Infrastructure Analyst Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 314 421
Rank change year-on-year +20 +107 +141
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 10 31 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 42
10th Percentile £348 £400 £330
25th Percentile £362 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £542 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.13% +20.33% +2.04%
75th Percentile £477 £605 £498
90th Percentile £554 £625 £550
UK median daily rate £400 £413 £445
% change year-on-year -3.03% -7.30% +4.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Infrastructure Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Analyst trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Analyst.

Infrastructure Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Infrastructure Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Law
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) Commvault
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Proactive Management
3 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) SDH
General
1 2 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
1 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Proactive Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Case
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (10.00%) Server Hardening
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
3 1 (10.00%) Nessus
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Commvault
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Qualys