Support Specialist Contracts in England

Support Specialist
UK > England

The median Support Specialist daily rate in England is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 419 586
Rank change year-on-year -25 +167 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 41 123 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.36% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 99 41
10th Percentile £140 £158 £199
25th Percentile £251 £231 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £469 £608 £550
90th Percentile £507 - £725
UK median daily rate £320 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -36.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £13.00 - £21.24
Median hourly rate £15.00 £25.00 £32.16
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -22.27% +91.22%
75th Percentile £17.50 - £45.73
90th Percentile £19.55 - £52.79
UK median hourly rate £19.20 £25.00 £32.16
% change year-on-year -23.20% -22.27% +91.22%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in England

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 Support Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +15 20 £370 -26.00% 75
South East +10 8 £140 -76.86% 45
North of England +22 6 £395 +21.38% 29
North West +20 6 £395 +21.38% 22
East of England +31 3 £140 -55.20% 10
Midlands +18 3 £325 +13.04% 9
West Midlands +10 2 £330 +14.78% 4
East Midlands +10 1 £320 - 4
Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Windows
3 12 (29.27%) ITIL
4 10 (24.39%) SQL
4 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
4 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
5 9 (21.95%) Azure
5 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
6 8 (19.51%) Finance
6 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
7 7 (17.07%) Customer Service
7 7 (17.07%) Time Management
8 6 (14.63%) SharePoint
8 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
8 6 (14.63%) ITSM
8 6 (14.63%) SaaS
8 6 (14.63%) Analytics
8 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
9 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
9 5 (12.20%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (12.20%) Incident Management
9 5 (12.20%) Python
9 5 (12.20%) Oracle
10 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
10 4 (9.76%) Unix
10 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (9.76%) Knowledge Management

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 6 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) JBoss
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) BambooHR
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Fidessa
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
3 6 (14.63%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) DHCP
1 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) LAN
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) DECT
3 1 (2.44%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (2.44%) NAS
3 1 (2.44%) SAN
3 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.44%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.44%) VLAN
3 1 (2.44%) VoIP
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
3 1 (2.44%) WebEx
3 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) DB2
2 2 (4.88%) IMS/DB
2 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) Power Query
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Middleware
2 2 (4.88%) EJB
2 2 (4.88%) J2EE
2 2 (4.88%) JDBC
2 2 (4.88%) RESTful
2 2 (4.88%) SOAP
2 2 (4.88%) Web Services
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.88%) XML
2 2 (4.88%) XSLT
3 1 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Bitcoin
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.44%) Eurex
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Android
5 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.44%) Rocky
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) ITIL
2 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.07%) Customer Service
3 7 (17.07%) Time Management
4 6 (14.63%) Analytics
4 6 (14.63%) ITSM
5 5 (12.20%) Incident Management
6 4 (9.76%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (9.76%) User Experience
7 3 (7.32%) CRM
7 3 (7.32%) Data Protection
7 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.32%) Migration
7 3 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.32%) Validation
8 2 (4.88%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.88%) Data Security
8 2 (4.88%) ERP
8 2 (4.88%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.20%) Python
4 3 (7.32%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) Perl
5 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.88%) REXX
5 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) MCP
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.44%) Rundeck
2 1 (2.44%) SCCM
2 1 (2.44%) SCOM
2 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.20%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) IBM
4 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Concur
5 1 (2.44%) CQG
5 1 (2.44%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.44%) Mitel
5 1 (2.44%) NetApp
5 1 (2.44%) Patsystems
5 1 (2.44%) Reuters
5 1 (2.44%) Trayport
5 1 (2.44%) Veeam
5 1 (2.44%) Veritas