Applications Support Specialist Contracts in London

Application Support Specialist
England > London

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in London is £290, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 467 598
Rank change year-on-year +80 +131 -101
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 13 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.060% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.063% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 5
10th Percentile £254 £465 £329
25th Percentile - - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +33.33% -15.25%
75th Percentile - £569 £438
90th Percentile £504 £593 £520
England median daily rate £370 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -26.10% -14.89% +95.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate - £22.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Specialist in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in London

Applications Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +39 2 £262 -50.14% 1
Applications Support Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Applications Support Specialist 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 London region featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Customer Service
3 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
4 5 (38.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
4 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Time Management
6 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
6 3 (23.08%) Learning Management System
7 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
7 2 (15.38%) VBScript
7 2 (15.38%) Finance
7 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
8 1 (7.69%) Service Management
8 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
8 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 1 (7.69%) Release Management
8 1 (7.69%) Agile

Applications Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Learning Management System
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Management
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) CRM
5 1 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) ITSM
5 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
5 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.69%) Release Management
5 1 (7.69%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) VBScript
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) VB
4 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace