IT Infrastructure Architect Jobs

IT Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £61,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 975 1210
Rank change year-on-year +111 +235 -301
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Architect 13 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.003% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £58,400 £56,775 £62,000
25th Percentile £59,000 £59,813 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £68,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.62% -9.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £64,000 £78,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £65,200 £82,325 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £68,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +1.11% +1.89%

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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Architect in the UK

IT Infrastructure Architect
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +95 11 - - 1
Work from Home - 11 £61,000 -
London - 6 - -
UK excluding London +1 5 - - 1
North of England - 5 - -
Yorkshire - 5 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
1 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Management
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 10 (76.92%) Data Centre
2 10 (76.92%) TOGAF Certification
2 10 (76.92%) Roadmaps
3 9 (69.23%) Management Information System
4 7 (53.85%) WAN
4 7 (53.85%) Azure
5 6 (46.15%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Degree
6 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
6 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 5 (38.46%) SCOM
6 5 (38.46%) Network Security
6 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (38.46%) RHCA
6 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
6 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
6 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
6 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (38.46%) Redis

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (38.46%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
1 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) LAN
3 5 (38.46%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) Wireless
4 2 (15.38%) PBX
4 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) DB2
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
1 5 (38.46%) Redis
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
1 5 (38.46%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Data Centre
2 9 (69.23%) Management Information System
3 5 (38.46%) Private Cloud
3 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Management
1 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
2 10 (76.92%) Roadmaps
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Customer Experience
4 5 (38.46%) Data Management
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) IT Strategy
4 5 (38.46%) Load Balancing
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Secrets Management
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Network Design
7 1 (7.69%) SDLC
7 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) TOGAF Certification
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
3 5 (38.46%) CISSP
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (38.46%) RHCA
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
1 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (38.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
1 5 (38.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 5 (38.46%) IBM
3 5 (38.46%) Juniper
3 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
3 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 5 (38.46%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Darktrace
4 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
4 2 (15.38%) Fortinet