Applications Support Contracts in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support daily rate in London is £413, 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 279 273 279
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +125
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 74 118 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.66% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.71% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 95 188
10th Percentile £213 £189 £363
25th Percentile £313 £316 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £713
90th Percentile £588 £658 £823
England median daily rate £400 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.95 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +23.17% +36.36% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the London 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
Central London +2 8 £505 +1.00% 9
South London +10 6 £279 - 1
West London +9 6 £225 +16.88%
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications Support 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 in the job title.

1 38 (51.35%) SQL
2 32 (43.24%) Finance
3 22 (29.73%) Windows
4 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
5 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.97%) Front Office
6 17 (22.97%) Banking
7 14 (18.92%) SQL Server
7 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
8 13 (17.57%) ITIL
8 13 (17.57%) Unix
8 13 (17.57%) Python
9 12 (16.22%) SLA
9 12 (16.22%) Windows Server
9 12 (16.22%) SaaS
10 11 (14.86%) Azure
10 11 (14.86%) Linux
11 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (12.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
13 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
13 8 (10.81%) CRM
13 8 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (9.46%) Service Delivery
14 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
14 7 (9.46%) Splunk
14 7 (9.46%) Problem Management

Applications Support 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 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) JBoss
3 3 (4.05%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (5.41%) Aladdin
3 3 (4.05%) Fidessa
4 2 (2.70%) iTrent
5 1 (1.35%) BambooHR
5 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (1.35%) Kondor
5 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.22%) SaaS
2 11 (14.86%) Azure
3 5 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.41%) Asana
4 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.41%) OneDrive
4 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.41%) Slack
5 2 (2.70%) AWS
5 2 (2.70%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Wireshark
2 3 (4.05%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.70%) DHCP
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
5 2 (2.70%) DB2
6 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) JUnit
2 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.35%) TestNG
2 1 (1.35%) Toad
General
1 32 (43.24%) Finance
2 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.97%) Banking
3 17 (22.97%) Front Office
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.41%) Back Office
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Local Government
8 1 (1.35%) French Language
8 1 (1.35%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (5.41%) Web Services
2 3 (4.05%) Node.js
2 3 (4.05%) React
2 3 (4.05%) REST
3 2 (2.70%) Express.js
3 2 (2.70%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.35%) JSON
4 1 (1.35%) Middleware
4 1 (1.35%) NumPy
4 1 (1.35%) Pandas
4 1 (1.35%) SciPy
4 1 (1.35%) SOAP
4 1 (1.35%) Spring
4 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.11%) Equities
4 5 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.41%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.05%) Derivative
6 3 (4.05%) Eurex
6 3 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.05%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Bitcoin
7 1 (1.35%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.73%) Windows
2 13 (17.57%) Unix
3 12 (16.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (14.86%) Linux
5 6 (8.11%) Android
6 4 (5.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (4.05%) CentOS
8 2 (2.70%) Rocky
8 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.35%) Debian
9 1 (1.35%) Fedora
9 1 (1.35%) Solaris
9 1 (1.35%) SUSE
9 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.35%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (17.57%) ITIL
3 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (10.81%) CRM
3 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
4 7 (9.46%) Problem Management
4 7 (9.46%) Service Delivery
5 6 (8.11%) Electronic Trading
6 5 (6.76%) Data Protection
6 5 (6.76%) Release Management
7 4 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (5.41%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (5.41%) DevOps
7 4 (5.41%) Identity Management
7 4 (5.41%) Investment Management
7 4 (5.41%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (5.41%) Process Improvement
7 4 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (5.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (51.35%) SQL
2 13 (17.57%) Python
3 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.05%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) Perl
5 2 (2.70%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.35%) ABAP
6 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.05%) Degree
2 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.35%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.41%) Rundeck
3 3 (4.05%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.05%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Splunk
3 6 (8.11%) Bloomberg
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle
5 4 (5.41%) ION Trading
6 3 (4.05%) CQG
6 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.05%) Patsystems
6 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.05%) Reuters
6 3 (4.05%) Trayport
7 2 (2.70%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.70%) eFront
7 2 (2.70%) FactSet
7 2 (2.70%) IBM
7 2 (2.70%) Interwoven
7 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.70%) UiPath
8 1 (1.35%) Refinitiv