Lead Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £782 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 712 847
Rank change year-on-year +121 +135 -168
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Architect 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.002% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £782 - £620
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.53%
75th Percentile £830 - £625
90th Percentile - - £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £782 - £588
% change year-on-year - - +23.68%

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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
UK excluding London +74 9 £782 -
Work from Home - 6 £830 -
Scotland - 4 £830 -
England +107 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 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 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