Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £550 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 120 150 188
Rank change year-on-year +30 +38 -47
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 14 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.51% 0.55% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.58% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 17
10th Percentile £498 £486 £458
25th Percentile £514 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £664 £689 £638
90th Percentile £714 £690 £653
England median daily rate £650 £650 £618
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +12.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,507 3,290 4,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 94.40% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,318 3,662
10th Percentile £211 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.50% +12.56%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 133 177
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.25 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +17.65% +10.03%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.00 £22.10
90th Percentile £52.67 £59.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region 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
West Midlands +19 7 £660 +10.00% 1
East Midlands +18 7 £529 -19.89% 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (28.57%) Presales
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Firewall
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
6 3 (21.43%) Azure
6 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 3 (21.43%) Linux
6 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
7 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) C#
7 2 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (14.29%) AWS
7 2 (14.29%) RESTful
7 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (14.29%) Ansible
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) RAML
7 2 (14.29%) Swagger
7 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
7 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 2 (14.29%) RAML
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) FMCG
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (28.57%) Presales
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft