Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.26% 0.51% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.54% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £394 £492 -
25th Percentile £404 £496 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £508 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -11.74% -
75th Percentile £444 £574 £588
90th Percentile £452 £612 -
England median daily rate £638 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +1.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 714 734 807
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.38% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 451 586
10th Percentile £198 £250 £213
25th Percentile £330 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 54 48
10th Percentile £16.17 £12.50 £12.81
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £15.19
Median hourly rate £21.39 £20.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.98% +12.49%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.10 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Northamptonshire -12 2 £425 -14.70%
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 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 East Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared