Technical Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Technical Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Technical Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 June 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
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 655 813
Rank change year-on-year +74 +158 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Infrastructure Architect 5 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.051% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 18
10th Percentile £583 £505 £534
25th Percentile £650 £510 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% -6.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £722
90th Percentile £825 - £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +44.86% -6.96% +16.75%

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 39,842 52,849 84,186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.57% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,742 36,908 59,357
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,850 1,466 1,973
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +39 5 £775 +44.86% 1
England +74 3 £700 +24.44% 1
Scotland - 2 £775 -
Work from Home +102 1 £700 +34.62%
North of England +34 1 £850 +77.55%
Midlands +24 1 £700 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 £700 - 1
North West +9 1 £850 +77.55%
South West +6 1 £575 -17.86%

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 2024, Technical 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 Technical Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Finance

Technical 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) VMware