Windows Support Analyst Contracts

Windows Support Analyst
UK

The median Windows Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 698 814
Rank change year-on-year +115 +116 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Analyst 4 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.014% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.015% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 15
10th Percentile £239 £262 £131
25th Percentile £252 - £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £270 £215
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +25.58% +16.22%
75th Percentile £297 £275 £241
90th Percentile £310 £313 £244
UK excluding London median daily rate £230 - £231
% change year-on-year - - +32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.12% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Windows Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Analyst in the UK

Windows Support Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Work from Home +114 3 £275 +4.57%
England +108 2 £230 -14.81%
UK excluding London +64 2 £230 -
South East +20 1 £230 -
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Windows Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Windows 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 featuring Windows Support Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Temenos T24
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Temenos
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook

Windows Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) Runbook
1 1 (25.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Temenos