Technical Support Engineer Contracts in London

Technical Support Engineer
England > London

The median Technical Support Engineer daily rate in London is £450, 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 346 383 479
Rank change year-on-year +37 +96 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 7 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.045% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.048% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £223 £198 £196
25th Percentile £250 £199 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £218 £290
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -25.00% +20.83%
75th Percentile £525 £322 £325
90th Percentile £544 £350 £403
England median daily rate £230 £175 £210
% change year-on-year +31.43% -16.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £23.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +124.49% -46.74%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £25.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year - +124.49% -28.99%

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%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in London

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in London

Technical Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support Engineer in London

Technical Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support Engineer in London

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

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

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) French Language
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) CMS
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) OO

Technical 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) IDOL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) HP UFT
1 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) French Language
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle