.88% 1
East London +1 4 £200 -18.37% 3
South London -8 1 £175 -46.15% 2
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 19 January 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 93 (46.73%) Windows
2 72 (36.18%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (35.68%) Microsoft
4 51 (25.63%) Windows 10
5 42 (21.11%) Active Directory
6 31 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.57%) Customer Service
7 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
8 28 (14.07%) SCCM
9 26 (13.07%) Azure
9 26 (13.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (13.07%) ServiceNow
10 25 (12.56%) ITIL
10 25 (12.56%) SC Cleared
11 24 (12.06%) Mac OS
12 23 (11.56%) Apple
13 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Office
14 18 (9.05%) ITSM
15 17 (8.54%) TCP/IP
15 17 (8.54%) VPN
16 15 (7.54%) SQL
17 14 (7.04%) Android
17 14 (7.04%) Cisco
17 14 (7.04%) Jamf Pro
17 14 (7.04%) PowerShell
17 14 (7.04%) Wireless
18 13 (6.53%) Degree
18 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Exchange
18 13 (6.53%) Mobile Device Management
18 13 (6.53%) User Experience

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 (6.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.50%) Pro Tools
4 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (3.02%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.50%) Eikon
2 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.18%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (13.07%) Azure
3 12 (6.03%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (4.02%) AWS
6 6 (3.02%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.51%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.01%) Datadog
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.01%) SaaS
10 2 (1.01%) Slack
10 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.50%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.54%) TCP/IP
1 17 (8.54%) VPN
2 14 (7.04%) Wireless
3 12 (6.03%) DNS
4 11 (5.53%) DHCP
5 10 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.02%) Firewall
7 5 (2.51%) Internet
7 5 (2.51%) LAN
8 4 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (2.01%) VLAN
9 3 (1.51%) Softphone
9 3 (1.51%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.51%) WAN
10 2 (1.01%) DMZ
10 2 (1.01%) SSH
11 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.50%) NAS
11 1 (0.50%) Network Security
11 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.01%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.01%) JIRA
2 2 (1.01%) Git
2 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
General
1 84 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.11%) Finance
3 30 (15.08%) Banking
4 12 (6.03%) Front Office
4 12 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.53%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.52%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.01%) French Language
10 4 (2.01%) Law
11 3 (1.51%) Legal
12 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.50%) Electronics
13 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.50%) Marketing
13 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) Middleware
2 4 (2.01%) YAML
3 3 (1.51%) PySpark
4 2 (1.01%) .NET
4 2 (1.01%) EDI
4 2 (1.01%) Kafka
5 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.50%) JSON
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.50%) OAuth
5 1 (0.50%) REST
5 1 (0.50%) RSS
5 1 (0.50%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (0.50%) Ultra Messaging
5 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.53%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.53%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.02%) Driving Licence
2 6 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.02%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.01%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.51%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.01%) CCTV
5 2 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.01%) Replication
5 2 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (0.50%) Equities
6 1 (0.50%) PKI
6 1 (0.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 93 (46.73%) Windows
2 51 (25.63%) Windows 10
3 24 (12.06%) Mac OS
4 14 (7.04%) Android
5 11 (5.53%) Linux
6 10 (5.03%) Apple iOS
7 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
8 6 (3.02%) Unix
9 4 (2.01%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (14.57%) Customer Service
3 25 (12.56%) ITIL
4 18 (9.05%) ITSM
5 13 (6.53%) Mobile Device Management
5 13 (6.53%) User Experience
6 11 (5.53%) Migration
7 10 (5.03%) Agile
8 9 (4.52%) Asset Management
8 9 (4.52%) Incident Management
9 8 (4.02%) Break/Fix
9 8 (4.02%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (4.02%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (4.02%) Data Protection
9 8 (4.02%) Mentoring
9 8 (4.02%) Zero Trust
10 7 (3.52%) CI/CD
10 7 (3.52%) Coaching
10 7 (3.52%) DevOps
10 7 (3.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.54%) SQL
2 14 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.03%) Python
4 6 (3.02%) Bash
5 2 (1.01%) C#
5 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.50%) Tcl
6 1 (0.50%) VBA
6 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.53%) Degree
4 7 (3.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.01%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.01%) CCNA
8 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) MCP
8 2 (1.01%) MCSA
8 2 (1.01%) MCSE
9 1 (0.50%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.50%) MCITP
9 1 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.01%) SLA
2 3 (1.51%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.50%) GAAP
3 1 (0.50%) IFRS
3 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (21.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Docker
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (14.07%) SCCM
2 26 (13.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.04%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.51%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.01%) Grafana
6 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.01%) Terraform
6 2 (1.01%) WSUS
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.50%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Autotask
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) logstash
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (35.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 23 (11.56%) Apple
4 14 (7.04%) Cisco
5 12 (6.03%) Dell
5 12 (6.03%) HP
6 10 (5.03%) Bloomberg
6 10 (5.03%) Citrix
7 7 (3.52%) Remedy
8 6 (3.02%) VMware
9 5 (2.51%) Solace
10 4 (2.01%) Databricks
10 4 (2.01%) Google
10 4 (2.01%) ION Trading
10 4 (2.01%) Reuters
10 4 (2.01%) SAP
11 3 (1.51%) Okta
11 3 (1.51%) Oracle
11 3 (1.51%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.01%) TIBCO
41 Support Engineer jobs in London