Senior Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Senior Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 626 819
Rank change year-on-year +81 +193 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect 4 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.002% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.002% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £523 - £525
25th Percentile £526 £725 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% +17.65% +15.91%
75th Percentile £578 £775 £747
90th Percentile £607 - £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 - £731
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 33,956 44,250 77,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 93.82% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,486 30,168 54,199
10th Percentile £300 £300 £316
25th Percentile £411 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 1,536 1,766
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.89 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.27 £19.06 £16.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +78 4 £530 -29.33%
UK excluding London - 2 £530 -
North of England - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 £523 -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 £530 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) CMDB
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Presales
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) FINRA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware