Applications Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support daily rate in Work from Home is £486 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 327 500
Rank change year-on-year +60 +173 -89
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 82 148 123
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.58% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.60% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 133 84
10th Percentile £190 £262 £198
25th Percentile £289 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +31.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £525 £810 £500
90th Percentile £614 £835 £613
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £15.23 - £21.10
25th Percentile £16.89 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £19.72 - £32.50
75th Percentile £22.48 - £35.00
90th Percentile £24.10 - £46.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% -3.30% -6.57%

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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Applications Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Applications Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
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.

Applications Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Applications Support daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Applications Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Applications Support hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 45 (54.88%) SQL
2 37 (45.12%) Windows
3 23 (28.05%) Azure
4 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
5 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
6 16 (19.51%) Finance
7 15 (18.29%) Migration
7 15 (18.29%) Linux
7 15 (18.29%) C#
8 14 (17.07%) Python
9 13 (15.85%) ETL
9 13 (15.85%) High Availability
10 12 (14.63%) Windows Server
10 12 (14.63%) Elite 3E
10 12 (14.63%) AWS
10 12 (14.63%) SQL Server
10 12 (14.63%) Replication
11 11 (13.41%) Agile
11 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
12 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (10.98%) Unix
13 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
14 8 (9.76%) .NET
14 8 (9.76%) JIRA
14 8 (9.76%) Workflow
14 8 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
15 7 (8.54%) Confluence
15 7 (8.54%) Front Office
16 6 (7.32%) Incident Management

Applications Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) JBoss
3 3 (3.66%) nginx
4 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.22%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Elite 3E
2 5 (6.10%) Maximo
3 3 (3.66%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.22%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) AWS
3 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.44%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.22%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) PaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) DNS
1 3 (3.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) GIS
3 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.22%) Ingres
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.66%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.44%) Git
General
1 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Front Office
5 6 (7.32%) Banking
6 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.66%) Back Office
7 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.66%) Legal
7 3 (3.66%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Local Government
8 1 (1.22%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) .NET
2 4 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 4 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (4.88%) Middleware
2 4 (4.88%) REST
3 3 (3.66%) IBM Integration Bus
3 3 (3.66%) Web Services
4 2 (2.44%) XML
5 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.22%) CSS
5 1 (1.22%) HTML
5 1 (1.22%) HTML5
5 1 (1.22%) JSON
5 1 (1.22%) OAuth
5 1 (1.22%) OpenID
5 1 (1.22%) React
5 1 (1.22%) SOAP
5 1 (1.22%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.63%) Replication
3 4 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.66%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.44%) Clustering
5 2 (2.44%) Derivative
5 2 (2.44%) Equities
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.44%) SCADA
5 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (45.12%) Windows
2 15 (18.29%) Linux
3 12 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 9 (10.98%) Unix
5 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.22%) Android
6 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.29%) Migration
2 13 (15.85%) ETL
2 13 (15.85%) High Availability
3 11 (13.41%) Agile
4 9 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (9.76%) Workflow
6 6 (7.32%) Incident Management
6 6 (7.32%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (6.10%) Customer Service
7 5 (6.10%) DevOps
7 5 (6.10%) Release Management
8 4 (4.88%) Analytics
8 4 (4.88%) Asset Management
8 4 (4.88%) Runbook
8 4 (4.88%) Service Management
8 4 (4.88%) Test Scripting
9 3 (3.66%) Change Management
9 3 (3.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (3.66%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.88%) SQL
2 15 (18.29%) C#
3 14 (17.07%) Python
4 11 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.66%) Bash
6 3 (3.66%) F#
6 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Perl
7 2 (2.44%) VBScript
8 1 (1.22%) PHP
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Degree
1 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) QA
1 4 (4.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Ansible
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Atlassian
2 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.10%) IBM
4 4 (4.88%) Intapp
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
5 3 (3.66%) Sybase
5 3 (3.66%) Temenos
6 2 (2.44%) Capita
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) Splunk
7 1 (1.22%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.22%) FactSet
7 1 (1.22%) Google
7 1 (1.22%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.22%) Northgate
7 1 (1.22%) Remedy
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow