Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 423 431
Rank change year-on-year +32 +8 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 180 279 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.52% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 207 356
10th Percentile £538 £506 £511
25th Percentile £600 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% +12.73%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £672
90th Percentile £825 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £70.20 - £68.26
Median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
75th Percentile £80.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
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 £72.90 £76.00 £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 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +28 147 £650 - 12
UK excluding London +32 118 £650 - 4
South East +55 83 £688 +5.77% 2
Work from Home +30 38 £628 +4.54% 2
London +59 32 £613 -0.57% 7
Midlands +23 13 £550 -8.33% 2
North of England +23 9 £625 +9.65%
West Midlands +21 7 £660 +21.66% 2
North West +21 7 £625 +12.61%
South West -20 7 £710 +5.19%
East Midlands +17 6 £529 -19.89%
Scotland +34 4 £614 +1.45%
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
Yorkshire +4 1 £590 +2.16%
North East - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Infrastructure Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 91 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 67 (37.22%) Windows
3 59 (32.78%) DV Cleared
4 57 (31.67%) Microsoft
5 52 (28.89%) Prototyping
6 42 (23.33%) Agile
7 40 (22.22%) Finance
8 30 (16.67%) Banking
8 30 (16.67%) PowerShell
9 29 (16.11%) Azure
10 27 (15.00%) VMware
11 22 (12.22%) Data Centre
11 22 (12.22%) Change Management
12 21 (11.67%) Migration
12 21 (11.67%) Social Skills
13 19 (10.56%) Linux
14 18 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 18 (10.00%) SC Cleared
15 15 (8.33%) Oracle
16 14 (7.78%) WMI
16 14 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (7.22%) Degree
17 13 (7.22%) MSI
18 11 (6.11%) Firewall
18 11 (6.11%) AWS
18 11 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (6.11%) Roadmaps
19 10 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
19 10 (5.56%) Active Directory

Infrastructure Architect 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 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.11%) Azure
2 11 (6.11%) AWS
3 6 (3.33%) IaaS
3 6 (3.33%) SaaS
4 5 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.78%) PaaS
5 4 (2.22%) GCP
5 4 (2.22%) OCI
6 3 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.11%) Firewall
2 7 (3.89%) DHCP
2 7 (3.89%) DNS
2 7 (3.89%) SAN
3 4 (2.22%) Network Security
4 3 (1.67%) WAN
5 2 (1.11%) LAN
5 2 (1.11%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.56%) Intranet
6 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (0.56%) Big Data
4 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.22%) MSI
General
1 40 (22.22%) Finance
2 30 (16.67%) Banking
3 21 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Back Office
8 3 (1.67%) Local Government
9 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (1.11%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.11%) RAML
2 2 (1.11%) RESTful
2 2 (1.11%) Swagger
3 1 (0.56%) .NET
3 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.56%) Django
3 1 (0.56%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.56%) HTML
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) React
3 1 (0.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.89%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.56%) Clustering
4 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.56%) FMCG
4 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (37.22%) Windows
2 19 (10.56%) Linux
3 8 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.33%) VMS
5 6 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.78%) Solaris
7 1 (0.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.89%) Prototyping
2 42 (23.33%) Agile
3 22 (12.22%) Change Management
4 21 (11.67%) Migration
5 14 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (6.11%) Roadmaps
8 10 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (5.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (5.00%) Waterfall
10 8 (4.44%) Cloud Security
11 7 (3.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (3.89%) Privileged Access Management
11 7 (3.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (3.89%) Translating Business Requirements
12 6 (3.33%) DevOps
12 6 (3.33%) Project Delivery
12 6 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (3.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.89%) SQL
3 4 (2.22%) Java
4 3 (1.67%) Python
5 2 (1.11%) C#
6 1 (0.56%) Bicep
6 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) Perl
6 1 (0.56%) PHP
6 1 (0.56%) Ruby
6 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 59 (32.78%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.22%) Degree
5 9 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.11%) CITP
8 2 (1.11%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) VCAP
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.11%) GDPR
1 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 18 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.78%) KVM
3 5 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.11%) vSphere
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) WMI
2 9 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.56%) vRealize
5 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 57 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.00%) VMware
3 15 (8.33%) Oracle
4 6 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.78%) Cisco
5 5 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.22%) Citrix
7 3 (1.67%) EMC
8 2 (1.11%) Google
8 2 (1.11%) Juniper
9 1 (0.56%) Databricks
9 1 (0.56%) Dell
9 1 (0.56%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.56%) HP
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) Sparx
9 1 (0.56%) Temenos
9 1 (0.56%) Terracotta
9 1 (0.56%) Veeam
9 1 (0.56%) Zscaler
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