Technical Specialist Contracts in England

Technical Specialist
UK > England

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 503 550
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 40 30 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.087% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.093% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 52
10th Percentile £140 £213 £383
25th Percentile £209 £350 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £745
90th Percentile £684 £749 -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.04% -4.71% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.46 - -
Median hourly rate £29.50 - £41.81
75th Percentile £52.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.50 - £34.16

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 25,314 32,143 43,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.99% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,454 21,223 30,900
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 2,038 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.69 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.81 £19.16
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.96% +70.79%
75th Percentile £55.87 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £43.32
% change year-on-year -39.85% -3.47% +68.67%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Specialist in England

Technical 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 Technical Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +28 22 £455 -14.95% 38
South East +22 7 £320 -14.67% 10
South West +34 5 £525 +218.18% 2
East of England +14 2 £140 - 2
West Midlands -6 2 £501 -24.38% 2
Midlands -6 2 £501 -24.38% 4
Technical Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (17.50%) Time Management
4 7 (17.50%) Windows
4 7 (17.50%) Migration
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (12.50%) User Experience
6 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (12.50%) Google
7 4 (10.00%) Finance
7 4 (10.00%) Validation
7 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (10.00%) Azure
7 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 3 (7.50%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
8 3 (7.50%) Google Workspace
8 3 (7.50%) Analytics
8 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (7.50%) Workflow
8 3 (7.50%) UML
8 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling

Technical 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 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Acrobat
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.50%) CA PPM
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Google Workspace
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.00%) OCI
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Attraqt
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) DHCP
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) PBX
2 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
2 1 (2.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) GIS
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.50%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.50%) Portuguese Language
6 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) RESTful
1 2 (5.00%) SailPoint
1 2 (5.00%) Software Packaging
1 2 (5.00%) Swagger
1 2 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (2.50%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) SOAP
2 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (17.50%) Migration
2 7 (17.50%) Time Management
3 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (12.50%) User Experience
4 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (10.00%) Validation
5 3 (7.50%) Analytics
5 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.50%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (7.50%) UML
5 3 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (7.50%) Workflow
6 2 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.00%) Patch Management
6 2 (5.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (5.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.50%) Perl
3 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
1 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Progress
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Computacenter
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp
4 1 (2.50%) Qualys
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Sparx
4 1 (2.50%) Varonis
4 1 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Workday