Support Specialist Contract Job Trends in England

Support Specialist
UK > England

The median Support Specialist daily rate in England is £273, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 435 497
Rank change year-on-year +7 +62 +174
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 86 92 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 68
10th Percentile £213 £188 £148
25th Percentile £215 £254 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year -31.92% +10.41% -23.68%
75th Percentile £440 £550 £491
90th Percentile £538 £608 £606
UK median daily rate £270 £345 £350
% change year-on-year -21.74% -1.43% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 8
10th Percentile £13.00 - £16.16
25th Percentile £13.85 £15.50 £17.26
Median hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £20.01
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.02% -
75th Percentile £25.04 £16.50 £27.63
90th Percentile £43.75 - £29.13
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.99% -

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 25,496 30,444 39,571
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.96% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,435 18,752 27,612
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 1,407 1,371
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.85 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £21.31 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.03 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.27% +69.23%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Specialist job vacancies in England

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in England

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Specialist job vacancies in England

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 September 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 +25 37 £233 -19.83% 29
North of England -1 23 £471 - 9
North West 0 15 £656 - 3
South West +22 10 £525 +169.23% 9
North East - 7 £285 - 1
South East 0 6 £270 -51.13% 25
East of England - 6 - - 2
Midlands -10 4 £425 - 6
West Midlands -11 4 £425 - 3
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 5
Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 46 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 36 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (31.40%) Finance
4 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
5 19 (22.09%) Windows
6 15 (17.44%) Validation
6 15 (17.44%) PowerShell
6 15 (17.44%) ServiceNow
6 15 (17.44%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (15.12%) SAP
9 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
9 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Office
9 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
9 11 (12.79%) Service Management
9 11 (12.79%) User Experience
9 11 (12.79%) Azure
9 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
9 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
9 11 (12.79%) Customer Service
9 11 (12.79%) Windows 10
10 10 (11.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (11.63%) Inventory Management
10 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.63%) OneDrive
10 10 (11.63%) Patch Management
10 10 (11.63%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (11.63%) Oracle

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 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.49%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.16%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (12.79%) Azure
3 10 (11.63%) OneDrive
4 5 (5.81%) Google Workspace
4 5 (5.81%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.16%) AWS
6 1 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) WebEx
2 3 (3.49%) Skype
3 2 (2.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.16%) DECT
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) LAN
4 1 (1.16%) NAS
4 1 (1.16%) SAN
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.16%) VLAN
4 1 (1.16%) VoIP
4 1 (1.16%) VPN
4 1 (1.16%) WAN
4 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) GitLab
1 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 46 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.40%) Finance
3 15 (17.44%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.49%) Law
5 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.33%) Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
6 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Military
6 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.16%) Aviation
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Electronics
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) JSON
1 5 (5.81%) XML
2 1 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.16%) Kafka
2 1 (1.16%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.16%) Derivative
5 1 (1.16%) Equities
5 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Life Science
5 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) SCADA
5 1 (1.16%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Windows
2 11 (12.79%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.44%) Validation
3 11 (12.79%) Customer Service
3 11 (12.79%) Service Management
3 11 (12.79%) User Experience
4 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (11.63%) Inventory Management
4 10 (11.63%) Mobile Device Management
4 10 (11.63%) Patch Management
5 8 (9.30%) Risk Management
5 8 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (8.14%) Asset Management
6 7 (8.14%) Business Process Analysis
6 7 (8.14%) ITIL
6 7 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (8.14%) Test Automation
6 7 (8.14%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (6.98%) Data Entry
7 6 (6.98%) Data Matching
7 6 (6.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.44%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.47%) Python
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 4 (4.65%) SQL
5 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.16%) C
6 1 (1.16%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.49%) Degree
3 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.16%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.16%) CIPD
4 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.16%) MCP
4 1 (1.16%) MCSA
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) PMO
3 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
2 1 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.16%) SCCM
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.44%) ServiceNow
3 13 (15.12%) SAP
4 10 (11.63%) Oracle
5 7 (8.14%) Salesforce
6 6 (6.98%) Workday
7 5 (5.81%) Google
8 3 (3.49%) Cisco
8 3 (3.49%) Polycom
8 3 (3.49%) Remedy
9 2 (2.33%) HP
10 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
10 1 (1.16%) Calypso
10 1 (1.16%) EMC
10 1 (1.16%) Murex
10 1 (1.16%) NetApp
10 1 (1.16%) Reuters
10 1 (1.16%) Sophis
10 1 (1.16%) Veritas
10 1 (1.16%) VMware