Applications Support Specialist Contracts in London

Application Support Specialist
England > London

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in London is £290 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 463 588
Rank change year-on-year +81 +125 -113
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 8 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.046% 0.055% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.058% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile - £455 £329
25th Percentile - - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +33.33% -15.25%
75th Percentile £448 £556 £438
90th Percentile £509 £598 £520
England median daily rate £401 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -19.90% -14.89% +95.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate - £22.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 London region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VBScript
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Time Management
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (12.50%) Learning Management System
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Management Information System

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Learning Management System
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Time Management
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace