Senior Applications Support Contracts in England

Senior Application Support
UK > England

The median Senior Application Support daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 August 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 521 612
Rank change year-on-year +35 +91 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Support 30 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.033% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.036% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 6
10th Percentile £363 £306 £347
25th Percentile £388 £331 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £663
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -32.08% +76.67%
75th Percentile £414 £475 £688
90th Percentile £525 £508 £694
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% +23.33%

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 25,309 30,961 42,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.88% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,402 20,374 29,930
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £654
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,814 1,319
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

Senior Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Support in England

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Support in England

Senior Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Support in England

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Support in England

Senior 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 Senior Applications Support within the England region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
South West +49 15 £400 -11.11%
London +27 14 £500 +11.11% 5
South East - 1 - - 7
Senior Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Applications Support in the job title.

1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 15 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 15 (50.00%) Logistics
3 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
3 14 (46.67%) GDPR
4 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (23.33%) Front Office
5 6 (20.00%) Windows
5 6 (20.00%) Finance
6 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
6 5 (16.67%) Benchmarking
6 5 (16.67%) Data Security
7 4 (13.33%) Identity Management
7 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
7 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (13.33%) Azure
7 4 (13.33%) SaaS
7 4 (13.33%) Android
7 4 (13.33%) Apple iOS
7 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (13.33%) Slack
7 4 (13.33%) Asana
7 4 (13.33%) Entra ID

Senior 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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Asana
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
1 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (13.33%) OneDrive
1 4 (13.33%) SaaS
1 4 (13.33%) Slack
2 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (23.33%) Front Office
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Back Office
4 1 (3.33%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Android
2 4 (13.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 15 (50.00%) Logistics
2 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (16.67%) Benchmarking
2 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 5 (16.67%) Data Security
3 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 4 (13.33%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (6.67%) ERP
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) ITSM
6 1 (3.33%) Agile
6 1 (3.33%) Change Management
6 1 (3.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.33%) Data Management
6 1 (3.33%) ETRM
6 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) GDPR
2 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow