Applications Support Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 361 584
Rank change year-on-year +43 +223 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 28 89 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.37% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.39% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 86 30
10th Percentile £425 £425 £187
25th Percentile £446 £556 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £740 £375
Median % change year-on-year -32.43% +97.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £525 £823 £389
90th Percentile £726 £835 £508
UK median daily rate £500 £663 £375
% change year-on-year -24.53% +76.67% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £31.40

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,751 22,907 42,508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,270 16,259 30,881
10th Percentile £325 £357 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 527 569
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.70
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.20 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Applications Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Support Engineer.

Applications Support Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Applications Support Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 June 2024, Applications Support Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 18 (64.29%) Windows
3 17 (60.71%) SQL
4 14 (50.00%) Migration
4 14 (50.00%) Azure
5 13 (46.43%) High Availability
5 13 (46.43%) Replication
5 13 (46.43%) ETL
5 13 (46.43%) Elite 3E
6 10 (35.71%) Workflow
6 10 (35.71%) JIRA
6 10 (35.71%) Atlassian
7 9 (32.14%) Linux
8 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
8 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
8 8 (28.57%) Confluence
9 6 (21.43%) Service Management
9 6 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
10 5 (17.86%) Intapp
10 5 (17.86%) REST
10 5 (17.86%) Web Services
10 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
11 4 (14.29%) Legal
12 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
12 3 (10.71%) Analytics
12 3 (10.71%) QA
12 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
13 2 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
13 2 (7.14%) Social Skills

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) REST
1 5 (17.86%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) CSS
3 1 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 13 (46.43%) Replication
3 6 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Windows
2 9 (32.14%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Migration
2 13 (46.43%) ETL
2 13 (46.43%) High Availability
3 10 (35.71%) Workflow
4 6 (21.43%) Service Management
5 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.57%) Agile
7 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.57%) Data Migration
7 1 (3.57%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.57%) Performance Metrics
7 1 (3.57%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.57%) Release Management
7 1 (3.57%) Runbook
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) C#
2 2 (7.14%) F#
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) PHP
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Atlassian
2 5 (17.86%) Intapp
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow