Applications Support Contracts in England

Application Support
UK > England

The median Application Support daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 386 490
Rank change year-on-year +33 +104 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 185 297 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.62% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 249 215
10th Percentile £189 £263 £213
25th Percentile £283 £363 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +10.43%
75th Percentile £551 £688 £575
90th Percentile £650 £823 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 10
10th Percentile £25.18 - £21.10
25th Percentile £27.50 £21.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% -1.44%
75th Percentile £32.50 £23.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £59.92 - £36.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -5.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +2 117 £500 -13.04% 58
South East +18 24 £300 -1.64% 11
Midlands +32 14 £400 +14.29% 14
South West +26 14 £475 +2.70% 13
West Midlands +41 13 £300 -21.31% 6
East of England +20 11 £350 +9.38% 14
North of England +19 1 £250 -28.57% 17
East Midlands +16 1 £400 +33.33% 8
North West +7 1 £250 -28.57% 11
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Applications Support 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 England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 75 (40.54%) SQL
2 58 (31.35%) Windows
3 49 (26.49%) Finance
4 45 (24.32%) Social Skills
5 40 (21.62%) Microsoft
6 36 (19.46%) Python
6 36 (19.46%) Linux
6 36 (19.46%) PowerShell
7 28 (15.14%) ITIL
8 23 (12.43%) Front Office
8 23 (12.43%) Azure
9 21 (11.35%) Incident Management
9 21 (11.35%) Agile
9 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.81%) DevOps
10 20 (10.81%) Windows Server
11 19 (10.27%) Service Management
11 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
12 18 (9.73%) Risk Management
13 17 (9.19%) Banking
13 17 (9.19%) IBM
13 17 (9.19%) Release Management
13 17 (9.19%) SC Cleared
14 16 (8.65%) JIRA
14 16 (8.65%) AWS
14 16 (8.65%) Relational Database
14 16 (8.65%) Shell Script
14 16 (8.65%) MS Visio
14 16 (8.65%) SQL Server
14 16 (8.65%) Unix

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.57%) CMS
2 9 (4.86%) IIS
3 8 (4.32%) Confluence
4 7 (3.78%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.24%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.62%) Apache
7 2 (1.08%) JBoss
7 2 (1.08%) nginx
7 2 (1.08%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (8.65%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.78%) ContrOCC
2 5 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 5 (2.70%) Odoo
2 5 (2.70%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (2.16%) Endur
4 3 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.62%) thinkFolio
5 2 (1.08%) Global One
5 2 (1.08%) Markit EDM
5 2 (1.08%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (1.08%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.54%) Eikon
6 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.54%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.54%) Maximo
6 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.43%) Azure
2 16 (8.65%) AWS
3 9 (4.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.70%) WhatsApp
5 4 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (1.62%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.54%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 1 (0.54%) PaaS
8 1 (0.54%) SaaS
8 1 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.86%) Firewall
2 2 (1.08%) DNS
2 2 (1.08%) Intranet
2 2 (1.08%) Skype
2 2 (1.08%) VPN
3 1 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.65%) Relational Database
1 16 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.78%) Power BI
3 5 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (2.70%) MySQL
3 5 (2.70%) Tableau
4 4 (2.16%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) GIS
6 2 (1.08%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.54%) Ingres
7 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.65%) JIRA
2 4 (2.16%) Git
2 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (26.49%) Finance
2 45 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.43%) Front Office
4 17 (9.19%) Banking
5 14 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.24%) Back Office
9 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.16%) Local Government
10 3 (1.62%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.62%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Military
12 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) .NET
2 8 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (3.24%) Web Services
4 5 (2.70%) REST
4 5 (2.70%) XML
5 4 (2.16%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 4 (2.16%) CSS
5 4 (2.16%) HTML
5 4 (2.16%) HTML5
6 3 (1.62%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.62%) JSON
6 3 (1.62%) Middleware
7 2 (1.08%) ActiveX
7 2 (1.08%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.08%) SPFx
8 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.54%) React
8 1 (0.54%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.41%) Hedge funds
2 9 (4.86%) Derivative
3 8 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.70%) Equities
4 5 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.70%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (2.16%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.62%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.62%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.08%) Clustering
7 2 (1.08%) CMDB
7 2 (1.08%) iPhone
7 2 (1.08%) PDA
8 1 (0.54%) PKI
8 1 (0.54%) Replication
8 1 (0.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (31.35%) Windows
2 36 (19.46%) Linux
3 20 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.65%) Unix
5 6 (3.24%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.16%) CentOS
8 3 (1.62%) Android
8 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.54%) Solaris
10 1 (0.54%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.14%) ITIL
2 21 (11.35%) Agile
2 21 (11.35%) Incident Management
2 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (10.81%) DevOps
4 19 (10.27%) Service Management
5 18 (9.73%) Risk Management
6 17 (9.19%) Release Management
7 15 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
8 14 (7.57%) Analytics
8 14 (7.57%) Migration
9 13 (7.03%) Asset Management
9 13 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (6.49%) Customer Service
10 12 (6.49%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (5.95%) Workflow
12 10 (5.41%) Data Management
12 10 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (4.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.54%) SQL
2 36 (19.46%) PowerShell
2 36 (19.46%) Python
3 16 (8.65%) C#
3 16 (8.65%) Shell Script
4 7 (3.78%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.24%) Bash
5 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.24%) Perl
6 4 (2.16%) PHP
7 3 (1.62%) F#
7 3 (1.62%) VB
7 3 (1.62%) VBA
7 3 (1.62%) VBScript
8 2 (1.08%) Java
8 2 (1.08%) Korn
9 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.24%) Degree
4 5 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) SLA
2 4 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (5.41%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (4.86%) Grafana
3 6 (3.24%) SCCM
4 5 (2.70%) SCOM
5 4 (2.16%) Ansible
5 4 (2.16%) Netcool
6 3 (1.62%) Control-M
7 2 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.19%) IBM
3 12 (6.49%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.95%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.86%) Oracle
6 8 (4.32%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.32%) Bloomberg
6 8 (4.32%) Liquidlogic
6 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.78%) Sybase
8 6 (3.24%) Refinitiv
8 6 (3.24%) SimCorp
9 5 (2.70%) Citrix
10 4 (2.16%) OpenLink
11 3 (1.62%) SAP
12 2 (1.08%) Apple
12 2 (1.08%) Charles River
12 2 (1.08%) Reuters
12 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.08%) Temenos