Applications Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 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 315 367 404
Rank change year-on-year +52 +37 -39
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 76 94 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 80 79
10th Percentile £190 £212 £177
25th Percentile £258 £296 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £331 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £500 £475 £441
90th Percentile £738 £552 £510
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile £25.18 - £16.91
25th Percentile £27.50 - £20.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile £32.50 - £34.06
90th Percentile £59.92 - £40.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -5.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Support in the UK excluding London

Applications Support
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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +1 23 £300 -1.64% 13
Midlands +34 14 £400 +4.92% 13
South West +26 14 £475 +2.70% 11
West Midlands +38 13 £300 -27.27% 5
Scotland +24 12 £750 +66.67% 7
East of England +14 11 £350 +9.38% 14
North of England +20 1 £250 -28.57% 17
East Midlands +16 1 £400 +33.33% 8
North West +9 1 £250 -28.57% 11
Northern Ireland +4 1 - -
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 16 (21.05%) Windows
4 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
5 13 (17.11%) Azure
6 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.16%) JIRA
7 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
7 10 (13.16%) Workflow
7 10 (13.16%) Migration
8 9 (11.84%) Atlassian
8 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
8 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
8 9 (11.84%) Customer Service
9 8 (10.53%) DevOps
9 8 (10.53%) Liquidlogic
9 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
9 8 (10.53%) Confluence
10 7 (9.21%) Agile
10 7 (9.21%) Service Management
10 7 (9.21%) Linux
10 7 (9.21%) Web Services
10 7 (9.21%) C#
10 7 (9.21%) IIS
10 7 (9.21%) Kalman Filter
10 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (9.21%) ContrOCC
11 6 (7.89%) Analytics
11 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Office

Applications Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.53%) Confluence
2 7 (9.21%) IIS
3 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.63%) Skype for Business
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) ContrOCC
2 5 (6.58%) Odoo
3 3 (3.95%) Maximo
3 3 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.32%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.11%) Azure
2 5 (6.58%) AWS
2 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.63%) Azure Storage
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.32%) GCP
5 1 (1.32%) PaaS
5 1 (1.32%) SaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Serverless
5 1 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Intranet
1 2 (2.63%) Skype
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) GIS
1 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.32%) Ingres
2 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) French Language
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Portuguese Language
6 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) Web Services
2 6 (7.89%) .NET
2 6 (7.89%) REST
3 3 (3.95%) XML
4 2 (2.63%) SPFx
5 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.32%) JSON
5 1 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.32%) OAuth
5 1 (1.32%) OpenID
5 1 (1.32%) React
5 1 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.58%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.95%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.95%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.63%) CMDB
4 2 (2.63%) iPhone
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) PDA
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.21%) Linux
4 4 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.95%) Unix
6 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.32%) Solaris
7 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (13.16%) Migration
2 10 (13.16%) Workflow
3 9 (11.84%) Customer Service
4 8 (10.53%) DevOps
5 7 (9.21%) Agile
5 7 (9.21%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (9.21%) Service Management
6 6 (7.89%) Analytics
6 6 (7.89%) Data Migration
6 6 (7.89%) ERP
6 6 (7.89%) ITIL
7 5 (6.58%) Change Management
8 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (5.26%) Load Balancing
8 4 (5.26%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (5.26%) Test Scripting
9 3 (3.95%) Problem Management
9 3 (3.95%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (3.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 7 (9.21%) C#
3 6 (7.89%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) Degree
5 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) SCCM
1 5 (6.58%) SCOM
2 3 (3.95%) Netcool
3 2 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Atlassian
3 8 (10.53%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) Apple
5 2 (2.63%) Capita
5 2 (2.63%) Citrix
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Northgate
6 1 (1.32%) Remedy
6 1 (1.32%) VMware