Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £603, 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 391 393 422
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 -24
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 94 149 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.43% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 174
10th Percentile £506 £550 £510
25th Percentile £563 £613 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% - +4.84%
75th Percentile £688 £788 £689
90th Percentile £731 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £69.12 - -
25th Percentile £70.73 £70.20 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% - -
75th Percentile - £80.59 -
90th Percentile £77.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £75.40 -
% change year-on-year -0.52% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +49 44 £600 -7.69% 10
South East -10 24 £640 -5.19% 21
South West +47 8 £625 -11.97% 4
North of England +16 7 £725 +16.00% 4
East of England - 5 - -
North West +13 4 £738 +18.00% 3
Yorkshire +10 3 £700 +18.64%
Midlands +10 2 £584 +6.18% 4
West Midlands +9 2 £584 -11.52% 3
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 48 (51.06%) Windows
2 41 (43.62%) Security Cleared
3 40 (42.55%) VMware
4 28 (29.79%) Linux
4 28 (29.79%) Active Directory
5 26 (27.66%) Azure
5 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
6 25 (26.60%) DV Cleared
6 25 (26.60%) Microsoft
7 22 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (20.21%) Windows Server
9 18 (19.15%) TOGAF
10 17 (18.09%) Agile
10 17 (18.09%) AWS
10 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (17.02%) SQL
12 15 (15.96%) Public Cloud
12 15 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (14.89%) Finance
13 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
13 14 (14.89%) Roadmaps
14 13 (13.83%) Migration
14 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
14 13 (13.83%) Oracle
14 13 (13.83%) Data Centre
14 13 (13.83%) Privileged Access Management
15 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Management
16 11 (11.70%) DevOps
16 11 (11.70%) Private Cloud

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 17 (18.09%) AWS
3 15 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.57%) IaaS
4 9 (9.57%) PaaS
5 8 (8.51%) GCP
5 8 (8.51%) SaaS
6 7 (7.45%) Azure Stack
7 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.19%) Cloud Run
8 3 (3.19%) GitHub
8 3 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.19%) OCI
9 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.13%) BigCommerce
9 2 (2.13%) Datadog
10 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) iSCSI
2 4 (4.26%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.13%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) DSL
3 2 (2.13%) Firewall
3 2 (2.13%) Network Security
3 2 (2.13%) NGFW
3 2 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.13%) SSL
3 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.06%) DHCP
4 1 (1.06%) PBX
4 1 (1.06%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.06%) VoIP
4 1 (1.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.06%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
1 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.19%) MSI
1 3 (3.19%) Terragrunt
2 2 (2.13%) JMeter
General
1 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.89%) Finance
3 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Retail
6 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.06%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) SAML
2 3 (3.19%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.13%) OAuth
3 2 (2.13%) OpenID
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.13%) VML
4 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Public Cloud
2 13 (13.83%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.70%) Private Cloud
4 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.26%) Mainframe
6 4 (4.26%) Replication
7 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) NHS
9 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (51.06%) Windows
2 28 (29.79%) Linux
3 19 (20.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.32%) Unix
6 4 (4.26%) HPUX
6 4 (4.26%) Solaris
6 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (19.15%) TOGAF
2 17 (18.09%) Agile
3 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (14.89%) Roadmaps
5 13 (13.83%) Migration
5 13 (13.83%) Privileged Access Management
6 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Management
7 11 (11.70%) DevOps
8 10 (10.64%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.57%) Project Management
9 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.45%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.45%) Identity Management
10 7 (7.45%) ITIL
10 7 (7.45%) Process Improvement
11 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (6.38%) Prototyping
11 6 (6.38%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (6.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) SQL
2 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.26%) Python
4 2 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (43.62%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.32%) MCSE
7 4 (4.26%) VCP5
7 4 (4.26%) VCP6
8 3 (3.19%) CISSP
8 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.19%) Degree
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.13%) CISM
9 2 (2.13%) OCP
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.13%) VCAP
10 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.06%) MCSA
10 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
2 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 22 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (7.45%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (7.45%) vSphere
5 6 (6.38%) NFS
6 5 (5.32%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.19%) Docker
8 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.45%) Terraform
2 7 (7.45%) VxRail
3 4 (4.26%) vRealize
3 4 (4.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 3 (3.19%) WMI
5 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.13%) Puppet
5 2 (2.13%) Salt
6 1 (1.06%) Istio
Vendors
1 40 (42.55%) VMware
2 25 (26.60%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.83%) Oracle
4 11 (11.70%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.32%) EMC
5 5 (5.32%) IBM
6 4 (4.26%) NetApp
6 4 (4.26%) Splunk
6 4 (4.26%) Sun
6 4 (4.26%) Veeam
6 4 (4.26%) Veritas
7 3 (3.19%) SAP
7 3 (3.19%) Unisys
8 2 (2.13%) Adobe
8 2 (2.13%) Cisco
8 2 (2.13%) Google
8 2 (2.13%) New Relic
8 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.13%) Sitecore
9 1 (1.06%) Guidewire