Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the South East is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 151 182
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 80 69 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.43% 1.16% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.24% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 69
10th Percentile £600 £500 £513
25th Percentile £613 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +12.87%
75th Percentile £825 £706 £675
90th Percentile - £738 £740
England median daily rate £650 £650 £618
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +12.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Hampshire +29 55 £800 +23.08% 5
Thames Valley 0 23 £625 +2.04% 2
Berkshire -3 18 £625 -7.41% 1
Buckinghamshire +19 5 £563 +7.14% 1
Surrey +12 2 £650 +30.00% 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 72 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (65.00%) DV Cleared
3 50 (62.50%) Windows
3 50 (62.50%) Prototyping
4 47 (58.75%) Microsoft
5 22 (27.50%) Agile
6 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
7 15 (18.75%) Data Centre
8 12 (15.00%) WMI
9 11 (13.75%) MSI
10 9 (11.25%) Privileged Access Management
11 8 (10.00%) Private Cloud
11 8 (10.00%) VMware
11 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
11 8 (10.00%) DHCP
11 8 (10.00%) DNS
12 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
13 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
13 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 6 (7.50%) Windows 10
13 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
14 5 (6.25%) Azure
14 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
15 4 (5.00%) SAN
16 3 (3.75%) Degree
16 3 (3.75%) Local Government
16 3 (3.75%) Linux

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (2.50%) AWS
2 2 (2.50%) Azure Stack
3 1 (1.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) DHCP
1 8 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) MSI
General
1 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (3.75%) Local Government
3 2 (2.50%) Back Office
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 50 (62.50%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Windows 10
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
2 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (62.50%) Prototyping
2 22 (27.50%) Agile
3 9 (11.25%) Privileged Access Management
4 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (3.75%) CI/CD
7 3 (3.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (3.75%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (2.50%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (2.50%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.50%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (2.50%) Data Integration
8 2 (2.50%) Data Security
8 2 (2.50%) Decision-Making
8 2 (2.50%) DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Load Balancing
8 2 (2.50%) SIEM
8 2 (2.50%) Software Engineering
8 2 (2.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.25%) Python
2 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (65.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) PhD
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) VCAP
6 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) GDPR
1 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.00%) WMI
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) vRealize
2 1 (1.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (58.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) VMware
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.25%) Citrix
4 1 (1.25%) IBM
4 1 (1.25%) Juniper
4 1 (1.25%) Veeam