Applications Support Contracts in the Midlands

Application Support
England > Midlands

The median Application Support daily rate in the Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 158 175
Rank change year-on-year +41 +17 -25
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 15 5 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.15% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.15% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 25
10th Percentile £170 £219 £163
25th Percentile £190 £275 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -26.38%
75th Percentile £425 £419 £500
90th Percentile - £438 £650
England median daily rate £450 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - £19.75
Median hourly rate £14.25 - £21.50
75th Percentile £14.38 - £23.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -5.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,525 3,237 4,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 94.65% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 2,279 3,531
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £462
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.93% +15.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 127 170
10th Percentile £11.86 £12.30 £10.69
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.37
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.56 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the Midlands

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the Midlands

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the Midlands

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the Midlands

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +32 14 £300 -21.31% 5
East Midlands +17 1 £400 +33.33% 10
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Midlands region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) ERP
2 5 (33.33%) Odoo
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (6.67%) Linux
6 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
6 1 (6.67%) SLA
6 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (6.67%) .NET
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.67%) IIS
6 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.67%) Data Management
6 1 (6.67%) Capita
6 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (6.67%) PDA
6 1 (6.67%) WFM
6 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (6.67%) Android

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.67%) IIS
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Odoo
2 3 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ERP
2 1 (6.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (6.67%) Data Management
2 1 (6.67%) Fintech
2 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (6.67%) Server Management
2 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (6.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Capita
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce