Technical Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Technical Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Technical Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 666 814
Rank change year-on-year +84 +148 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Infrastructure Architect 4 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.049% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 19
10th Percentile £571 £502 £535
25th Percentile £622 £510 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +39.42% -13.33% +18.81%
75th Percentile £794 £675 £675
90th Percentile £828 £756 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £535 £583
% change year-on-year +30.84% -8.21% +20.18%

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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +71 4 £725 +39.42% 1
UK excluding London +60 3 £700 +30.84% 1
Work from Home +104 2 £725 +39.42% 1
London +99 1 £750 +22.45%
North of England +27 1 £850 +77.55%
Midlands +25 1 £700 -
North West +23 1 £850 +77.55%
West Midlands +21 1 £700 -
South West +18 1 £575 -22.03%

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps

Technical 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) VMware