Systems Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Systems Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £414, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 382 422
Rank change year-on-year +54 +40 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 11 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.082% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.088% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £326 £211 £278
25th Percentile £404 - £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £260 £438
Median % change year-on-year +59.23% -40.57% +15.89%
75th Percentile £420 £475 £481
90th Percentile £424 - £528
UK median daily rate £407 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -4.24% -2.86% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £15.63 £14.88 £17.33
25th Percentile £16.15 - £18.96
Median hourly rate £17.59 £15.85 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% -26.86% +28.83%
75th Percentile £18.45 £16.71 -
90th Percentile £18.62 £31.70 -
UK median hourly rate £17.59 £15.85 £21.67
% change year-on-year +10.96% -26.86% +28.83%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +28 6 £414 -8.00% 6
North West +18 5 £418 -7.11% 4
Midlands +17 3 - - 8
West Midlands +13 3 - - 2
South West +43 1 £400 - 8
South East +39 1 - - 20
Yorkshire - 1 £255 - 1
Systems Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Systems 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 Systems Support in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
3 5 (45.45%) Kondor
3 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
3 5 (45.45%) Cash Management
3 5 (45.45%) Sybase
3 5 (45.45%) Unix
3 5 (45.45%) Bloomberg
3 5 (45.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Refinitiv
4 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Local Government
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 1 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (9.09%) Liquidlogic

Systems 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Local Government
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Cash Management
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
2 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (9.09%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Information Management
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
5 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Bloomberg
1 5 (45.45%) Refinitiv
1 5 (45.45%) Sybase
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (9.09%) SAP