Support Specialist Contracts in England

Support Specialist
UK > England

The median Support Specialist daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 581 697
Rank change year-on-year +161 +116 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 123 67 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 41 64
10th Percentile £158 £199 £163
25th Percentile £231 £213 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% +39.29%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £700
90th Percentile - £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - +23.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 5
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.80
25th Percentile - £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -15.90%
75th Percentile - £45.73 £17.23
90th Percentile - £52.79 £18.14
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
% change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -15.90%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
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 Support Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +56 44 £605 +181.40% 13
London +106 43 £500 - 33
South West +28 21 £165 -2.94% 10
Midlands +33 7 £288 - 11
West Midlands +33 6 £288 - 7
North of England +26 3 £325 -31.58% 9
North West +21 3 £325 -31.58% 6
East of England +11 2 £313 - 10
East Midlands +22 1 - - 4
Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 59 (47.97%) Security Cleared
2 56 (45.53%) Microsoft
3 51 (41.46%) SC Cleared
4 49 (39.84%) Active Directory
5 44 (35.77%) Windows
5 44 (35.77%) Social Skills
6 36 (29.27%) ITIL
6 36 (29.27%) DV Cleared
7 34 (27.64%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (24.39%) SCCM
8 30 (24.39%) Azure
9 25 (20.33%) Analytics
10 24 (19.51%) Windows Server
11 23 (18.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 22 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (17.89%) Linux
13 21 (17.07%) Degree
14 19 (15.45%) Finance
14 19 (15.45%) DNS
14 19 (15.45%) DHCP
14 19 (15.45%) Firewall
15 18 (14.63%) SLA
16 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
16 17 (13.82%) Problem Management
16 17 (13.82%) VBScript
16 17 (13.82%) Identity Management
17 16 (13.01%) TCP/IP
17 16 (13.01%) Entra ID
17 16 (13.01%) Windows 10
18 15 (12.20%) Virtual Machines

Support Specialist 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 15 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.94%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.50%) IIS
3 8 (6.50%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.88%) Apache
4 6 (4.88%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.81%) HFM
2 1 (0.81%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.81%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.64%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (24.39%) Azure
3 16 (13.01%) Entra ID
4 14 (11.38%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (11.38%) Azure Storage
5 8 (6.50%) AWS
6 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.81%) Collibra
6 1 (0.81%) Serverless
6 1 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.45%) DHCP
1 19 (15.45%) DNS
1 19 (15.45%) Firewall
2 16 (13.01%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.88%) LAN
3 6 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (4.88%) WAN
4 5 (4.07%) H.323
4 5 (4.07%) HTTP
4 5 (4.07%) VLAN
4 5 (4.07%) VPN
4 5 (4.07%) Wireless
5 1 (0.81%) Intranet
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.81%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 44 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Finance
3 12 (9.76%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.88%) Police
5 5 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.38%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.81%) LDAP
2 1 (0.81%) Middleware
2 1 (0.81%) SAML
2 1 (0.81%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) PKI
1 14 (11.38%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.13%) Taxonomies
3 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.88%) IVR
5 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) CMDB
9 1 (0.81%) Derivative
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 44 (35.77%) Windows
2 24 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 22 (17.89%) Linux
4 16 (13.01%) Windows 10
5 15 (12.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.25%) Unix
8 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.27%) ITIL
2 25 (20.33%) Analytics
3 22 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (13.82%) Identity Management
4 17 (13.82%) Problem Management
5 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (12.20%) DevOps
5 15 (12.20%) Knowledge Management
5 15 (12.20%) Release Management
6 14 (11.38%) Agile
6 14 (11.38%) CI/CD
6 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.38%) Log Analytics
6 14 (11.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (11.38%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (11.38%) RBAC
6 14 (11.38%) Service Management
7 13 (10.57%) ERP
8 11 (8.94%) Customer Service
8 11 (8.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
1 17 (13.82%) VBScript
2 15 (12.20%) C#
2 15 (12.20%) VB
3 14 (11.38%) Bicep
4 13 (10.57%) SQL
5 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) Bash
7 1 (0.81%) F#
7 1 (0.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 59 (47.97%) Security Cleared
2 51 (41.46%) SC Cleared
3 36 (29.27%) DV Cleared
4 23 (18.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 21 (17.07%) Degree
6 6 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.63%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 49 (39.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.20%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (11.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (24.39%) SCCM
2 14 (11.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (11.38%) SCOM
2 14 (11.38%) WSUS
3 4 (3.25%) Netcool
4 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (45.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.38%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.50%) VMware
4 7 (5.69%) Citrix
4 7 (5.69%) HP
5 6 (4.88%) Avaya
5 6 (4.88%) BT
5 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.07%) IBM
7 3 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.44%) Okta
7 3 (2.44%) Verint
8 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.81%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle
8 1 (0.81%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) Workday