Applications Support Contracts with Work from Home Options

Application Support
UK > Work from Home

The median Application Support daily rate in Work from Home is £497 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 309 484
Rank change year-on-year +43 +175 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 79 146 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.59% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.62% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 136 83
10th Percentile £190 £266 £197
25th Percentile £288 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £556 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +48.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £525 £823 £500
90th Percentile £594 £835 £623
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £14.13 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £14.25 - £32.50
75th Percentile £14.38 - £35.00
90th Percentile - - £46.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +36.36% -3.30% -6.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Applications Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Applications Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Applications Support trend for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Support.

Applications Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Applications Support over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Applications Support daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Applications Support.

Applications Support hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Applications Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Applications Support in the job title.

1 40 (50.63%) SQL
2 34 (43.04%) Windows
3 24 (30.38%) Azure
4 18 (22.78%) Data Centre
4 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
5 16 (20.25%) Finance
6 14 (17.72%) Migration
6 14 (17.72%) Linux
6 14 (17.72%) C#
7 13 (16.46%) Python
7 13 (16.46%) High Availability
8 12 (15.19%) Elite 3E
8 12 (15.19%) ETL
8 12 (15.19%) Replication
9 11 (13.92%) Agile
9 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
9 11 (13.92%) SQL Server
9 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
9 11 (13.92%) AWS
9 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
10 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.39%) JIRA
12 8 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (10.13%) Incident Management
12 8 (10.13%) Workflow
12 8 (10.13%) Unix
12 8 (10.13%) Confluence
13 7 (8.86%) Customer Service
13 7 (8.86%) .NET

Applications Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (10.13%) Confluence
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.80%) Apache
3 3 (3.80%) JBoss
3 3 (3.80%) nginx
4 1 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Elite 3E
2 5 (6.33%) Maximo
3 3 (3.80%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.27%) ContrOCC
4 1 (1.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.38%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.53%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.27%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (1.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) DNS
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) GIS
3 3 (3.80%) Power BI
3 3 (3.80%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.53%) MySQL
5 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.80%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.53%) Git
General
1 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Finance
3 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Banking
4 6 (7.59%) Front Office
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Back Office
5 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Legal
5 3 (3.80%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) .NET
2 5 (6.33%) REST
3 4 (5.06%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (5.06%) Middleware
3 4 (5.06%) Web Services
4 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (3.80%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (2.53%) XML
6 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.27%) CSS
6 1 (1.27%) HTML
6 1 (1.27%) HTML5
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.27%) OAuth
6 1 (1.27%) OpenID
6 1 (1.27%) SOAP
6 1 (1.27%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.19%) Replication
3 5 (6.33%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.06%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.80%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.53%) Clustering
6 2 (2.53%) Derivative
6 2 (2.53%) Equities
6 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.53%) SCADA
6 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (43.04%) Windows
2 14 (17.72%) Linux
3 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.13%) Unix
5 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.27%) Android
6 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.27%) CentOS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.72%) Migration
2 13 (16.46%) High Availability
3 12 (15.19%) ETL
4 11 (13.92%) Agile
5 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.13%) Incident Management
6 8 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (10.13%) Workflow
7 7 (8.86%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.59%) Proactive Monitoring
9 5 (6.33%) DevOps
9 5 (6.33%) ITIL
9 5 (6.33%) Release Management
9 5 (6.33%) Service Management
10 4 (5.06%) Analytics
10 4 (5.06%) Runbook
11 3 (3.80%) Data Analytics
11 3 (3.80%) Kalman Filter
11 3 (3.80%) Server Management
11 3 (3.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.63%) SQL
2 14 (17.72%) C#
3 13 (16.46%) Python
4 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.80%) Bash
6 3 (3.80%) F#
7 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.53%) Perl
7 2 (2.53%) VBScript
8 1 (1.27%) PHP
8 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) QA
1 4 (5.06%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Ansible
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Atlassian
3 5 (6.33%) IBM
3 5 (6.33%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.06%) Intapp
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle
5 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) Sybase
5 3 (3.80%) Temenos
6 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.53%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.27%) Capita
7 1 (1.27%) Charles River
7 1 (1.27%) FactSet
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.27%) Remedy
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce