Support Officer Contracts in London

Support Officer
England > London

The median Support Officer daily rate in London is £363, 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 335 342 454
Rank change year-on-year +7 +112 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Support Officer 18 49 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 33
10th Percentile £325 £163 £184
25th Percentile £349 £190 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £338
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £388 £416 £400
90th Percentile - £453 £438
England median daily rate £300 £325 £330
% change year-on-year -7.69% -1.52% +42.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 2
10th Percentile - £15.57 £16.67
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.86 £20.11
Median hourly rate £22.04 £17.00 £25.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.65% -34.57% +23.71%
75th Percentile £23.63 £21.86 £31.72
90th Percentile £23.80 £22.72 £35.09
England median hourly rate £17.24 £16.00 £14.62
% change year-on-year +7.75% +9.44% -2.53%

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 Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Officer in London

Support Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Officer in London

Support Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Officer in London

Support Officer
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 Officer 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
West London +16 6 - - 1
Central London +3 4 £375 -6.25%
Support Officer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Support Officer 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 Officer in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Finance
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (27.78%) Local Government
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
5 3 (16.67%) General Ledger
5 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
5 3 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
5 3 (16.67%) Project Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
5 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Data Collection
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving

Support Officer 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Local Government
3 3 (16.67%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
3 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Governance
3 3 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) High Availability
5 1 (5.56%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint