Senior Applications Support Contracts

Senior Application Support
UK

The median Senior Application Support daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 584 705
Rank change year-on-year +88 +121 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Support 23 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.037% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.040% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 6
10th Percentile £363 £390 £327
25th Percentile £388 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -22.35% +54.53%
75th Percentile £413 £475 £684
90th Percentile £525 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £580
% change year-on-year - -30.97% +54.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Senior Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Support.

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Support over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Applications Support.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Support within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +80 23 £400 -11.11% 7
UK excluding London +66 14 £400 - 5
South West - 14 £400 - 1
London +40 9 £413 -8.33% 4
Work from Home +45 7 £413 +3.13% 5

Senior Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Senior Applications 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 featuring Senior Applications Support in the job title.

1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 14 (60.87%) Logistics
2 14 (60.87%) Data Protection
3 13 (56.52%) GDPR
3 13 (56.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (26.09%) Finance
5 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
5 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
5 5 (21.74%) Data Security
5 5 (21.74%) Benchmarking
5 5 (21.74%) Windows
6 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
6 4 (17.39%) Identity Management
6 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (17.39%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
6 4 (17.39%) Android
6 4 (17.39%) Azure
6 4 (17.39%) SaaS
6 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
6 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
6 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Slack
6 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) Asana

Senior Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Asana
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
1 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
1 4 (17.39%) SaaS
1 4 (17.39%) Slack
2 1 (4.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Front Office
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Android
2 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Data Protection
1 14 (60.87%) Logistics
2 5 (21.74%) Benchmarking
2 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
2 5 (21.74%) Data Security
3 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Management
3 4 (17.39%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (8.70%) ERP
6 1 (4.35%) Data Management
6 1 (4.35%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.35%) ETRM
6 1 (4.35%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) GDPR
2 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto