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 £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 375 433
Rank change year-on-year +14 +58 +82
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Specialist 12 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% 0.082% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.089% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £265 - £179
25th Percentile £278 £184 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £198 £225
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% -12.12% +95.43%
75th Percentile £395 £418 £265
90th Percentile £451 £513 £292
UK median daily rate £275 £198 £223
% change year-on-year +39.24% -11.24% +32.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 2
10th Percentile - - £17.64
25th Percentile - - £17.91
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.00 £18.48
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +35.28% -
75th Percentile £18.00 - £19.18
90th Percentile £21.47 - £19.52
UK median hourly rate £13.00 £25.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -48.00% +28.21% -

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 13,559 19,149 22,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.34% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,378 11,512 15,130
10th Percentile £216 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 2,331 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.57
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +82.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.78
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%

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 13 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 July 2025. 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
North of England - 7 £395 - 3
North West - 7 £395 - 3
South East +44 3 - - 2
South West +27 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £263 -
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 13 July 2025, 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 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
3 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) Remedy
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (8.33%) Aviation
7 1 (8.33%) Project Management
7 1 (8.33%) ITIL
7 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 1 (8.33%) Product Vision
7 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (8.33%) User Experience
7 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
7 1 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
7 1 (8.33%) ERP
7 1 (8.33%) LAN
7 1 (8.33%) SLA
7 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (8.33%) Twitter
7 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
1 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Ergonomics
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Human Factors
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
4 1 (8.33%) Product Vision
4 1 (8.33%) Project Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Time Management
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) Ab Initio
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Twitter