Applications Support Contracts in London

Application Support
England > London

The median Application Support daily rate in London is £450, 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 270 249 431
Rank change year-on-year -21 +182 -48
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 130 253 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 1.01% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.06% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 221 106
10th Percentile £189 £363 £306
25th Percentile £263 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £574 £810 £575
90th Percentile £650 £823 £675
England median daily rate £400 £525 £388
% change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year - -34.81% +38.60%
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -1.44%

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
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support in London

Applications Support
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 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 +28 12 £385 -26.67% 7
West London - 9 £193 -
South London +7 3 - -
Applications Support
England

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

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

1 53 (40.77%) SQL
2 38 (29.23%) Microsoft
3 37 (28.46%) Windows
3 37 (28.46%) Finance
4 35 (26.92%) Linux
5 32 (24.62%) PowerShell
6 31 (23.85%) Python
7 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
8 28 (21.54%) ITIL
9 25 (19.23%) Front Office
10 24 (18.46%) JIRA
11 23 (17.69%) Azure
12 22 (16.92%) Incident Management
12 22 (16.92%) Service Management
13 19 (14.62%) Banking
14 18 (13.85%) Agile
15 17 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (12.31%) MS Visio
16 16 (12.31%) DevOps
17 14 (10.77%) Asset Management
17 14 (10.77%) Risk Management
17 14 (10.77%) CMS
18 13 (10.00%) Shell Script
18 13 (10.00%) Analytics
18 13 (10.00%) Release Management
18 13 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
19 12 (9.23%) Atlassian
19 12 (9.23%) AWS
19 12 (9.23%) Security Cleared
19 12 (9.23%) ServiceNow

Applications Support 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 14 (10.77%) CMS
2 11 (8.46%) Confluence
3 4 (3.08%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.31%) Apache
5 2 (1.54%) IIS
5 2 (1.54%) JBoss
5 2 (1.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (12.31%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Aladdin
1 7 (5.38%) SimCorp Dimension
1 7 (5.38%) thinkFolio
2 6 (4.62%) Markit EDM
3 3 (2.31%) Global One
4 2 (1.54%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.77%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.77%) Eikon
5 1 (0.77%) Endur
5 1 (0.77%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.77%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.69%) Azure
2 12 (9.23%) AWS
3 10 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.85%) WhatsApp
6 3 (2.31%) GitHub
7 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Firewall
2 2 (1.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) Relational Database
1 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.69%) Power BI
3 8 (6.15%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (5.38%) Tableau
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
6 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.54%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (18.46%) JIRA
2 4 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (28.46%) Finance
2 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.23%) Front Office
4 19 (14.62%) Banking
5 9 (6.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Back Office
6 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.31%) Military
9 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.54%) Local Government
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) .NET
2 7 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (5.38%) REST
2 7 (5.38%) Web Services
3 6 (4.62%) CSS
3 6 (4.62%) HTML
4 5 (3.85%) HTML5
5 3 (2.31%) Middleware
6 2 (1.54%) ActiveX
6 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.54%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (1.54%) JSON
6 2 (1.54%) XML
7 1 (0.77%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (0.77%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 10 (7.69%) Derivative
2 9 (6.92%) Hedge funds
3 8 (6.15%) Equities
3 8 (6.15%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.85%) OTC Derivatives
6 3 (2.31%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.77%) PDA
8 1 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.46%) Windows
2 35 (26.92%) Linux
3 11 (8.46%) Unix
4 9 (6.92%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.85%) CentOS
5 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.54%) Android
6 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.77%) Rocky
7 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.77%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.54%) ITIL
2 22 (16.92%) Incident Management
2 22 (16.92%) Service Management
3 18 (13.85%) Agile
4 17 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (12.31%) DevOps
6 14 (10.77%) Asset Management
6 14 (10.77%) Risk Management
7 13 (10.00%) Analytics
7 13 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
7 13 (10.00%) Release Management
8 11 (8.46%) Migration
8 11 (8.46%) Workflow
9 9 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (6.15%) Customer Service
10 8 (6.15%) Data Analysis
10 8 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.15%) SDLC
11 7 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (40.77%) SQL
2 32 (24.62%) PowerShell
3 31 (23.85%) Python
4 13 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 8 (6.15%) Bash
6 7 (5.38%) Perl
6 7 (5.38%) T-SQL
7 6 (4.62%) C#
8 5 (3.85%) PHP
9 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.08%) VBA
10 3 (2.31%) C++
10 3 (2.31%) Java
10 3 (2.31%) Korn
10 3 (2.31%) R
10 3 (2.31%) VB
10 3 (2.31%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.31%) VBScript
11 1 (0.77%) C
11 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.77%) Degree
3 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) SLA
2 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.54%) ISO 15022
2 2 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.77%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.15%) ITRS Geneos
2 7 (5.38%) Control-M
2 7 (5.38%) Grafana
3 5 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.08%) Ansible
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.77%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.23%) Atlassian
2 12 (9.23%) Red Hat
2 12 (9.23%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 10 (7.69%) IBM
4 8 (6.15%) SimCorp
5 7 (5.38%) Bloomberg
5 7 (5.38%) Sybase
6 6 (4.62%) Refinitiv
7 5 (3.85%) Oracle
8 3 (2.31%) Citrix
9 2 (1.54%) Splunk
9 2 (1.54%) Temenos
10 1 (0.77%) Capita
10 1 (0.77%) Civica
10 1 (0.77%) Northgate
10 1 (0.77%) Oneserve
10 1 (0.77%) Orchard
10 1 (0.77%) SAP