Infrastructure Technical Architect Contracts

Infrastructure Technical Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 687 821
Rank change year-on-year +107 +134 -162
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Technical Architect 6 29 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.048% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.051% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 21
10th Percentile £594 - £538
25th Percentile £669 £510 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -8.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £775 £756 £675
90th Percentile £813 - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £738 £650
% change year-on-year -1.69% +13.46% +34.02%

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Infrastructure Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Technical Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Technical Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Technical Architect over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Technical Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Technical Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Technical 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 Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +94 5 £750 +36.99% 1
Work from Home +109 4 £750 +44.23%
UK excluding London +58 4 £725 -1.69% 1
London +107 2 £750 +22.45%
North of England +36 1 £850 +77.55%
Midlands +26 1 £700 -
South West +23 1 £575 -22.03%
North West +22 1 £850 +77.55%
West Midlands +19 1 £700 -
Scotland - 1 £750 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Infrastructure Technical 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Middleware
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) Business Case
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Databricks
5 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science

Infrastructure Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) VMware