Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the City of London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 124 142
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +44
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 1 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.14% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.15% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £633 £500
25th Percentile £725 £645 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £677 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% +15.23% -0.42%
75th Percentile £775 £697 £641
90th Percentile - £701 £650
Central London median daily rate £750 £677 £588
% change year-on-year +10.78% +15.23% -1.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,651 1,950 2,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.25% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,232 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £423 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 13
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £14.67
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -22.86% -16.17%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% +14.75% -26.51%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 City of London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp