IT Support Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Support Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Support Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £195, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 406 509
Rank change year-on-year +43 +103 -12
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Specialist 15 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.078% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.083% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £184 £195 -
25th Percentile £188 £222 £108
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £290 £120
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +141.67% -48.94%
75th Percentile £291 £394 £278
90th Percentile £503 £476 £408
UK median daily rate £195 £263 £255
% change year-on-year -25.71% +2.94% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £16.98 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.46 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% - -
75th Percentile £16.50 £20.51 -
90th Percentile - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £20.01 -
% change year-on-year -20.02% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,447 20,411 29,347
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 94.21% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,515 13,624 20,697
10th Percentile £220 £225 £215
25th Percentile £375 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £678 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,412 1,211 1,341
10th Percentile £14.27 £14.03 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% +98.86% +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%

IT Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Support Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Support Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Support Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
South West +24 13 £195 -54.12% 2
West Midlands +11 1 - - 2
Midlands +8 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £200 - 3
IT Support Specialist
UK

IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, IT 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Support Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) Nagios
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Puppet
3 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) Check_MK
3 4 (26.67%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (26.67%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (13.33%) Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Rocky
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) iManage
6 1 (6.67%) Case Management
6 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.67%) Intapp

IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Rocky
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
3 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Case Management
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Check_MK
1 4 (26.67%) Jamf Pro
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (26.67%) Nagios
1 4 (26.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) BeyondTrust
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) iManage
4 1 (6.67%) Intapp