Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Infrastructure Architect
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Glasgow is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.72% - 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £556 - £552
25th Percentile £613 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £630
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 - £673
90th Percentile £716 - £685
Scotland median daily rate £625 £650 £669
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.80% -4.46%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 1,031 689 648
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 93.87% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 416 460
10th Percentile £284 £269 £230
25th Percentile £363 £358 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £532 £564
90th Percentile £675 £580 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 17 16
10th Percentile £15.01 - £11.78
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.84 £14.34
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +175.41% +1.94% +22.44%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £46.16
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% +17.65% -4.06%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Glasgow

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in Glasgow

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 September 2026, Infrastructure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Claude Code
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (12.50%) Presales
4 1 (12.50%) Python

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Claude Code
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Legal
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CCTV
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
3 1 (12.50%) Presales
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Discovery
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) zsh
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) VMware