Production Support Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Production Support Analyst
England > North of England

The median Production Support Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £402, 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 248 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Production Support Analyst 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.039% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £405 - -
90th Percentile £406 - -
England median daily rate £402 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 7,020 3,662 3,782
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 92.36% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,112 2,389 2,220
10th Percentile £313 £251 £276
25th Percentile £406 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 218 246
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.60 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +88.03% -30.98% +45.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.56 £49.69
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.05% +5.56%

Production Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Production Support Analyst job vacancy trend in the North of England

Production Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Production Support Analyst job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Production Support Analyst job vacancies in the North of England

Production Support Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Production Support Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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 West - 2 £404 -
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -
Production Support Analyst
England

Production Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Production Support Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event Correlation
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Moogsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow

Production Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event Correlation
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Moogsoft
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft