Support Specialist Contracts in Berkshire

Support Specialist
South East > Berkshire

The median Support Specialist daily rate in Berkshire is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 111 135
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 31 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.55% 0.055% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 0.058% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 0 1
10th Percentile £148 - -
25th Percentile £603 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile £608 - £413
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £605 £215 £600
% change year-on-year +181.40% -64.17% +140.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,882 1,722 2,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 94.67% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,101 1,478
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £378 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 58 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.38 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -1.29%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.90 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £80.25 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in Berkshire

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in Berkshire

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in Berkshire

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in Berkshire

Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Reading - 24 £605 -
Support Specialist
South East

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Support Specialist 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 Berkshire region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (96.77%) Active Directory
3 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
3 24 (77.42%) Azure
4 20 (64.52%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
4 20 (64.52%) Degree
4 20 (64.52%) SCCM
4 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
4 20 (64.52%) Windows
5 14 (45.16%) Linux
5 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (45.16%) C#
5 14 (45.16%) VBScript
5 14 (45.16%) VB
5 14 (45.16%) ITIL
5 14 (45.16%) DHCP
5 14 (45.16%) DNS
5 14 (45.16%) SCOM
5 14 (45.16%) WSUS
5 14 (45.16%) Release Management
5 14 (45.16%) PKI
5 14 (45.16%) PowerShell
5 14 (45.16%) Agile
5 14 (45.16%) Service Management
5 14 (45.16%) Firewall
5 14 (45.16%) Identity Management
5 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (45.16%) Bicep

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (19.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) Azure
2 20 (64.52%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (45.16%) Azure Storage
3 14 (45.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (45.16%) DHCP
1 14 (45.16%) DNS
1 14 (45.16%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) LAN
2 6 (19.35%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 6 (19.35%) WAN
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) PKI
1 14 (45.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (19.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
1 14 (45.16%) Analytics
1 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
1 14 (45.16%) DevOps
1 14 (45.16%) Identity Management
1 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (45.16%) ITIL
1 14 (45.16%) Log Analytics
1 14 (45.16%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 14 (45.16%) Privileged Identity Management
1 14 (45.16%) RBAC
1 14 (45.16%) Release Management
1 14 (45.16%) Service Management
2 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
2 6 (19.35%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Bicep
1 14 (45.16%) C#
1 14 (45.16%) PowerShell
1 14 (45.16%) VB
1 14 (45.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
3 20 (64.52%) Degree
4 14 (45.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (96.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (45.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (45.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (64.52%) SCCM
2 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (45.16%) SCOM
2 14 (45.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) HP
2 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow