Infrastructure Architect Contracts in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £640 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 433 382
Rank change year-on-year +70 -51 0
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 32 69 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.26% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 53 160
10th Percentile £435 £500 £513
25th Percentile £558 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £617 £615
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +0.33% +14.42%
75th Percentile £766 £688 £675
90th Percentile £949 £786 £762
England median daily rate £650 £650 £618
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +13.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +43 10 £700 +16.67%
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Infrastructure 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 13 (40.63%) Oracle
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Migration
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 10 (31.25%) Linux
4 9 (28.13%) Degree
4 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (28.13%) Azure
5 8 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (21.88%) Finance
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
7 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
7 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
7 6 (18.75%) Terraform
7 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 6 (18.75%) SQL
7 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
8 5 (15.63%) Banking
8 5 (15.63%) Validation
8 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
8 5 (15.63%) VMS
8 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (15.63%) Solaris
8 5 (15.63%) Database Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) OCI
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) .NET
1 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.13%) Django
1 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
1 1 (3.13%) HTML
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) React
1 1 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Solaris
2 5 (15.63%) VMS
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Migration
2 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 5 (15.63%) Database Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Validation
6 4 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.38%) Architectural Design
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
8 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (6.25%) TOGAF
9 1 (3.13%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Perl
3 1 (3.13%) PHP
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Ruby
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Degree
2 8 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) CITP
6 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) KVM
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Oracle
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) EMC
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) Sparx
6 1 (3.13%) Temenos
6 1 (3.13%) Terracotta