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 24 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 623 803
Rank change year-on-year +84 +180 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Support 22 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.026% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 23
10th Percentile £306 £225 -
25th Percentile £327 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £559 £688 £388
90th Percentile £609 £690 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £650 £375
% change year-on-year -39.42% +73.33% -

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 35,668 46,074 80,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.11% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,741 31,531 56,595
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,618 1,486 1,766
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.81 £19.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.34% +94.44% +25.07%

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 24 September 2024.

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 8 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 24 September 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
England +66 17 £400 -39.62% 9
UK excluding London +49 9 £394 -39.42% 5
Work from Home +76 7 £400 -11.11% 2
London +38 6 £436 -35.37% 3
South East +37 5 £555 -14.62% 2
Midlands - 3 £313 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £313 - 1
South West - 1 £450 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 2024, 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 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) ArcSight
3 8 (36.36%) SIEM
3 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (27.27%) C
5 5 (22.73%) ETL
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 5 (22.73%) Replication
5 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
5 5 (22.73%) Elite 3E
5 5 (22.73%) High Availability
5 5 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (22.73%) Customer Experience
6 4 (18.18%) Intapp
6 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
6 4 (18.18%) SCCM
7 3 (13.64%) Workflow
7 3 (13.64%) Legal
7 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
8 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
8 2 (9.09%) Front Office
8 2 (9.09%) Python
8 2 (9.09%) Data Quality

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Elite 3E
2 1 (4.55%) iTrent
2 1 (4.55%) Markit EDM
2 1 (4.55%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.55%) Raiser’s Edge
2 1 (4.55%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Legal
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Back Office
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Police
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
1 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Derivative
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Housing Association
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) SIEM
2 5 (22.73%) Customer Experience
2 5 (22.73%) ETL
2 5 (22.73%) High Availability
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Workflow
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.55%) API Development
6 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
6 1 (4.55%) Batch Scheduling
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.55%) Data Extraction
6 1 (4.55%) Database Optimisation
6 1 (4.55%) ETRM
6 1 (4.55%) Housing Management
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Management
6 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.55%) System Testing
6 1 (4.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) C
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) DV Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) ArcSight
2 4 (18.18%) Intapp
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) NEC
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle