Support Technician Contracts with Work from Home Options

Support Technician
UK > Work from Home

The median Support Technician daily rate in Work from Home is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 442 617
Rank change year-on-year +101 +175 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Support Technician 7 19 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.079% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.083% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £167 £165 £161
25th Percentile - £181 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £188
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile - - £215
90th Percentile - £212 £235
UK median daily rate £165 £190 £175
% change year-on-year -13.16% +8.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £18.13 £13.45
25th Percentile - £18.27 £15.25
Median hourly rate - £19.03 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.74% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £20.27 £20.00
90th Percentile - £20.71 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £11.50 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% - +22.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Support Technician
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Support Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Support Technician trend for jobs with a WFH option

Support Technician
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Support Technician.

Support Technician daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Support Technician
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Support Technician.

Support Technician hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Support Technician Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Support Technician in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Office Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
4 1 (14.29%) X-Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (14.29%) Slack
4 1 (14.29%) Google Sheets
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills

Support Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Google Sheets
1 1 (14.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Office Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
167 Support Technician jobs Nationwide