2nd Line Support Analyst Contracts in London

Second Line Support Analyst
England > London

The median Second Line Support Analyst daily rate in London is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 387 480
Rank change year-on-year +30 +93 +91
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Analyst 10 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.074% 0.057% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.061% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £231 £173 £180
25th Percentile £263 £197 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £240 £200
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +20.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £288 £328 £270
90th Percentile - £450 £276
England median daily rate £263 £193 £200
% change year-on-year +36.36% -3.75% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.55
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £21.00
75th Percentile £25.27 - £23.63
90th Percentile £27.55 - £25.05
England median hourly rate £24.00 £24.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% +16.67% +24.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 12,617 16,359 24,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.01% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,533 11,674 17,727
10th Percentile £331 £330 £361
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 296 276
10th Percentile £18.47 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.98 £20.50 £22.98
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.25 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -24.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.56 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.13 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

2nd Line Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Support Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support Analyst in London

2nd Line Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Support Analyst in London

2nd Line Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Support Analyst in London

2nd Line Support Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London - 5 £275 -
East London - 1 £200 -
2nd Line Support Analyst
England

2nd Line Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, 2nd Line 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 across the London region featuring 2nd Line Support Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (30.00%) WebEx
5 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (30.00%) Citrix
6 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (10.00%) Housing Management
7 1 (10.00%) Housing Association
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
7 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (10.00%) iPad
7 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
7 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management

2nd Line Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) WebEx
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (10.00%) Housing Association
1 1 (10.00%) iPad
1 1 (10.00%) iPhone
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Housing Management
3 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Capita
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler