Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 679 654 982
Rank change year-on-year -25 +328 -305
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 217 356 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.34% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.37% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 161 107 146
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,154 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +1.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +57 193 £89,000 +16.72% 24
London +174 126 £95,000 +11.76% 11
Work from Home +81 110 £95,000 +27.52% 6
UK excluding London -149 78 £75,000 +7.14% 14
South East +22 37 £75,000 +1.01% 10
South West -32 11 £80,000 +21.19%
North of England -11 10 £105,000 +52.57% 2
Scotland -89 8 £75,000 +26.00% 1
West Midlands +12 7 £100,000 +48.15% 1
Midlands -22 7 £100,000 +48.15% 1
Yorkshire +72 6 £112,500 +62.42%
Wales -16 4 £50,000 -33.33%
North West -26 3 £89,250 +29.68% 2
East of England +19 1 £67,500 -15.63%
North East - 1 £97,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Infrastructure Architect 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 permanent job ads featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 133 (61.29%) Azure
2 78 (35.94%) Terraform
3 73 (33.64%) Firewall
4 72 (33.18%) Microsoft
5 69 (31.80%) Social Skills
6 68 (31.34%) VPN
7 65 (29.95%) Windows
8 64 (29.49%) Linux
9 59 (27.19%) Data Centre
10 53 (24.42%) Public Cloud
10 53 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (23.96%) AWS
12 51 (23.50%) Active Directory
12 51 (23.50%) Finance
13 49 (22.58%) Agile
14 47 (21.66%) Security Cleared
14 47 (21.66%) Azure Certification
15 44 (20.28%) Asset Management
16 43 (19.82%) Roadmaps
17 42 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
18 41 (18.89%) Citrix
19 38 (17.51%) Ubuntu
19 38 (17.51%) PaaS
20 36 (16.59%) IaaS
21 35 (16.13%) DV Cleared
22 33 (15.21%) VMware
23 32 (14.75%) Retail
23 32 (14.75%) WAN
24 31 (14.29%) Oracle
25 30 (13.82%) PowerShell

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.61%) WebSphere
2 5 (2.30%) IIS
2 5 (2.30%) JBoss
2 5 (2.30%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.30%) WebLogic
2 5 (2.30%) WildFly
3 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 133 (61.29%) Azure
2 52 (23.96%) AWS
3 42 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (17.51%) PaaS
5 36 (16.59%) IaaS
6 21 (9.68%) SaaS
6 21 (9.68%) Serverless
7 17 (7.83%) GCP
8 15 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (6.91%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.61%) OCI
11 9 (4.15%) CloudFront
11 9 (4.15%) Route 53
11 9 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (33.64%) Firewall
2 68 (31.34%) VPN
3 32 (14.75%) WAN
4 30 (13.82%) LAN
5 25 (11.52%) VLAN
6 24 (11.06%) Internet
7 15 (6.91%) SAN
8 14 (6.45%) DNS
9 12 (5.53%) DHCP
10 8 (3.69%) Network Security
11 6 (2.76%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.76%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.76%) Wireless
12 2 (0.92%) PBX
13 1 (0.46%) HTTP
13 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.76%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.30%) Big Data
4 5 (2.30%) DB2
4 5 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.30%) Redis
5 3 (1.38%) Power BI
6 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) MSI
General
1 69 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.50%) Finance
3 32 (14.75%) Retail
4 21 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.45%) Billing
6 6 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.84%) Banking
8 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Marketing
8 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.92%) Electronics
9 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.76%) CSS
2 5 (2.30%) Middleware
2 5 (2.30%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (0.92%) JSON
3 2 (0.92%) YAML
4 1 (0.46%) HTML
4 1 (0.46%) OpenID
4 1 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (27.19%) Data Centre
2 53 (24.42%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.45%) Replication
4 12 (5.53%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.61%) Private Cloud
6 9 (4.15%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.76%) CCTV
7 6 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.84%) IoT
8 4 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.92%) PKI
10 1 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.46%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (29.95%) Windows
2 64 (29.49%) Linux
3 38 (17.51%) Ubuntu
4 25 (11.52%) Windows Server
5 24 (11.06%) VMS
6 14 (6.45%) SUSE
6 14 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (4.61%) Unix
8 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (22.58%) Agile
3 44 (20.28%) Asset Management
4 43 (19.82%) Roadmaps
5 26 (11.98%) DevOps
5 26 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (11.52%) Collaborative Culture
6 25 (11.52%) DevSecOps
7 24 (11.06%) Actionable Insight
7 24 (11.06%) Application Security
7 24 (11.06%) Project Delivery
8 23 (10.60%) Containerisation
9 20 (9.22%) Computer Science
9 20 (9.22%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.76%) Presales
10 19 (8.76%) TOGAF
11 18 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (6.91%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.82%) PowerShell
2 19 (8.76%) SQL
3 12 (5.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (21.66%) Azure Certification
1 47 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.13%) DV Cleared
3 24 (11.06%) Degree
4 22 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.91%) MCSE
7 14 (6.45%) MCSA
7 14 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (5.53%) SC Cleared
9 11 (5.07%) AWS Certification
9 11 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.23%) CCNA
12 7 (3.23%) CISSP
13 5 (2.30%) RHCA
14 4 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (1.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 51 (23.50%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.76%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (8.76%) vSphere
4 18 (8.29%) Docker
5 15 (6.91%) Hyper-V
6 14 (6.45%) vCloud
7 5 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (35.94%) Terraform
2 30 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.06%) Ansible
4 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.30%) Grafana
5 5 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.30%) SCOM
6 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.46%) SCCM
6 1 (0.46%) WMI
6 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (33.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (18.89%) Citrix
3 33 (15.21%) VMware
4 31 (14.29%) Oracle
5 17 (7.83%) Google
6 15 (6.91%) Fujitsu
7 14 (6.45%) HP
7 14 (6.45%) Veeam
8 13 (5.99%) Cisco
9 6 (2.76%) Darktrace
10 5 (2.30%) IBM
10 5 (2.30%) Juniper
10 5 (2.30%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.30%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.84%) Dell
12 2 (0.92%) Forcepoint
12 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.92%) SAP
13 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow