The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Analyst
Rank 69 80 77
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.467% 0.090% 0.194%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.511% 0.099% 0.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £205 £325 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.92% +20.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £325 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £325 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -2.43%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
783 1015 908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.47% 91.86% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 342 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £218 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 57 38
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.00 £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Analyst
Berkshire

Infrastructure Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Infrastructure Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) SUSE
3 2 (33.33%) Lotus
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) HPUX
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) SLA
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery

Infrastructure Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) SUSE
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) HPUX
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Lotus
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) EMC