IT Infrastructure Architect Contracts

IT Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 694 821
Rank change year-on-year +116 +127 -122
Contract jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Architect 9 1 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.002% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.002% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - - £587
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.70%
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £503
% change year-on-year - - -15.55%

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 39,824 53,123 83,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.61% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,845 37,082 58,755
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,796 1,480 1,998
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.28 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

IT Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Work from Home +126 7 - -
UK excluding London - 4 £650 -
England - 4 £650 -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East - 2 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Banking
1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) Data Collection
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) Back Office
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) PhD
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) Azure

IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
General
1 7 (77.78%) Banking
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Bill of Materials
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Data Collection
2 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) Data Security
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
2 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware