Windows Support Analyst Contracts

Windows Support Analyst
UK

The median Windows Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 706 840
Rank change year-on-year +124 +134 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Analyst 5 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.016% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 17
10th Percentile £239 £200 £139
25th Percentile £252 £229 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £266 £215
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +23.84% +7.50%
75th Percentile £297 £270 £244
90th Percentile £310 £304 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £230 £180 £225
% change year-on-year +27.78% -20.00% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.12% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

Windows Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
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 Windows Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Work from Home +134 3 £275 +4.57%
England +121 3 £230 -13.62% 1
UK excluding London +45 2 £230 +27.78%
London +107 1 - - 1
North of England +35 1 - -
South East +22 1 £230 -
North West - 1 - -

Windows Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Windows Support Analyst 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 Windows Support Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Wiki
3 1 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Temenos T24
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Support Analyst 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Temenos