The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Analyst
Rank 308 321 378
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +57
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 69 89 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.319% 0.330% 0.180%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.346% 0.357% 0.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 60 35
Average daily rate £423 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% +19.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £280 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £534 £525 £484
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.15% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £31.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +72.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-26.43% +6.09%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Infrastructure Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst across the London region.

London Infrastructure Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Infrastructure Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst across the London region.

London Infrastructure Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +3 24 £425 -5.55%
Greenwich - 1 £350 -
Croydon - 1 £425 -
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Analyst in their job title.

1 66 (56.41%) Windows
2 58 (49.57%) Active Directory
3 49 (41.88%) Citrix
4 44 (37.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 43 (36.75%) VMware
5 43 (36.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 42 (35.90%) MS Exchange
7 38 (32.48%) Microsoft
8 33 (28.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 32 (27.35%) Finance
10 27 (23.08%) Banking
11 26 (22.22%) SAN
12 22 (18.80%) Migration
12 22 (18.80%) Cisco
12 22 (18.80%) Exchange Server 2003
13 21 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
13 21 (17.95%) ITIL
14 20 (17.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (17.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 20 (17.09%) SCCM
15 19 (16.24%) Blackberry
16 17 (14.53%) TCP/IP
17 16 (13.68%) NetApp
17 16 (13.68%) vSphere
18 15 (12.82%) Firewall
18 15 (12.82%) HP
19 14 (11.97%) LAN
19 14 (11.97%) SQL
19 14 (11.97%) Law
20 13 (11.11%) Business Continuity

Infrastructure Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Infrastructure Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (4.274%) Middleware
2 4 (3.419%) Application Packaging
3 3 (2.564%) Web Services
4 2 (1.709%) XML
Application Platforms
1 42 (35.90%) MS Exchange
2 33 (28.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 22 (18.80%) Exchange Server 2003
4 20 (17.09%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 12 (10.26%) SharePoint
6 10 (8.547%) SharePoint 2010
6 10 (8.547%) Lotus Notes
7 8 (6.838%) Lync
8 4 (3.419%) IIS
9 3 (2.564%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (1.709%) OpenEdge
10 2 (1.709%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (8.547%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.419%) MS Office
3 2 (1.709%) Office 365
4 1 (0.855%) MS Project
4 1 (0.855%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.855%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.564%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.709%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.709%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.22%) SAN
2 17 (14.53%) TCP/IP
3 15 (12.82%) Firewall
4 14 (11.97%) LAN
5 12 (10.26%) WAN
6 11 (9.402%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (8.547%) VPN
8 8 (6.838%) Cisco PIX
9 6 (5.128%) LDAP
10 5 (4.274%) S/MIME
10 5 (4.274%) SMTP
10 5 (4.274%) Internet
11 4 (3.419%) NAS
11 4 (3.419%) POP3
11 4 (3.419%) SSL
12 3 (2.564%) DNS
12 3 (2.564%) DHCP
12 3 (2.564%) Unified Communications
12 3 (2.564%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (1.709%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.274%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (3.419%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (2.564%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.709%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.419%) InstallShield
2 2 (1.709%) MSI
General
1 32 (27.35%) Finance
2 27 (23.08%) Banking
3 14 (11.97%) Law
4 10 (8.547%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.692%) Legal
6 7 (5.983%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.855%) Games
7 1 (0.855%) Publishing
7 1 (0.855%) Marketing
7 1 (0.855%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.24%) Blackberry
2 6 (5.128%) Clustering
3 5 (4.274%) Thin Client
3 5 (4.274%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.419%) CLARiiON
4 4 (3.419%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.564%) PKI
6 2 (1.709%) SWIFT
6 2 (1.709%) SaaS
6 2 (1.709%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.709%) CMDB
6 2 (1.709%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.709%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.855%) New Media
7 1 (0.855%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.855%) AS400
7 1 (0.855%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.855%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.855%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 66 (56.41%) Windows
2 44 (37.61%) Windows Server 2008
3 43 (36.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (5.983%) Linux
4 7 (5.983%) Windows 7
5 6 (5.128%) UNIX
6 5 (4.274%) Solaris
7 4 (3.419%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.709%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.855%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.855%) AIX
10 1 (0.855%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.80%) Migration
2 21 (17.95%) ITIL
3 20 (17.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 11 (9.402%) Change Management
5 11 (9.402%) Service Management
6 9 (7.692%) Configuration Management
6 9 (7.692%) Business Analysis
7 6 (5.128%) Asset Management
8 5 (4.274%) Project Management
8 5 (4.274%) Data Management
8 5 (4.274%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (4.274%) High Availability
8 5 (4.274%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (3.419%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (3.419%) Investment Management
10 3 (2.564%) E-Commerce
10 3 (2.564%) Identity Management
10 3 (2.564%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (2.564%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.97%) SQL
2 4 (3.419%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.419%) VBScript
3 3 (2.564%) C
3 3 (2.564%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.709%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (9.402%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (7.692%) MCSE
2 9 (7.692%) Degree
3 8 (6.838%) MCSA
4 7 (5.983%) CISSP
5 6 (5.128%) ISEB
6 5 (4.274%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.419%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.419%) MCP
7 4 (3.419%) CCA
7 4 (3.419%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (2.564%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.709%) GIAC
9 2 (1.709%) CISA
10 1 (0.855%) CISM
10 1 (0.855%) MCITP
10 1 (0.855%) MCDST
10 1 (0.855%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.709%) QA
2 1 (0.855%) SLA
2 1 (0.855%) COBIT
System Software
1 58 (49.57%) Active Directory
2 21 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (13.68%) vSphere
4 10 (8.547%) XenApp
5 9 (7.692%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 5 (4.274%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (4.274%) UAG
7 3 (2.564%) VMware ESX
7 3 (2.564%) XenDesktop
7 3 (2.564%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.855%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.855%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (17.09%) SCCM
2 11 (9.402%) SCOM
3 9 (7.692%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 5 (4.274%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (3.419%) WMI
5 4 (3.419%) Tivoli
5 4 (3.419%) OpenView
6 3 (2.564%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 3 (2.564%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 3 (2.564%) HP SIM
7 2 (1.709%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (1.709%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.855%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.855%) MOM
8 1 (0.855%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.855%) OpenView Configuration Management
8 1 (0.855%) WSUS
8 1 (0.855%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 49 (41.88%) Citrix
2 43 (36.75%) VMware
3 38 (32.48%) Microsoft
4 22 (18.80%) Cisco
5 16 (13.68%) NetApp
6 15 (12.82%) HP
7 10 (8.547%) Lotus
8 9 (7.692%) Symantec
9 8 (6.838%) EMC
10 6 (5.128%) SolarWinds
10 6 (5.128%) Oracle
11 5 (4.274%) Remedy
11 5 (4.274%) Websense
11 5 (4.274%) CheckPoint
11 5 (4.274%) AppSense
12 4 (3.419%) NetIQ
12 4 (3.419%) Intel
12 4 (3.419%) Juniper
13 3 (2.564%) Murex
13 3 (2.564%) Sybase