Support Specialist Contracts in London

Support Specialist
England > London

The median Support Specialist daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 457 558
Rank change year-on-year +115 +101 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 46 44 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 37
10th Percentile £203 £205 £178
25th Percentile £283 £225 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +64.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £725
90th Percentile - £715 -
England median daily rate £500 £400 £523
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.44% +49.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.26 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
% change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -15.90%

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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in London

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in London

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in London

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in London

Support Specialist
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 Support Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
East London -2 5 £500 -
Central London +33 2 £550 +15.79% 3
Support Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Support Specialist in the job title.

1 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 16 (34.78%) Windows
4 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
4 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (28.26%) ERP
5 13 (28.26%) Dynamics GP
6 11 (23.91%) SQL
7 10 (21.74%) SCCM
7 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
7 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
8 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
8 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
9 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
9 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
9 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (15.22%) AWS
9 7 (15.22%) Taxonomies
9 7 (15.22%) Migration
9 7 (15.22%) VMware
9 7 (15.22%) Citrix
9 7 (15.22%) ITIL
9 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
10 6 (13.04%) SLA
10 6 (13.04%) Time Management
10 6 (13.04%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
11 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
11 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery

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 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (4.35%) IIS
3 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) Azure
4 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Intranet
General
1 17 (36.96%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Front Office
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (2.17%) Middleware
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Taxonomies
2 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) ERP
2 7 (15.22%) ITIL
2 7 (15.22%) Migration
3 6 (13.04%) Time Management
3 6 (13.04%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
5 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (6.52%) Business Continuity
6 3 (6.52%) Change Management
6 3 (6.52%) Identity Management
6 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.35%) Service Delivery
8 1 (2.17%) Algorithmic Trading
8 1 (2.17%) Benchmarking
8 1 (2.17%) Problem Management
8 1 (2.17%) Project Management
8 1 (2.17%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) VBScript
3 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) SCCM
2 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 7 (15.22%) Citrix
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.52%) Okta
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) Workday