Infrastructure Analyst Contracts

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 586 678
Rank change year-on-year +73 +92 -66
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 72 107 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 79 111
10th Percentile £255 £231 £264
25th Percentile £359 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £569 £500 £497
90th Percentile £609 £600 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £406
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 7 May 2024.

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 12 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 7 May 2024. 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 +68 63 £425 -4.49% 21
UK excluding London +57 40 £400 +6.67% 16
Work from Home +102 31 £542 +20.33% 7
London +69 23 £542 +15.95% 8
South East +15 14 £400 -11.11% 3
North of England +18 10 £610 +80.74% 4
South West +24 9 - - 1
Yorkshire +29 7 £363 -23.68% 2
Midlands +22 5 £260 -17.46%
West Midlands +16 5 £260 -25.71%
North West +19 3 £613 +69.17% 2
Scotland +46 2 £413 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 28 (38.89%) Windows
2 24 (33.33%) Finance
3 21 (29.17%) VMware
4 20 (27.78%) Change Management
5 19 (26.39%) Banking
5 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
6 16 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (22.22%) Azure
7 15 (20.83%) Migration
8 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (19.44%) Active Directory
9 13 (18.06%) Service Management
9 13 (18.06%) ITSM
10 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 11 (15.28%) WAN
11 11 (15.28%) DHCP
11 11 (15.28%) Application Packaging
11 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
12 10 (13.89%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (13.89%) Degree
12 10 (13.89%) Data Protection
12 10 (13.89%) DNS
12 10 (13.89%) Client/Server
12 10 (13.89%) LAN
12 10 (13.89%) NetApp
13 9 (12.50%) Nagios
13 9 (12.50%) MPLS

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 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.94%) WhatsApp
4 3 (4.17%) AWS
4 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.78%) GCP
5 2 (2.78%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.39%) OCI
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) DHCP
1 11 (15.28%) WAN
2 10 (13.89%) DNS
2 10 (13.89%) LAN
3 9 (12.50%) MPLS
3 9 (12.50%) SAN
3 9 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.17%) Firewall
4 3 (4.17%) Wireless
5 1 (1.39%) Internet
5 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) MSI
General
1 24 (33.33%) Finance
2 19 (26.39%) Banking
2 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.56%) Advertising
6 3 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) German Language
8 1 (1.39%) French Language
8 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.89%) Client/Server
3 8 (11.11%) Clustering
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.39%) NHS
5 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (38.89%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Unix
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
3 8 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.78%) VMS
7 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.78%) Change Management
2 15 (20.83%) Migration
3 13 (18.06%) ITSM
3 13 (18.06%) Service Management
4 11 (15.28%) Application Packaging
5 10 (13.89%) Data Protection
6 8 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 8 (11.11%) Business Transformation
6 8 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 8 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 8 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 8 (11.11%) Network Management
6 8 (11.11%) Server Management
6 8 (11.11%) Visualisation
7 7 (9.72%) Agile
7 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.94%) Python
3 3 (4.17%) R
4 2 (2.78%) VBScript
5 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.78%) CBAP
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CCNA
6 1 (1.39%) CCNP
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CSPO
6 1 (1.39%) IIBA
6 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.39%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (19.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (13.89%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (9.72%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.78%) vSphere
8 1 (1.39%) Docker
8 1 (1.39%) XenApp
8 1 (1.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Nagios
1 9 (12.50%) SCCM
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.56%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) VMware
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.89%) NetApp
4 9 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 8 (11.11%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.78%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.78%) Dell
6 2 (2.78%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) HP
6 2 (2.78%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (2.78%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.78%) Sophos
7 1 (1.39%) FireEye
7 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.39%) Okta
7 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk
7 1 (1.39%) Tanium