Technical Specialist Contracts in London

Technical Specialist
England > London

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 456 574
Rank change year-on-year +75 +118 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 8 44 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.16% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.17% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 16
10th Percentile £384 £461 £488
25th Percentile £430 £475 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% -12.08% +21.21%
75th Percentile £663 £575 £652
90th Percentile £724 £645 £770
England median daily rate £325 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -39.25% +1.90% +7.14%

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
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 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in London

Technical Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Specialist in London

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Specialist in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Specialist in London

Technical Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Specialist in London

Technical 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 Technical Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 26 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 +33 1 £475 -4.04%
Technical Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Technical 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 Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Workforce Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) FHIR
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) eFront
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (12.50%) IVR
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) WFM
4 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing

Technical 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) H.323
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) IVR
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
1 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
1 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
1 1 (12.50%) Change Management
1 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (12.50%) High Availability
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
1 1 (12.50%) Server Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Design
1 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
1 1 (12.50%) WFM
1 1 (12.50%) Workforce Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Avaya
1 1 (12.50%) eFront
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Verint