Applications Support Specialist Contracts

Application Support Specialist
UK

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 699 851
Rank change year-on-year +133 +152 -172
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 12 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.029% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.030% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £290 £400 £333
25th Percentile £343 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £650
90th Percentile £521 £570 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +25.00% -38.46% +153.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +170.45% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £23.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 - -

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Specialist over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Top 6 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +103 12 £500 - 18
UK excluding London +64 6 £500 +25.00% 8
London +101 5 £395 -21.00% 7
South East - 5 £500 - 3
Work from Home +130 4 £500 - 5
South West - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Applications 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 featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
2 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 5 (41.67%) Netcool
2 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) VBScript
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.33%) C#

Applications Support Specialist 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 1 (8.33%) IIS
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Unix
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Release Management
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) VBScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) F#
4 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Netcool
2 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) SAP