Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 434 402
Rank change year-on-year +33 -32 +45
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 148 243 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.51% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 175 320
10th Percentile £549 £510 £513
25th Percentile £611 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £621
Median % change year-on-year - +4.63% +14.15%
75th Percentile £791 £690 £675
90th Percentile £825 £754 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £620
% change year-on-year - +4.84% +13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £70.20 - £68.26
Median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
75th Percentile £80.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +29 81 £675 +3.85% 11
London +70 32 £665 +3.10% 15
Midlands +22 14 £550 -12.70% 1
North of England +22 10 £625 +13.64% 2
North West +19 8 £625 +12.61% 2
East Midlands +22 7 £529 -19.89%
West Midlands +21 7 £660 +10.00% 1
South West -5 7 £710 +5.19%
North East +19 1 £550 -
Yorkshire +12 1 £590 +7.27%
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 88 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 65 (43.92%) Windows
3 57 (38.51%) DV Cleared
4 53 (35.81%) Microsoft
5 51 (34.46%) Prototyping
6 36 (24.32%) Agile
7 28 (18.92%) PowerShell
8 26 (17.57%) Azure
9 25 (16.89%) VMware
10 22 (14.86%) Data Centre
10 22 (14.86%) Social Skills
11 18 (12.16%) Finance
12 17 (11.49%) Linux
12 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
13 16 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
14 14 (9.46%) Oracle
15 13 (8.78%) Migration
15 13 (8.78%) WMI
16 12 (8.11%) Degree
16 12 (8.11%) MSI
17 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
17 11 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
18 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
19 9 (6.08%) Computer Science
19 9 (6.08%) AWS
19 9 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 9 (6.08%) Privileged Access Management
19 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.57%) Azure
2 9 (6.08%) AWS
3 5 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (3.38%) IaaS
3 5 (3.38%) SaaS
4 4 (2.70%) GCP
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.70%) OCI
4 4 (2.70%) PaaS
5 3 (2.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.35%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) DHCP
1 8 (5.41%) DNS
2 7 (4.73%) Firewall
2 7 (4.73%) SAN
3 2 (1.35%) WAN
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.35%) MySQL
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) Big Data
4 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.11%) MSI
General
1 22 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.16%) Finance
3 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Banking
5 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Back Office
7 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Local Government
7 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.38%) Middleware
2 2 (1.35%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.35%) RAML
2 2 (1.35%) RESTful
2 2 (1.35%) Swagger
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.68%) Django
3 1 (0.68%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.68%) HTML
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) React
3 1 (0.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.35%) PKI
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.68%) Clustering
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.68%) FMCG
4 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 65 (43.92%) Windows
2 17 (11.49%) Linux
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.73%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.05%) VMS
5 6 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (3.38%) Solaris
7 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.46%) Prototyping
2 36 (24.32%) Agile
3 13 (8.78%) Migration
4 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (6.08%) Computer Science
5 9 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (6.08%) Privileged Access Management
6 8 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (5.41%) Roadmaps
6 8 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (4.73%) Waterfall
8 6 (4.05%) Cloud Security
8 6 (4.05%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (3.38%) Architectural Design
9 5 (3.38%) Database Migration
9 5 (3.38%) Presales
9 5 (3.38%) Project Delivery
9 5 (3.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.73%) SQL
3 4 (2.70%) Java
4 2 (1.35%) C#
4 2 (1.35%) Python
5 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.68%) Perl
5 1 (0.68%) PHP
5 1 (0.68%) Ruby
5 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 57 (38.51%) DV Cleared
3 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.11%) Degree
5 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.35%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) CITP
7 2 (1.35%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) VCAP
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.03%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.35%) GDPR
2 2 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.38%) KVM
3 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (8.78%) WMI
2 6 (4.05%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (35.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.89%) VMware
3 14 (9.46%) Oracle
4 4 (2.70%) Cisco
4 4 (2.70%) Citrix
5 3 (2.03%) EMC
5 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Dell
7 1 (0.68%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.68%) Juniper
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx
7 1 (0.68%) Temenos
7 1 (0.68%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.68%) Veeam