Technical Support Contracts in the City of London

Technical Support
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Support daily rate in the City of London is £240 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 170 185
Rank change year-on-year +45 +15 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.055% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.058% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £178 £205
25th Percentile - £200 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £250 £235
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% -10.48%
75th Percentile - £300 £313
90th Percentile - £323 £440
Central London median daily rate £240 £250 £235
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,471 3,990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.20% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,350 3,011
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in the City of London

Technical Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Support in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Support in the City of London

Technical Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Support in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support in the City of London

Technical Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 job ads across the City of London region featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Filmmaking
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) CMDB
3 1 (25.00%) BT
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector

Technical Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Filmmaking
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) BT