Support Analyst Contract Job Trends

Support Analyst
UK

The median Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 214 330
Rank change year-on-year -210 +116 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Support Analyst 269 429 250
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.30% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.43% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 188 141
10th Percentile £168 £164 £156
25th Percentile £188 £247 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £290 £226
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +28.46% -35.50%
75th Percentile £363 £431 £356
90th Percentile £400 £503 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £263 £203
% change year-on-year -14.29% +29.63% -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 90 10
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.50 £18.19
25th Percentile £15.93 £18.87 £18.77
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.00 £23.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% -1.50% +22.89%
75th Percentile £19.13 £31.00 £27.13
90th Percentile £24.05 £31.40 £37.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £22.14 £22.60
% change year-on-year -20.96% -2.04% +20.53%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,251 30,087 35,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.83% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,471 18,979 21,309
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,065 1,640 1,482
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.91
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.74% -3.03%

Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Support Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Analyst over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Analyst in the UK

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Analyst over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Analyst in the UK

Support Analyst
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
England -205 242 £268 -6.78% 245
UK excluding London -125 186 £225 -14.29% 132
London -160 77 £310 -22.50% 118
Work from Home -87 60 £210 -48.31% 73
North of England -96 46 £300 +25.00% 31
South East -77 43 £200 -23.81% 32
North West -52 38 £300 +42.86% 21
Midlands -52 28 £175 +20.69% 25
East of England -43 24 £350 +104.68% 10
South West -45 23 £225 -18.18% 19
Scotland -6 15 £225 -31.97% 6
East Midlands -10 15 £150 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -58 13 £175 +11.11% 10
Yorkshire -41 8 £313 +7.76% 8
Wales -15 5 £135 -54.24% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £350 -

Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, 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 featuring Support Analyst in the job title.

1 107 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 96 (35.69%) Windows
3 89 (33.09%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (31.23%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (26.02%) Customer Service
6 63 (23.42%) ITIL
7 59 (21.93%) Active Directory
8 44 (16.36%) Azure
9 43 (15.99%) Entra ID
10 42 (15.61%) ITSM
11 36 (13.38%) SharePoint
12 34 (12.64%) Degree
13 32 (11.90%) Windows 10
14 31 (11.52%) ServiceNow
15 29 (10.78%) Incident Management
15 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
16 27 (10.04%) VPN
17 26 (9.67%) Microsoft Intune
17 26 (9.67%) Migration
17 26 (9.67%) SQL
18 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
18 22 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
18 22 (8.18%) Service Management
19 21 (7.81%) Service Delivery
20 19 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
21 18 (6.69%) JIRA
21 18 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
21 18 (6.69%) OneDrive
21 18 (6.69%) Stakeholder Management
22 17 (6.32%) DHCP

Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 36 (13.38%) SharePoint
2 19 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.23%) AutoCAD
4 6 (2.23%) Revit
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) HFM
2 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.37%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.37%) Monis
3 1 (0.37%) Primavera
3 1 (0.37%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) Summit
3 1 (0.37%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 89 (33.09%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (16.36%) Azure
3 43 (15.99%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.69%) OneDrive
5 13 (4.83%) SaaS
6 9 (3.35%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.23%) AWS
9 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.86%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.12%) Datadog
10 3 (1.12%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.12%) IaaS
10 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.74%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.74%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.37%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.04%) VPN
2 17 (6.32%) DHCP
2 17 (6.32%) DNS
3 16 (5.95%) TCP/IP
4 14 (5.20%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (4.09%) PSTN
6 10 (3.72%) LAN
6 10 (3.72%) Wireless
7 5 (1.86%) IP Telephony
7 5 (1.86%) Network Security
7 5 (1.86%) VoIP
7 5 (1.86%) WAN
8 4 (1.49%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.12%) Firewall
9 3 (1.12%) WinSCP
10 2 (0.74%) Internet
11 1 (0.37%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.86%) Power BI
3 3 (1.12%) Power Query
3 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.74%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.37%) Db2
5 1 (0.37%) GIS
5 1 (0.37%) KDB
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.69%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.74%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.36%) Finance
3 38 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.58%) Banking
4 15 (5.58%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.83%) Law
5 13 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (4.83%) Retail
6 7 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.60%) Front Office
7 6 (2.23%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.49%) Legal
10 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Automotive
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) German Language
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.35%) .NET
2 3 (1.12%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.12%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
4 1 (0.37%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.15%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.32%) Video Conferencing
3 14 (5.20%) Driving Licence
4 13 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.12%) iPhone
7 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.37%) BYOD
9 1 (0.37%) CCTV
9 1 (0.37%) CMDB
9 1 (0.37%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.37%) Equities
9 1 (0.37%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.37%) FMCG
9 1 (0.37%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (35.69%) Windows
2 32 (11.90%) Windows 10
3 14 (5.20%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.35%) Android
4 9 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.97%) Linux
6 7 (2.60%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.12%) Unix
7 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.23%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (26.02%) Customer Service
3 63 (23.42%) ITIL
4 42 (15.61%) ITSM
5 29 (10.78%) Incident Management
6 26 (9.67%) Migration
7 22 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (8.18%) Service Management
8 21 (7.81%) Service Delivery
9 18 (6.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (5.95%) Data Migration
11 15 (5.58%) Computer Science
11 15 (5.58%) CRM
12 14 (5.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (4.46%) Customer Experience
13 12 (4.46%) Data Protection
13 12 (4.46%) Risk Management
13 12 (4.46%) Ticket Management
13 12 (4.46%) Validation
14 11 (4.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.67%) SQL
2 12 (4.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.60%) Python
4 5 (1.86%) C#
4 5 (1.86%) Java
4 5 (1.86%) VBScript
5 4 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.37%) Bash
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
7 1 (0.37%) JCL
7 1 (0.37%) Korn
7 1 (0.37%) R
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (12.64%) Degree
2 18 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.20%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.46%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.09%) A+ Certification
6 11 (4.09%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) MCSA
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.35%) SLA
2 8 (2.97%) PMO
3 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.12%) P3O
4 1 (0.37%) GRC
4 1 (0.37%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (21.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.49%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (9.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.09%) SCCM
3 3 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.74%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.37%) MobiControl
5 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.52%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.46%) Meraki
3 12 (4.46%) Oracle
4 11 (4.09%) Cisco
5 9 (3.35%) Adobe
6 8 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.23%) Autodesk
7 6 (2.23%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.23%) Conga
7 6 (2.23%) Dell
7 6 (2.23%) DocuSign
7 6 (2.23%) HP
7 6 (2.23%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.23%) SAP
8 5 (1.86%) Bomgar
8 5 (1.86%) Splunk
9 4 (1.49%) Avaya
9 4 (1.49%) Mitel
9 4 (1.49%) VMware