Applications Support Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Support Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £428, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 394 446
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 +55
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.024% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.026% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +25.00% -36.00%
75th Percentile £451 - -
90th Percentile £456 - -
UK median daily rate £480 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +1.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.20 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £21.40 £59.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.03% - -
75th Percentile £21.60 £60.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.40 £59.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -64.03% +170.45% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Applications Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland - 4 £428 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 7
Applications Support Specialist
UK

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Applications 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Garbage Collection
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Health
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Observability

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (20.00%) JVM Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) Veritas
1 4 (80.00%) VMware