Senior Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 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 582 702 833
Rank change year-on-year +120 +131 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect 4 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.023% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.024% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 15
10th Percentile £554 £575 £563
25th Percentile £616 £694 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +13.73% +21.43%
75th Percentile £681 £756 £672
90th Percentile £738 £775 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £738 £650
% change year-on-year -11.86% +13.46% +15.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Architect within the UK 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
England +106 4 £650 -11.11% 1
UK excluding London +63 2 £650 -11.86% 1
South East +13 2 £650 -10.34% 1
London +107 1 £750 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements

Senior Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware