IT Support Specialist Contracts in England

IT Support Specialist
UK > England

The median IT Support Specialist daily rate in England is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 511 630
Rank change year-on-year +34 +119 +138
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Specialist 11 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.055% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.059% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £304 - £162
25th Percentile £310 £184 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £198 £205
Median % change year-on-year +62.03% -3.66% -8.89%
75th Percentile £405 £280 £270
90th Percentile £455 £503 £304
UK median daily rate £310 £198 £205
% change year-on-year +56.96% -3.66% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile - - £21.03
25th Percentile - - £21.08
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +12.32% -
75th Percentile - - £23.53
90th Percentile - - £23.64
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £25.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -48.00% +12.32% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

IT Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Specialist in England

IT Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Specialist in England

IT Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Specialist in England

IT Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Specialist in England

IT Support Specialist
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 IT Support Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
North West - 7 £395 - 1
North of England - 7 £395 - 8
London +40 3 - - 18
Midlands +16 1 £320 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £320 -
IT Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, IT 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 England region featuring IT Support Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
3 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) ERP
7 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 1 (9.09%) LAN
7 1 (9.09%) WLAN
7 1 (9.09%) WAN
7 1 (9.09%) DHCP
7 1 (9.09%) DNS
7 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
7 1 (9.09%) Project Management
7 1 (9.09%) SQL
7 1 (9.09%) Oracle
7 1 (9.09%) ITIL
7 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
7 1 (9.09%) Finance
7 1 (9.09%) Automotive

IT Support Specialist 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) BambooHR
1 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Power Query
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Data Security
2 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Release Management
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Concur
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) VMware