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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 388 406
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 100 148 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.43% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 100 184
10th Percentile £504 £538 £503
25th Percentile £563 £605 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £778 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £748
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £641
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.36% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £69.38 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £70.20 -
Median hourly rate £73.75 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £75.40 -
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -

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 22,374 34,092 44,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.74% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,795 22,500 31,965
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,543 1,312
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

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 31 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 31 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 +73 56 £600 -1.64% 6
South East -17 22 £650 -5.45% 9
North of England +15 7 £713 +14.00% 1
South West +43 5 £575 -19.01% 3
East of England - 5 - - 3
Yorkshire +15 4 £650 +10.17%
North West +7 3 £738 +18.00% 1
West Midlands +9 2 £584 -6.56%
Midlands +4 2 £584 +6.18% 9
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 47 (47.00%) Windows
2 43 (43.00%) Security Cleared
3 31 (31.00%) Azure
3 31 (31.00%) VMware
4 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
5 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
6 23 (23.00%) Linux
6 23 (23.00%) AWS
7 22 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 22 (22.00%) Active Directory
8 21 (21.00%) Windows Server
9 20 (20.00%) DV Cleared
9 20 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 20 (20.00%) SQL
10 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
11 18 (18.00%) Agile
11 18 (18.00%) DevOps
12 17 (17.00%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
14 15 (15.00%) Data Centre
14 15 (15.00%) TOGAF
14 15 (15.00%) Finance
14 15 (15.00%) Oracle
15 14 (14.00%) Migration
15 14 (14.00%) IaaS
16 13 (13.00%) Public Cloud
16 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
17 12 (12.00%) PaaS
17 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management

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 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 23 (23.00%) AWS
3 17 (17.00%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (14.00%) IaaS
5 12 (12.00%) PaaS
6 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.00%) Azure Stack
7 7 (7.00%) GCP
7 7 (7.00%) SaaS
8 5 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.00%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.00%) OCI
10 2 (2.00%) BigCommerce
10 2 (2.00%) Datadog
11 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (7.00%) iSCSI
2 6 (6.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.00%) SSL
4 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 2 (2.00%) DSL
4 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.00%) DHCP
5 1 (1.00%) PBX
5 1 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.00%) VoIP
5 1 (1.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.00%) MSI
1 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (3.00%) Terragrunt
2 2 (2.00%) JMeter
General
1 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.00%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.00%) Electronics
8 1 (1.00%) Local Government
8 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) REST
2 3 (3.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.00%) OAuth
3 2 (2.00%) OpenID
3 2 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.00%) SAML
3 2 (2.00%) VML
4 1 (1.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.00%) Public Cloud
3 11 (11.00%) Private Cloud
4 9 (9.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.00%) Mainframe
6 4 (4.00%) Replication
7 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.00%) NHS
9 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (47.00%) Windows
2 23 (23.00%) Linux
3 21 (21.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.00%) Unix
5 8 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (7.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.00%) HPUX
7 4 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.00%) Agile
1 18 (18.00%) DevOps
2 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.00%) TOGAF
4 14 (14.00%) Migration
5 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
6 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (10.00%) Open Source
8 9 (9.00%) Cloud Security
8 9 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.00%) Project Management
9 8 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.00%) Edge Virtualization
10 7 (7.00%) Identity Management
10 7 (7.00%) ITIL
10 7 (7.00%) Performance Analysis
11 6 (6.00%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (6.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) SQL
2 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.00%) Python
4 2 (2.00%) Bicep
4 2 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (43.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.00%) MCSE
7 7 (7.00%) VCP5
7 7 (7.00%) VCP6
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.00%) Degree
10 2 (2.00%) OCP
10 2 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (2.00%) VCAP
11 1 (1.00%) CCNP
11 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (1.00%) CISSP
11 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.00%) MCSA
11 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (2.00%) NIST
2 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Active Directory
1 22 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (10.00%) vSphere
3 8 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (7.00%) NFS
5 3 (3.00%) Docker
5 3 (3.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.00%) VxRail
4 6 (6.00%) Ansible
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.00%) WMI
6 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.00%) Puppet
6 2 (2.00%) Salt
6 2 (2.00%) vRealize
6 2 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (31.00%) VMware
2 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.00%) Oracle
4 11 (11.00%) Red Hat
5 7 (7.00%) NetApp
5 7 (7.00%) Splunk
5 7 (7.00%) Veeam
6 5 (5.00%) EMC
6 5 (5.00%) IBM
7 4 (4.00%) Sun
7 4 (4.00%) Veritas
8 3 (3.00%) SAP
8 3 (3.00%) Unisys
9 2 (2.00%) Adobe
9 2 (2.00%) Cisco
9 2 (2.00%) Citrix
9 2 (2.00%) Google
9 2 (2.00%) New Relic
9 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.00%) Sitecore