The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Architect
Rank 59 68 72
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 6 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.761% 0.689% 0.283%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.819% 0.732% 0.297%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
Average daily rate £420 £463 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.18% +2.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £455 £475 £463
% change year-on-year
-4.21% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £57.50 - £34.50
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
733 956 1009
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 93.02% 94.09% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 414 383
Average daily rate £313 £315 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.79% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £165 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 76 102
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.26 £11.67 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £32.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Infrastructure Architect
South East

Infrastructure Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire Infrastructure Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +11 4 £475 +35.71%
Infrastructure Architect
South East

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Infrastructure Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Architect in their job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) AppSense
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Infrastructure Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy
1 1 (16.67%) VMware
1 1 (16.67%) AppSense