IT Support Analyst Contracts in the South East

IT Support Analyst
England > South East

The median IT Support Analyst daily rate in the South East is £181, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 177 181
Rank change year-on-year +30 +4 +50
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Analyst 13 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.28% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 24
10th Percentile £161 £155 £122
25th Percentile £167 £161 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £181 £177 £169
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +5.18% -4.93%
75th Percentile £192 £227 £200
90th Percentile £197 £238 £207
England median daily rate £190 £188 £190
% change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 £21.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +65.38% +18.18%
England median hourly rate £22.31 £20.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +11.53% -21.57% +45.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,089 4,926 5,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 92.28% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,965 3,817
10th Percentile £213 £255 £225
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £606
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 448 251
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.75 £21.05
Median hourly rate £26.50 £56.69 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.26% +13.39% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.12 £70.40 £65.01
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -35.98% -3.53% +72.76%

IT Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Analyst in the South East

IT Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Analyst in the South East

IT Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Analyst in the South East

IT Support Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +17 7 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 6 - -
Hampshire +28 3 - - 3
Surrey +21 2 £163 +1.56% 1
Berkshire +18 1 - - 2
West Sussex +2 1 £200 -
IT Support Analyst
England

IT Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 July 2025, IT 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 South East region featuring IT Support Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Process Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
4 5 (38.46%) Information Management
4 5 (38.46%) Release Management
4 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
4 5 (38.46%) Application Security
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Change Control
4 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
5 4 (30.77%) Time Management
5 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
6 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making

IT Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (7.69%) IP Telephony
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) NAS
1 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
1 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Skype
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
1 1 (7.69%) VoIP
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Process Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Customer Service
4 5 (38.46%) Application Security
4 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
4 5 (38.46%) Change Control
4 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (38.46%) Information Management
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (38.46%) Release Management
4 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) Time Management
6 3 (23.08%) Client Onboarding
6 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
2 1 (7.69%) MCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
3 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
2 1 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Adobe
4 1 (7.69%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) VMware