Infrastructure Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Analyst
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the South West is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 136 151
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 +17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.20% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £366 £281 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £288 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% - -
75th Percentile £416 £294 -
90th Percentile £421 £320 -
England median daily rate £400 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,758 2,349 3,061
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.24% 92.66% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,385 2,086
10th Percentile £225 £225 £294
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -5.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £716 £700 £718
England median daily rate £512 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 245 285
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.84 £18.32
25th Percentile £18.22 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +3.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.26 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the South West

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Infrastructure Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Infrastructure Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Somerset 0 2 - -
Bristol - 2 £388 -
Infrastructure Analyst
England

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 South West region featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Nessus
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (75.00%) Server Hardening
1 3 (75.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (75.00%) WSUS
1 3 (75.00%) Qualys
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (75.00%) Security Hardening
1 3 (75.00%) Server Hardening
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nessus
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Qualys