Applications Support Contracts in England

Application Support
UK > England

The median Application Support daily rate in England is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 352 489
Rank change year-on-year +5 +137 -46
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 199 305 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.68% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 265 199
10th Percentile £189 £303 £207
25th Percentile £285 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +41.94% -13.89%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £575
90th Percentile £649 £823 £650
UK median daily rate £401 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -23.71% +31.25% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £24.83 £21.90 £19.75
25th Percentile £27.50 £23.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -5.54%
75th Percentile £32.50 £28.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £37.98 £29.30 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +15.38% +14.29% -6.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
London -19 120 £450 -21.74% 56
South East +6 29 £320 +4.75% 29
Midlands +30 16 £313 -3.85% 19
West Midlands +28 16 £313 -10.71% 7
South West +14 15 £488 -4.88% 13
East of England +14 13 £345 +7.81% 25
North of England +14 1 £250 -28.57% 26
North West +10 1 £250 -33.33% 12
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 71 (35.68%) SQL
2 62 (31.16%) Windows
3 48 (24.12%) Social Skills
4 45 (22.61%) Microsoft
5 43 (21.61%) Finance
6 36 (18.09%) PowerShell
7 35 (17.59%) Linux
8 34 (17.09%) ITIL
8 34 (17.09%) Python
9 31 (15.58%) Azure
10 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
11 26 (13.07%) Front Office
12 24 (12.06%) SC Cleared
13 23 (11.56%) Incident Management
14 22 (11.06%) Agile
14 22 (11.06%) JIRA
14 22 (11.06%) Shell Script
14 22 (11.06%) Windows Server
15 20 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (10.05%) IBM
15 20 (10.05%) Unix
16 18 (9.05%) Service Management
16 18 (9.05%) Banking
16 18 (9.05%) AWS
16 18 (9.05%) DevOps
17 17 (8.54%) Release Management
17 17 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
18 16 (8.04%) MS Visio
18 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
19 15 (7.54%) Risk Management

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.04%) CMS
2 9 (4.52%) Confluence
2 9 (4.52%) IIS
3 8 (4.02%) Tomcat
4 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.51%) Apache
5 3 (1.51%) nginx
6 2 (1.01%) JBoss
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.01%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (8.04%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.50%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) ContrOCC
2 7 (3.52%) Aladdin
2 7 (3.52%) SimCorp Dimension
2 7 (3.52%) thinkFolio
3 6 (3.02%) Markit EDM
4 5 (2.51%) Odoo
5 3 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (1.01%) Global One
6 2 (1.01%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.50%) Eikon
7 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.50%) Endur
7 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.50%) Maximo
7 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.58%) Azure
2 18 (9.05%) AWS
3 11 (5.53%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.02%) WhatsApp
6 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.01%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.50%) GCP
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub
9 1 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.52%) Firewall
2 3 (1.51%) Skype
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) Intranet
3 2 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.03%) Relational Database
1 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.52%) Power BI
3 7 (3.52%) Crystal Reports
3 7 (3.52%) Tableau
4 6 (3.02%) MySQL
5 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.01%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.50%) GIS
7 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (11.06%) JIRA
2 4 (2.01%) Git
3 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.61%) Finance
3 26 (13.07%) Front Office
4 18 (9.05%) Banking
5 15 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.52%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.52%) Back Office
9 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.51%) Local Government
10 3 (1.51%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.53%) .NET
2 9 (4.52%) Web Services
3 8 (4.02%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (2.51%) CSS
4 5 (2.51%) HTML
4 5 (2.51%) HTML5
4 5 (2.51%) REST
5 4 (2.01%) XML
6 3 (1.51%) Middleware
7 2 (1.01%) ActiveX
7 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (1.01%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.01%) JSON
7 2 (1.01%) SPFx
8 1 (0.50%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.50%) Spring
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.03%) Derivative
2 9 (4.52%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.52%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.02%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.02%) Equities
4 6 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.51%) OTC Derivatives
6 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.01%) Clustering
7 2 (1.01%) CMDB
7 2 (1.01%) iPhone
7 2 (1.01%) PDA
7 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.16%) Windows
2 35 (17.59%) Linux
3 22 (11.06%) Windows Server
4 20 (10.05%) Unix
5 12 (6.03%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.51%) CentOS
9 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.51%) Android
10 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.01%) Rocky
11 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.50%) Solaris
12 1 (0.50%) VMS
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.09%) ITIL
2 23 (11.56%) Incident Management
3 22 (11.06%) Agile
4 20 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (9.05%) DevOps
5 18 (9.05%) Service Management
6 17 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (8.54%) Release Management
7 15 (7.54%) Risk Management
8 14 (7.04%) Analytics
8 14 (7.04%) Asset Management
9 13 (6.53%) Customer Service
9 13 (6.53%) Migration
9 13 (6.53%) Proactive Monitoring
10 12 (6.03%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (6.03%) Workflow
11 9 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (4.52%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (4.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (35.68%) SQL
2 36 (18.09%) PowerShell
3 34 (17.09%) Python
4 22 (11.06%) Shell Script
5 10 (5.03%) C#
6 9 (4.52%) Bash
7 7 (3.52%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.02%) Perl
9 5 (2.51%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.51%) PHP
10 3 (1.51%) F#
10 3 (1.51%) Java
10 3 (1.51%) VB
10 3 (1.51%) VBA
10 3 (1.51%) VBScript
11 2 (1.01%) Korn
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.51%) Degree
5 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.03%) SLA
2 4 (2.01%) QA
3 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.01%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 16 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.52%) Netcool
1 9 (4.52%) SCCM
2 8 (4.02%) ITRS Geneos
3 7 (3.52%) Grafana
4 6 (3.02%) Control-M
5 4 (2.01%) Ansible
5 4 (2.01%) SCOM
5 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.01%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.05%) IBM
3 14 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.53%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.03%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.52%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.52%) Liquidlogic
7 8 (4.02%) SimCorp
8 7 (3.52%) Bloomberg
8 7 (3.52%) Oracle
8 7 (3.52%) Sybase
9 6 (3.02%) Refinitiv
10 5 (2.51%) Citrix
11 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.51%) VMware
12 2 (1.01%) Apple
12 2 (1.01%) Charles River
12 2 (1.01%) Splunk
12 2 (1.01%) Temenos
13 1 (0.50%) Google
186 Applications Support jobs Nationwide