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 £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 362 393
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 21 36 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 37
10th Percentile £317 £255 £210
25th Percentile £362 £325 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £491 £400 £488
90th Percentile £513 £501 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £381 £425
% change year-on-year +4.92% -10.29% -
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 12,451 19,589 21,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.39% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,777 11,697 14,910
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 2,473 1,117
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +68.63%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 of England +20 11 £358 -26.38% 5
South East +32 8 £500 +42.86% 5
North West +15 6 £358 -41.62% 1
South West +41 5 £400 - 2
Yorkshire +5 5 - - 4
Midlands +7 1 £300 +17.65% 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 1
Infrastructure Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 9 (42.86%) Information Security
4 8 (38.10%) Project Delivery
4 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (28.57%) VMware
6 6 (28.57%) ITIL
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
7 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (23.81%) BCP
7 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
7 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (23.81%) Change Management
7 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
7 5 (23.81%) Finance
7 5 (23.81%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (23.81%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 5 (23.81%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (23.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Business Continuity
1 9 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (42.86%) Information Security
2 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
2 8 (38.10%) Project Delivery
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 6 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) BCP
5 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity Planning
5 5 (23.81%) Change Management
5 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) High Availability
5 5 (23.81%) Line Management
5 5 (23.81%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 5 (23.81%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CISMP
2 4 (19.05%) GSEC
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (19.05%) Nessus
2 4 (19.05%) SCCM
2 4 (19.05%) WSUS
3 2 (9.52%) HP ALM
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (28.57%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Qualys
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Google