Production Support Analyst Contract Job Trends

Production Support Analyst
UK

The median Production Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £404, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 - 561
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs requiring a Production Support Analyst 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £389 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £418 - -
90th Percentile £437 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £404 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £22.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 - -

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 50,326 29,813 35,459
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 91.05% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,971 18,780 22,045
10th Percentile £325 £280 £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 £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,688 1,551 1,736
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.65 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.91 £53.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +11.35%

Production Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Production Support Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Production Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Production Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Production Support Analyst
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Production Support Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 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
UK excluding London - 5 £404 -
North of England - 3 £402 -
England - 3 £402 -
North West - 2 £404 -
Wales - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £450 -
Yorkshire - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, Production 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 Production Support Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Event Correlation
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Moogsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Control-M
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Markit EDM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel

Production 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Event Correlation
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Moogsoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle