Support Engineer Contracts in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer daily rate in London is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 137 153
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 209 316 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.67% 1.77% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.90% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 233 368
10th Percentile £180 £140 £150
25th Percentile £207 £183 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £260 £300
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.41% +21.81%
75th Percentile £413 £350 £625
90th Percentile £478 £571 £810
England median daily rate £245 £215 £250
% change year-on-year +13.95% -14.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 15
10th Percentile £20.55 £18.39 £12.95
25th Percentile £24.18 £19.47 £21.34
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -9.59% +16.67%
75th Percentile £28.00 £23.64 £33.75
90th Percentile £28.25 £65.60 £38.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% +10.00% +14.09%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -9 44 £303 +18.63% 9
West London +18 11 £240 +17.07% 4
South London +9 6 £325 +71.05% 5
East London +12 2 £245 -14.04% 3
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (49.76%) Windows
2 97 (46.41%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (38.76%) Microsoft
4 71 (33.97%) Active Directory
5 67 (32.06%) Azure
5 67 (32.06%) Social Skills
6 45 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (20.57%) Windows 10
7 43 (20.57%) Finance
8 41 (19.62%) VPN
9 35 (16.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (16.27%) Entra ID
11 33 (15.79%) Customer Service
12 28 (13.40%) Apple iOS
12 28 (13.40%) SCCM
12 28 (13.40%) DNS
13 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Exchange
13 27 (12.92%) Security Cleared
14 26 (12.44%) SharePoint
14 26 (12.44%) Firewall
15 24 (11.48%) Migration
15 24 (11.48%) Palo Alto
16 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
17 20 (9.57%) Agile
17 20 (9.57%) OneDrive
18 19 (9.09%) PowerShell
19 18 (8.61%) Mac OS
19 18 (8.61%) Degree
19 18 (8.61%) CheckPoint
19 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (12.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) JBoss
3 4 (1.91%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.96%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Alphatax
1 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.48%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.41%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (32.06%) Azure
3 34 (16.27%) Entra ID
4 20 (9.57%) OneDrive
5 16 (7.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 13 (6.22%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.74%) Slack
8 11 (5.26%) Asana
8 11 (5.26%) AWS
9 8 (3.83%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.35%) SaaS
11 6 (2.87%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.48%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.48%) PaaS
12 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.48%) Serverless
12 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.62%) VPN
2 28 (13.40%) DNS
3 26 (12.44%) Firewall
4 16 (7.66%) NGFW
4 16 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (5.26%) DHCP
6 10 (4.78%) Network Security
7 9 (4.31%) Internet
8 7 (3.35%) LAN
8 7 (3.35%) WAN
8 7 (3.35%) Wireless
9 6 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.87%) VoIP
10 4 (1.91%) VLAN
11 3 (1.44%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.96%) SMTP
12 2 (0.96%) SSL
12 2 (0.96%) WebEx
12 2 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.87%) FileMaker
2 4 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.44%) Power BI
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.48%) IDOL
5 1 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.74%) JIRA
2 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.96%) JMeter
3 2 (0.96%) Postman
3 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.48%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.57%) Finance
3 18 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.13%) Banking
5 15 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.91%) Aviation
7 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Local Government
7 4 (1.91%) Military
7 4 (1.91%) Retail
8 3 (1.44%) Advertising
8 3 (1.44%) Back Office
8 3 (1.44%) Front Office
8 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.96%) French Language
9 2 (0.96%) Legal
9 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) ADO
2 4 (1.91%) Web Services
3 3 (1.44%) React
4 2 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.96%) XML
5 1 (0.48%) Playwright
5 1 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.13%) Onboarding
2 16 (7.66%) Anti-Spyware
3 15 (7.18%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (2.39%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.44%) CCTV
5 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Licensing
6 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.96%) Handset
6 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.96%) PKI
6 2 (0.96%) Replication
6 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.48%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.48%) Clustering
7 1 (0.48%) CMDB
7 1 (0.48%) iPhone
7 1 (0.48%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 104 (49.76%) Windows
2 43 (20.57%) Windows 10
3 28 (13.40%) Apple iOS
4 18 (8.61%) Mac OS
5 16 (7.66%) Windows Server
6 15 (7.18%) Android
7 13 (6.22%) Linux
8 7 (3.35%) Windows 7
9 6 (2.87%) Unix
10 5 (2.39%) Mac OS X
10 5 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.96%) CentOS
11 2 (0.96%) VMS
11 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (15.79%) Customer Service
3 24 (11.48%) Migration
4 20 (9.57%) Agile
5 18 (8.61%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (8.13%) Service Management
7 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (7.18%) ITIL
8 15 (7.18%) ITSM
8 15 (7.18%) Service Delivery
9 14 (6.70%) High Availability
10 13 (6.22%) Time Management
11 11 (5.26%) Asset Management
11 11 (5.26%) Task Automation
12 9 (4.31%) Incident Management
12 9 (4.31%) Mentoring
12 9 (4.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (4.31%) Visual Effects
13 7 (3.35%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (3.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.31%) Python
3 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.39%) PHP
3 5 (2.39%) SQL
4 4 (1.91%) Bash
5 2 (0.96%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (0.96%) C
5 2 (0.96%) Java
6 1 (0.48%) ABAP
6 1 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.61%) Degree
3 14 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.74%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.91%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.96%) ACSP
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) CCNA
7 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) CCSA
8 1 (0.48%) CCSE
8 1 (0.48%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.83%) SLA
2 6 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.39%) QA
System Software
1 71 (33.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.44%) vSphere
4 2 (0.96%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.48%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (16.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (13.40%) SCCM
3 16 (7.66%) Terraform
4 5 (2.39%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.96%) AppManager
6 2 (0.96%) CASB
6 2 (0.96%) Nagios
6 2 (0.96%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.48%) Plesk
7 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.48%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.48%) vMotion
7 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (38.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.48%) Palo Alto
3 18 (8.61%) CheckPoint
4 16 (7.66%) Infoblox
4 16 (7.66%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.70%) Apple
6 12 (5.74%) Cisco
7 8 (3.83%) Citrix
7 8 (3.83%) VMware
8 7 (3.35%) Google
8 7 (3.35%) HP
8 7 (3.35%) Zscaler
9 5 (2.39%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.39%) Dell
10 4 (1.91%) Oracle
11 3 (1.44%) Juniper
11 3 (1.44%) Remedy
12 2 (0.96%) Ivanti
12 2 (0.96%) Okta
12 2 (0.96%) Red Hat