Applications Support Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Application Support
England > Yorkshire

The median Application Support daily rate in Yorkshire is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile £420 - -
England median daily rate £408 £400 £401
% change year-on-year +2.00% -0.12% -23.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,667 1,447 1,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.94% 90.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 939 825
10th Percentile £331 £230 £284
25th Percentile £413 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 43 57
10th Percentile £15.32 £17.36 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.23 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +0.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £34.77 £81.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £36.61 - £48.75
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Applications Support' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Applications Support job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in Yorkshire

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Support job vacancies in Yorkshire

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 4
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 20 September 2026, Applications Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) CICS
3 1 (20.00%) COBOL
3 1 (20.00%) Db2
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Db2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) Runbook
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) COBOL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk