Applications Support Contracts in the South East

Application Support
England > South East

The median Application Support daily rate in the South East is £339, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 184 225
Rank change year-on-year +18 +41 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 34 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.58% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 33
10th Percentile £200 £263 £174
25th Percentile £231 £303 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £305 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -18.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £384 £388
90th Percentile £525 £675 £500
England median daily rate £400 £525 £388
% change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £23.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -1.44%

All Contract 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 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the South East

Applications Support
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Hampshire +3 15 £401 +14.43% 9
Surrey +18 7 £381 -44.55%
Thames Valley +11 7 £200 -50.77% 6
Berkshire -4 7 £200 -50.77% 3
West Sussex -5 4 £295 -3.28%
Home Counties - 1 - -
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 South East region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) Unix
2 12 (35.29%) IBM
2 12 (35.29%) Netcool
2 12 (35.29%) Shell Script
3 11 (32.35%) Driving Licence
3 11 (32.35%) SQL
4 10 (29.41%) Windows
5 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
7 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (14.71%) Azure
8 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
8 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
9 3 (8.82%) VMware
9 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (8.82%) SLA
9 3 (8.82%) Agile
9 3 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (8.82%) Test Scripting
9 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (8.82%) AWS
9 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
9 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (5.88%) PKI
10 2 (5.88%) Incident Management

Applications Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Unix
2 10 (29.41%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.88%) Solaris
6 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (8.82%) Agile
2 3 (8.82%) Test Scripting
2 3 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (5.88%) Change Management
3 2 (5.88%) Incident Management
3 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (2.94%) CRM
4 1 (2.94%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (2.94%) Decision-Making
4 1 (2.94%) High Availability
4 1 (2.94%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (2.94%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (2.94%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (2.94%) Migration
4 1 (2.94%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.94%) SDLC
4 1 (2.94%) Server Management
4 1 (2.94%) Validation
4 1 (2.94%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Shell Script
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Netcool
2 1 (2.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) IBM
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) VMware
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow