Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 425 406
Rank change year-on-year +34 -19 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 147 239 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.52% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 180 319
10th Percentile £538 £500 £513
25th Percentile £607 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £781 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £620
% change year-on-year - +4.84% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £70.20 - £68.26
Median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
75th Percentile £80.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South East +35 82 £675 +3.85% 6
London +64 32 £613 -2.93% 5
Midlands +27 14 £550 -8.33% 4
North of England +16 9 £625 +9.65%
West Midlands +23 7 £660 +21.66% 3
North West +19 7 £625 +12.61%
East Midlands +17 7 £529 -19.89% 1
South West -16 7 £710 +5.19%
Yorkshire +3 1 £590 +2.16%
North East - 1 £550 -
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 89 (60.54%) Security Cleared
2 66 (44.90%) Windows
3 57 (38.78%) DV Cleared
4 53 (36.05%) Microsoft
5 52 (35.37%) Prototyping
6 40 (27.21%) Agile
7 29 (19.73%) PowerShell
8 25 (17.01%) Azure
8 25 (17.01%) VMware
9 21 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 20 (13.61%) Data Centre
11 17 (11.56%) SC Cleared
11 17 (11.56%) Finance
11 17 (11.56%) Linux
12 16 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
13 15 (10.20%) Migration
14 14 (9.52%) Oracle
14 14 (9.52%) WMI
15 13 (8.84%) MSI
16 12 (8.16%) Degree
16 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 11 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
19 9 (6.12%) Computer Science
19 9 (6.12%) AWS
19 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
19 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
20 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
20 8 (5.44%) Cybersecurity

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.01%) Azure
2 9 (6.12%) AWS
3 5 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.40%) IaaS
3 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.72%) GCP
4 4 (2.72%) OCI
4 4 (2.72%) PaaS
4 4 (2.72%) SaaS
5 3 (2.04%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.36%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) DHCP
1 7 (4.76%) DNS
1 7 (4.76%) SAN
2 6 (4.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) Intranet
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.68%) Big Data
4 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) MSI
General
1 21 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.56%) Finance
3 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.76%) Banking
5 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Back Office
7 3 (2.04%) Local Government
8 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.40%) Middleware
2 2 (1.36%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.36%) RAML
2 2 (1.36%) RESTful
2 2 (1.36%) Swagger
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.68%) Django
3 1 (0.68%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.68%) HTML
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) React
3 1 (0.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.68%) Clustering
4 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.68%) FMCG
4 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (44.90%) Windows
2 17 (11.56%) Linux
3 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.08%) VMS
5 6 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.40%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (3.40%) Solaris
7 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.37%) Prototyping
2 40 (27.21%) Agile
3 15 (10.20%) Migration
4 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (6.12%) Computer Science
7 8 (5.44%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (5.44%) Roadmaps
7 8 (5.44%) Waterfall
8 7 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (4.76%) Privileged Access Management
8 7 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (4.08%) Cloud Security
9 6 (4.08%) DevOps
10 5 (3.40%) Architectural Design
10 5 (3.40%) Database Migration
10 5 (3.40%) Project Delivery
10 5 (3.40%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (3.40%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (19.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.76%) SQL
3 4 (2.72%) Java
4 2 (1.36%) C#
4 2 (1.36%) Python
5 1 (0.68%) Bicep
5 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.68%) Perl
5 1 (0.68%) PHP
5 1 (0.68%) Ruby
5 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (60.54%) Security Cleared
2 57 (38.78%) DV Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.16%) Degree
5 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.36%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.36%) CITP
7 2 (1.36%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) VCAP
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.36%) GDPR
1 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.36%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.40%) KVM
3 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (9.52%) WMI
2 7 (4.76%) Terraform
3 3 (2.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (17.01%) VMware
3 14 (9.52%) Oracle
4 4 (2.72%) Cisco
5 3 (2.04%) Citrix
5 3 (2.04%) EMC
5 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.36%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Dell
7 1 (0.68%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) Juniper
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx
7 1 (0.68%) Temenos
7 1 (0.68%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.68%) Veeam