Technical Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Support daily rate in Work from Home is £153 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 442 551
Rank change year-on-year +146 +109 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 53 24 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.095% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.100% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 44
10th Percentile £105 £157 £159
25th Percentile £143 £210 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £303 £284
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +6.61% +13.50%
75th Percentile £173 £375 £400
90th Percentile £250 £388 £475
UK median daily rate £205 £211 £281
% change year-on-year -2.96% -24.89% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £13.46 - £14.38
25th Percentile - - £17.20
Median hourly rate £15.85 £15.00 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -22.60% +55.04%
75th Percentile - - £24.23
90th Percentile £18.19 - £30.04
UK median hourly rate £17.45 £21.22 £18.76
% change year-on-year -17.77% +13.11% +48.65%

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 13,973 24,016 42,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,364 16,958 30,661
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 547 602
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £19.28
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +43.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Technical Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technical Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Support
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 Technical Support.

Technical Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Support over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Technical Support daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Support
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Support.

Technical Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Technical 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1 20 (37.74%) Windows
2 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (28.30%) SLA
4 13 (24.53%) ITIL
5 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
5 12 (22.64%) Telecoms
5 12 (22.64%) Coaching
6 11 (20.75%) Degree
6 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
6 11 (20.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
7 10 (18.87%) Line Management
7 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.09%) Azure
8 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
9 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
9 7 (13.21%) Finance
10 6 (11.32%) BT
10 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (11.32%) Python
10 6 (11.32%) SQL
10 6 (11.32%) SCCM
10 6 (11.32%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
10 6 (11.32%) Police
10 6 (11.32%) Customer Service
11 5 (9.43%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (9.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (9.43%) Learning Management System

Technical Support 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 5 (9.43%) Moodle
1 5 (9.43%) WordPress
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) JBoss
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.55%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (3.77%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.89%) AWS
5 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) Internet
1 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.66%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.77%) VPN
4 1 (1.89%) DNS
4 1 (1.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Power BI
1 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 12 (22.64%) Telecoms
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.21%) Finance
6 6 (11.32%) Police
7 5 (9.43%) Electronics
7 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
7 5 (9.43%) Marketing
8 2 (3.77%) German Language
8 2 (3.77%) Retail
9 1 (1.89%) Automotive
9 1 (1.89%) French Language
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.89%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) RESTful
2 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.77%) LangChain
2 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.89%) CSS
3 1 (1.89%) HTML
3 1 (1.89%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (1.89%) Node.js
3 1 (1.89%) OAuth
3 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.89%) OpenID
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Learning Management System
2 3 (5.66%) EMV
3 2 (3.77%) IoT
3 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.74%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.77%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.89%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (24.53%) ITIL
3 12 (22.64%) Coaching
4 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (18.87%) Line Management
5 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.32%) Customer Service
5 6 (11.32%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (9.43%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (9.43%) Programme Management
6 5 (9.43%) Web Development
7 4 (7.55%) API Development
7 4 (7.55%) API Integration
7 4 (7.55%) DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) Machine Learning
7 4 (7.55%) Process Improvement
8 3 (5.66%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (5.66%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.66%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
1 6 (11.32%) Python
1 6 (11.32%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) PHP
3 1 (1.89%) Ruby
3 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) BPSS Clearance
1 11 (20.75%) Degree
2 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) BT
2 5 (9.43%) SAP
2 5 (9.43%) VMware
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) NEC
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Temenos