IT Support Contracts in Wakefield

IT Support
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The median IT Support daily rate in Wakefield is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wakefield 4.17% - 5.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.41% - 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £149 - -
25th Percentile £154 - £112
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £115
75th Percentile £188 - £118
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £303 £193 £165
% change year-on-year +57.53% +16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.37
25th Percentile - - £11.47
Median hourly rate - - £11.77
75th Percentile - - £11.94
90th Percentile - - £11.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £15.25 £13.18
% change year-on-year - +15.71% +19.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wakefield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wakefield. 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 Wakefield with a recognized job title 68 76 67
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 95.00% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 20
10th Percentile £127 £183 £173
25th Percentile £163 £213 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £230 £375
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -38.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £380 £385 £472
90th Percentile £466 £438 £658
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.60% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile - - £9.54
25th Percentile £12.75 - £9.98
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £10.85
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.43%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £12.00
90th Percentile £21.05 - £14.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Wakefield

IT Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wakefield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support in Wakefield.

Daily rate trend for IT Support in Wakefield

IT Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wakefield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support in Wakefield.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support in Wakefield

IT Support Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, IT Support 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 Wakefield region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS

IT Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Veeam