IT Support Contracts in Merseyside

IT Support
North West > Merseyside

The median IT Support daily rate in Merseyside is £166 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 27 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 6 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.63% 2.05% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 2.12% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £124 £182
25th Percentile £143 - £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £166 £130 £235
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -44.68% +35.06%
75th Percentile £205 £245 £270
90th Percentile £224 - £281
North West median daily rate £181 £240 £198
% change year-on-year -24.48% +21.52% +31.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.80
25th Percentile - £21.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £10.57 £22.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.02% +38.46% -4.41%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £17.00
90th Percentile - - £17.30
North West median hourly rate £13.00 £26.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.94% +51.43% +35.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 217 330 349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.18% 96.49% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 242 247
10th Percentile £151 £236 £165
25th Percentile £230 £400 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% +16.22%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £538
90th Percentile £588 £686 £638
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 16
10th Percentile - - £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £10.09 £12.03
Median hourly rate £19.97 £16.37 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.96% +9.13% -6.25%
75th Percentile £34.80 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £43.09 £23.75 £35.80
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.15% +50.37% +12.47%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Merseyside

IT Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for IT Support in Merseyside

IT Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support in Merseyside

IT Support
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +10 6 £166 -30.73% 3
IT Support
North West

IT Support Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, IT 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 Merseyside region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers

IT Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware