Applications Support Specialist Contracts

Application Support Specialist
UK

The median Application Support Specialist daily rate in the UK is £370, 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 558 680 834
Rank change year-on-year +122 +154 -122
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 26 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.031% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.032% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 12
10th Percentile £276 £400 £326
25th Percentile £290 £488 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -14.89% +95.83%
75th Percentile £426 £556 £650
90th Percentile £509 £588 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +0.13% -38.46% +131.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Applications Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Support Specialist in the UK

Applications Support Specialist
Top 5 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 Specialist within the UK 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
England +95 26 £370 -26.10% 19
London +80 13 £290 -42.00% 7
UK excluding London +39 12 £401 +0.13% 15
South East - 12 £401 - 7
Work from Home +120 8 £395 -21.00% 7

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

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 featuring Applications Support Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) Netcool
2 12 (46.15%) Shell Script
2 12 (46.15%) Unix
2 12 (46.15%) IBM
3 11 (42.31%) Driving Licence
4 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
5 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
6 6 (23.08%) Azure
7 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
7 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
7 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
7 5 (19.23%) SQL
7 5 (19.23%) ITIL
7 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
7 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (19.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (15.38%) Windows
9 3 (11.54%) Learning Management System
9 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
9 3 (11.54%) Time Management
10 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
10 2 (7.69%) VBScript
10 2 (7.69%) C#

Applications Support Specialist 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 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Driving Licence
2 3 (11.54%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
1 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
2 5 (19.23%) ITIL
2 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
3 3 (11.54%) Time Management
3 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.85%) Agile
4 1 (3.85%) Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) API Management
4 1 (3.85%) Change Management
4 1 (3.85%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) ITSM
4 1 (3.85%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.85%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.85%) Release Management
4 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (3.85%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Shell Script
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) VBScript
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) F#
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) VB
5 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
1 5 (19.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Netcool
2 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) IBM
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace