Lead Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £782 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 455 502
Rank change year-on-year +78 +47 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Architect 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.004% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.005% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £782 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.68%
75th Percentile £830 - £613
90th Percentile - - £620
UK median daily rate £782 - £620
% change year-on-year - - +30.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Scotland - 4 £830 -
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (44.44%) F5
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) CCNP
2 4 (44.44%) CCNA
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (33.33%) SAN
3 3 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Awareness
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Awareness
3 3 (33.33%) Presales
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNA
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) F5
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) VMware