IT Support Technician Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Support Technician
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Support Technician daily rate in Work from Home is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 457 615
Rank change year-on-year +119 +158 -140
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Technician 8 15 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.058% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.061% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £190 £160 £163
25th Percentile - £175 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £213 - £235
90th Percentile £285 - £244
UK median daily rate £200 £188 £160
% change year-on-year +6.67% +17.19% +21.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £18.13 £13.04
25th Percentile - £18.27 £14.22
Median hourly rate - £19.03 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.74% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £20.27 £18.75
90th Percentile - £20.71 £21.75
UK median hourly rate £11.50 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -42.50% +14.29% +15.21%

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 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

IT Support Technician
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Support Technician trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Technician
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 IT Support Technician.

IT Support Technician daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Technician
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Support Technician over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

IT Support Technician daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Support Technician
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 IT Support Technician.

IT Support Technician hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, IT Support Technician 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 IT Support Technician in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Office Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Enablement
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) Ariba
5 1 (12.50%) Terminal Server
5 1 (12.50%) MPLS
5 1 (12.50%) Sophos
5 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (12.50%) SAP
5 1 (12.50%) Network Management
5 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) SNMP

IT Support Technician 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) SNMP
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Office Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Enablement
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Ariba
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) NETGEAR
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) VMware