Production Support Analyst Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Production Support Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Production Support Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £404, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Production Support Analyst 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.100% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £407 - -
North West median daily rate £404 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,839 931 1,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 92.45% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 594 698
10th Percentile £313 £300 £338
25th Percentile £406 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -9.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £656 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 78 39
10th Percentile £23.08 £13.00 £15.60
25th Percentile £30.00 £14.20 £20.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.71 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +176.40% -29.98% +63.16%
75th Percentile £75.00 £33.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.88 £78.20
North West median hourly rate £49.32 £25.15 £37.00
% change year-on-year +96.12% -32.04% +21.15%

Production Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Production Support Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Production Support Analyst job vacancy trend in Manchester

Production Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, Production Support Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Production Support Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Moogsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability

Production Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Moogsoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk