Applications Support Contracts in Central London

Application Support
London > Central London

The median Application Support daily rate in Central London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 159 156
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 10 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.61% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.64% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 38
10th Percentile £371 £240 £366
25th Percentile £385 £317 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £594 £663 £650
90th Percentile £640 £675 £713
London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,350 3,740 4,348
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.38% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,679 2,553 3,324
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £679 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 50
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.55 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.95 £84.75 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in Central London

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in Central London

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in Central London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in Central London

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in Central London

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
City of London +25 9 £456 -18.89% 7
City of Westminster - 1 £750 -
Applications Support
London

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Applications 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 Central London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) Front Office
4 4 (40.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (30.00%) Market Making
5 3 (30.00%) Data Sharing
5 3 (30.00%) Agriculture
6 2 (20.00%) Refinitiv
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) Firewall
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (10.00%) IIS
7 1 (10.00%) CSS
7 1 (10.00%) Unix
7 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (10.00%) VBScript
7 1 (10.00%) MySQL
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (10.00%) IBM
7 1 (10.00%) HTML

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Front Office
3 3 (30.00%) Agriculture
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Data Sharing
1 3 (30.00%) Market Making
1 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Application Security
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
3 1 (10.00%) Order Management
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat