Applications Support Specialist Contracts in London

Application Support Specialist
England > London

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in London is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 467 603
Rank change year-on-year +77 +136 -133
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 5 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.061% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.064% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile - £405 £340
25th Percentile £290 £488 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +17.65% -19.81%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £438
90th Percentile £513 £573 £520
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +92.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +170.45% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Applications 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 London region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (20.00%) VB

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow