Support Officer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Officer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £270 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 375 404
Rank change year-on-year +111 +29 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Support Officer 125 72 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 55 70
10th Percentile £144 £135 £136
25th Percentile £151 £158 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £275 £195
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +41.03% -
75th Percentile £373 £360 £262
90th Percentile £435 £415 £322
UK median daily rate £275 £281 £200
% change year-on-year -2.22% +40.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 4 17
10th Percentile £12.05 £11.48 £11.37
25th Percentile £12.58 £11.81 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.79 £14.16 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +4.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £19.78 £17.05 £20.24
90th Percentile £32.50 £19.27 £29.65
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £15.81 £17.00
% change year-on-year +1.20% -7.00% +9.27%

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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £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 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Support Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
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 Support Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Scotland +58 34 £153 +3.82% 7
South West +41 27 £425 +10.39% 7
North of England +33 22 £303 -10.37% 12
Midlands +29 16 £375 +19.52% 12
North West +29 15 £300 -29.41% 2
South East +22 13 £363 +51.04% 23
East of England +19 11 £110 -76.84% 3
East Midlands +24 9 £335 -16.25% 9
West Midlands +13 7 £375 +30.43% 3
Yorkshire +23 6 £325 +10.64% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 3
Support Officer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Support Officer 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 Support Officer in the job title.

1 48 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 45 (36.00%) Public Sector
3 26 (20.80%) Finance
4 20 (16.00%) PMO
5 18 (14.40%) Windows
5 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
5 18 (14.40%) Project Management
6 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
6 15 (12.00%) Degree
6 15 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
8 12 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (9.60%) Customer Service
9 10 (8.00%) Change Management
9 10 (8.00%) Management Information System
10 9 (7.20%) Programme Delivery
11 8 (6.40%) Agile
11 8 (6.40%) Programme Management
11 8 (6.40%) PRINCE2
11 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
11 8 (6.40%) BitLocker
12 7 (5.60%) Information Management
12 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
12 7 (5.60%) VMware
12 7 (5.60%) Project Delivery
12 7 (5.60%) ContrOCC
12 7 (5.60%) Liquidlogic
13 6 (4.80%) Supplier Management
13 6 (4.80%) Workflow

Support Officer 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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.00%) Moodle
2 5 (4.00%) WordPress
3 4 (3.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.60%) ContrOCC
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.20%) Azure
3 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.80%) AWS
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.80%) IaaS
4 1 (0.80%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Internet
2 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.60%) Intranet
4 1 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.80%) Ingres
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.80%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 48 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 45 (36.00%) Public Sector
3 26 (20.80%) Finance
4 15 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Local Government
6 4 (3.20%) Law
7 3 (2.40%) Police
8 2 (1.60%) Advertising
8 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.80%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.00%) Learning Management System
2 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.40%) NHS
3 3 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.80%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.40%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.80%) Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.40%) Project Management
2 12 (9.60%) Customer Service
3 10 (8.00%) Change Management
4 9 (7.20%) Programme Delivery
5 8 (6.40%) Agile
5 8 (6.40%) PRINCE2
5 8 (6.40%) Programme Management
6 7 (5.60%) Information Management
6 7 (5.60%) Project Delivery
7 6 (4.80%) Configuration Management
7 6 (4.80%) ITIL
7 6 (4.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (4.80%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (4.80%) Supplier Management
7 6 (4.80%) Workflow
8 5 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (4.00%) Dependency Management
8 5 (4.00%) Issue Tracking
8 5 (4.00%) Project Planning
8 5 (4.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.00%) Degree
2 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) MCSE
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) CCNA
6 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.60%) HND
6 2 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.80%) APMP
7 1 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.00%) PMO
2 5 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) P3O
4 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) BitLocker
2 6 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.60%) Liquidlogic
2 7 (5.60%) VMware
3 6 (4.80%) McAfee
4 3 (2.40%) Civica
4 3 (2.40%) SAP
5 2 (1.60%) Adobe
5 2 (1.60%) Capita
5 2 (1.60%) Facebook
6 1 (0.80%) Northgate
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.80%) Remedy