Support Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Support Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £385 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 313 438 470
Rank change year-on-year +125 +32 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 78 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.095% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 7 30
10th Percentile £148 £167 £107
25th Percentile £184 £185 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £215 £250
Median % change year-on-year +79.07% -14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £608 £393 £475
90th Percentile - £515 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.94% +23.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile - £42.88 -
25th Percentile - £44.48 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £48.41 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -48.35% +187.78% +3.51%
75th Percentile - £53.58 £17.61
90th Percentile - £55.93 £18.29
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.16 £16.82
% change year-on-year -22.27% +91.22% -15.90%

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%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Support 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 Support Specialist 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 +48 43 £605 +181.40% 13
South West +38 21 £165 -2.94% 9
Midlands +31 7 £288 - 10
West Midlands +33 6 £288 - 5
North of England +31 3 £325 -40.91% 13
North West +14 3 £325 -40.91% 9
East of England +9 2 £313 - 9
East Midlands +18 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 £370 - 4
Wales - 1 £300 -
Support Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Support 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 Support Specialist in the job title.

1 52 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 44 (56.41%) SC Cleared
3 39 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 36 (46.15%) DV Cleared
5 34 (43.59%) Social Skills
6 31 (39.74%) ITIL
7 29 (37.18%) Windows
7 29 (37.18%) Microsoft
7 29 (37.18%) Azure
8 24 (30.77%) Analytics
9 23 (29.49%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (29.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 21 (26.92%) Degree
10 21 (26.92%) SCCM
10 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (24.36%) Firewall
11 19 (24.36%) Linux
11 19 (24.36%) DHCP
11 19 (24.36%) DNS
12 17 (21.79%) Problem Management
12 17 (21.79%) Windows Server
13 15 (19.23%) TCP/IP
13 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 15 (19.23%) Knowledge Management
13 15 (19.23%) WSUS
13 15 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (19.23%) DevOps
13 15 (19.23%) Entra ID
13 15 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
13 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2016

Support 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 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.41%) Apache
2 5 (6.41%) IIS
2 5 (6.41%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.56%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 29 (37.18%) Azure
2 23 (29.49%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 14 (17.95%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (17.95%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
5 1 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.36%) DHCP
1 19 (24.36%) DNS
1 19 (24.36%) Firewall
2 15 (19.23%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.97%) LAN
4 6 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (7.69%) WAN
4 6 (7.69%) Wireless
5 5 (6.41%) VLAN
5 5 (6.41%) VPN
6 4 (5.13%) H.323
6 4 (5.13%) HTTP
7 1 (1.28%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 34 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.69%) Police
4 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Finance
6 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.95%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.28%) LDAP
2 1 (1.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) PKI
1 14 (17.95%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.41%) IVR
3 3 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.85%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.28%) CMDB
5 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.18%) Windows
2 19 (24.36%) Linux
3 17 (21.79%) Windows Server
4 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (7.69%) Windows 10
6 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.85%) Unix
8 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.74%) ITIL
2 24 (30.77%) Analytics
3 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (21.79%) Problem Management
5 15 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (19.23%) DevOps
5 15 (19.23%) Knowledge Management
6 14 (17.95%) Agile
6 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 14 (17.95%) Identity Management
6 14 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (17.95%) Log Analytics
6 14 (17.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 14 (17.95%) Privileged Identity Management
6 14 (17.95%) RBAC
6 14 (17.95%) Release Management
6 14 (17.95%) Service Management
7 9 (11.54%) Data Analysis
7 9 (11.54%) Data Protection
7 9 (11.54%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.95%) Bicep
1 14 (17.95%) C#
1 14 (17.95%) PowerShell
1 14 (17.95%) VB
1 14 (17.95%) VBScript
2 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.28%) Bash
3 1 (1.28%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 44 (56.41%) SC Cleared
3 36 (46.15%) DV Cleared
4 23 (29.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 21 (26.92%) Degree
6 6 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (17.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (26.92%) SCCM
2 15 (19.23%) WSUS
3 14 (17.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (17.95%) SCOM
4 3 (3.85%) Netcool
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (37.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) HP
3 6 (7.69%) BT
3 6 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.41%) Avaya
4 5 (6.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.85%) IBM
6 2 (2.56%) Verint
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) SAP
7 1 (1.28%) VMware