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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 573 689
Rank change year-on-year +59 +116 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 72 125 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 112 116
10th Percentile - £263 £213
25th Percentile £189 £323 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +53.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £713 £500
90th Percentile £650 £823 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £305 £313
% change year-on-year -18.03% -2.40% +13.64%
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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

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 12 May 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 12 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 +62 71 £400 -30.43% 49
London +50 51 £450 -21.74% 23
UK excluding London +55 19 £250 -18.03% 27
Work from Home +73 14 £325 -44.68% 18
Midlands +36 8 £400 +4.92% 5
West Midlands +23 8 £400 +4.92% 1
South East +6 5 £200 -34.43% 3
East of England +10 3 £325 -7.14% 7
South West +13 2 - - 4
North of England +21 1 £250 -23.08% 5
North West +19 1 £250 -23.08% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 20 (27.78%) SQL
2 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 16 (22.22%) Python
3 16 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 15 (20.83%) Finance
5 14 (19.44%) CMS
5 14 (19.44%) MS Visio
5 14 (19.44%) Linux
6 13 (18.06%) Risk Management
7 12 (16.67%) Front Office
8 10 (13.89%) IBM
8 10 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
9 9 (12.50%) ITIL
9 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
9 9 (12.50%) Relational Database
10 8 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (11.11%) DevOps
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.11%) Data Management
10 8 (11.11%) Derivative
10 8 (11.11%) Release Management
10 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
10 8 (11.11%) Grafana
11 7 (9.72%) Customer Service
11 7 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (9.72%) ERP
11 7 (9.72%) SLA
12 6 (8.33%) SQL Server

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 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Markit EDM
1 5 (6.94%) Odoo
1 5 (6.94%) thinkFolio
2 3 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.39%) Endur
3 1 (1.39%) Maximo
3 1 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (2.78%) AWS
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
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 9 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) GIS
3 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Git
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 12 (16.67%) Front Office
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Back Office
6 3 (4.17%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
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 8 (11.11%) Derivative
2 5 (6.94%) Equities
2 5 (6.94%) OTC Derivatives
3 4 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) CMDB
5 2 (2.78%) iPhone
5 2 (2.78%) PDA
5 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.39%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.78%) Windows
2 14 (19.44%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.17%) Unix
5 2 (2.78%) Android
5 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 13 (18.06%) Risk Management
3 10 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
4 9 (12.50%) ITIL
5 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (11.11%) Data Management
5 8 (11.11%) DevOps
5 8 (11.11%) Release Management
6 7 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 7 (9.72%) ERP
6 7 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (8.33%) Asset Management
7 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.33%) Service Management
8 5 (6.94%) Agile
8 5 (6.94%) Business Analytics
8 5 (6.94%) Investment Management
8 5 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.94%) Test Scripting
8 5 (6.94%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) SQL
2 16 (22.22%) Python
3 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.94%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Bash
6 2 (2.78%) Perl
7 1 (1.39%) C
7 1 (1.39%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Grafana
1 8 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (4.17%) Control-M
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
3 2 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) IBM
3 8 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.56%) Citrix
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) Apple
6 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) Splunk
6 2 (2.78%) Sybase
7 1 (1.39%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.39%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) Temenos