Technical Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Support daily rate in Work from Home is £153 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 446 551
Rank change year-on-year +157 +105 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 55 25 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.097% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 44
10th Percentile £105 £157 £159
25th Percentile £143 £205 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £303 £263
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £175 £375 £419
90th Percentile £282 £388 £510
UK median daily rate £214 £210 £263
% change year-on-year +1.79% -20.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £13.46 - £14.38
25th Percentile - - £17.20
Median hourly rate £15.85 £15.00 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -22.60% +55.04%
75th Percentile - - £24.23
90th Percentile £18.19 - £30.04
UK median hourly rate £19.05 £21.11 £18.76
% change year-on-year -9.76% +12.53% +50.08%

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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £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 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Technical Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technical Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical 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 Technical Support.

Technical Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Support over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Technical Support daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical 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 Technical Support.

Technical Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Support in the job title.

1 21 (38.18%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (27.27%) SLA
4 13 (23.64%) ITIL
4 13 (23.64%) Telecoms
5 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
5 12 (21.82%) Coaching
6 11 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 11 (20.00%) Degree
7 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
7 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.18%) Line Management
8 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (14.55%) Azure
10 7 (12.73%) Finance
10 7 (12.73%) SQL
10 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
10 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
11 6 (10.91%) SCCM
11 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
11 6 (10.91%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (10.91%) Python
11 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
11 6 (10.91%) BT
11 6 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
11 6 (10.91%) Police
11 6 (10.91%) Customer Service
12 5 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language

Technical 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 (9.09%) Moodle
1 5 (9.09%) WordPress
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.82%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 5 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (3.64%) ChatGPT
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.82%) AWS
5 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.09%) Internet
3 3 (5.45%) Firewall
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (3.64%) HTTP
4 2 (3.64%) VPN
5 1 (1.82%) DNS
5 1 (1.82%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 13 (23.64%) Telecoms
2 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.73%) Finance
6 6 (10.91%) Police
7 5 (9.09%) Electronics
7 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
7 5 (9.09%) Marketing
8 2 (3.64%) German Language
8 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.82%) Automotive
9 1 (1.82%) Banking
9 1 (1.82%) French Language
9 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.82%) Legal
9 1 (1.82%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) RESTful
2 2 (3.64%) Hugging Face
2 2 (3.64%) LangChain
2 2 (3.64%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.82%) Node.js
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.82%) OpenID
3 1 (1.82%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Learning Management System
2 3 (5.45%) EMV
3 2 (3.64%) IoT
3 2 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.82%) IVR
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.64%) Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.64%) Mac OS X
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (23.64%) ITIL
3 12 (21.82%) Coaching
4 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (18.18%) Line Management
5 6 (10.91%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.91%) Customer Service
5 6 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (9.09%) Programme Management
6 5 (9.09%) Web Development
7 4 (7.27%) API Development
7 4 (7.27%) API Integration
7 4 (7.27%) DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) Machine Learning
7 4 (7.27%) Process Improvement
8 3 (5.45%) Data Management
8 3 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (5.45%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) SQL
2 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.91%) Python
3 5 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.82%) C#
4 1 (1.82%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) PHP
4 1 (1.82%) Ruby
4 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 11 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) BT
2 5 (9.09%) SAP
2 5 (9.09%) VMware
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) Avaya
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) NEC
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Temenos
5 1 (1.82%) Verint