Infrastructure Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 106 99
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 3 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.96% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 10
10th Percentile £523 £600 £539
25th Percentile £538 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £700
90th Percentile £628 £683 £714
South East median daily rate £640 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -5.19% +3.85% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in Berkshire

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in Berkshire

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in Berkshire

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +29 2 £625 +4.17% 2
Bracknell +18 1 £525 -
Infrastructure Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) vRealize
3 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAML
3 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft