Support Specialist Contracts in Reading

Support Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Support Specialist daily rate in Reading is £605 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 68 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 25 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.10% - 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% - 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £603 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £400
75th Percentile £608 - £413
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +60.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,111 991 1,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.66% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 658 876
10th Percentile £213 £363 £182
25th Percentile £413 £455 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 25 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.03 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £48.40 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -2.33%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Reading region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (96.00%) Azure
2 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (96.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (56.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (56.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 14 (56.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (56.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (56.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 14 (56.00%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (56.00%) Agile
3 14 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (56.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (56.00%) Analytics
3 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 14 (56.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (56.00%) Entra ID
3 14 (56.00%) PKI
3 14 (56.00%) Degree
3 14 (56.00%) WSUS
3 14 (56.00%) Release Management
3 14 (56.00%) SCCM
3 14 (56.00%) SCOM
3 14 (56.00%) Service Management
3 14 (56.00%) Firewall
3 14 (56.00%) Identity Management
3 14 (56.00%) C#
3 14 (56.00%) VBScript

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 14 (56.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) Azure Monitor
2 14 (56.00%) Azure Storage
2 14 (56.00%) Entra ID
2 14 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) DHCP
1 14 (56.00%) DNS
1 14 (56.00%) Firewall
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) PKI
1 14 (56.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
1 14 (56.00%) Windows Server
1 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 14 (56.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Agile
1 14 (56.00%) Analytics
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (56.00%) DevOps
1 14 (56.00%) Identity Management
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (56.00%) ITIL
1 14 (56.00%) Log Analytics
1 14 (56.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 14 (56.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 14 (56.00%) RBAC
1 14 (56.00%) Release Management
1 14 (56.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Bicep
1 14 (56.00%) C#
1 14 (56.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (56.00%) VB
1 14 (56.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (96.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (56.00%) Degree
3 14 (56.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (56.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (56.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (56.00%) SCCM
1 14 (56.00%) SCOM
1 14 (56.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft