Applications Support Contracts in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 260 425
Rank change year-on-year -15 +165 -46
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 121 232 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.90% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.94% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 199 115
10th Percentile £189 £373 £300
25th Percentile £290 £475 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £760 £575
90th Percentile £650 £825 £665
England median daily rate £425 £556 £411
% change year-on-year -23.60% +35.49% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -7.60%
75th Percentile - £23.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £31.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% -5.54%

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 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +37 10 £399 -30.65% 11
West London - 9 £193 - 1
South London +2 3 - -
Applications Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 London region featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 54 (44.63%) SQL
2 40 (33.06%) Finance
3 38 (31.40%) Windows
4 35 (28.93%) Microsoft
5 31 (25.62%) PowerShell
5 31 (25.62%) Python
5 31 (25.62%) Linux
6 27 (22.31%) Front Office
7 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
8 25 (20.66%) ITIL
9 22 (18.18%) Incident Management
10 20 (16.53%) JIRA
11 18 (14.88%) Azure
11 18 (14.88%) Agile
11 18 (14.88%) Banking
11 18 (14.88%) Service Management
12 16 (13.22%) Risk Management
12 16 (13.22%) MS Visio
13 15 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (12.40%) Asset Management
13 15 (12.40%) DevOps
14 14 (11.57%) Relational Database
14 14 (11.57%) Proactive Monitoring
14 14 (11.57%) Release Management
14 14 (11.57%) CMS
15 12 (9.92%) Derivative
15 12 (9.92%) Shell Script
15 12 (9.92%) Analytics
16 11 (9.09%) Dynatrace
16 11 (9.09%) AWS

Applications Support 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 14 (11.57%) CMS
2 9 (7.44%) Confluence
3 4 (3.31%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) IIS
5 2 (1.65%) JBoss
5 2 (1.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.83%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (13.22%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) thinkFolio
2 6 (4.96%) Aladdin
2 6 (4.96%) Markit EDM
2 6 (4.96%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.65%) Endur
3 2 (1.65%) Global One
3 2 (1.65%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.83%) Eikon
4 1 (0.83%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.88%) Azure
2 11 (9.09%) AWS
3 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.31%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) Firewall
2 2 (1.65%) DNS
2 2 (1.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.61%) Power BI
4 6 (4.96%) Crystal Reports
4 6 (4.96%) Tableau
5 5 (4.13%) MySQL
6 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.65%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (16.53%) JIRA
2 4 (3.31%) Git
3 3 (2.48%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 27 (22.31%) Front Office
3 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.88%) Banking
5 9 (7.44%) Back Office
6 8 (6.61%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.48%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.65%) Local Government
10 2 (1.65%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.61%) .NET
2 7 (5.79%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (4.13%) REST
3 5 (4.13%) Web Services
4 4 (3.31%) CSS
4 4 (3.31%) HTML
4 4 (3.31%) HTML5
5 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 3 (2.48%) Middleware
6 2 (1.65%) ActiveX
6 2 (1.65%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.65%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (1.65%) JSON
6 2 (1.65%) XML
7 1 (0.83%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Derivative
2 9 (7.44%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.61%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.61%) Equities
4 6 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.13%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.13%) OTC Derivatives
6 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.48%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.65%) Clustering
7 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.83%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.40%) Windows
2 31 (25.62%) Linux
3 11 (9.09%) Unix
4 8 (6.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.31%) CentOS
5 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.65%) Android
6 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (20.66%) ITIL
2 22 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 18 (14.88%) Agile
3 18 (14.88%) Service Management
4 16 (13.22%) Risk Management
5 15 (12.40%) Asset Management
5 15 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (12.40%) DevOps
6 14 (11.57%) Proactive Monitoring
6 14 (11.57%) Release Management
7 12 (9.92%) Analytics
8 9 (7.44%) Investment Management
8 9 (7.44%) Migration
9 8 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.61%) Data Management
9 8 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (6.61%) SDLC
9 8 (6.61%) Workflow
10 7 (5.79%) Project Management
10 7 (5.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (44.63%) SQL
2 31 (25.62%) PowerShell
2 31 (25.62%) Python
3 12 (9.92%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.44%) C#
5 6 (4.96%) Bash
5 6 (4.96%) Perl
5 6 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.31%) PHP
7 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.48%) VB
7 3 (2.48%) VBA
7 3 (2.48%) VBScript
8 2 (1.65%) Java
8 2 (1.65%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) F#
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
1 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.65%) Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) SLA
2 2 (1.65%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.44%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.83%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) ITRS Geneos
2 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 6 (4.96%) Control-M
4 4 (3.31%) Ansible
4 4 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.65%) Puppet
6 1 (0.83%) SCCM
6 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 11 (9.09%) IBM
3 10 (8.26%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.44%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.44%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.79%) Bloomberg
5 7 (5.79%) SimCorp
5 7 (5.79%) Sybase
6 6 (4.96%) Refinitiv
7 5 (4.13%) Oracle
8 3 (2.48%) Citrix
9 2 (1.65%) Charles River
9 2 (1.65%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.65%) Splunk
9 2 (1.65%) Temenos
10 1 (0.83%) FactSet
10 1 (0.83%) Reuters