Infrastructure Analyst Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 475 531
Rank change year-on-year -58 +56 +120
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 62 69 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 45 54
10th Percentile £268 £281 £200
25th Percentile £294 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% -8.05%
75th Percentile £417 £431 £536
90th Percentile £521 £554 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £316 £350 £363
% change year-on-year -9.71% -3.45% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £28.65 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.88 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% - -
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.88 -
90th Percentile - £29.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.64% - -

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 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 15 Contract Job 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 18 December 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 -38 56 £325 -7.14% 16
UK excluding London -41 51 £316 -9.71% 12
Midlands -9 32 £310 -39.22% 4
West Midlands -2 31 £310 -31.11% 4
Work from Home -13 14 £400 -29.82% 11
London -7 9 £450 -7.22% 10
South East -41 5 £500 +42.86% 4
North of England -49 5 £362 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire -39 3 £362 -
Scotland +2 2 - -
South West -9 2 £363 +26.09%
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands -16 1 - -
East of England -21 1 - -

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Infrastructure Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 33 (53.23%) Agile
2 30 (48.39%) VMware
3 28 (45.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (40.32%) Linux
5 24 (38.71%) AWS
5 24 (38.71%) Cisco
6 23 (37.10%) vRealize
6 23 (37.10%) vSphere
7 21 (33.87%) IBM
8 15 (24.19%) Azure
9 13 (20.97%) AppDynamics
9 13 (20.97%) Commvault
9 13 (20.97%) Datadog
9 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (20.97%) SolarWinds
9 13 (20.97%) VxRail
10 12 (19.35%) VSAN
11 11 (17.74%) Dell
11 11 (17.74%) HP
12 10 (16.13%) MS Visio
12 10 (16.13%) Oracle
13 9 (14.52%) ServiceNow
14 8 (12.90%) Confluence
14 8 (12.90%) Flash
14 8 (12.90%) GPFS
14 8 (12.90%) NFS
14 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
14 8 (12.90%) Ticket Management
14 8 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
14 8 (12.90%) Windows

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (16.13%) MS Visio
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) Azure
3 13 (20.97%) Datadog
4 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) GCP
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) VSAN
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.61%) VLAN
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 16 (25.81%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) Flash
2 1 (1.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.87%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (12.90%) Replication
3 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Windows
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (53.23%) Agile
2 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (12.90%) Ticket Management
4 7 (11.29%) ITIL
4 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
5 6 (9.68%) Project Management
6 5 (8.06%) Business Analysis
6 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
6 5 (8.06%) Migration
7 4 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.45%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.45%) Project Governance
7 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (4.84%) Change Control
8 3 (4.84%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (4.84%) Process Improvement
8 3 (4.84%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.84%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.61%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ITGC
3 1 (1.61%) SOX 404
System Software
1 28 (45.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (37.10%) vSphere
3 8 (12.90%) GPFS
3 8 (12.90%) NFS
3 8 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (37.10%) vRealize
2 13 (20.97%) VxRail
3 2 (3.23%) Nagios
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.61%) SCCM
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (48.39%) VMware
2 24 (38.71%) Cisco
3 21 (33.87%) IBM
4 13 (20.97%) AppDynamics
4 13 (20.97%) Commvault
4 13 (20.97%) SolarWinds
5 11 (17.74%) Dell
5 11 (17.74%) HP
6 10 (16.13%) Oracle
7 9 (14.52%) ServiceNow
8 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.23%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (3.23%) Planview
9 2 (3.23%) Splunk
10 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.61%) Progress
10 1 (1.61%) Qualys
10 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.61%) Tenable