The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Architect
Rank 71 51 62
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 4 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.445% 0.983% 0.260%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.477% 1.036% 0.276%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £438 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - £37.25
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
839 772 724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 93.33% 94.84% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 351 433
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £236 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 18
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.41 £172.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Solaris
2 5 (55.56%) EMC
3 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) AIX
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 3 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
4 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 3 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 3 (33.33%) Time Management
4 3 (33.33%) Symantec
4 3 (33.33%) Dell
5 2 (22.22%) Lync
5 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
2 3 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (11.11%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 2 (22.22%) Lync
4 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Solaris
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) AIX
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 2 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 3 (33.33%) XenDesktop
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) EMC
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 3 (33.33%) Symantec
4 3 (33.33%) Dell
5 1 (11.11%) Sun
5 1 (11.11%) Veritas