Infrastructure Analyst Contracts

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 539 584
Rank change year-on-year +44 +45 +103
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 41 52 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 76
10th Percentile £359 £255 £231
25th Percentile £366 £325 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -14.73% +0.03%
75th Percentile £513 £501 £516
90th Percentile £571 £603 £596
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £350 £338
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% -15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 28,350 40,134 52,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,122 25,769 36,623
10th Percentile £288 £282 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,269 2,866 1,533
10th Percentile £13.77 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +52 41 £400 +14.29% 56
UK excluding London +24 21 £400 +14.29% 23
London +53 20 £444 -4.05% 39
Work from Home +47 13 £400 -34.43% 25
North of England +16 11 £358 -26.38% 5
South East +46 8 £500 +42.86% 9
North West +13 6 £358 -41.62% 4
South West +32 5 £400 - 3
Yorkshire +3 5 - - 1
Midlands +11 1 £300 +17.65% 3
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 3

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (34.15%) ITIL
4 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (29.27%) Requirements Gathering
5 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
5 12 (29.27%) Firewall
6 11 (26.83%) Windows Server
6 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (24.39%) Finance
7 10 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
8 9 (21.95%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (21.95%) Risk Management
8 9 (21.95%) VMware
8 9 (21.95%) Information Security
8 9 (21.95%) Business Continuity
8 9 (21.95%) Project Management
9 8 (19.51%) Migration
9 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (19.51%) Agile
9 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
9 8 (19.51%) Project Delivery
9 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
10 7 (17.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (17.07%) QA
10 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (19.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (14.63%) IaaS
4 6 (14.63%) Lucidchart
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.44%) AWS
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (12.20%) Network Security
3 2 (4.88%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.88%) Looker
2 2 (4.88%) Power Query
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) eggPlant
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA Agile
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.32%) Linux
4 1 (2.44%) VMS
4 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) ITIL
2 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (29.27%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (21.95%) Business Continuity
5 9 (21.95%) Information Security
5 9 (21.95%) Project Management
5 9 (21.95%) Risk Management
5 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (19.51%) Agile
6 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
6 8 (19.51%) Migration
6 8 (19.51%) Project Delivery
7 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
7 7 (17.07%) ITSM
7 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (17.07%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (14.63%) Project Planning
8 6 (14.63%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.32%) Bash
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.76%) CISMP
3 4 (9.76%) GSEC
4 3 (7.32%) Degree
5 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.20%) vSphere
4 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) Docker
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (14.63%) SCCM
3 4 (9.76%) Nessus
3 4 (9.76%) WSUS
4 2 (4.88%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) VMware
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Qualys
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) HP
5 2 (4.88%) Okta
5 2 (4.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Commvault
6 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.44%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow