Infrastructure Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Analyst
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £353, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 171 187
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 12 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £329 £366 £281
25th Percentile £334 £456 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £610 £375
Median % change year-on-year -42.09% +62.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £368 £620 £500
90th Percentile £369 £623 £530
England median daily rate £400 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +1.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,616 4,002 5,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.36% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,337 2,475 3,469
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £368 £392 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £643 £664 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 317 202
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.44 £15.30
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £26.00 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +13.84% +12.43%
75th Percentile £45.13 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £55.23
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.97%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the North of England

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the North of England

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the North of England

Infrastructure Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2025. 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
North West -3 6 £358 -41.62% 2
Yorkshire -13 6 £349 +11.52% 1
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 July 2025, Infrastructure 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 North of England region featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 9 (75.00%) Information Security
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
4 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 5 (41.67%) Web Operations
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) IaaS
4 5 (41.67%) High Availability
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity Planning
4 5 (41.67%) Line Management
4 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (41.67%) Network Security
4 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) vSphere
4 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
1 5 (41.67%) IaaS
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Information Security
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) BCP
3 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity
3 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Change Management
3 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) High Availability
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Line Management
3 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (41.67%) Web Operations
4 4 (33.33%) ISMS
4 4 (33.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (33.33%) CISMP
2 4 (33.33%) GSEC
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (41.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware