Applications Support Specialist Contracts in England

Application Support Specialist
UK > England

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 571 752
Rank change year-on-year +91 +181 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 34 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.045% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.048% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 11
10th Percentile - £419 £320
25th Percentile £290 £475 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £419
90th Percentile £550 £595 £443
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £406
% change year-on-year -20.00% +23.08% -9.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Applications Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in England

Applications Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
London +54 20 £350 -30.00% 2
South East - 13 £401 -
West Midlands - 1 £330 -
Midlands - 1 £330 -
Applications Support Specialist
UK

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Applications Support Specialist 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 job ads across the England region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (41.18%) Shell Script
2 14 (41.18%) Unix
2 14 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 13 (38.24%) Netcool
3 13 (38.24%) IBM
3 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) Azure
5 11 (32.35%) Driving Licence
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) ITIL
6 9 (26.47%) SQL
7 8 (23.53%) Customer Service
8 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
8 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
9 6 (17.65%) CRM
9 6 (17.65%) Windows
9 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (17.65%) Finance
9 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
9 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (14.71%) SaaS
10 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
10 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
10 5 (14.71%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (14.71%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
10 5 (14.71%) Incident Management

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Endur
1 1 (2.94%) iTrent
1 1 (2.94%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (14.71%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.94%) AWS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) MS Access
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Driving Licence
2 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Unix
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.94%) Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) ITIL
3 8 (23.53%) Customer Service
4 6 (17.65%) CRM
5 5 (14.71%) Incident Management
5 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.82%) ITSM
6 3 (8.82%) Time Management
7 2 (5.88%) Agile
8 1 (2.94%) Application Packaging
8 1 (2.94%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (2.94%) Customer-Centricity
8 1 (2.94%) Data Protection
8 1 (2.94%) DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) Escalation Management
8 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (2.94%) Project Delivery
8 1 (2.94%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (2.94%) Value Proposition
8 1 (2.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Shell Script
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) R
4 1 (2.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Netcool
2 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.94%) SCCM
3 1 (2.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) IBM
3 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Apple
5 1 (2.94%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) TIBCO