assyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Axios Systems assyst
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring assyst skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 367 416
Rank change year-on-year 0 +49 +45
Contract jobs citing assyst 11 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.023% 0.074%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.99% 0.38% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £190 £191 £148
25th Percentile £200 £192 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £192 £165
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +16.36% -69.10%
75th Percentile £338 £196 £193
90th Percentile £368 £198 £279
UK median daily rate £240 £192 £165
% change year-on-year +25.00% +16.36% -69.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £15.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £12.82 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

assyst falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,112 1,039 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.09% 5.93% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 613 863
10th Percentile £358 £316 £356
25th Percentile £450 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.42% +1.03%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £715 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 55 65
10th Percentile £12.82 £27.00 £30.96
25th Percentile £19.45 £36.43 £49.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -24.77% +41.23%
75th Percentile £72.50 £59.98 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £64.64 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £33.49 £45.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -25.58% -18.96% +23.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing assyst relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

assyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing assyst.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing assyst

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing assyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for assyst in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing assyst.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing assyst

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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 assyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
North West - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
Scotland -9 3 £220 +14.58%
South West - 3 £325 - 1
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) IT Support
2 5 (45.45%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 7 (63.64%) Customer Service
2 7 (63.64%) Service Management
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (18.18%) Planning and Forecasting
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
6 1 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
6 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) IFS
4 1 (9.09%) Progress
4 1 (9.09%) Remedy