IT Support Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Support Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £176, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 325 334
Rank change year-on-year +30 +9 +39
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Analyst 78 46 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.27% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 33 63
10th Percentile £150 £158 £123
25th Percentile £158 £170 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £176 £185 £180
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £199 £200 £200
90th Percentile £233 £238 £250
UK median daily rate £188 £187 £188
% change year-on-year +0.01% -0.01% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 10
10th Percentile - - £13.86
25th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.05 £18.38 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -28.64% +60.94%
75th Percentile £22.08 £18.56 £27.88
90th Percentile £24.03 £25.59 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £18.38 £25.50
% change year-on-year +22.78% -27.94% +45.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,822 17,041 21,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.08% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 10,446 14,301
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,205 1,801 1,170
10th Percentile £13.41 £13.86 £13.95
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +10.19% +85.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

IT Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Support Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
East of England +18 16 £171 -7.57% 1
Midlands 0 16 £150 -16.67% 7
North of England 0 15 £200 +5.26% 6
South East +21 13 £181 +6.62% 14
West Midlands +1 12 £150 -16.67%
South West +35 10 £200 -11.11% 5
Northern Ireland - 9 £150 - 1
Yorkshire 0 8 £190 -9.52% 2
North West -1 7 £210 +12.00% 3
East Midlands -1 4 £140 -21.13% 7
Scotland -12 2 £171 -7.43% 3
IT Support Analyst
UK

IT Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Support Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (44.87%) Windows
2 32 (41.03%) Customer Service
3 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
4 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 22 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (26.92%) Active Directory
8 20 (25.64%) ITIL
9 17 (21.79%) Degree
10 13 (16.67%) ITSM
10 13 (16.67%) Finance
10 13 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (14.10%) Service Management
12 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (12.82%) Windows 10
13 9 (11.54%) Banking
14 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (10.26%) Process Improvement
15 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
15 7 (8.97%) Blackberry
15 7 (8.97%) Service Delivery
15 7 (8.97%) SharePoint
15 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
15 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
15 7 (8.97%) Azure
15 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
16 6 (7.69%) Incident Management
16 6 (7.69%) Computer Science
16 6 (7.69%) Citrix

IT Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.97%) Azure
3 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.13%) Google Workspace
4 3 (3.85%) AWS
5 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.28%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.85%) VLAN
2 2 (2.56%) DHCP
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.28%) Broadband
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) Internet
3 1 (1.28%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.28%) LAN
3 1 (1.28%) MPLS
3 1 (1.28%) NAS
3 1 (1.28%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.28%) SAN
3 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.28%) Skype
3 1 (1.28%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.28%) VoIP
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.85%) Law
8 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Electronics
9 2 (2.56%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Blackberry
2 6 (7.69%) BYOD
3 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.85%) iPad
5 3 (3.85%) iPhone
5 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (44.87%) Windows
2 10 (12.82%) Windows 10
3 5 (6.41%) AIX
3 5 (6.41%) Windows 7
3 5 (6.41%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (6.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.13%) Android
4 4 (5.13%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.13%) Linux
5 3 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) Customer Service
2 27 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.64%) ITIL
4 13 (16.67%) ITSM
4 13 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 11 (14.10%) Service Management
6 8 (10.26%) Process Improvement
6 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (8.97%) Service Delivery
8 6 (7.69%) Analytics
8 6 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.69%) Incident Management
9 5 (6.41%) Application Security
9 5 (6.41%) Change Control
9 5 (6.41%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (6.41%) Knowledge Management
9 5 (6.41%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (6.41%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (6.41%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (21.79%) Degree
2 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) A+ Certification
4 5 (6.41%) MCP
4 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.28%) vSphere
2 1 (1.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.28%) AirWatch
3 1 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Citrix
2 6 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.41%) Apple
3 5 (6.41%) Google
3 5 (6.41%) Liquidlogic
3 5 (6.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.85%) MobileIron
4 3 (3.85%) Nexthink
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco
5 2 (2.56%) SAP
5 2 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) Adobe
6 1 (1.28%) BMC
6 1 (1.28%) Dell
6 1 (1.28%) HP
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) Lotus
6 1 (1.28%) Sun
6 1 (1.28%) Toshiba