Applications Support Contracts in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 279 411
Rank change year-on-year +2 +132 -22
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 117 227 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.84% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.88% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 188 135
10th Percentile £189 £363 £300
25th Percentile £314 £483 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £713 £605
90th Percentile £659 £823 £650
England median daily rate £450 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -7.60%
75th Percentile - £23.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £31.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% -1.44%

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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +24 10 £500 -13.04% 9
West London - 9 £193 -
South London +13 3 - - 2
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 55 (47.01%) SQL
2 44 (37.61%) Finance
3 40 (34.19%) Windows
4 32 (27.35%) PowerShell
4 32 (27.35%) Linux
4 32 (27.35%) Python
5 30 (25.64%) Microsoft
6 25 (21.37%) Social Skills
7 23 (19.66%) Front Office
8 22 (18.80%) ITIL
9 19 (16.24%) Service Management
9 19 (16.24%) Incident Management
10 18 (15.38%) Risk Management
11 17 (14.53%) Agile
11 17 (14.53%) Banking
12 16 (13.68%) MS Visio
12 16 (13.68%) Relational Database
13 15 (12.82%) DevOps
13 15 (12.82%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (12.82%) JIRA
13 15 (12.82%) Release Management
14 14 (11.97%) CMS
15 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (11.11%) SQL Server
16 12 (10.26%) Unix
16 12 (10.26%) IBM
16 12 (10.26%) Shell Script
16 12 (10.26%) Asset Management
16 12 (10.26%) Analytics
16 12 (10.26%) Dynatrace

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 14 (11.97%) CMS
2 8 (6.84%) Confluence
3 4 (3.42%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) IIS
5 2 (1.71%) JBoss
5 2 (1.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (13.68%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Aladdin
1 5 (4.27%) SimCorp Dimension
2 4 (3.42%) Endur
3 3 (2.56%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.71%) Global One
4 2 (1.71%) Markit EDM
4 2 (1.71%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.85%) Eikon
5 1 (0.85%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) AWS
1 9 (7.69%) Azure
2 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.42%) WhatsApp
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.84%) Firewall
2 2 (1.71%) DNS
2 2 (1.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.98%) Power BI
4 5 (4.27%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (4.27%) MySQL
4 5 (4.27%) Tableau
5 4 (3.42%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.71%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.85%) GIS
8 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.42%) Git
3 3 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (37.61%) Finance
2 25 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.66%) Front Office
4 17 (14.53%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.84%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.13%) Back Office
8 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.56%) Agriculture
9 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.71%) Local Government
10 2 (1.71%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (5.13%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) CSS
3 4 (3.42%) HTML
3 4 (3.42%) HTML5
3 4 (3.42%) REST
3 4 (3.42%) Web Services
4 3 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (2.56%) Middleware
5 2 (1.71%) ActiveX
5 2 (1.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.71%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (1.71%) JSON
5 2 (1.71%) XML
6 1 (0.85%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Hedge funds
2 9 (7.69%) Derivative
3 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.27%) Equities
4 5 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.27%) OTC Derivatives
5 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.56%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.71%) Clustering
7 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 40 (34.19%) Windows
2 32 (27.35%) Linux
3 12 (10.26%) Unix
4 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.42%) CentOS
5 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.71%) Android
6 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.85%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.80%) ITIL
2 19 (16.24%) Incident Management
2 19 (16.24%) Service Management
3 18 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 17 (14.53%) Agile
5 15 (12.82%) DevOps
5 15 (12.82%) Proactive Monitoring
5 15 (12.82%) Release Management
6 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (10.26%) Analytics
7 12 (10.26%) Asset Management
8 11 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (8.55%) Migration
10 9 (7.69%) Data Management
10 9 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.84%) Data Analysis
11 8 (6.84%) SDLC
11 8 (6.84%) Workflow
12 7 (5.98%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.01%) SQL
2 32 (27.35%) PowerShell
2 32 (27.35%) Python
3 12 (10.26%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.69%) C#
5 6 (5.13%) Bash
5 6 (5.13%) Perl
5 6 (5.13%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.42%) PHP
7 3 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.56%) VB
7 3 (2.56%) VBA
7 3 (2.56%) VBScript
8 2 (1.71%) Java
8 2 (1.71%) Korn
9 1 (0.85%) F#
Qualifications
1 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.71%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) SLA
2 2 (1.71%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (7.69%) Grafana
3 4 (3.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Control-M
5 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.85%) SCCM
6 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Dynatrace
2 12 (10.26%) IBM
3 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.84%) Atlassian
4 8 (6.84%) Bloomberg
5 7 (5.98%) Oracle
5 7 (5.98%) Sybase
6 6 (5.13%) Refinitiv
6 6 (5.13%) SimCorp
7 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.42%) OpenLink
9 3 (2.56%) Citrix
10 2 (1.71%) Charles River
10 2 (1.71%) Reuters
10 2 (1.71%) Splunk
10 2 (1.71%) Temenos
11 1 (0.85%) FactSet
11 1 (0.85%) SAP