Applications Support Contracts

Application Support
UK

The median Application Support daily rate in the UK is £450 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 372 408 528
Rank change year-on-year +36 +120 -16
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 221 332 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 279 241
10th Percentile £189 £271 £213
25th Percentile £290 £374 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £571 £681 £575
90th Percentile £650 £823 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 12
10th Percentile £25.18 - £18.63
25th Percentile £27.50 £21.00 £20.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -3.30% -6.57%
75th Percentile £32.50 £23.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £59.92 - £34.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.69%

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
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Applications Support in the UK

Applications Support
Top 14 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 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 +14 191 £438 -20.45% 155
London +3 121 £500 -13.04% 59
Work from Home +69 83 £475 -9.52% 66
UK excluding London +58 79 £400 +23.08% 97
South East +16 24 £300 -1.64% 20
Midlands +39 15 £350 - 20
South West +29 15 £475 -17.39% 12
West Midlands +37 14 £300 -21.31% 8
Scotland +40 12 £750 +66.67% 6
East of England +13 11 £350 +9.38% 18
East Midlands +21 1 £400 +33.33% 11
North of England +12 1 £250 -28.57% 23
North West +9 1 £250 -28.57% 16
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 87 (39.37%) SQL
2 75 (33.94%) Windows
3 51 (23.08%) Finance
4 50 (22.62%) Social Skills
5 44 (19.91%) Linux
6 43 (19.46%) Microsoft
6 43 (19.46%) Azure
7 40 (18.10%) Python
8 39 (17.65%) PowerShell
9 32 (14.48%) Migration
10 30 (13.57%) ITIL
11 28 (12.67%) Security Cleared
12 27 (12.22%) JIRA
12 27 (12.22%) Data Centre
13 26 (11.76%) Incident Management
14 25 (11.31%) Service Management
15 24 (10.86%) Front Office
15 24 (10.86%) Agile
15 24 (10.86%) SC Cleared
15 24 (10.86%) DevOps
16 23 (10.41%) Windows Server
17 21 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (9.50%) Workflow
17 21 (9.50%) SQL Server
18 20 (9.05%) IBM
18 20 (9.05%) Analytics
19 19 (8.60%) Relational Database
19 19 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
19 19 (8.60%) Shell Script
19 19 (8.60%) Unix

Applications Support 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 17 (7.69%) Confluence
2 14 (6.33%) CMS
3 10 (4.52%) Tomcat
4 9 (4.07%) IIS
5 7 (3.17%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.71%) Apache
7 5 (2.26%) JBoss
7 5 (2.26%) nginx
8 2 (0.90%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (7.24%) MS Visio
2 10 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.43%) Elite 3E
2 8 (3.62%) ContrOCC
3 5 (2.26%) Aladdin
3 5 (2.26%) Maximo
3 5 (2.26%) Odoo
3 5 (2.26%) SimCorp Dimension
3 5 (2.26%) Temenos T24
4 4 (1.81%) thinkFolio
5 3 (1.36%) Endur
5 3 (1.36%) Markit EDM
5 3 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.90%) Global One
6 2 (0.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.45%) Eikon
7 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.46%) Azure
2 19 (8.60%) AWS
3 10 (4.52%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.26%) WhatsApp
6 4 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.36%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.45%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.45%) GCP
9 1 (0.45%) PaaS
9 1 (0.45%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.43%) Firewall
2 5 (2.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.90%) Intranet
3 2 (0.90%) Skype
3 2 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.60%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.62%) Power BI
4 7 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.26%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (2.26%) GIS
5 5 (2.26%) MySQL
5 5 (2.26%) Tableau
6 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.90%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.45%) Ingres
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (12.22%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) Git
2 4 (1.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (23.08%) Finance
2 50 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.86%) Front Office
4 19 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.69%) Banking
6 14 (6.33%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.17%) Back Office
9 5 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.81%) Local Government
11 3 (1.36%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Military
11 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) French Language
13 1 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.79%) .NET
2 11 (4.98%) Web Services
3 10 (4.52%) REST
4 8 (3.62%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (2.71%) Middleware
6 5 (2.26%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (2.26%) XML
7 4 (1.81%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 4 (1.81%) CSS
7 4 (1.81%) HTML
7 4 (1.81%) HTML5
8 3 (1.36%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.36%) JSON
9 2 (0.90%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.90%) SPFx
10 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.45%) React
10 1 (0.45%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.22%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.43%) Replication
3 10 (4.52%) Derivative
3 10 (4.52%) Hedge funds
3 10 (4.52%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.71%) Equities
5 5 (2.26%) OTC Derivatives
6 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) iPhone
8 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.90%) PDA
8 2 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 75 (33.94%) Windows
2 44 (19.91%) Linux
3 23 (10.41%) Windows Server
4 19 (8.60%) Unix
5 8 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.17%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.81%) CentOS
10 3 (1.36%) Android
10 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.45%) Solaris
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.48%) Migration
2 30 (13.57%) ITIL
3 26 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 25 (11.31%) Service Management
5 24 (10.86%) Agile
5 24 (10.86%) DevOps
6 21 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (9.50%) Workflow
7 20 (9.05%) Analytics
8 18 (8.14%) Risk Management
9 17 (7.69%) Release Management
10 15 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (6.79%) Proactive Monitoring
11 14 (6.33%) Asset Management
11 14 (6.33%) Customer Service
12 13 (5.88%) ETL
12 13 (5.88%) High Availability
12 13 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
13 12 (5.43%) User Acceptance Testing
14 11 (4.98%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.37%) SQL
2 40 (18.10%) Python
3 39 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.60%) C#
4 19 (8.60%) Shell Script
5 7 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.71%) Bash
6 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.71%) Perl
7 4 (1.81%) PHP
8 3 (1.36%) F#
8 3 (1.36%) VB
8 3 (1.36%) VBA
8 3 (1.36%) VBScript
9 2 (0.90%) Java
9 2 (0.90%) Korn
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.71%) Degree
3 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.07%) SLA
2 4 (1.81%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (4.52%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (4.07%) Grafana
3 6 (2.71%) SCCM
4 5 (2.26%) SCOM
5 4 (1.81%) Ansible
5 4 (1.81%) Control-M
5 4 (1.81%) Netcool
6 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.90%) Puppet
6 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.05%) IBM
3 17 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 14 (6.33%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.43%) Dynatrace
6 11 (4.98%) Oracle
7 10 (4.52%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.07%) Liquidlogic
9 8 (3.62%) Bloomberg
10 7 (3.17%) Sybase
11 6 (2.71%) Refinitiv
11 6 (2.71%) SimCorp
12 5 (2.26%) Citrix
12 5 (2.26%) Temenos
13 4 (1.81%) Intapp
14 3 (1.36%) OpenLink
14 3 (1.36%) SAP
15 2 (0.90%) Apple
15 2 (0.90%) Charles River
15 2 (0.90%) Reuters
170 Applications Support jobs Nationwide