Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £639 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 365 440 479
Rank change year-on-year +75 +39 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 26 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.087% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.092% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 16
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £613 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £639 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +2.04% +7.69%
75th Percentile £714 £698 £638
90th Percentile £755 £725 -
UK median daily rate £625 £630 £625
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% +19.05%

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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £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 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solutions 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 Infrastructure Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London 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 +21 14 £625 -5.66% 2
South West - 5 £710 -
Midlands +18 4 £645 -2.27% 1
Scotland - 3 £700 -
West Midlands +23 2 £800 -
East Midlands +15 2 £490 -25.83% 1
Infrastructure Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Infrastructure Solutions 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 Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) Private Cloud
4 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
4 7 (26.92%) Privileged Access Management
4 7 (26.92%) DHCP
4 7 (26.92%) DNS
5 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) Business Transformation
6 4 (15.38%) VMware
6 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
6 4 (15.38%) SAN
6 4 (15.38%) Azure
6 4 (15.38%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Banking
7 3 (11.54%) Windows
7 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
8 2 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
8 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
8 2 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (7.69%) Test Strategy
8 2 (7.69%) IaaS
8 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
8 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree

Infrastructure Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
2 2 (7.69%) IaaS
2 2 (7.69%) PaaS
2 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DHCP
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) SAN
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Middleware
1 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
1 2 (7.69%) RAML
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
1 2 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
1 7 (26.92%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (26.92%) Privileged Access Management
3 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) Business Transformation
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.69%) Architectural Design
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
6 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (7.69%) Test Strategy
6 2 (7.69%) TOGAF
7 1 (3.85%) Microservices
7 1 (3.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) C#
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat