Applications Support Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Support Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 464 613
Rank change year-on-year +122 +149 -128
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 5 4 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.016% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.017% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile - - £312
25th Percentile £290 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -23.08% +100.77%
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £516 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -19.95% -14.89% +95.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Applications Support Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Support Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Support Specialist.

Applications Support Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Support Specialist over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Applications Support Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Applications Support Specialist 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) F#
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) F#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace