Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 659 781
Rank change year-on-year +99 +122 -118
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 31 46 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.079% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.084% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 43
10th Percentile £586 £498 £513
25th Percentile £613 £544 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £695 £705 £650
90th Percentile £755 £791 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £613 £600
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% +6.67%

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 +107 28 £625 +2.04% 4
UK excluding London +55 24 £625 +2.04% 3
South East +35 14 £625 -5.66% 1
Work from Home +103 5 £625 +4.17%
London +77 5 £613 -2.00% 1
South West - 5 £710 -
Midlands +28 4 £645 -2.27% 2
East Midlands +21 2 £490 -25.83% 2
West Midlands +18 2 £800 -
Scotland - 1 £653 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 featuring Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
4 8 (25.81%) Azure
5 7 (22.58%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (22.58%) Private Cloud
5 7 (22.58%) DHCP
5 7 (22.58%) DNS
6 6 (19.35%) SAN
6 6 (19.35%) VMware
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Firewall
7 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.90%) Degree
8 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
8 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
8 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (12.90%) Business Transformation
9 3 (9.68%) vSphere
9 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
9 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
9 3 (9.68%) Windows
9 3 (9.68%) Java
9 3 (9.68%) SQL
9 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.68%) Agile
9 3 (9.68%) Banking
9 3 (9.68%) Finance
9 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership

Infrastructure Solutions 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 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Stack
2 2 (6.45%) IaaS
2 2 (6.45%) PaaS
2 2 (6.45%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DHCP
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) SAN
3 5 (16.13%) Firewall
4 2 (6.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
General
1 3 (9.68%) Banking
1 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Middleware
1 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
1 2 (6.45%) RAML
1 2 (6.45%) RESTful
1 2 (6.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
2 7 (22.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (22.58%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (16.13%) Migration
3 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
4 4 (12.90%) Business Transformation
5 3 (9.68%) Agile
5 3 (9.68%) Architectural Design
5 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.45%) Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Digital Engineering
6 2 (6.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (6.45%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (6.45%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.45%) Log Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.45%) Security Management
6 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Java
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Perl
3 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) VMware
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) HP
4 1 (3.23%) Terracotta