Technical Specialist Contracts in the South East

Technical Specialist
England > South East

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in the South East is £150 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 220 255
Rank change year-on-year +30 +35 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 13 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.10% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.11% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile - £543 £413
25th Percentile £148 £543 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -73.91% +27.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £255 £738 £485
90th Percentile £656 £768 £491
England median daily rate £240 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -55.56% +2.86% +7.69%

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 5,204 5,646 7,545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.24% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 3,926 5,111
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 243 338
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.81 £43.69
90th Percentile £76.86 £72.26 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Specialist in the South East over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical 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 Technical Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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 +15 7 £150 -72.40% 4
Berkshire -2 7 £150 -72.40% 2
Kent +7 3 £638 -12.07% 1
Surrey - 3 £225 - 2
Technical Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Technical 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 Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) SLA
1 9 (69.23%) ServiceNow
2 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (46.15%) Knowledge Management
3 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (46.15%) HP
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
3 6 (46.15%) LAN
3 6 (46.15%) WAN
3 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 6 (46.15%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
3 6 (46.15%) SCCM
4 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery

Technical 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:

Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) LAN
1 6 (46.15%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
1 6 (46.15%) WAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
1 6 (46.15%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
2 3 (23.08%) Change Control
2 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
2 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Logistics
3 2 (15.38%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) ServiceNow
2 6 (46.15%) HP
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft