Applications Support Contracts in the North of England

Application Support
England > North of England

The median Application Support daily rate in the North of England is £373, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 184 205
Rank change year-on-year +32 +21 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 14 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.021% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.023% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 12
10th Percentile £265 - £275
25th Percentile £325 £200 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +49.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £414 £300 £381
90th Percentile £424 - £434
England median daily rate £400 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the North of England

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +28 12 £393 +57.20% 21
Yorkshire - 2 £238 - 7
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 North of England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 7 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 7 (50.00%) Sybase
2 7 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 7 (50.00%) Kondor
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (50.00%) Refinitiv
2 7 (50.00%) Cash Management
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (14.29%) AppDynamics
6 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
6 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (7.14%) Issue Tracking
6 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (7.14%) Grafana
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
1 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Cash Management
1 7 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Change Management
3 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
3 1 (7.14%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (7.14%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Observability
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Runbook
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 7 (50.00%) Refinitiv
1 7 (50.00%) Sybase
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Moogsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow