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 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 158 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 -66 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 208 248 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.54% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.64% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 182 428
10th Percentile £163 £150 £150
25th Percentile £194 £196 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £364 £360 £500
90th Percentile £550 £525 £750
England median daily rate £235 £238 £250
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £20.63 £16.70 £18.28
25th Percentile - £18.13 £18.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £21.44
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +12.78% -14.24%
75th Percentile £26.00 £28.19 £24.25
90th Percentile £29.60 £41.63 £24.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.01% +24.00% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,372 15,124 19,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.07% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 9,866 14,212
10th Percentile £335 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 173 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.15 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.89 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% -13.58% +22.73%
75th Percentile £49.00 £58.75 £61.59
90th Percentile £67.75 £78.75 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

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 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer 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 October 2025. 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 -13 25 £233 -31.11% 14
West London +2 15 £250 +42.86% 8
South London +3 6 £238 - 6
North London - 1 £510 - 4
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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.

1 102 (49.04%) Windows
2 87 (41.83%) Social Skills
3 82 (39.42%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (38.94%) Microsoft
5 70 (33.65%) Active Directory
6 49 (23.56%) Windows 10
7 48 (23.08%) Finance
8 41 (19.71%) Customer Service
9 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (17.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 36 (17.31%) ServiceNow
10 36 (17.31%) Azure
11 35 (16.83%) Microsoft Office
12 31 (14.90%) ITIL
13 29 (13.94%) ITSM
14 28 (13.46%) Security Cleared
15 24 (11.54%) Banking
15 24 (11.54%) VPN
15 24 (11.54%) DNS
16 23 (11.06%) TCP/IP
16 23 (11.06%) Apple
16 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
17 22 (10.58%) SCCM
18 21 (10.10%) Mac OS
19 20 (9.62%) DHCP
19 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
20 19 (9.13%) Citrix
21 18 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 16 (7.69%) Entra ID
23 15 (7.21%) Public Sector

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 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.88%) Confluence
4 5 (2.40%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.96%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.48%) Mattermost
Applications
1 35 (16.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.48%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.48%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.48%) Pro Tools
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.48%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Eikon
2 1 (0.48%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 82 (39.42%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (17.31%) Azure
3 16 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.85%) OneDrive
5 7 (3.37%) Google Workspace
6 6 (2.88%) Slack
7 4 (1.92%) AWS
7 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.44%) SaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Asana
10 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.48%) IaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.54%) DNS
1 24 (11.54%) VPN
2 23 (11.06%) TCP/IP
3 20 (9.62%) DHCP
4 12 (5.77%) Firewall
5 10 (4.81%) LAN
6 9 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.85%) Internet
7 8 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (3.37%) WAN
9 6 (2.88%) Wireless
10 5 (2.40%) Skype
10 5 (2.40%) VoIP
10 5 (2.40%) WebEx
11 3 (1.44%) VLAN
12 2 (0.96%) IP Telephony
12 2 (0.96%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.96%) SSH
12 2 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
13 1 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.44%) Power BI
1 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (0.96%) GIS
2 2 (0.96%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (3.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.96%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.48%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 87 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.08%) Finance
3 24 (11.54%) Banking
4 18 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.33%) Front Office
8 5 (2.40%) Law
8 5 (2.40%) Local Government
8 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Electronics
10 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.44%) Retail
11 2 (0.96%) Back Office
11 2 (0.96%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.92%) Middleware
2 1 (0.48%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) ADO
2 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.48%) JSF
2 1 (0.48%) JSON
2 1 (0.48%) Kafka
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.48%) OAuth
2 1 (0.48%) React
2 1 (0.48%) REST
2 1 (0.48%) RSS
2 1 (0.48%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (0.48%) Ultra Messaging
2 1 (0.48%) XML
2 1 (0.48%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.73%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.29%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.44%) CMDB
5 3 (1.44%) Replication
5 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.96%) CCTV
6 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.96%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.96%) iPhone
6 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.96%) SCADA
6 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.96%) Smartphone
6 2 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.48%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 102 (49.04%) Windows
2 49 (23.56%) Windows 10
3 21 (10.10%) Mac OS
4 14 (6.73%) Linux
5 12 (5.77%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.33%) Android
7 8 (3.85%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.40%) Mac OS X
8 5 (2.40%) Unix
9 4 (1.92%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.96%) CentOS
10 2 (0.96%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.96%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.48%) VMS
11 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.71%) Customer Service
2 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (14.90%) ITIL
4 29 (13.94%) ITSM
5 12 (5.77%) Asset Management
6 11 (5.29%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (5.29%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (5.29%) Server Management
6 11 (5.29%) Service Management
7 10 (4.81%) Incident Management
8 9 (4.33%) Agile
8 9 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (4.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (3.85%) Change Management
9 8 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (3.85%) Data Protection
9 8 (3.85%) High Availability
9 8 (3.85%) Migration
10 7 (3.37%) User Experience
10 7 (3.37%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.21%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.77%) SQL
3 8 (3.85%) Bash
4 6 (2.88%) Python
5 2 (0.96%) ABAP
5 2 (0.96%) Magik
6 1 (0.48%) C
6 1 (0.48%) C#
6 1 (0.48%) Java
6 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.48%) Lisp
6 1 (0.48%) PHP
6 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.48%) Tcl
6 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.29%) Degree
4 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.92%) MCSA
6 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.44%) MCSE
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) CCNA
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.96%) MCP
7 2 (0.96%) MOS
8 1 (0.48%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.77%) SLA
2 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) QA
System Software
1 70 (33.65%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
5 3 (1.44%) Firmware
5 3 (1.44%) XenApp
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.48%) Docker
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (17.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (10.58%) SCCM
3 13 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.92%) AirWatch
4 4 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (0.96%) Nagios
5 2 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.96%) Terraform
6 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Autotask
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) logstash
6 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.31%) ServiceNow
3 23 (11.06%) Apple
4 19 (9.13%) Citrix
5 11 (5.29%) Cisco
5 11 (5.29%) Remedy
6 10 (4.81%) VMware
7 9 (4.33%) HP
8 6 (2.88%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.88%) Dell
8 6 (2.88%) Google
9 5 (2.40%) Adobe
9 5 (2.40%) Polycom
9 5 (2.40%) SAP
9 5 (2.40%) Solace
9 5 (2.40%) Wyse
10 4 (1.92%) Oracle
11 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.44%) Sage
11 3 (1.44%) TOWER Software