Infrastructure Architect Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Architect
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Central London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 164 155
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 10 10 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.26% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.27% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 31
10th Percentile £581 £493 £512
25th Percentile £603 £544 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £617 £615
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% +0.33% +16.31%
75th Percentile £756 £663 £675
90th Percentile £890 £748 £775
London median daily rate £628 £617 £615
% change year-on-year +1.70% +0.33% +11.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,304 3,649 4,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.20% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 2,501 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 52
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.43
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in Central London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in Central London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in Central London

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +47 10 £700 +13.45%
Infrastructure Architect
London

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Central London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) VMS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) KVM
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) API Development
2 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Microservices
2 1 (10.00%) RBAC
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) KVM
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Terracotta