Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the City of London is £713 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 167 154
Rank change year-on-year +50 -13 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 9 10 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.27% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.29% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 30
10th Percentile £581 £490 £511
25th Percentile £605 £535 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £590 £615
Median % change year-on-year +20.76% -4.07% +16.31%
75th Percentile £766 £663 £684
90th Percentile £919 £748 £815
Central London median daily rate £713 £590 £615
% change year-on-year +20.76% -4.07% +16.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,472 4,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.25% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 2,364 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +111.43%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.97 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 across the City of London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (22.22%) KVM
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Solaris
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Solaris
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 2 (22.22%) Database Migration
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (22.22%) Validation
2 1 (11.11%) API Development
2 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Microservices
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) KVM
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Terracotta