Infrastructure Analyst Contracts

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 593 675
Rank change year-on-year +68 +82 -28
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 59 104 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 80 109
10th Percentile £254 £231 £253
25th Percentile £313 £323 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £501 £502 £488
90th Percentile £603 £600 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £379 £344 £369
% change year-on-year +10.18% -6.78% +5.36%
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

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +43 53 £400 -5.88% 19
UK excluding London +12 34 £379 +10.18% 10
London +59 19 £500 +7.54% 11
Work from Home +81 16 £550 +26.44% 7
South East +6 12 £400 -8.57% 3
South West +10 9 - -
North of England +6 6 £486 +49.62% 3
West Midlands +13 5 £260 -17.46% 1
Midlands +10 5 £260 -7.14% 1
Yorkshire +13 3 £338 -28.95% 2
North West +11 3 £613 +78.40% 1
Scotland +50 2 £413 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 (47.46%) Windows
2 22 (37.29%) VMware
3 18 (30.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
5 15 (25.42%) Active Directory
6 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (23.73%) Finance
7 13 (22.03%) Azure
7 13 (22.03%) Application Packaging
8 12 (20.34%) Change Management
8 12 (20.34%) Migration
8 12 (20.34%) DHCP
8 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
8 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (18.64%) DNS
9 11 (18.64%) WAN
9 11 (18.64%) SCCM
9 11 (18.64%) Banking
9 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
10 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
10 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (16.95%) Data Protection
10 10 (16.95%) LAN
10 10 (16.95%) Client/Server
10 10 (16.95%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (15.25%) Data Centre
11 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
11 9 (15.25%) SAN
11 9 (15.25%) MPLS
11 9 (15.25%) 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 (23.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.47%) WhatsApp
4 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) AWS
5 2 (3.39%) Mimecast
5 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.34%) DHCP
2 11 (18.64%) DNS
2 11 (18.64%) WAN
3 10 (16.95%) LAN
4 9 (15.25%) MPLS
4 9 (15.25%) SAN
4 9 (15.25%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (5.08%) Wireless
6 2 (3.39%) Firewall
7 1 (1.69%) Internet
7 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) MSI
2 2 (3.39%) Robot Framework
2 2 (3.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Finance
3 12 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.64%) Banking
5 8 (13.56%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.78%) Advertising
7 3 (5.08%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Client/Server
2 9 (15.25%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.56%) Clustering
4 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 7 (11.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.17%) Linux
5 4 (6.78%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.08%) VMS
7 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Application Packaging
2 12 (20.34%) Change Management
2 12 (20.34%) Migration
3 10 (16.95%) Data Protection
4 8 (13.56%) Asset Management
4 8 (13.56%) Business Transformation
4 8 (13.56%) Capacity Management
4 8 (13.56%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (13.56%) Data Migration
4 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
4 8 (13.56%) Network Management
4 8 (13.56%) Server Management
5 7 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (11.86%) ITSM
5 7 (11.86%) Service Management
6 6 (10.17%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (8.47%) Agile
7 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) Release Management
8 4 (6.78%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.39%) Python
2 2 (3.39%) VBScript
3 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CCNA
6 1 (1.69%) CCNP
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) SLA
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (25.42%) Active Directory
3 10 (16.95%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (13.56%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (11.86%) Hyper-V
6 4 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (5.08%) vSphere
7 3 (5.08%) XenApp
7 3 (5.08%) XenDesktop
8 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) SCCM
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (13.56%) Nagios
2 8 (13.56%) NetBackup
3 4 (6.78%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) VMware
2 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.56%) Hitachi
3 8 (13.56%) NetApp
4 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.08%) Citrix
6 2 (3.39%) Rapid7
6 2 (3.39%) Sophos
7 1 (1.69%) FireEye
7 1 (1.69%) Google
7 1 (1.69%) Okta
7 1 (1.69%) Tanium