Infrastructure Architect Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 17 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 London 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Architect
Rank 306 291 369
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +78
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 79 115 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.366% 0.429% 0.218%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.396% 0.464% 0.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 76 41
Average daily rate £538 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £613 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £455 £475 £463
% change year-on-year
-4.21% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £57.50 - £34.50
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Infrastructure Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -1 17 £575 +4.54%
Uxbridge -1 1 - -
Wembley - 1 £375 -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 51 (33.55%) Linux
2 47 (30.92%) Windows
3 37 (24.34%) Finance
4 36 (23.68%) TOGAF
5 35 (23.03%) VMware
6 34 (22.37%) SAN
7 33 (21.71%) Firewall
8 31 (20.39%) Oracle
9 29 (19.08%) Cisco
10 26 (17.11%) HP
10 26 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
11 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
11 22 (14.47%) SQL Server
11 22 (14.47%) Solaris
11 22 (14.47%) Middleware
12 21 (13.82%) LAN
13 20 (13.16%) ITIL
13 20 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (12.50%) SQL
14 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
14 19 (12.50%) Migration
14 19 (12.50%) Load Balancing
15 18 (11.84%) Banking
15 18 (11.84%) AIX
15 18 (11.84%) WAN
15 18 (11.84%) Citrix
16 17 (11.18%) Active Directory
16 17 (11.18%) EMC
16 17 (11.18%) UNIX
17 16 (10.53%) Project Management

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 22 (14.47%) Middleware
2 11 (7.237%) WebSphere
3 7 (4.605%) XML
3 7 (4.605%) XSLT
3 7 (4.605%) HTML
4 4 (2.632%) .NET
4 4 (2.632%) Web Services
5 3 (1.974%) LAMP
6 2 (1.316%) J2EE
7 1 (0.658%) COM
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.553%) IIS
2 9 (5.921%) Apache
3 8 (5.263%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.947%) MS Exchange
5 5 (3.289%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.289%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.974%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.974%) Lync
6 3 (1.974%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (1.316%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (1.316%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.658%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.658%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.658%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (3.289%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.316%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.316%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (1.316%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.263%) RMDS
2 3 (1.974%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 34 (22.37%) SAN
2 33 (21.71%) Firewall
3 21 (13.82%) LAN
4 18 (11.84%) WAN
5 13 (8.553%) Network Security
6 12 (7.895%) DNS
7 11 (7.237%) NAS
8 9 (5.921%) SNMP
9 6 (3.947%) VPN
10 5 (3.289%) IPsec
11 4 (2.632%) Wireless
11 4 (2.632%) DHCP
12 3 (1.974%) Intranet
12 3 (1.974%) Internet
12 3 (1.974%) OSPF
12 3 (1.974%) BGP
13 2 (1.316%) MPLS
13 2 (1.316%) Cisco ASA
14 1 (0.658%) NetScaler
14 1 (0.658%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.263%) DB2
3 3 (1.974%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (1.974%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (1.974%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (1.316%) MySQL
5 1 (0.658%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.658%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.658%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.658%) DTS
5 1 (0.658%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.658%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.658%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.658%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 37 (24.34%) Finance
2 18 (11.84%) Banking
3 4 (2.632%) Back Office
3 4 (2.632%) Law
3 4 (2.632%) Investment Banking
4 3 (1.974%) Legal
4 3 (1.974%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.316%) Retail
5 2 (1.316%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.316%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.658%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.658%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (0.658%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.658%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.211%) Mainframe
2 8 (5.263%) PKI
3 7 (4.605%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (3.947%) iSeries
5 5 (3.289%) RMADS
6 4 (2.632%) Computer Science
6 4 (2.632%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.974%) Data Extraction
