Applications Support Engineer Contracts

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 589 795
Rank change year-on-year +68 +206 -133
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 70 130 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.22% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 115 36
10th Percentile £288 £335 £186
25th Percentile £341 £440 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +73.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £602 £823 £625
90th Percentile £744 £835 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £398 £375
% change year-on-year +25.79% +6.00% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.39
25th Percentile - - £20.53
Median hourly rate - - £31.40
75th Percentile - - £42.89
90th Percentile - - £49.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £31.40

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +42 49 £500 -24.53% 38
London +39 35 £509 -24.67% 11
Work from Home +72 23 £500 -32.40% 24
UK excluding London +59 22 £500 +25.79% 29
Scotland +43 9 £750 +91.08% 3
East of England +13 6 £500 +42.86% 3
South East +21 5 £500 -15.75% 5
Midlands +30 2 £375 +7.14% 7
West Midlands +26 2 £375 +7.14% 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Applications Support Engineer 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 featuring Applications Support Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (45.71%) Windows
2 31 (44.29%) SQL
3 27 (38.57%) Data Centre
4 24 (34.29%) Linux
5 23 (32.86%) Migration
6 19 (27.14%) Security Cleared
7 18 (25.71%) Azure
7 18 (25.71%) JIRA
8 17 (24.29%) Atlassian
8 17 (24.29%) Service Management
8 17 (24.29%) Workflow
9 16 (22.86%) Confluence
10 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
11 13 (18.57%) Windows Server
11 13 (18.57%) Analytics
12 12 (17.14%) Kalman Filter
12 12 (17.14%) High Availability
12 12 (17.14%) Elite 3E
12 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
12 12 (17.14%) Replication
12 12 (17.14%) ETL
13 11 (15.71%) Web Services
13 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
13 11 (15.71%) Data Migration
14 10 (14.29%) SQL Server
14 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (12.86%) Performance Metrics
15 9 (12.86%) REST
15 9 (12.86%) Public Sector

Applications Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (22.86%) Confluence
2 7 (10.00%) IIS
3 4 (5.71%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) JBoss
4 1 (1.43%) nginx
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.86%) Global One
3 1 (1.43%) Eikon
3 1 (1.43%) Endur
3 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.43%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (5.71%) WhatsApp
3 3 (4.29%) AWS
4 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
2 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (25.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.43%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Legal
5 3 (4.29%) Military
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) Web Services
2 9 (12.86%) REST
3 8 (11.43%) .NET
4 5 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (5.71%) CSS
5 4 (5.71%) HTML
5 4 (5.71%) HTML5
6 2 (2.86%) ActiveX
6 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.43%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (1.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (38.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (17.14%) Replication
3 10 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (45.71%) Windows
2 24 (34.29%) Linux
3 13 (18.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.71%) CentOS
7 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.86%) Unix
8 2 (2.86%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.43%) Android
9 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.43%) Solaris
9 1 (1.43%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Migration
2 17 (24.29%) Service Management
2 17 (24.29%) Workflow
3 13 (18.57%) Analytics
4 12 (17.14%) ETL
4 12 (17.14%) High Availability
4 12 (17.14%) Kalman Filter
5 11 (15.71%) Data Migration
6 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Performance Metrics
8 8 (11.43%) DevOps
9 7 (10.00%) Release Management
10 6 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (8.57%) Incident Management
10 6 (8.57%) ITIL
11 5 (7.14%) Data Management
12 4 (5.71%) Change Management
12 4 (5.71%) Load Balancing
12 4 (5.71%) OOP
12 4 (5.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.29%) SQL
2 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.86%) Python
4 7 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.71%) Bash
6 4 (5.71%) Perl
6 4 (5.71%) PHP
7 2 (2.86%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) F#
7 2 (2.86%) Java
7 2 (2.86%) Korn
7 2 (2.86%) VB
7 2 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) SCCM
1 5 (7.14%) SCOM
2 4 (5.71%) Grafana
2 4 (5.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Control-M
3 2 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Atlassian
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.86%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.43%) Bloomberg
5 6 (8.57%) Refinitiv
6 5 (7.14%) IBM
7 4 (5.71%) Dynatrace
7 4 (5.71%) Intapp
7 4 (5.71%) Sybase
8 2 (2.86%) Oracle
8 2 (2.86%) Reuters
9 1 (1.43%) Citrix
9 1 (1.43%) OpenLink
9 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.43%) Temenos
9 1 (1.43%) VMware
45 Applications Support Engineer jobs Nationwide