IT Support Engineer Contracts in Merton

IT Support Engineer
South London > Merton

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in Merton is £238, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 7.69% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £216 - -
25th Percentile £222 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - -
75th Percentile £247 - -
90th Percentile £249 - -
South London median daily rate £238 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merton. 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 Merton with a recognized job title 22 20 37
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.62% 100.00% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 20
10th Percentile - £303 £153
25th Percentile £213 £372 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £484 £501 £478
90th Percentile £523 £567 £508
South London median daily rate £510 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.30% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile - - £32.50
25th Percentile - - £49.96
Median hourly rate £17.98 - £52.58
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.20%
75th Percentile - - £55.20
90th Percentile - - £66.30
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -7.79% -61.32% +14.94%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in Merton

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in Merton

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the Merton region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Morden - 1 £251 -
Wimbledon - 1 £225 - 1
IT Support Engineer
South London

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, IT 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 Merton region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) SLA

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft