Applications Support Contracts in England

Application Support
UK > England

The median Application Support daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 363 497
Rank change year-on-year +23 +134 -35
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 194 299 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.66% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 260 201
10th Percentile £189 £289 £213
25th Percentile £285 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £556 £405
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +37.35% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £575
90th Percentile £650 £823 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile £26.16 - £19.75
25th Percentile £27.50 £21.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -5.54%
75th Percentile £32.50 £23.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £59.96 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% -3.30% -6.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Support in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Support in England

Applications Support
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +1 121 £500 -13.04% 64
South East +30 27 £300 -1.64% 37
Midlands +34 16 £313 -10.71% 22
West Midlands +36 15 £313 -18.03% 11
South West +13 15 £475 -7.32% 16
East of England +6 10 £350 +9.38% 20
North of England +18 1 £250 -28.57% 23
East Midlands +12 1 £400 +33.33% 11
North West +9 1 £250 -33.33% 16
Applications Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 72 (37.11%) SQL
2 58 (29.90%) Windows
3 45 (23.20%) Finance
3 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
3 45 (23.20%) Social Skills
4 36 (18.56%) Python
5 35 (18.04%) PowerShell
6 33 (17.01%) Linux
7 31 (15.98%) ITIL
7 31 (15.98%) Azure
8 27 (13.92%) Front Office
9 24 (12.37%) Incident Management
10 23 (11.86%) Security Cleared
11 22 (11.34%) Agile
12 21 (10.82%) JIRA
12 21 (10.82%) SC Cleared
13 20 (10.31%) DevOps
14 19 (9.79%) Windows Server
14 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (9.79%) Shell Script
14 19 (9.79%) IBM
15 18 (9.28%) Unix
15 18 (9.28%) Service Management
15 18 (9.28%) Banking
16 17 (8.76%) AWS
17 16 (8.25%) Asset Management
17 16 (8.25%) Release Management
17 16 (8.25%) Risk Management
17 16 (8.25%) MS Visio
17 16 (8.25%) .NET

Applications Support 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 14 (7.22%) CMS
2 9 (4.64%) Confluence
2 9 (4.64%) IIS
3 7 (3.61%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.09%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.55%) Apache
6 2 (1.03%) JBoss
6 2 (1.03%) nginx
6 2 (1.03%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (8.25%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.12%) ContrOCC
2 7 (3.61%) thinkFolio
3 6 (3.09%) Aladdin
3 6 (3.09%) Markit EDM
3 6 (3.09%) SimCorp Dimension
4 5 (2.58%) Odoo
5 3 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (1.03%) Endur
6 2 (1.03%) Global One
6 2 (1.03%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (1.03%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.52%) Eikon
7 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.52%) Maximo
7 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.98%) Azure
2 17 (8.76%) AWS
3 10 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.58%) WhatsApp
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.03%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.52%) GCP
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub
9 1 (0.52%) PaaS
9 1 (0.52%) SaaS
9 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.64%) Firewall
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.03%) Intranet
2 2 (1.03%) Skype
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.70%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.12%) Power BI
4 6 (3.09%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (3.09%) Tableau
5 5 (2.58%) MySQL
6 4 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.03%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.52%) GIS
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (10.82%) JIRA
2 4 (2.06%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (23.20%) Finance
1 45 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.92%) Front Office
3 18 (9.28%) Banking
4 11 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.67%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.64%) Back Office
6 8 (4.12%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.55%) Local Government
8 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.03%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) .NET
2 7 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (3.61%) Web Services
3 6 (3.09%) REST
4 5 (2.58%) XML
5 4 (2.06%) CSS
5 4 (2.06%) HTML
5 4 (2.06%) HTML5
6 3 (1.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (1.55%) JSON
6 3 (1.55%) Middleware
7 2 (1.03%) ActiveX
7 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.03%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.03%) SPFx
8 1 (0.52%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.52%) OAuth
8 1 (0.52%) OpenID
8 1 (0.52%) Spring
8 1 (0.52%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) Derivative
2 9 (4.64%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.64%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.12%) Equities
4 7 (3.61%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.58%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.58%) OTC Derivatives
7 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.03%) Clustering
9 2 (1.03%) CMDB
9 2 (1.03%) iPhone
9 2 (1.03%) PDA
10 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.90%) Windows
2 33 (17.01%) Linux
3 19 (9.79%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.28%) Unix
5 9 (4.64%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.06%) CentOS
8 4 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.55%) Android
9 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.52%) Solaris
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (15.98%) ITIL
2 24 (12.37%) Incident Management
3 22 (11.34%) Agile
4 20 (10.31%) DevOps
5 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.28%) Service Management
7 16 (8.25%) Asset Management
7 16 (8.25%) Release Management
7 16 (8.25%) Risk Management
8 15 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (7.22%) Analytics
9 14 (7.22%) Customer Service
9 14 (7.22%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (6.70%) Migration
11 12 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (5.67%) Workflow
13 10 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (4.64%) Data Management
14 9 (4.64%) Investment Management
14 9 (4.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (37.11%) SQL
2 36 (18.56%) Python
3 35 (18.04%) PowerShell
4 19 (9.79%) Shell Script
5 15 (7.73%) C#
6 7 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.09%) Bash
7 6 (3.09%) Perl
8 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.06%) PHP
10 3 (1.55%) F#
10 3 (1.55%) Java
10 3 (1.55%) VB
10 3 (1.55%) VBA
10 3 (1.55%) VBScript
11 2 (1.03%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) R
12 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.09%) Degree
4 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.64%) SLA
2 4 (2.06%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 14 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.64%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (4.12%) Grafana
2 8 (4.12%) SCCM
3 7 (3.61%) Netcool
4 6 (3.09%) Control-M
5 5 (2.58%) SCOM
6 4 (2.06%) Ansible
6 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.03%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.79%) IBM
3 13 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.67%) Dynatrace
5 10 (5.15%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.64%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.64%) Liquidlogic
7 7 (3.61%) Bloomberg
7 7 (3.61%) Oracle
7 7 (3.61%) SimCorp
7 7 (3.61%) Sybase
8 6 (3.09%) Refinitiv
9 5 (2.58%) Citrix
10 2 (1.03%) Apple
10 2 (1.03%) Charles River
10 2 (1.03%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (1.03%) Splunk
10 2 (1.03%) Temenos