IT Support Contracts in the South East

IT Support
England > South East

The median IT Support daily rate in the South East is £300, 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 119 113 101
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 -9
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support 40 93 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.67% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.81% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 85
10th Percentile £200 £130 £122
25th Percentile £250 £158 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £198 £200
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% -1.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £475 £211 £215
90th Percentile £536 £225 £312
England median daily rate £220 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 11
10th Percentile £17.16 - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £7.43 £18.08
Median hourly rate £24.66 £15.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.40% -18.92% +19.35%
75th Percentile £28.00 £20.81 £18.75
90th Percentile £63.74 £22.74 -
England median hourly rate £18.75 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +17.65%

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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in the South East

IT Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support in the South East

IT Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support in the South East

IT Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support in the South East

IT Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support in the South East

IT 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 IT Support within the South East 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
Thames Valley +30 14 £508 +202.99% 44
Surrey +15 13 £263 +32.91% 18
Oxfordshire +3 6 £450 +210.34% 12
Buckinghamshire +13 5 £508 +153.75% 13
West Sussex +5 5 £207 +3.50% 19
Hampshire -5 5 £288 +43.75% 23
Berkshire +23 3 - - 20
Kent +9 2 - - 16
IT Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 IT Support in the job title.

1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (30.00%) Customer Service
6 11 (27.50%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 10 (25.00%) ITIL
7 10 (25.00%) Windows 10
8 9 (22.50%) Firewall
8 9 (22.50%) Service Delivery
9 8 (20.00%) Degree
10 6 (15.00%) Google
10 6 (15.00%) Google Workspace
10 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
11 5 (12.50%) Post-Production
11 5 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
11 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
11 5 (12.50%) Dell
11 5 (12.50%) Workflow
11 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
11 5 (12.50%) A+ Certification
11 5 (12.50%) VLAN
11 5 (12.50%) Content Management
11 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
12 4 (10.00%) SAP
12 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
12 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity

IT 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 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (15.00%) Google Workspace
3 3 (7.50%) Azure
4 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.00%) WhatsApp
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (22.50%) Firewall
3 5 (12.50%) VLAN
4 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.50%) LAN
5 3 (7.50%) Skype
5 3 (7.50%) WAN
6 2 (5.00%) Internet
6 2 (5.00%) Softphone
6 2 (5.00%) VPN
7 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.50%) IP Telephony
7 1 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (2.50%) NAS
7 1 (2.50%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.50%) Network Security
7 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.50%) SAN
7 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) MySQL
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Automotive
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 10 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
4 9 (22.50%) Service Delivery
5 6 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 5 (12.50%) Content Management
6 5 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (12.50%) Post-Production
6 5 (12.50%) Workflow
7 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.00%) Ticket Management
8 3 (7.50%) Application Rationalisation
8 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.50%) Service Catalogue
9 2 (5.00%) Analytics
9 2 (5.00%) Break/Fix
9 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
9 2 (5.00%) DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.00%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) A+ Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.00%) MCSA
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Dell Certification
5 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
3 1 (2.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.00%) Malwarebytes
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Google
3 5 (12.50%) Dell
3 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.50%) HP
5 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.00%) IBM
6 2 (5.00%) Ivanti
7 1 (2.50%) Apple
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) F5
7 1 (2.50%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (2.50%) VMware