Production Support Analyst Contracts

Production Support Analyst
UK

The median Production Support Analyst daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 March 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
28 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 - 709
Rank change year-on-year - - +139
Contract jobs requiring a Production Support Analyst 2 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile £375 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £425 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 26,974 41,057 59,571
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 92.83% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,744 26,889 41,572
10th Percentile £300 £275 £308
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 2,519 1,679
10th Percentile £15.19 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -23.26% +91.11%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £71.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -1.52% -18.70% +113.63%

Production Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Production Support Analyst in the UK

Production Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Production Support Analyst in the UK

Production Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Production Support Analyst in the UK

Production Support Analyst
Top 4 Contract 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 28 March 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
England - 2 £400 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £400 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - -

Production Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 March 2025, Production 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 Production Support Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sun
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X

Production 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Sun