IT Infrastructure Architect Contracts

IT Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £713, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 - 842
Rank change year-on-year - - -119
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Architect 10 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% - 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 17
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £650 - £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.70%
75th Percentile £788 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 - £503
% change year-on-year - - -15.55%

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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

IT Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Top 7 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 Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
UK excluding London - 8 £713 -
Work from Home - 6 - -
England - 6 £650 -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -
South East - 2 £650 -
Scotland - 2 £775 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Banking
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Confluence
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (20.00%) PhD
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

IT 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (20.00%) Data Security
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Microservices
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) VMware