Infrastructure Analyst Contract Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Analyst
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the North West is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 118 140
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.096% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.10% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £301 - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile £462 - -
England median daily rate £375 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% +3.15%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,598 1,922 2,595
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 92.36% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,620 1,189 1,738
10th Percentile £220 £250 £269
25th Percentile £370 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £674
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 101 248
10th Percentile £18.26 £15.22 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.19 £15.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +19.36% -12.03%
75th Percentile £63.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

Infrastructure Analyst job vacancy trend in the North West

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in the North West

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the North West over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Analyst in the North West

Infrastructure Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Analyst job vacancies in the North West

Infrastructure Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cheshire - 3 £410 -
Manchester -17 2 £460 - 2
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 28 February 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 North West region featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Docker

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft