Technical Specialist Contracts in the South East

Technical Specialist
England > South East

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in the South East is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 170 205
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +67
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 7 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile - £295 -
25th Percentile £140 £419 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £510 £150
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +240.00% -67.57%
75th Percentile £631 £563 £153
90th Percentile £675 - -
England median daily rate £488 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.59% -9.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 3,194 4,445 5,339
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.26% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,064 2,714 3,663
10th Percentile £205 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £613
90th Percentile £663 £691 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 369 236
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -42.22% +6.95% +63.85%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Specialist in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Specialist in the South East

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Specialist job vacancies in the South East

Technical Specialist
DemandTrendContract 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 Technical Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire - 4 £650 - 1
Technical Specialist
England

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 20 August 2025, Technical 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 South East region featuring Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Time Management
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Spreadsheet
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) ERP

Technical Specialist 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 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle