Infrastructure Analyst Contracts

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £419 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 577 680
Rank change year-on-year +68 +103 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 69 105 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 76 110
10th Percentile £255 £231 £257
25th Percentile £352 £349 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £488
90th Percentile £611 £600 £564
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £363 £394
% change year-on-year +9.66% -7.94% +12.50%
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 39,379 53,564 83,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.61% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,662 37,382 58,742
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,685 1,500 2,039
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.82
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 £72.50 £76.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 22 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 22 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 +76 61 £438 +2.94% 24
UK excluding London +39 38 £398 +9.66% 22
Work from Home +97 29 £542 +27.34% 10
London +74 23 £542 +16.47% 8
South East +7 12 £413 -8.33% 4
North of England +27 10 £486 +44.07% 4
South West +21 9 - - 4
Yorkshire +18 7 £338 -28.95% 3
West Midlands +15 5 £260 -17.46% 1
Midlands +15 5 £260 -7.14% 2
North West +16 3 £613 +69.17% 1
Scotland +41 2 £413 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 26 (37.68%) Windows
2 22 (31.88%) Finance
3 21 (30.43%) VMware
4 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
5 18 (26.09%) Change Management
6 17 (24.64%) Banking
7 16 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
7 16 (23.19%) Azure
8 14 (20.29%) Migration
8 14 (20.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
9 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
9 12 (17.39%) ITSM
9 12 (17.39%) Service Management
9 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
10 11 (15.94%) Application Packaging
10 11 (15.94%) WAN
10 11 (15.94%) DHCP
10 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (14.49%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (14.49%) DNS
11 10 (14.49%) Client/Server
11 10 (14.49%) LAN
11 10 (14.49%) Degree
11 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
12 9 (13.04%) SCCM
12 9 (13.04%) MPLS
12 9 (13.04%) Nagios
12 9 (13.04%) Wi-Fi

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 (20.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.19%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) WhatsApp
4 3 (4.35%) AWS
4 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
5 2 (2.90%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.45%) OCI
6 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) DHCP
1 11 (15.94%) WAN
2 10 (14.49%) DNS
2 10 (14.49%) LAN
3 9 (13.04%) MPLS
3 9 (13.04%) SAN
3 9 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.35%) Firewall
4 3 (4.35%) Wireless
5 1 (1.45%) Internet
5 1 (1.45%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.90%) Selenium
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) MSI
General
1 22 (31.88%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.64%) Banking
4 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.59%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.80%) Advertising
7 3 (4.35%) Marketing
8 2 (2.90%) German Language
9 1 (1.45%) French Language
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Client/Server
2 9 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 8 (11.59%) Clustering
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) NHS
5 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (37.68%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Unix
3 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.70%) Linux
5 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.90%) VMS
7 1 (1.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Change Management
2 14 (20.29%) Migration
3 12 (17.39%) ITSM
3 12 (17.39%) Service Management
4 11 (15.94%) Application Packaging
5 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
6 8 (11.59%) Asset Management
6 8 (11.59%) Business Transformation
6 8 (11.59%) Capacity Management
6 8 (11.59%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (11.59%) Data Migration
6 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
6 8 (11.59%) Network Management
6 8 (11.59%) Server Management
7 7 (10.14%) Agile
7 7 (10.14%) Data Analysis
7 7 (10.14%) Visualisation
8 6 (8.70%) DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.25%) Python
3 3 (4.35%) R
4 2 (2.90%) VBScript
5 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CBAP
5 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CCNA
6 1 (1.45%) CCNP
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CSPO
6 1 (1.45%) IIBA
6 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.45%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (20.29%) Active Directory
3 10 (14.49%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (11.59%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (10.14%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.90%) vSphere
8 1 (1.45%) Docker
8 1 (1.45%) XenApp
8 1 (1.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Nagios
1 9 (13.04%) SCCM
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (11.59%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.80%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (30.43%) VMware
2 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.59%) Hitachi
3 8 (11.59%) NetApp
3 8 (11.59%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.90%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Rapid7
4 2 (2.90%) Sophos
5 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) Citrix
5 1 (1.45%) FireEye
5 1 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.45%) Okta
5 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) Tanium
5 1 (1.45%) Teradata