Applications Support Analyst Contracts

Application Support Analyst
UK

The median Application Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 587 672
Rank change year-on-year +65 +85 -38
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 72 129 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 111 122
10th Percentile - £240 £213
25th Percentile £189 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £388
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +48.39% +24.00%
75th Percentile £500 £706 £552
90th Percentile £650 £823 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £305 £300
% change year-on-year -18.03% +1.67% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £20.50
25th Percentile - - £22.19
Median hourly rate - - £28.75
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £34.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Applications Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Analyst in the UK

Applications Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Analyst in the UK

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Analyst over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Analyst in the UK

Applications Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Analyst in the UK

Applications Support Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +69 71 £400 -30.43% 54
London +65 51 £450 -21.74% 23
UK excluding London +50 19 £250 -18.03% 34
Work from Home +84 15 £325 -38.10% 19
West Midlands +37 8 £400 +4.92% 1
Midlands +33 8 £400 +4.92% 4
South East +7 5 £200 -34.43% 6
East of England +11 3 £325 -7.14% 8
South West +15 2 - - 5
North of England +28 1 £250 -16.67% 7
North West +21 1 £250 -16.67% 5

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Applications Support Analyst 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 featuring Applications Support Analyst in the job title.

1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (29.17%) SQL
2 21 (29.17%) Windows
3 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 17 (23.61%) Finance
4 17 (23.61%) Incident Management
5 16 (22.22%) Python
6 15 (20.83%) Linux
7 14 (19.44%) MS Visio
7 14 (19.44%) CMS
7 14 (19.44%) Risk Management
8 11 (15.28%) IBM
8 11 (15.28%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (13.89%) ITIL
9 10 (13.89%) PowerShell
9 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
10 9 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (12.50%) DevOps
10 9 (12.50%) Data Management
10 9 (12.50%) Release Management
10 9 (12.50%) Dynatrace
10 9 (12.50%) Grafana
11 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
11 8 (11.11%) Front Office
11 8 (11.11%) Service Management
12 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (9.72%) SLA

Applications Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (19.44%) CMS
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.39%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) nginx
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (19.44%) MS Visio
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Odoo
2 3 (4.17%) Endur
2 3 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.78%) Markit EDM
3 2 (2.78%) thinkFolio
4 1 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.39%) Maximo
4 1 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.78%) Azure
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.39%) AWS
2 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Skype
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) GIS
4 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Front Office
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Banking
5 5 (6.94%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Back Office
7 1 (1.39%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.39%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (1.39%) Middleware
2 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Derivative
2 5 (6.94%) OTC Derivatives
3 3 (4.17%) Equities
4 2 (2.78%) Clustering
4 2 (2.78%) CMDB
4 2 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.78%) iPhone
4 2 (2.78%) PDA
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.39%) SCADA
5 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.17%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.17%) Unix
5 2 (2.78%) Android
5 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Incident Management
2 14 (19.44%) Risk Management
3 11 (15.28%) Proactive Monitoring
4 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (13.89%) ITIL
5 9 (12.50%) Data Management
5 9 (12.50%) DevOps
5 9 (12.50%) Release Management
6 8 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.11%) Service Management
7 7 (9.72%) ERP
7 7 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (6.94%) Agile
8 5 (6.94%) Analytics
8 5 (6.94%) Business Analytics
8 5 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.94%) Test Scripting
8 5 (6.94%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) SQL
2 16 (22.22%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.94%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Bash
6 2 (2.78%) Perl
7 1 (1.39%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Grafana
1 9 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.78%) Ansible
2 2 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.39%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) IBM
3 9 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.94%) Oracle
5 4 (5.56%) Citrix
6 3 (4.17%) OpenLink
7 2 (2.78%) Apple
7 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk
7 2 (2.78%) Sybase
8 1 (1.39%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.39%) SAP
8 1 (1.39%) Temenos
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