Applications Support Engineer Contracts

Application Support Engineer
UK

The median Application Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 544 776
Rank change year-on-year +44 +232 -89
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 79 140 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.26% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 126 39
10th Percentile £253 £366 £189
25th Percentile £331 £453 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £375
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +80.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £823 £500
90th Percentile £750 £835 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.39
25th Percentile - - £20.53
Median hourly rate - - £31.40
75th Percentile - - £42.89
90th Percentile - - £49.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £31.40

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Applications Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Support Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Engineer in the UK

Applications Support Engineer
Top 9 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +18 55 £385 -42.96% 36
London +23 35 £500 -32.43% 14
UK excluding London +55 29 £500 +25.00% 30
Work from Home +45 25 £500 -32.40% 21
Scotland +51 11 £750 +130.77% 6
East of England +14 8 £348 -13.13% 4
South East +9 6 £500 +0.05% 5
Midlands +28 4 £313 -10.71% 6
West Midlands +18 4 £313 -10.71%

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Applications Support Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (49.37%) Windows
2 33 (41.77%) SQL
3 31 (39.24%) Data Centre
4 26 (32.91%) Migration
4 26 (32.91%) Security Cleared
5 25 (31.65%) Linux
6 21 (26.58%) Service Management
6 21 (26.58%) JIRA
6 21 (26.58%) Workflow
7 20 (25.32%) Atlassian
8 19 (24.05%) Azure
8 19 (24.05%) Confluence
9 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
10 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
10 16 (20.25%) Web Services
11 15 (18.99%) Analytics
12 14 (17.72%) Kalman Filter
13 13 (16.46%) High Availability
13 13 (16.46%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (16.46%) Elite 3E
13 13 (16.46%) ETL
13 13 (16.46%) Replication
13 13 (16.46%) Data Migration
14 12 (15.19%) PowerShell
14 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
14 12 (15.19%) REST
15 11 (13.92%) Performance Metrics
15 11 (13.92%) SQL Server
16 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
16 10 (12.66%) Public Sector

Applications Support Engineer 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 19 (24.05%) Confluence
2 7 (8.86%) IIS
3 5 (6.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.53%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.27%) JBoss
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.53%) Global One
3 1 (1.27%) Eikon
3 1 (1.27%) Endur
3 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.27%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) Azure
2 5 (6.33%) WhatsApp
3 3 (3.80%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.27%) GitHub
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) MySQL
3 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (26.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.80%) Military
6 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) Web Services
2 12 (15.19%) REST
3 8 (10.13%) .NET
4 5 (6.33%) CSS
4 5 (6.33%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (6.33%) HTML
4 5 (6.33%) HTML5
5 2 (2.53%) ActiveX
5 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.27%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (1.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 31 (39.24%) Data Centre
2 13 (16.46%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (16.46%) Replication
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (49.37%) Windows
2 25 (31.65%) Linux
3 16 (20.25%) Windows Server
4 9 (11.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (8.86%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.33%) CentOS
8 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.53%) Unix
9 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.27%) Android
10 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.27%) Solaris
10 1 (1.27%) VMS
10 1 (1.27%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Migration
2 21 (26.58%) Service Management
2 21 (26.58%) Workflow
3 15 (18.99%) Analytics
4 14 (17.72%) Kalman Filter
5 13 (16.46%) Data Migration
5 13 (16.46%) ETL
5 13 (16.46%) High Availability
6 11 (13.92%) Performance Metrics
7 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (8.86%) Release Management
9 6 (7.59%) Change Management
9 6 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (7.59%) ITIL
10 5 (6.33%) Application Security
10 5 (6.33%) DevOps
10 5 (6.33%) Incident Management
10 5 (6.33%) OOP
10 5 (6.33%) Problem Management
10 5 (6.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.77%) SQL
2 12 (15.19%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.13%) Shell Script
4 7 (8.86%) Python
5 5 (6.33%) Bash
5 5 (6.33%) PHP
5 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.06%) Perl
7 3 (3.80%) C#
8 2 (2.53%) F#
8 2 (2.53%) Java
8 2 (2.53%) Korn
8 2 (2.53%) VB
8 2 (2.53%) VBA
9 1 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) R
9 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (32.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) QA
1 3 (3.80%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) SCCM
2 4 (5.06%) SCOM
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Control-M
3 2 (2.53%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (2.53%) Puppet
4 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (25.32%) Atlassian
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.86%) Bloomberg
5 6 (7.59%) Refinitiv
6 5 (6.33%) Intapp
7 4 (5.06%) Sybase
8 3 (3.80%) IBM
8 3 (3.80%) VMware
9 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.53%) Oracle
10 1 (1.27%) Citrix
10 1 (1.27%) OpenLink
10 1 (1.27%) Reuters
10 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.27%) Temenos
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