Senior Applications Support Contracts

Senior Application Support
UK

The median Senior 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 574 710 839
Rank change year-on-year +136 +129 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Support 17 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.014% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.014% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile £390 £327 -
25th Percentile £413 £433 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £580 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +54.53% -
75th Percentile £475 £684 £388
90th Percentile - £688 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £580 £375
% change year-on-year -30.97% +54.53% -

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%

Senior Applications Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Applications Support in the UK

Senior Applications Support
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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
Work from Home +139 13 £400 -15.92% 5
England +110 6 £450 -32.08% 17
London +102 4 £450 -33.33% 7
UK excluding London +66 2 £400 -30.97% 10
South East +22 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 - 3

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

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

1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) ETL
2 12 (70.59%) Migration
2 12 (70.59%) Replication
2 12 (70.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (70.59%) Elite 3E
2 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) Intapp
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
4 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) Workflow
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Legal
4 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Pricing Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Business Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.88%) Markit EDM
5 1 (5.88%) Derivative

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Elite 3E
2 1 (5.88%) Markit EDM
2 1 (5.88%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Back Office
2 1 (5.88%) Front Office
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Data Centre
1 12 (70.59%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Equities
2 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) ETL
1 12 (70.59%) High Availability
1 12 (70.59%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Pricing Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
3 3 (17.65%) Workflow
4 1 (5.88%) Batch Scheduling
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) VBA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Intapp
2 1 (5.88%) Capita