Support Analyst Contracts in the West Midlands

Support Analyst
England > West Midlands

The median Support Analyst daily rate in the West Midlands is £195 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Support Analyst 30 21 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.54% 0.93% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 0.99% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 49
10th Percentile £150 £145 £125
25th Percentile £154 £154 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £190 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £220 £272 £310
90th Percentile £425 £350 £359
England median daily rate £225 £300 £250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile - £22.85 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +20.93% +10.26%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £27.95 £23.90
England median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £17.54
% change year-on-year -4.44% +28.31% +5.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,780 2,124 3,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 94.44% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,454 2,485
10th Percentile £250 £258 £232
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 59 71
10th Percentile £12.14 £12.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.88 £14.43 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.77 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.32 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.13 £59.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Analyst in the West Midlands

Support Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Analyst in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Support Analyst in the West Midlands

Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Analyst in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Analyst in the West Midlands

Support Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Analyst in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Support Analyst in the West Midlands

Support Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Warwickshire +11 11 £150 -21.05% 2
Birmingham +20 10 £400 +81.82% 2
Worcestershire +9 6 £175 +6.06%
Staffordshire +8 1 £200 -42.86% 3
Solihull -11 1 £140 -
Support Analyst
England

Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 West Midlands region featuring Support Analyst in the job title.

1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (43.33%) Windows 10
4 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (33.33%) Customer Service
6 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
7 8 (26.67%) ITIL
8 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (20.00%) ERP
10 5 (16.67%) Odoo
10 5 (16.67%) Finance
11 4 (13.33%) LAN
11 4 (13.33%) WAN
11 4 (13.33%) SAP
11 4 (13.33%) Back Office
11 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
11 4 (13.33%) Azure
11 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (13.33%) Batch Scheduling
12 3 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
12 3 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
12 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
12 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 3 (10.00%) Python
12 3 (10.00%) VPN
13 2 (6.67%) Terminal Services

Support Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Odoo
2 3 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) LAN
1 4 (13.33%) WAN
2 3 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Back Office
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) AS400
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 13 (43.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 8 (26.67%) ITIL
3 6 (20.00%) ERP
4 4 (13.33%) Batch Scheduling
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 3 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (6.67%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.67%) User Experience
7 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.33%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.33%) ITSM
7 1 (3.33%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.33%) Security Management
7 1 (3.33%) Software Testing
7 1 (3.33%) Test Scripting
7 1 (3.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) CRISC
2 1 (3.33%) MCP
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Terminal Services
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix
4 2 (6.67%) VMware