Applications Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Application Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Application Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £306, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 177 208
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 +37
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 3 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.086% 0.064% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.069% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £244 - £375
25th Percentile £264 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £352 - £645
90th Percentile £373 - £834
England median daily rate £400 £338 £540
% change year-on-year +18.52% -37.50% +44.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,148 4,325 5,309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 92.51% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,033 2,603 3,635
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 340 233
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £33.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +113.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.85 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the South East

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the South East

Applications Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Applications Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Hampshire +10 1 £375 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 - - 3
Surrey - 1 £238 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Applications Support Engineer
England

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Applications Support Engineer 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 South East region featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft