Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 455 428
Rank change year-on-year +43 -27 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 189 277 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.49% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 195 365
10th Percentile £543 £510 £512
25th Percentile £610 £559 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% +13.92%
75th Percentile £781 £690 £675
90th Percentile £825 £750 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +14.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £70.20 - £68.26
Median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
75th Percentile £80.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +41 148 £650 - 23
UK excluding London +41 126 £650 - 14
South East +43 81 £675 +3.85% 10
Work from Home +57 43 £700 +16.67% 6
London +64 32 £665 +5.56% 10
Midlands +20 14 £550 -8.33% 1
Scotland +34 12 £685 +13.22% 1
North of England +22 10 £625 +13.64% 2
North West +19 8 £625 +12.61% 2
West Midlands +24 7 £660 +21.66% 1
East Midlands +22 7 £529 -19.89%
South West -5 7 £710 +5.19%
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
North East +20 1 £550 -
Yorkshire +5 1 £590 +7.27%

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 89 (47.09%) Security Cleared
2 73 (38.62%) Windows
3 61 (32.28%) Microsoft
4 58 (30.69%) DV Cleared
5 51 (26.98%) Prototyping
6 41 (21.69%) Finance
7 38 (20.11%) Agile
8 32 (16.93%) PowerShell
8 32 (16.93%) Azure
9 31 (16.40%) Banking
9 31 (16.40%) VMware
10 27 (14.29%) Data Centre
11 22 (11.64%) Social Skills
11 22 (11.64%) Change Management
11 22 (11.64%) Linux
12 19 (10.05%) Migration
13 18 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
13 18 (9.52%) SC Cleared
14 17 (8.99%) Public Sector
15 16 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (7.94%) Firewall
16 15 (7.94%) Oracle
16 15 (7.94%) SQL Server
16 15 (7.94%) Active Directory
16 15 (7.94%) Roadmaps
17 14 (7.41%) AWS
18 13 (6.88%) WMI
18 13 (6.88%) Degree
19 12 (6.35%) MSI
19 12 (6.35%) Privileged Access Management

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 (2.12%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.93%) Azure
2 14 (7.41%) AWS
3 7 (3.70%) SaaS
4 6 (3.17%) IaaS
5 5 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (2.65%) PaaS
6 4 (2.12%) GCP
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.12%) OCI
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (1.59%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.06%) Serverless
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Firewall
2 10 (5.29%) SAN
3 8 (4.23%) DHCP
3 8 (4.23%) DNS
4 7 (3.70%) WAN
5 6 (3.17%) LAN
6 4 (2.12%) Network Security
7 2 (1.06%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.06%) VPN
8 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.17%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.06%) MySQL
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) Big Data
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) MSI
General
1 41 (21.69%) Finance
2 31 (16.40%) Banking
3 22 (11.64%) Social Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Back Office
8 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Local Government
8 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.17%) Middleware
2 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.06%) RAML
2 2 (1.06%) RESTful
2 2 (1.06%) Swagger
3 1 (0.53%) .NET
3 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.53%) Django
3 1 (0.53%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.53%) HTML
3 1 (0.53%) Kafka
3 1 (0.53%) React
3 1 (0.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.23%) Private Cloud
3 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.06%) FMCG
4 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.06%) PKI
5 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.53%) Clustering
5 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 73 (38.62%) Windows
2 22 (11.64%) Linux
3 12 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.17%) VMS
5 6 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.65%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.65%) Solaris
7 4 (2.12%) Unix
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.98%) Prototyping
2 38 (20.11%) Agile
3 22 (11.64%) Change Management
4 19 (10.05%) Migration
5 16 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (7.94%) Roadmaps
7 12 (6.35%) Privileged Access Management
8 11 (5.82%) Cloud Security
8 11 (5.82%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (5.82%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (4.76%) Computer Science
10 9 (4.76%) Waterfall
11 8 (4.23%) DevOps
11 8 (4.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (3.70%) Load Balancing
12 7 (3.70%) Project Delivery
12 7 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (3.70%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.93%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.70%) SQL
3 6 (3.17%) Python
4 4 (2.12%) Java
5 3 (1.59%) Bash
6 2 (1.06%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) Perl
7 1 (0.53%) PHP
7 1 (0.53%) Ruby
7 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (47.09%) Security Cleared
2 58 (30.69%) DV Cleared
3 18 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.88%) Degree
5 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.12%) CCNA
6 4 (2.12%) CCNP
6 4 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.06%) CITP
8 2 (1.06%) PhD
9 1 (0.53%) VCAP
9 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.59%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.06%) GDPR
2 2 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 18 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.65%) KVM
3 5 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.06%) vSphere
6 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (6.88%) WMI
2 8 (4.23%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) SCCM
4 3 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.53%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.53%) vRealize
6 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 61 (32.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.40%) VMware
3 15 (7.94%) Oracle
4 7 (3.70%) F5
5 6 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.65%) Cisco
6 5 (2.65%) Citrix
6 5 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.59%) EMC
8 2 (1.06%) Google
8 2 (1.06%) Juniper
9 1 (0.53%) Databricks
9 1 (0.53%) Dell
9 1 (0.53%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.53%) HP
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) Temenos
9 1 (0.53%) Terracotta
9 1 (0.53%) Veeam
9 1 (0.53%) Zscaler