The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 107 134 107
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 8 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.391% 0.151% 0.357%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.415% 0.162% 0.378%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 9
Average daily rate £484 £396 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.08% -16.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £370 £395
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £474 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £455 £475 £463
% change year-on-year
-4.21% +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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +11 5 £525 +4.16%
Gloucestershire - 2 £443 -
Bristol +10 1 £480 +25.08%
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) UNIX
3 9 (40.91%) VMware
3 9 (40.91%) Oracle
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 8 (36.36%) WebLogic
4 8 (36.36%) Middleware
4 8 (36.36%) Load Balancing
4 8 (36.36%) Oracle 11g
4 8 (36.36%) IaaS
5 7 (31.82%) GlassFish
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (31.82%) Firewall
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle Application Server
5 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (31.82%) Windows Azure
5 7 (31.82%) PaaS
5 7 (31.82%) MPLS
5 7 (31.82%) DHCP
5 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
5 7 (31.82%) DNS
5 7 (31.82%) Cisco
5 7 (31.82%) Solaris
5 7 (31.82%) Linux
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle 10g
5 7 (31.82%) Sun
5 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
5 7 (31.82%) SAN

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 8 (36.36%) Middleware
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.545%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) WebLogic
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (31.82%) GlassFish
2 7 (31.82%) Windows Azure
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DHCP
1 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
1 7 (31.82%) SAN
1 7 (31.82%) MPLS
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 2 (9.091%) Network Security
3 1 (4.545%) LAN
3 1 (4.545%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle 10g
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Military
2 1 (4.545%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
2 1 (4.545%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) IaaS
2 7 (31.82%) PaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
4 2 (9.091%) Visualisation
5 1 (4.545%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) UNIX
3 7 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Solaris
3 7 (31.82%) Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.545%) SUSE
5 1 (4.545%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (9.091%) SOA
3 2 (9.091%) Security Architecture
4 1 (4.545%) Migration
4 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.545%) ITIL
4 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.545%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (4.545%) TOGAF
4 1 (4.545%) Document Management
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (4.545%) MODAF
4 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle RAC
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 2 (9.091%) Netcool
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 7 (31.82%) Sun
2 7 (31.82%) Cisco
3 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.091%) IBM