Applications Support Contracts in the West Midlands

Application Support
England > West Midlands

The median Application Support daily rate in the West Midlands is £300 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 101 139 144
Rank change year-on-year +38 +5 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 13 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.12% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.13% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 20
10th Percentile £165 £361 £260
25th Percentile £189 £378 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% -26.38%
75th Percentile £425 £434 £509
90th Percentile - £443 £650
England median daily rate £450 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.13 - -
Median hourly rate £14.25 - -
75th Percentile £14.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% -1.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,763 2,276 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.79% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,566 2,513
10th Percentile £258 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 68 85
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.07 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £54.88 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the West Midlands

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the West Midlands

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the West Midlands

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the West Midlands

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 10 £400 -6.98% 1
Worcestershire - 4 £185 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) ERP
2 5 (38.46%) Odoo
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Server Management
5 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
5 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) Fintech
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) IIS
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (7.69%) SLA
5 1 (7.69%) Linux
5 1 (7.69%) Tomcat

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Odoo
2 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ERP
2 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
2 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
2 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
2 1 (7.69%) Data Management
2 1 (7.69%) Fintech
2 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) Server Management
2 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
2 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
2 1 (7.69%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce