The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 22 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 North West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Analyst
Rank 119 121 107
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -14
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 4 9 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.170% 0.283% 0.631%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.182% 0.309% 0.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
Average daily rate £340 £475 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.42% +111.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.75 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.33% -38.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-26.43% +6.09%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2193 2915 2785
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.16% 91.78% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1442 1383
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 178 190
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +10.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.01 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Infrastructure Analyst Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester +14 2 £340 -
Merseyside +2 1 £345 +38.00%
Cheshire -3 1 £205 -57.94%
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 6 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
3 6 (50.00%) BS25999
3 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (50.00%) MCDST
3 6 (50.00%) MCITP
3 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (50.00%) OpenView
3 6 (50.00%) HP
3 6 (50.00%) Lotus Notes
3 6 (50.00%) MCSE
3 6 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (50.00%) Lotus
3 6 (50.00%) MCP
3 6 (50.00%) MS Project
3 6 (50.00%) MS Office
3 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (50.00%) ISO 9000
4 4 (33.33%) LiveLink
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2

Infrastructure Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (33.33%) LiveLink
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 6 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (50.00%) MS Project
1 6 (50.00%) MS Office
1 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) LDAP
General
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (16.67%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 8 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX
4 1 (8.333%) AIX
4 1 (8.333%) HPUX
4 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) Web Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Information Security
4 1 (8.333%) Identity Management
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
4 1 (8.333%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) MCDST
1 6 (50.00%) MCITP
1 6 (50.00%) MCSE
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (8.333%) GIAC
2 1 (8.333%) CISA
2 1 (8.333%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) BS25999
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (50.00%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (16.67%) XenApp
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
1 6 (50.00%) OpenView
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Tivoli
3 1 (8.333%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) HP
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) Lotus
2 2 (16.67%) Symantec
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) AppSense
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle