Senior Support Technician Contracts

Senior Support Technician
UK

The median Senior Support Technician daily rate in the UK is £325, 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 580 695 847
Rank change year-on-year +115 +152 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Technician 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.004% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £203 - -
25th Percentile £244 - £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £165
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £394 - £178
90th Percentile £428 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.65 - -

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%

Senior Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Technician in the UK

Senior Support Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Technician.

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Technician in the UK

Senior Support Technician
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Support Technician in the UK

Senior Support Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Technician.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Technician in the UK

Senior Support Technician
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Technician 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 +88 4 £325 - 4
UK excluding London +32 4 £325 - 3
South West - 2 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £200 - 2
North of England - 1 £200 - 2

Senior Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Support Technician 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 Senior Support Technician in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Acrobat
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) SLA

Senior Support Technician 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Development
2 1 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCDST
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) VMware