Applications Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Application Support Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Application Support Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.57% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £625 -
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 307 385 430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.22% 95.77% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 211 259
10th Percentile £230 £381 £359
25th Percentile £388 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £660 £676 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £522 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.26% -3.74% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 39 52
10th Percentile £13.50 £30.00 £30.30
25th Percentile £20.23 £51.88 £48.72
Median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £50.61
Median % change year-on-year -50.86% +33.37% -15.65%
75th Percentile £47.38 £72.50 £78.09
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £26.97 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -58.51% +15.06% -8.15%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Applications Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Applications Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Applications Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Cheltenham - 2 £550 - 4
Applications Support Engineer
South West

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Applications Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AMQP
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) npm
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) npm
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle