IT Infrastructure Analyst Contracts

IT Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £437, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 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
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 559 665
Rank change year-on-year +12 +106 +177
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Analyst 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.013% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.014% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £290 £304 £315
25th Percentile £313 £309 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £330 £363
Median % change year-on-year +32.46% -9.04% -19.44%
75th Percentile £566 £400 £391
90th Percentile £571 £513 £396
UK excluding London median daily rate £324 £325 £350
% change year-on-year -0.23% -7.14% -17.65%

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 30,148 36,343 50,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 92.92% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,119 23,458 34,956
10th Percentile £281 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 2,067 1,515
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.16 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
% change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +77.64%

IT Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

IT Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

IT Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Analyst over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

IT Infrastructure Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

IT Infrastructure Analyst
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 6 August 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 +5 5 £437 +32.46% 6
London -2 3 £538 +60.71%
UK excluding London +7 2 £324 -0.23% 6
Work from Home +29 1 £349 +4.20% 3
North of England - 1 £349 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £349 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 -
Midlands - 1 £300 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Looker
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Okta
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Power Query
3 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Podman
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction

IT 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Looker
1 2 (40.00%) Power Query
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) VMware