Support Specialist Contracts in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Specialist daily rate in the Thames Valley is £605 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 144 168
Rank change year-on-year +37 +24 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 33 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.22% 0.068% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.073% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 1 1
10th Percentile £148 - -
25th Percentile £603 £213 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £215 £400
Median % change year-on-year +181.40% -46.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £608 £218 £413
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £605 £215 £600
% change year-on-year +181.40% -64.17% +140.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,527 2,756 3,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 94.09% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 1,906 2,270
10th Percentile £206 £313 £189
25th Percentile £369 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 77 101
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +157.14% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.90 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.40 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire +18 32 £605 - 1
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £605 +181.40% 2
Support Specialist
South East

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 25 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 Thames Valley region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 33 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (96.97%) Active Directory
3 26 (78.79%) SC Cleared
3 26 (78.79%) Azure
4 20 (60.61%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
4 20 (60.61%) Degree
4 20 (60.61%) SCCM
4 20 (60.61%) Microsoft
4 20 (60.61%) Windows
5 14 (42.42%) Linux
5 14 (42.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (42.42%) C#
5 14 (42.42%) VBScript
5 14 (42.42%) VB
5 14 (42.42%) ITIL
5 14 (42.42%) DHCP
5 14 (42.42%) DNS
5 14 (42.42%) SCOM
5 14 (42.42%) WSUS
5 14 (42.42%) Release Management
5 14 (42.42%) PKI
5 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
5 14 (42.42%) Agile
5 14 (42.42%) Service Management
5 14 (42.42%) Firewall
5 14 (42.42%) Identity Management
5 14 (42.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (42.42%) Bicep

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (42.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) Azure
2 20 (60.61%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (42.42%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (42.42%) Azure Storage
3 14 (42.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) DHCP
1 14 (42.42%) DNS
1 14 (42.42%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) LAN
2 6 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) PKI
1 14 (42.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Windows
2 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 14 (42.42%) Windows Server
2 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (42.42%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
1 14 (42.42%) Analytics
1 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
1 14 (42.42%) DevOps
1 14 (42.42%) Identity Management
1 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (42.42%) ITIL
1 14 (42.42%) Log Analytics
1 14 (42.42%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 14 (42.42%) Privileged Identity Management
1 14 (42.42%) RBAC
1 14 (42.42%) Release Management
1 14 (42.42%) Service Management
2 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 6 (18.18%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Bicep
1 14 (42.42%) C#
1 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
1 14 (42.42%) VB
1 14 (42.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 33 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (78.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (60.61%) Degree
4 14 (42.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (96.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (42.42%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (42.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) SCCM
2 14 (42.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (42.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (42.42%) SCOM
2 14 (42.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) HP
2 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow