Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in England is £738, 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 470 513 612
Rank change year-on-year +43 +99 +110
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 15 29 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.078% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.084% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 24
10th Percentile £503 £586 £504
25th Percentile £619 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £784 £755 £711
90th Percentile £794 £769 £812
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £628
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.40% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £61.80 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £81.47 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in England

Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions 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 +37 5 £775 +24.00%
North of England - 5 £555 -
East of England - 3 - -
North West - 3 £410 -
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
South West +42 1 - -
South East +33 1 £775 +24.00% 1
Infrastructure Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) QA
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Business Transformation
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) HPUX
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) IBM
4 3 (20.00%) Sun
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) Replication
4 3 (20.00%) Mainframe

Infrastructure Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) HPUX
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Business Transformation
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) DICOM
2 1 (6.67%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) IBM
1 3 (20.00%) Sun
2 2 (13.33%) Unisys
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Guidewire
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Zscaler