Infrastructure Analyst Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Analyst
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in Manchester is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 82 98
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.14% 0.20% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.21% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £415 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,287 954 1,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 93.35% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 636 1,050
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £394 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 34 85
10th Percentile £18.57 £15.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.31 £13.50
Median hourly rate £48.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.69% +44.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £65.31 £36.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.50 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £44.00 £31.51 £26.20
% change year-on-year +39.64% +20.29% -12.68%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Infrastructure Analyst job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in Manchester

Infrastructure Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in Manchester

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, Infrastructure Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft