Applications Support Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Application Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 263 333
Rank change year-on-year -2 +70 +176
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 39 82 145
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.57% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 58 130
10th Percentile £213 £190 £255
25th Percentile £252 £289 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% -7.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £810
90th Percentile £526 £614 £835
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.72 -
UK median hourly rate £36.95 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +23.17% +36.36% -3.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Applications Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Support trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Applications Support.

Applications Support hourly rate 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 2025, 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 18 (46.15%) Windows
2 16 (41.03%) Finance
3 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
4 13 (33.33%) SQL
4 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
6 10 (25.64%) SaaS
6 10 (25.64%) Azure
7 9 (23.08%) SLA
8 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
9 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
9 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
10 6 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (15.38%) CRM
11 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (12.82%) Dynamics CRM
12 4 (10.26%) OneDrive
12 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
12 4 (10.26%) Asana
12 4 (10.26%) Slack
12 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
12 4 (10.26%) Banking
12 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
12 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (10.26%) IT Asset Management
12 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS

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 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.69%) JBoss
3 3 (7.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.56%) IIS
4 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.56%) iTrent
2 1 (2.56%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
1 10 (25.64%) SaaS
2 4 (10.26%) Asana
2 4 (10.26%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.26%) OneDrive
2 4 (10.26%) Slack
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) Loki
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 6 (15.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.26%) Android
3 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.26%) Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Unix
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.38%) CRM
2 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
2 4 (10.26%) Identity Management
2 4 (10.26%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (7.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (5.13%) Analytics
4 2 (5.13%) Customer Service
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection
4 2 (5.13%) ERP
4 2 (5.13%) Investment Management
4 2 (5.13%) ITIL
4 2 (5.13%) Service Delivery
4 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (5.13%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.13%) Wealth Management
5 1 (2.56%) DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.56%) C#
3 1 (2.56%) F#
3 1 (2.56%) Java
3 1 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) SLA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.56%) Avaloq
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) FactSet
3 1 (2.56%) FIS
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Moogsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.56%) Refinitiv
3 1 (2.56%) Reuters
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Sybase
3 1 (2.56%) Veritas
3 1 (2.56%) VMware