Infrastructure Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £379, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 359 408
Rank change year-on-year +37 +49 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 14 40 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 38
10th Percentile £300 £254 £210
25th Percentile £337 £350 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £438 £469 £488
90th Percentile £460 £524 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £413 £445
% change year-on-year -3.03% -7.30% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +20 6 £358 -41.62%
North of England +15 6 £358 -41.31% 1
South West +40 3 £400 - 3
South East +34 2 - - 5
Scotland +13 2 £450 +9.09% 1
Midlands +18 1 £300 +15.38%
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
Infrastructure Analyst
UK

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 6 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 6 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (35.71%) Information Security
3 5 (35.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (35.71%) BCP
3 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
3 1 (7.14%) MPLS
3 1 (7.14%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Electronics
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) RFC 2544
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) BCP
3 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 5 (35.71%) Information Security
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Line Management
3 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (35.71%) Web Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) Podman
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) SAP