Applications Support Specialist Contracts in London

Application Support Specialist
England > London

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in London is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 480 588
Rank change year-on-year +89 +108 -129
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 3 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.055% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.058% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £501 £400 £250
25th Percentile £502 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +17.65% +2.41%
75th Percentile £514 £544 £438
90th Percentile £517 £575 £520
England median daily rate £506 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +103.70%
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 16,640 26,016 37,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.31% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 18,790 27,160
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £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 342 295 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.01 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

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
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 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System

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 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
15 Applications Support Specialist jobs in England