The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Architect
Rank 59 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 13 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.717% - 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.811% - 0.172%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £500 - £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
718 844 580
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.85% 94.83% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 482 272
Average daily rate £300 £335 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.44% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 48 45
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £35.60 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Architect
West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (78.57%) Red Hat
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) MySQL
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
3 9 (64.29%) PHP
3 9 (64.29%) Tomcat
4 7 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (50.00%) HPUX
4 7 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) VMware
4 7 (50.00%) X-Windows
4 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
6 2 (14.29%) Solaris
6 2 (14.29%) AIX
6 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 2 (14.29%) NAS
6 2 (14.29%) SAN
7 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
7 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
7 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.143%) LAMP
7 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.143%) SQL

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (50.00%) X-Windows
2 1 (7.143%) LAMP
2 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) Tomcat
2 7 (50.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) MySQL
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (50.00%) HPUX
3 7 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 2 (14.29%) Solaris
5 2 (14.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PHP
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Red Hat
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) HP
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