Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 301 342
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 118 144 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.63% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 106 133
10th Percentile £550 £500 £468
25th Percentile £613 £550 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £797 £690 £660
90th Percentile £825 £731 £698
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £620
% change year-on-year - +4.84% +12.73%
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 median hourly rate £75.40 - £69.05
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +55 83 £688 +5.77% 2
Midlands +23 13 £550 -8.33% 2
North of England +23 9 £625 +9.65%
North West +21 7 £625 +12.61%
West Midlands +21 7 £660 +21.66% 2
South West -20 7 £710 +5.19%
East Midlands +17 6 £529 -19.89%
Scotland +34 4 £614 +1.45%
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
Yorkshire +4 1 £590 +2.16%
North East - 1 £550 -
Infrastructure Architect
UK

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 83 (70.34%) Security Cleared
2 63 (53.39%) Windows
3 56 (47.46%) DV Cleared
4 52 (44.07%) Prototyping
5 51 (43.22%) Microsoft
6 36 (30.51%) Agile
7 28 (23.73%) PowerShell
8 15 (12.71%) Azure
8 15 (12.71%) Data Centre
9 14 (11.86%) WMI
9 14 (11.86%) VMware
10 13 (11.02%) MSI
11 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
11 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (8.47%) Finance
13 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
13 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (6.78%) Windows Server
14 8 (6.78%) Linux
14 8 (6.78%) Social Skills
15 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
15 7 (5.93%) Roadmaps
15 7 (5.93%) DHCP
15 7 (5.93%) DNS
15 7 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (5.93%) Windows 10
15 7 (5.93%) Privileged Access Management
15 7 (5.93%) Private Cloud
16 6 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.71%) Azure
2 5 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (4.24%) IaaS
3 4 (3.39%) AWS
3 4 (3.39%) PaaS
3 4 (3.39%) SaaS
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) DHCP
1 7 (5.93%) DNS
2 5 (4.24%) SAN
3 3 (2.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) LAN
4 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) MSI
General
1 10 (8.47%) Finance
2 8 (6.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.54%) Banking
4 3 (2.54%) Local Government
5 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.69%) Back Office
5 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) Middleware
2 2 (1.69%) OpenAPI
2 2 (1.69%) RAML
2 2 (1.69%) RESTful
2 2 (1.69%) Swagger
3 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.93%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.85%) Clustering
4 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (53.39%) Windows
2 8 (6.78%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.93%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) VMS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.07%) Prototyping
2 36 (30.51%) Agile
3 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (5.93%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (5.93%) Roadmaps
6 6 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.08%) Project Delivery
7 5 (4.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (4.24%) Presales
8 4 (3.39%) Business Transformation
8 4 (3.39%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (3.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (3.39%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (3.39%) Waterfall
9 3 (2.54%) CI/CD
9 3 (2.54%) Containerisation
9 3 (2.54%) Scrum
9 3 (2.54%) Software Engineering
9 3 (2.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.69%) C#
2 2 (1.69%) Java
2 2 (1.69%) Python
3 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (70.34%) Security Cleared
2 56 (47.46%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Degree
5 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.69%) PhD
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) VCAP
6 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) GDPR
1 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (11.86%) WMI
2 3 (2.54%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) PowerCLI
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) vRealize
3 1 (0.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (43.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) VMware
3 3 (2.54%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.69%) Citrix
5 1 (0.85%) Databricks
5 1 (0.85%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) Juniper
5 1 (0.85%) Veeam