Support Specialist Contracts in the South East

Support Specialist
England > South East

The median Support Specialist daily rate in the South East is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 210 255
Rank change year-on-year +48 +45 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 43 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 3 3
10th Percentile £148 £202 £430
25th Percentile £184 £206 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £215 £600
Median % change year-on-year +181.40% -64.17% +140.00%
75th Percentile £608 £264 £619
90th Percentile - £292 £630
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.28
25th Percentile - - £16.33
Median hourly rate - - £16.82
75th Percentile - - £17.99
90th Percentile - - £18.45
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
% change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -15.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,153 5,511 7,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.43% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,094 3,838 5,032
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 242 335
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.45 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley +37 33 £605 +181.40% 5
Berkshire +18 32 £605 - 1
Surrey +19 7 £198 -1.00% 2
Hampshire +4 3 £500 - 3
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £605 +181.40% 2
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 25 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 South East region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 37 (86.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (79.07%) DV Cleared
3 33 (76.74%) Active Directory
4 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
5 27 (62.79%) Azure
6 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
6 20 (46.51%) Windows
6 20 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (46.51%) SCCM
6 20 (46.51%) Degree
6 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
7 19 (44.19%) DHCP
7 19 (44.19%) Firewall
7 19 (44.19%) DNS
8 14 (32.56%) Identity Management
8 14 (32.56%) Service Management
8 14 (32.56%) Agile
8 14 (32.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (32.56%) Linux
8 14 (32.56%) ITIL
8 14 (32.56%) C#
8 14 (32.56%) VBScript
8 14 (32.56%) VB
8 14 (32.56%) WSUS
8 14 (32.56%) PKI
8 14 (32.56%) SCOM
8 14 (32.56%) Release Management
8 14 (32.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (32.56%) Analytics
8 14 (32.56%) PowerShell

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (32.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (13.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) Azure
2 20 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (32.56%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (32.56%) Azure Storage
3 14 (32.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) DHCP
1 19 (44.19%) DNS
1 19 (44.19%) Firewall
2 11 (25.58%) TCP/IP
3 6 (13.95%) LAN
3 6 (13.95%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (13.95%) WAN
4 5 (11.63%) VLAN
4 5 (11.63%) VPN
4 5 (11.63%) Wireless
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) PKI
1 14 (32.56%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.98%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Windows
2 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Windows Server
2 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (13.95%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Agile
1 14 (32.56%) Analytics
1 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
1 14 (32.56%) DevOps
1 14 (32.56%) Identity Management
1 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
1 14 (32.56%) Log Analytics
1 14 (32.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 14 (32.56%) Privileged Identity Management
1 14 (32.56%) RBAC
1 14 (32.56%) Release Management
1 14 (32.56%) Service Management
2 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
2 6 (13.95%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (11.63%) Business Case
3 5 (11.63%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Bicep
1 14 (32.56%) C#
1 14 (32.56%) PowerShell
1 14 (32.56%) VB
1 14 (32.56%) VBScript
2 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (86.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (79.07%) DV Cleared
3 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (46.51%) Degree
5 14 (32.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (76.74%) Active Directory
2 14 (32.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (32.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) SCCM
2 14 (32.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 14 (32.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (32.56%) SCOM
2 14 (32.56%) WSUS
3 3 (6.98%) Netcool
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) HP
2 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.98%) IBM