The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Architect
Rank 62 53 51
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 1 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.136% 1.481% 2.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.149% 1.622% 2.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 9
Average daily rate - £404 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
670 740 875
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.16% 91.36% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 384 480
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £239 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +78.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £13.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Architect
North West

Infrastructure Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) UNIX
2 4 (36.36%) Internet
2 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) FMCG
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) CCNP
4 2 (18.18%) CCNA
4 2 (18.18%) MCITP
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) McAfee
5 1 (9.091%) FatWire
5 1 (9.091%) VMware
5 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (36.36%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Internet
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 1 (9.091%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) FMCG
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) CCNP
1 2 (18.18%) CCNA
1 2 (18.18%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) McAfee
3 1 (9.091%) FatWire
3 1 (9.091%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire
3 1 (9.091%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.091%) Juniper
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) F5
Warrington, North West
Main Duties/ Responsibilities * Design, development and implementation of the IT infrastructure related to hosting, platforms and storage* Documenting the cloud requirements* Defining the service management wrapper around our...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 22 May 2013