Essex Infrastructure Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Infrastructure Architect
Location Berkshire Borehamwood Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Knutsford Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.473 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£363	-
Average daily rate	£373	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£383	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£483	£447
% change on same period last year	+7.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£60.39	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+50.96 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	634	635
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.845 %	0.642 %
Daily rates quoted	244	199
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£327
Average daily rate	£299	£351
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	131
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.89	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Infrastructure Architect East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Infrastructure Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Essex region.

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Brentwood	-	1	£300	-

Infrastructure Architect East of England

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (42.86 %) Mainframe 2 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 2 2 (28.57 %) Finance 2 2 (28.57 %) Construction 2 2 (28.57 %) Gigabit Ethernet 2 2 (28.57 %) Frame Relay 2 2 (28.57 %) Middleware 2 2 (28.57 %) MPLS 2 2 (28.57 %) OSPF 2 2 (28.57 %) BGP 2 2 (28.57 %) BGP-4 2 2 (28.57 %) Java 2 2 (28.57 %) ISDN 2 2 (28.57 %) LAN 2 2 (28.57 %) Ethernet

3 1 (14.29 %) VPN 3 1 (14.29 %) DNS 3 1 (14.29 %) IBM 3 1 (14.29 %) HP 3 1 (14.29 %) Dell 3 1 (14.29 %) Internet 3 1 (14.29 %) SMTP 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (14.29 %) AIX 3 1 (14.29 %) TACACS 3 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms 3 1 (14.29 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (14.29 %) VLAN 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (28.57 %) Middleware	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) Ethernet 1 2 (28.57 %) MPLS 1 2 (28.57 %) OSPF 1 2 (28.57 %) BGP 1 2 (28.57 %) BGP-4 1 2 (28.57 %) ISDN 1 2 (28.57 %) LAN 1 2 (28.57 %) Frame Relay 1 2 (28.57 %) Gigabit Ethernet 1 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 2 1 (14.29 %) VLAN 2 1 (14.29 %) SMTP 2 1 (14.29 %) TACACS 2 1 (14.29 %) VPN 2 1 (14.29 %) DNS 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Finance 1 2 (28.57 %) Construction 2 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (14.29 %) Enterprise Architecture 1 1 (14.29 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) IBM 1 1 (14.29 %) HP 1 1 (14.29 %) Dell 1 1 (14.29 %) VMware