IT Technical Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Technical Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Technical Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 - 427
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technical Specialist 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £230
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.32%
75th Percentile - - £366
90th Percentile - - £376
UK median daily rate £500 - £380
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

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 11,956 19,149 21,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.41% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 11,598 14,941
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,392 1,083
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.28 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

IT Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technical Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Technical Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Technical Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Technical Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Technical Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Technical 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 IT Technical Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East - 1 £500 - 2
IT Technical Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, IT Technical 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 IT Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation

IT Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle