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 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 588 694
Rank change year-on-year +176 +106 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 125 63 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 40 61
10th Percentile £158 £197 £163
25th Percentile £263 £212 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £545
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -26.61% +55.71%
75th Percentile £608 £541 £700
90th Percentile - £664 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +39.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.23
25th Percentile - £21.24 £14.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -14.84%
75th Percentile - £45.73 £17.61
90th Percentile - £52.79 £18.29
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
% change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -14.84%

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 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +111 48 £500 +8.11% 20
South East +52 46 £605 +139.60% 20
South West +25 20 £165 -2.94% 11
Midlands +33 7 £288 - 8
West Midlands +31 6 £288 - 6
North of England +20 1 £350 -12.50% 20
North West +13 1 £350 -12.50% 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 61 (48.80%) Security Cleared
2 55 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 54 (43.20%) SC Cleared
4 53 (42.40%) Active Directory
5 45 (36.00%) Social Skills
6 40 (32.00%) ITIL
7 39 (31.20%) Windows
8 38 (30.40%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (28.00%) DV Cleared
10 33 (26.40%) Azure
11 29 (23.20%) SCCM
12 25 (20.00%) Windows Server
12 25 (20.00%) Analytics
13 23 (18.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (16.00%) Degree
15 19 (15.20%) Finance
15 19 (15.20%) DNS
15 19 (15.20%) DHCP
15 19 (15.20%) Firewall
16 18 (14.40%) Virtual Desktop
17 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
17 17 (13.60%) ServiceNow
17 17 (13.60%) Identity Management
17 17 (13.60%) SLA
17 17 (13.60%) Linux
17 17 (13.60%) VBScript
18 15 (12.00%) Problem Management
18 15 (12.00%) VB
18 15 (12.00%) C#

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 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.80%) SharePoint 2013
4 3 (2.40%) IIS
4 3 (2.40%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.80%) HFM
2 1 (0.80%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.80%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.40%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (26.40%) Azure
3 15 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 14 (11.20%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (11.20%) Azure Storage
5 8 (6.40%) AWS
6 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.80%) Collibra
7 1 (0.80%) Serverless
7 1 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) DHCP
1 19 (15.20%) DNS
1 19 (15.20%) Firewall
2 11 (8.80%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.00%) LAN
3 5 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (4.00%) VLAN
3 5 (4.00%) VPN
3 5 (4.00%) WAN
3 5 (4.00%) Wireless
4 1 (0.80%) H.323
4 1 (0.80%) HTTP
4 1 (0.80%) Intranet
4 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.80%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 45 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Finance
3 7 (5.60%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.80%) Police
5 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.80%) .NET
2 1 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.80%) LDAP
2 1 (0.80%) Middleware
2 1 (0.80%) SAML
2 1 (0.80%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) PKI
1 14 (11.20%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.00%) Taxonomies
3 7 (5.60%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.80%) CMDB
8 1 (0.80%) Derivative
8 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.80%) IVR
8 1 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 39 (31.20%) Windows
2 25 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (13.60%) Linux
4 15 (12.00%) Windows 10
5 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (5.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.00%) ITIL
2 25 (20.00%) Analytics
3 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (13.60%) Identity Management
5 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (12.00%) DevOps
5 15 (12.00%) Problem Management
5 15 (12.00%) Release Management
6 14 (11.20%) Agile
6 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
6 14 (11.20%) Customer Service
6 14 (11.20%) Incident Management
6 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.20%) Knowledge Management
6 14 (11.20%) Log Analytics
6 14 (11.20%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (11.20%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (11.20%) RBAC
6 14 (11.20%) Service Management
7 13 (10.40%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
1 17 (13.60%) VBScript
2 15 (12.00%) C#
2 15 (12.00%) VB
3 14 (11.20%) Bicep
4 13 (10.40%) SQL
5 7 (5.60%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.80%) Bash
7 1 (0.80%) F#
7 1 (0.80%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (48.80%) Security Cleared
2 54 (43.20%) SC Cleared
3 35 (28.00%) DV Cleared
4 23 (18.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 20 (16.00%) Degree
6 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) SLA
2 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 53 (42.40%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (11.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (23.20%) SCCM
2 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (11.20%) SCOM
2 14 (11.20%) WSUS
3 7 (5.60%) Netcool
4 5 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 55 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.60%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.40%) IBM
3 8 (6.40%) VMware
4 7 (5.60%) Citrix
5 6 (4.80%) BT
5 6 (4.80%) HP
6 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.40%) Okta
7 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.80%) Avaya
7 1 (0.80%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle
7 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.80%) SAP
7 1 (0.80%) Verint
7 1 (0.80%) Workday