Technical Support Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Support
England > Midlands

The median Technical Support daily rate in the Midlands is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 136 200
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support 15 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £256 - £172
25th Percentile £373 £263 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £275 £413
Median % change year-on-year +65.91% -33.33% +57.14%
75th Percentile £469 £356 £550
90th Percentile - £398 -
England median daily rate £205 £273 £275
% change year-on-year -24.77% -0.91% +13.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £11.83 - -
25th Percentile £12.42 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £13.84 - -
England median hourly rate £15.10 £17.11 -
% change year-on-year -11.75% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,467 2,619 4,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.21% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,830 3,207
10th Percentile £230 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 120 132
10th Percentile £12.69 £13.93 £11.81
25th Percentile £15.10 £16.63 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.82 £20.00 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +13.90% +15.79%
75th Percentile £32.60 £34.50 £20.80
90th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £41.29
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% +50.00%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in the Midlands

Technical Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Support in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Technical Support in the Midlands

Technical Support
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Support in the Midlands

Technical Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Support in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Support in the Midlands

Technical Support
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands +10 9 £456 - 7
East Midlands +3 6 - - 16
Technical Support
England

Technical Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 November 2024, Technical 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) French Language
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 3 (20.00%) AIX
3 3 (20.00%) Solaris
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) CMDB
3 3 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Workload Management
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics

Technical Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
General
1 4 (26.67%) French Language
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) AIX
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Solaris
2 3 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Change Management
2 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) ITSM
2 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (13.33%) Workload Management
4 1 (6.67%) Active Listening
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) HP
1 3 (20.00%) Veritas
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) SAP