Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the South East is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 152 185
Rank change year-on-year +36 +33 -23
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 86 59 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.52% 1.04% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.10% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 42 58
10th Percentile £595 £500 £512
25th Percentile £613 £561 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £636
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +2.16% +11.92%
75th Percentile £825 £697 £693
90th Percentile - £719 £756
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Hampshire +33 63 £800 +23.08% 2
Thames Valley +8 20 £625 -0.79% 1
Berkshire -14 15 £625 -7.41% 1
Buckinghamshire +23 5 £563 +9.76%
Surrey +17 3 £650 +30.00% 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 77 (89.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (63.95%) DV Cleared
3 52 (60.47%) Windows
3 52 (60.47%) Prototyping
4 48 (55.81%) Microsoft
5 30 (34.88%) Agile
6 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
7 14 (16.28%) WMI
8 13 (15.12%) MSI
8 13 (15.12%) Data Centre
9 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (11.63%) VMware
11 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
12 6 (6.98%) DHCP
12 6 (6.98%) DNS
12 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
12 6 (6.98%) Windows 10
12 6 (6.98%) Private Cloud
12 6 (6.98%) Windows Server
12 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.98%) Privileged Access Management
12 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
13 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
14 4 (4.65%) Azure
14 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
14 4 (4.65%) SAN
14 4 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
15 3 (3.49%) CI/CD

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.65%) Azure
2 2 (2.33%) AWS
2 2 (2.33%) Azure Stack
2 2 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) DHCP
1 6 (6.98%) DNS
2 4 (4.65%) SAN
3 2 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) MSI
General
1 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
2 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.49%) Local Government
3 2 (2.33%) Back Office
4 1 (1.16%) Banking
4 1 (1.16%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.98%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.16%) Clustering
4 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.16%) Equities
4 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (60.47%) Windows
2 6 (6.98%) Windows 10
2 6 (6.98%) Windows Server
2 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (60.47%) Prototyping
2 30 (34.88%) Agile
3 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (6.98%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (3.49%) CI/CD
7 3 (3.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (3.49%) DevOps
7 3 (3.49%) Roadmaps
8 2 (2.33%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (2.33%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.33%) Customer Experience
8 2 (2.33%) Data Collection
8 2 (2.33%) Data Integration
8 2 (2.33%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (2.33%) Data Security
8 2 (2.33%) Load Balancing
8 2 (2.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 77 (89.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (63.95%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Degree
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) PhD
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) VCAP
6 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) GDPR
1 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) WMI
2 2 (2.33%) vRealize
2 2 (2.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (55.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) VMware
3 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.16%) IBM
4 1 (1.16%) Juniper
4 1 (1.16%) Veeam