Support Specialist Contracts in the East of England

Support Specialist
England > East of England

The median Support Specialist daily rate in the East of England is £140, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.38% - 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 - -
England median daily rate £300 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -40.00% +21.21% -24.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.21 - -
25th Percentile £23.71 - -
Median hourly rate £29.45 - £41.81
75th Percentile £38.21 - -
90th Percentile £41.54 - -
England median hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £23.76
% change year-on-year -32.00% +5.23% +41.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 923 1,728 1,785
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.59% 89.07% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 745 1,097
10th Percentile £190 £209 £200
25th Percentile £325 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -6.95% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 596 261
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.65 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +2.87% +122.93%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Specialist in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £140 - 1
Norfolk - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 3
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, Support Specialist 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 East of England region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Workday
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Workday