Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 619 731
Rank change year-on-year +99 +112 -127
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 28 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.074% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.078% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 41
10th Percentile £583 £493 £525
25th Percentile £613 £513 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £715 £706 £650
90th Percentile £755 £809 £688
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £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 £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +31 14 £625 -5.66% 1
London +101 5 £613 -2.00% 1
South West - 5 £710 -
Midlands +23 4 £645 +4.45% 2
West Midlands +16 2 £800 -
East Midlands +15 2 £490 -20.73% 2
Infrastructure Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
3 9 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 7 (25.00%) DHCP
4 7 (25.00%) DNS
4 7 (25.00%) Private Cloud
5 6 (21.43%) SAN
5 6 (21.43%) VMware
5 6 (21.43%) Azure
6 5 (17.86%) Migration
7 4 (14.29%) Degree
7 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (14.29%) Business Transformation
7 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
8 3 (10.71%) vSphere
8 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
8 3 (10.71%) Windows
8 3 (10.71%) Java
8 3 (10.71%) SQL
8 3 (10.71%) Finance
8 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
8 3 (10.71%) Firewall
9 2 (7.14%) Agile
9 2 (7.14%) Banking
9 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture

Infrastructure Solutions 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 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DHCP
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (21.43%) SAN
3 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
1 2 (7.14%) RAML
1 2 (7.14%) RESTful
1 2 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (17.86%) Migration
4 4 (14.29%) Business Transformation
4 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
5 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.14%) Agile
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.14%) Test Strategy
7 1 (3.57%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (3.57%) Architecture Governance
7 1 (3.57%) Data Management
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Java
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Perl
3 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Dell
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) Terracotta