The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 95 111 100
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 18 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.948% 0.044% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.004% 0.046% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £525 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.04% -
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1792 2173 1705
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.42% 94.81% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1162 788
Average daily rate £320 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 104 127
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -16.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.30 £30.50 £33.60
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Infrastructure Architect Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire - 11 £500 -
North Yorkshire - 5 £425 -
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 16 (61.54%) Oracle
2 14 (53.85%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (46.15%) Linux
5 11 (42.31%) MySQL
5 11 (42.31%) Windows
5 11 (42.31%) Tomcat
5 11 (42.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (42.31%) Firewall
6 10 (38.46%) UNIX
6 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
6 10 (38.46%) PHP
7 9 (34.62%) Apache
8 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
8 8 (30.77%) SaaS
8 8 (30.77%) PaaS
8 8 (30.77%) IaaS
9 7 (26.92%) Xen
9 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
9 7 (26.92%) SCOM
9 7 (26.92%) Citrix
10 6 (23.08%) SAN
10 6 (23.08%) X-Windows
10 6 (23.08%) HPUX
10 6 (23.08%) E-Commerce
11 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
11 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (15.38%) Windows Azure
11 4 (15.38%) Open Source

Infrastructure Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 6 (23.08%) X-Windows
2 1 (3.846%) LAMP
2 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) Tomcat
2 9 (34.62%) Apache
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Azure
3 4 (15.38%) OpenStack
3 4 (15.38%) CloudStack
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) Firewall
2 6 (23.08%) SAN
3 2 (7.692%) NAS
4 1 (3.846%) LAN
4 1 (3.846%) WAN
4 1 (3.846%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) MySQL
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (3.846%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
1 8 (30.77%) PaaS
1 8 (30.77%) IaaS
2 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (15.38%) Open Source
3 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Windows
3 10 (38.46%) UNIX
4 6 (23.08%) HPUX
5 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
5 4 (15.38%) Windows 8
6 2 (7.692%) Solaris
6 2 (7.692%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) E-Commerce
2 4 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 2 (7.692%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.846%) Network Design
4 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) PHP
2 1 (3.846%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
1 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
2 7 (26.92%) Xen
3 3 (11.54%) UAG
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Oracle
2 14 (53.85%) VMware
3 13 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 7 (26.92%) Citrix
6 4 (15.38%) Google
7 1 (3.846%) HP
Leeds, West Yorkshire
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ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £600.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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You will be required to develop a single view of all infrastructure deployment across the company and develop enterprise architecture maps defining how the current infrastructure supports applications...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 16 May 2013
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You must have good skills within the online business related infrastructure architect along with Red Hat, PHP, TC Server/Tomcat, Load Balancers/VIP's, Oracle/MySQL/MSSQl, knowledge...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 15 May 2013
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You will have experience of Web Services, LAMP stack, load balancing, firewalls, virtualization, messaging and collaboration, data protection and retention, etc.) *You will have experience of short and...
Posted: 23 April 2013
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Proven expertise in required operating systems: VMware and Linux... REDHAT - essential. Web services experience. Understanding of database technologies and applications, such as Informix, Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL are highly...
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Rate: £500 - 550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013