Systems Support Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Systems Support daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350, 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 355 405 479
Rank change year-on-year +50 +74 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 14 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.038% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.041% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile £272 £391 £256
25th Percentile - £405 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +32.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £400 £569 £450
90th Percentile £471 £648 £575
UK median daily rate £315 £453 £375
% change year-on-year -30.39% +20.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £43.36 - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £38.10
Median hourly rate £70.90 £25.00 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year +183.60% -39.07% +148.67%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £44.81
90th Percentile - - £45.31
UK median hourly rate £70.90 £25.00 £41.03
% change year-on-year +183.60% -39.07% +148.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the UK excluding London 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
South East +43 5 £350 -9.68% 2
North of England +34 5 - - 3
North West +29 4 - - 1
East of England - 3 - - 1
South West +25 1 £400 -28.89% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Systems Support
UK

Systems Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Systems 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Support in the job title.

1 4 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (14.29%) VB
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) MCSE
3 2 (14.29%) MCSA
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science

Systems Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Automotive
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Local Government
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Server Management
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management
2 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Time Management
2 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (7.14%) Batch Processing
3 1 (7.14%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
3 1 (7.14%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bash
1 2 (14.29%) C++
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
1 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
1 2 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) MCSA
1 2 (14.29%) MCSE
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Qualys
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Wind River