Applications Support Contracts in Hertfordshire

Application Support
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Application Support daily rate in Hertfordshire is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.36% - 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £341 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £215
75th Percentile - - £444
90th Percentile - - £450
East of England median daily rate £350 £320 £205
% change year-on-year +9.38% +56.17% -37.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 755 733 724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.99% 91.74% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 397 446
10th Percentile £240 £209 £157
25th Percentile £315 £360 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £760 £675
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 148 83
10th Percentile £37.91 £19.96 £16.49
25th Percentile £43.00 £49.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.55% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.95 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -11.68%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Hertfordshire

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in Hertfordshire

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in Hertfordshire

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stevenage - 2 £344 - 1
Applications Support
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Security Patching
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Migration

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft