The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 52 61 62
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 4 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.494% 0.362% 0.523%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.526% 0.385% 0.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £355 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.26%
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
761 1040 1269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 93.95% 94.03% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 520 626
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +56.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.41 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Infrastructure Architect
Scotland

Infrastructure Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 6 (40.00%) JBoss
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Zachman Framework
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (26.67%) SOA
3 4 (26.67%) Unified Communications
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) MPLS
6 1 (6.667%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (6.667%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
6 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.667%) High Availability
6 1 (6.667%) Nokia
6 1 (6.667%) Veritas
6 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Portal

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (6.667%) J2EE
1 1 (6.667%) EDI
1 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Unified Communications
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
4 1 (6.667%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
3 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.667%) Solaris
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Zachman Framework
1 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
1 4 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
1 4 (26.67%) SOA
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
1 6 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) Nokia
3 1 (6.667%) Veritas
3 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
3 1 (6.667%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco