IT Support Specialist Contract Job Trends in Carlisle

IT Support Specialist
Cumbria > Carlisle

The median IT Support Specialist daily rate in Carlisle is £190, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Carlisle 28.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £195 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cumbria median daily rate £190 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Carlisle

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Carlisle. 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 Carlisle with a recognized job title 7 7 9
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £136 £253
25th Percentile £185 £160 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £200 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -63.30% +45.33%
75th Percentile £268 £344 £548
90th Percentile £311 £430 £549
Cumbria median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.75 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% +7.02% -
75th Percentile £38.13 - £23.75
90th Percentile £42.25 - -
Cumbria median hourly rate £62.50 £54.51 £58.78
% change year-on-year +14.66% -7.27% +6.88%

IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Carlisle

For the 6 months to 13 October 2026, IT Support Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Carlisle region featuring IT Support Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Web Filtering
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless

IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Carlisle by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Filtering
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
IT Support Specialist jobs