assyst Contract Job Trends

Axios Systems assyst
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 541 545 620
Rank change year-on-year +4 +75 +178
Contract jobs citing assyst 11 4 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.011% 0.041%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.38% 0.14% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile £190 £191 £150
25th Percentile £200 £192 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £192 £165
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +16.36% -69.44%
75th Percentile £338 £196 £183
90th Percentile £368 £198 £257
UK excluding London median daily rate £240 £192 £165
% change year-on-year +25.00% +16.36% -69.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £15.85 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.82 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,861 2,799 3,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 7.36% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 1,507 2,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £672 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.42% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 72 78
10th Percentile £12.98 £24.55 £26.76
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.27 £46.42
Median hourly rate £33.49 £45.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% -18.96% +23.40%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £85.10 £67.95 £90.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -3.53% -24.77% +41.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

assyst job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for assyst in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London 0 11 £240 +25.00% 1
England - 8 £325 - 1
North West - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
Scotland -9 3 £220 +14.58%
South West - 3 £325 - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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