Information Architect Contracts

Information Architect
UK

The median Information Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 623 817
Rank change year-on-year +67 +194 -131
Contract jobs requiring an Information Architect 29 66 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.12% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 51 27
10th Percentile £523 £538 £513
25th Percentile £663 £575 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £823 £823 £688
90th Percentile - £835 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £638 £600
% change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Information Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +72 27 £725 +7.41% 5
London +61 14 £765 +13.33% 1
UK excluding London +29 12 £700 +9.80% 4
Work from Home +75 7 £725 +3.57% 1
South West +5 5 £725 - 3
North of England +29 4 £638 +41.67%
North West +23 3 £625 +38.89%
South East +13 3 £519 -18.63%
North East - 1 £650 -

Information Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Information 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 featuring Information Architect in the job title.

1 10 (34.48%) Azure
1 10 (34.48%) Information Security
2 9 (31.03%) CISSP
3 8 (27.59%) CISM
3 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (27.59%) Information Architecture
4 7 (24.14%) AWS
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.69%) QA
5 6 (20.69%) CISA
5 6 (20.69%) Front Office
5 6 (20.69%) Finance
5 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
5 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (20.69%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (20.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (20.69%) Application Security
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.69%) Interactive Application Security Testing
6 5 (17.24%) Metadata
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
6 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
6 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
6 5 (17.24%) Data Management
7 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
7 4 (13.79%) Taxonomies
7 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
7 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning

Information Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (6.90%) CMS
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Drupal
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) GCP
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Intranet
1 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Metadata
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.45%) GIS
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Front Office
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.79%) Taxonomies
3 3 (10.34%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.90%) Wiki
5 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Life Science
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Information Security
2 8 (27.59%) Information Architecture
2 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Application Security
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.69%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Interactive Application Security Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Static Application Security Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.24%) Data Management
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.34%) Metadata Management
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) CISSP
2 8 (27.59%) CISM
3 6 (20.69%) CISA
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CCNP
6 1 (3.45%) CCSP
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Freshdesk
2 1 (3.45%) ESRI
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Okta
2 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
2 1 (3.45%) SAP