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 £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 350 384
Rank change year-on-year +50 +34 -22
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 101 80 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 74 91
10th Percentile £199 £213 £195
25th Percentile £302 £293 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £331 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -11.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £463
90th Percentile £739 £561 £500
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £24.83 - £16.91
25th Percentile £27.50 - £20.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +47.69%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £34.06
90th Percentile £37.98 - £40.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -5.54%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +18 34 £339 +11.15% 18
East of England +15 17 £350 +9.38% 16
South West +10 17 £463 -9.76% 8
West Midlands +31 16 £313 -10.71% 6
Midlands +27 16 £313 -3.85% 16
Scotland +60 15 £750 +93.55% 13
North West +2 1 £250 -33.33% 9
North of England -1 1 £250 -33.33% 17
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 2
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 36 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 23 (22.77%) Windows
4 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
5 19 (18.81%) SQL
6 16 (15.84%) Azure
7 14 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.87%) JIRA
8 13 (12.87%) Unix
8 13 (12.87%) Workflow
9 12 (11.88%) Migration
9 12 (11.88%) Netcool
9 12 (11.88%) Shell Script
9 12 (11.88%) IBM
9 12 (11.88%) Atlassian
9 12 (11.88%) Windows Server
10 11 (10.89%) Data Centre
10 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (10.89%) Driving Licence
10 11 (10.89%) ITIL
10 11 (10.89%) Web Services
11 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
11 10 (9.90%) Confluence
11 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
11 10 (9.90%) Windows 10
12 9 (8.91%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (8.91%) Liquidlogic
12 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
12 9 (8.91%) Customer Service
12 9 (8.91%) SLA

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 10 (9.90%) Confluence
2 8 (7.92%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.93%) IIS
4 4 (3.96%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.98%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.99%) nginx
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.99%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (7.92%) ContrOCC
2 5 (4.95%) Odoo
3 3 (2.97%) Maximo
3 3 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.99%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.99%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.99%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.84%) Azure
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.95%) PaaS
4 4 (3.96%) AWS
5 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.98%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.99%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.99%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Skype
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (1.98%) Intranet
3 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) GIS
1 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.95%) Finance
5 2 (1.98%) Local Government
6 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.99%) French Language
6 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.99%) Military
6 1 (0.99%) Portuguese Language
6 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) Web Services
2 7 (6.93%) REST
3 3 (2.97%) .NET
4 2 (1.98%) SPFx
4 2 (1.98%) XML
5 1 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Data Centre
1 11 (10.89%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.93%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.98%) CMDB
5 2 (1.98%) iPhone
5 2 (1.98%) PKI
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.99%) PDA
6 1 (0.99%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.77%) Windows
2 13 (12.87%) Unix
3 12 (11.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.90%) Windows 10
5 9 (8.91%) Linux
6 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.98%) Solaris
9 1 (0.99%) Android
9 1 (0.99%) Rocky
9 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.99%) VMS
9 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (12.87%) Workflow
3 12 (11.88%) Migration
4 11 (10.89%) ITIL
5 9 (8.91%) Customer Service
5 9 (8.91%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (8.91%) Service Management
6 8 (7.92%) Analytics
6 8 (7.92%) Data Migration
7 7 (6.93%) Agile
8 6 (5.94%) Change Management
8 6 (5.94%) DevOps
8 6 (5.94%) ERP
8 6 (5.94%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (4.95%) Problem Management
9 5 (4.95%) Security Patching
10 4 (3.96%) Release Management
10 4 (3.96%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (3.96%) Test Scripting
11 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.81%) SQL
2 12 (11.88%) Shell Script
3 10 (9.90%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.94%) Python
5 5 (4.95%) C#
6 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.99%) Bash
7 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) SLA
2 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Netcool
2 7 (6.93%) SCCM
3 4 (3.96%) SCOM
4 2 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Atlassian
1 12 (11.88%) IBM
2 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.91%) Liquidlogic
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.98%) Apple
7 2 (1.98%) Citrix
7 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.99%) Google
8 1 (0.99%) NEC
8 1 (0.99%) Remedy
8 1 (0.99%) SAP