IT Support Contracts in West London

IT Support
London > West London

The median IT Support daily rate in West London is £193 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 34 58 41
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 7 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.93% 1.40% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.44% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £135 £129 £149
25th Percentile £150 £130 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £193 £160 £175
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -8.57% +84.21%
75th Percentile £196 £165 £240
90th Percentile £319 £191 £252
London median daily rate £211 £220 £208
% change year-on-year -3.98% +6.02% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £22.45 - £16.00
25th Percentile £22.68 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £23.05 - £20.00
75th Percentile £23.43 - £21.00
90th Percentile £23.65 - £25.35
London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.63 £18.79
% change year-on-year -2.78% +20.47% +24.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 344 556 582
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 97.20% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 404 407
10th Percentile £197 £297 £200
25th Percentile £270 £430 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £625
90th Percentile £641 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 54 40
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.38 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +199.59% -19.39%
75th Percentile £46.50 £75.00 £37.17
90th Percentile £61.00 £88.50 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in West London

IT Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support in West London

IT Support
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support in West London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support in West London

IT Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support in West London

IT Support
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support within the West London region 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
Hounslow - 3 £193 -
Wembley - 3 £400 - 1
Hammersmith - 1 £150 -
IT Support
London

IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 West London region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) SCOM
1 3 (42.86%) SCVMM
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
1 3 (42.86%) Server Management
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi

IT Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
3 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
3 1 (14.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DKIM
1 1 (14.29%) DMARC
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Security Hardening
1 3 (42.86%) Server Management
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (14.29%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) SCOM
1 3 (42.86%) SCVMM
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Avaya
2 1 (14.29%) Brocade
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Commvault
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Dell Compellent
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) Equitrac
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Forcepoint
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Mitel
2 1 (14.29%) MobileIron
2 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Wyse