7 3 (1.974%) Open Source
8 2 (1.316%) PaaS
8 2 (1.316%) Clustering
8 2 (1.316%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.658%) PMI
9 1 (0.658%) Replication
9 1 (0.658%) IVR
9 1 (0.658%) CESG
9 1 (0.658%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.658%) FMCG
9 1 (0.658%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.658%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 51 (33.55%) Linux
2 47 (30.92%) Windows
3 22 (14.47%) Solaris
4 18 (11.84%) AIX
5 17 (11.18%) UNIX
6 11 (7.237%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (6.579%) HPUX
8 9 (5.921%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (5.263%) zOS
10 5 (3.289%) CentOS
11 3 (1.974%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.658%) Debian
12 1 (0.658%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.658%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.658%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.658%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.68%) TOGAF
2 20 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (13.16%) ITIL
3 19 (12.50%) Migration
3 19 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 16 (10.53%) Project Management
5 9 (5.921%) Service Delivery
6 8 (5.263%) Benchmarking
6 8 (5.263%) Asset Management
6 8 (5.263%) Complex Event Processing
7 7 (4.605%) Zachman Framework
7 7 (4.605%) Information Security
7 7 (4.605%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (3.947%) Service Management
8 6 (3.947%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (3.289%) Identity Management
9 5 (3.289%) SOA
10 4 (2.632%) GAP Analysis
10 4 (2.632%) Incident Management
10 4 (2.632%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (5.921%) Java
3 5 (3.289%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.974%) C
5 2 (1.316%) PHP
6 1 (0.658%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.658%) Python
6 1 (0.658%) PowerHouse
6 1 (0.658%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.658%) Ruby
6 1 (0.658%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.868%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.605%) Degree
3 7 (4.605%) CCIE
3 7 (4.605%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.947%) JNCIE
5 3 (1.974%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.316%) MCSE
6 2 (1.316%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.658%) RHCE
7 1 (0.658%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.658%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.947%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.632%) SLA
3 2 (1.316%) COBIT
3 2 (1.316%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.658%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.658%) GxP
System Software
1 26 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.263%) VMware ESX
4 7 (4.605%) vSphere
5 4 (2.632%) Forefront TMG
5 4 (2.632%) UAG
5 4 (2.632%) XenDesktop
6 3 (1.974%) XenApp
7 2 (1.316%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.316%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.316%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.658%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 10 (6.579%) Puppet
2 1 (0.658%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.658%) Nagios
2 1 (0.658%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.658%) WSUS
2 1 (0.658%) SCOM
2 1 (0.658%) SCVMM
2 1 (0.658%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.658%) Cacti
Vendors
1 35 (23.03%) VMware
2 31 (20.39%) Oracle
3 29 (19.08%) Cisco
4 26 (17.11%) HP
5 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
6 18 (11.84%) Citrix
7 17 (11.18%) EMC
8 14 (9.211%) NetApp
9 9 (5.921%) Teradata
9 9 (5.921%) Sun
9 9 (5.921%) IBM
9 9 (5.921%) Sybase
10 8 (5.263%) Unisys
10 8 (5.263%) DataSynapse
10 8 (5.263%) F5
11 7 (4.605%) 29West
11 7 (4.605%) Juniper
12 6 (3.947%) Riverbed
13 5 (3.289%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.632%) CheckPoint
Infrastructure Architect - Windows Server/Linux
London
The Architect must have deep knowledge in the following: - Windows Server - Linux - Middleware Services - Integration (Active Directory) - Security - HP Blades TOGAF certified Infrastructure Architects would be welcome... INFRASTRUCTURE...
Montash
Rate: £500 - £800 per day + negotiable
Posted: 14 May 2013
DV Cleared Infrastructure Architect
City of London
The successful candidate must have experience in a similar role, be able to represent all aspects of technical delivery with responsibilities for designing and delivering real world infrastructure...
Rate: £550 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 April 2013
Solutions Designer / Infrastructure Architect
London
Essential) In-Depth knowledge of implementing infrastructure solutions to support VMware ESX and Citrix Xen Desktop Virtualisation Knowledge of other network related protocols and solutions: DNS, AD, DHCP,...
WorldPay
Posted: 18 May 2013
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