Technical Support Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Support Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £171, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 371 425
Rank change year-on-year +32 +54 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Analyst 16 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.089% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.096% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 8
10th Percentile - £168 £131
25th Percentile £171 £179 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £171 £330 £150
Median % change year-on-year -48.18% +120.00% -34.07%
75th Percentile £250 £345 £179
90th Percentile £310 £357 £240
UK median daily rate £198 £319 £196
% change year-on-year -37.93% +62.36% -25.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £16.41 - £21.02
25th Percentile £18.04 £21.25 £21.06
Median hourly rate £20.75 £22.50 £21.11
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +6.58% +50.79%
75th Percentile £24.38 £23.75 £21.17
90th Percentile £26.55 - £21.20
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.70% +38.88%

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 13,574 18,748 21,727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.26% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,354 11,384 14,860
10th Percentile £216 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 2,187 1,192
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £39.58
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +1.90% +88.45%
75th Percentile £56.33 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

Technical Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Technical Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

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

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

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Support Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
East of England +8 10 £171 -48.18% 3
North of England +7 3 £275 +19.57% 3
North West +6 2 £313 +35.87% 1
Midlands -6 1 - - 4
South East - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £250 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £275 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
Technical Support Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Technical 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 Technical Support Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Oracle
3 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (37.50%) Citrix
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (31.25%) LAN
4 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
5 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) MCP
5 4 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (18.75%) Security Patching
6 3 (18.75%) HNC
6 3 (18.75%) HND
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (18.75%) MCSE
6 3 (18.75%) AIX
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (18.75%) NHS

Technical 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) Broadband
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) RS-232
3 1 (6.25%) Softphone
3 1 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) NHS
2 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) AIX
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (12.50%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.25%) Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (18.75%) Security Patching
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Network Management
6 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (6.25%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) MCP
2 3 (18.75%) HNC
2 3 (18.75%) HND
2 3 (18.75%) MCSE
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) ECDL
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Citrix
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) JDA
3 1 (6.25%) Toshiba