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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 270 245
Rank change year-on-year +3 -25 +179
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 83 135 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.77% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.82% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 107 221
10th Percentile £226 £189 £363
25th Percentile £345 £263 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £574 £810
90th Percentile £599 £650 £823
England median daily rate £400 £400 £505
% change year-on-year - -20.79% +30.32%
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 £26.00
% change year-on-year +23.17% +15.38% +4.00%

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 11,759 16,474 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.77% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 11,827 17,372
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 321 274
10th Percentile £19.28 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.50 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.63 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +7 12 £518 +34.42% 43
West London +10 3 £238 +23.38% 3
South London +4 3 £225 - 1
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 35 (42.17%) SQL
2 31 (37.35%) Finance
3 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
4 22 (26.51%) Windows
5 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.10%) Front Office
7 17 (20.48%) ITIL
8 16 (19.28%) Python
8 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
9 14 (16.87%) Banking
9 14 (16.87%) SaaS
10 13 (15.66%) Linux
11 12 (14.46%) SQL Server
11 12 (14.46%) Azure
11 12 (14.46%) PowerShell
12 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (12.05%) Windows Server
13 10 (12.05%) Unix
14 9 (10.84%) Service Management
14 9 (10.84%) SLA
14 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (10.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (10.84%) Data Protection
15 8 (9.64%) Splunk
15 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (8.43%) Incident Management
16 7 (8.43%) Back Office
16 7 (8.43%) Service Delivery

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 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.20%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.82%) Aladdin
3 2 (2.41%) iTrent
4 1 (1.20%) BambooHR
4 1 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.20%) Kondor
4 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) SaaS
2 12 (14.46%) Azure
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.82%) Asana
6 4 (4.82%) AWS
6 4 (4.82%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.82%) Slack
7 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.20%) Datadog
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub
8 1 (1.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) VPN
1 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (6.02%) Power BI
5 3 (3.61%) MySQL
5 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.41%) DB2
6 2 (2.41%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Git
1 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JUnit
2 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.20%) TestNG
2 1 (1.20%) Toad
General
1 31 (37.35%) Finance
2 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.10%) Front Office
4 14 (16.87%) Banking
5 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Back Office
7 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Local Government
8 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.20%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.41%) Node.js
1 2 (2.41%) React
1 2 (2.41%) REST
1 2 (2.41%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (1.20%) .NET
2 1 (1.20%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.20%) Express.js
2 1 (1.20%) JSON
2 1 (1.20%) LAMP
2 1 (1.20%) NumPy
2 1 (1.20%) Pandas
2 1 (1.20%) SciPy
2 1 (1.20%) SOAP
2 1 (1.20%) Spring
2 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.43%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.02%) Equities
4 4 (4.82%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.61%) Grid Computing
6 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.20%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Life Science
7 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Windows
2 13 (15.66%) Linux
3 10 (12.05%) Unix
3 10 (12.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.02%) Android
4 5 (6.02%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.48%) ITIL
3 9 (10.84%) Data Protection
3 9 (10.84%) Service Management
3 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (8.43%) CRM
5 7 (8.43%) Incident Management
5 7 (8.43%) Service Delivery
6 6 (7.23%) Problem Management
7 5 (6.02%) Agile
7 5 (6.02%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.02%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (4.82%) Asset Management
8 4 (4.82%) Change Management
8 4 (4.82%) ERP
8 4 (4.82%) Identity Management
8 4 (4.82%) ITSM
8 4 (4.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) SQL
2 16 (19.28%) Python
3 12 (14.46%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.82%) Java
5 3 (3.61%) Bash
6 2 (2.41%) ABAP
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) PHP
7 1 (1.20%) C
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Degree
2 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.20%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) SLA
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.82%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Splunk
3 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.61%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.41%) eFront
5 2 (2.41%) FactSet
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) Interwoven
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) SunGard
5 2 (2.41%) UiPath
6 1 (1.20%) Concur
6 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.20%) Remedy
6 1 (1.20%) Sybase