The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Solution Architect
Rank 510 543 581
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +38
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 31 27 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.064% 0.047% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.050% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 12
Average daily rate £550 £488 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% +5.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £488 £463
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +5.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the UK.

Infrastructure Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Infrastructure Solutions Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +15 29 £550 +12.82% 4
London +38 20 £575 +15.00% 1
City of London +5 8 £600 +9.09% 1
South East +25 5 £365 -25.12% 1
Buckinghamshire - 3 £355 -
Berkshire +18 2 £500 -
Reading +9 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
North West +11 1 £450 +15.38%
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Manchester - 1 £450 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £345 -
Aberdeen - - - -
Cambridge - - - - 1
Cirencester - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - - 1
Cheshire - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hampshire - - - - 1
South West - - - -

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 15 (39.47%) Oracle
2 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 14 (36.84%) Middleware
3 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 13 (34.21%) Banking
4 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
4 12 (31.58%) SAN
4 12 (31.58%) Solaris
5 11 (28.95%) EMC
5 11 (28.95%) Java
6 10 (26.32%) IIS
6 10 (26.32%) Cisco
7 9 (23.68%) Apache
7 9 (23.68%) NetApp
7 9 (23.68%) Benchmarking
7 9 (23.68%) WebLogic
7 9 (23.68%) HTML
7 9 (23.68%) Sybase
7 9 (23.68%) XML
7 9 (23.68%) XSLT
7 9 (23.68%) RMDS
7 9 (23.68%) DataSynapse
7 9 (23.68%) WebSphere
7 9 (23.68%) NAS
7 9 (23.68%) 29West
7 9 (23.68%) Complex Event Processing
8 7 (18.42%) Finance
8 7 (18.42%) UNIX
9 6 (15.79%) JavaScript

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (36.84%) Middleware
2 9 (23.68%) HTML
2 9 (23.68%) XML
2 9 (23.68%) XSLT
2 9 (23.68%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.632%) Rendezvous
3 1 (2.632%) .NET
3 1 (2.632%) J2EE
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 10 (26.32%) IIS
2 9 (23.68%) Apache
2 9 (23.68%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.263%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (23.68%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) SAN
2 9 (23.68%) NAS
3 3 (7.895%) LAN
3 3 (7.895%) WAN
3 3 (7.895%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.632%) HTTP
4 1 (2.632%) SNMP
4 1 (2.632%) Internet
4 1 (2.632%) FDDI
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.632%) FCoE
4 1 (2.632%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) DB2
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.632%) MySQL
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.632%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.632%) HBase
3 1 (2.632%) Hadoop
General
1 13 (34.21%) Banking
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Back Office
4 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.632%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.632%) Front Office
5 1 (2.632%) Finnish Language
5 1 (2.632%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.632%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 12 (31.58%) Solaris
4 7 (18.42%) UNIX
5 2 (5.263%) AIX
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.632%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Benchmarking
1 9 (23.68%) Complex Event Processing
2 4 (10.53%) Migration
2 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (7.895%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (7.895%) Time Management
4 2 (5.263%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (5.263%) Data Entry
4 2 (5.263%) Test Strategy
4 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (5.263%) BCP
4 2 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.263%) TOGAF
4 2 (5.263%) ITIL
4 2 (5.263%) Process Management
5 1 (2.632%) DRM
5 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.632%) SOA
5 1 (2.632%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) Java
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.632%) PHP
4 1 (2.632%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.263%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.632%) NFS
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.632%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (2.632%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (2.632%) SCCM
1 1 (2.632%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Oracle
2 11 (28.95%) EMC
3 10 (26.32%) Cisco
4 9 (23.68%) NetApp
4 9 (23.68%) Sybase
4 9 (23.68%) DataSynapse
4 9 (23.68%) 29West
5 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.895%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.895%) VMware
7 2 (5.263%) IBM
7 2 (5.263%) HP
8 1 (2.632%) Intel
8 1 (2.632%) Citrix
8 1 (2.632%) McAfee
8 1 (2.632%) TIBCO
8 1 (2.632%) SAP
8 1 (2.632%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.632%) Brocade
8 1 (2.632%) 3PAR
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