Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 348 356
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +62
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 30 32 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 61
10th Percentile £540 £414 £488
25th Percentile £613 £450 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £610 £617
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% -1.13% -5.08%
75th Percentile £725 £638 £660
90th Percentile £775 £708 £738
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,391 14,908 19,546
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.04% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,668 14,245
10th Percentile £334 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 165 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £38.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.17% -4.94% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.88 £58.75 £61.53
90th Percentile £66.92 £79.95 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.55
% change year-on-year -40.82% -6.69% +57.49%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in London over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in London

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
West London - 3 £525 -
Central London +3 2 £700 +3.40%
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
4 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 11 (36.67%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
5 11 (36.67%) Windows
6 10 (33.33%) Linux
7 8 (26.67%) Firewall
7 8 (26.67%) IaaS
7 8 (26.67%) PaaS
7 8 (26.67%) Terraform
8 7 (23.33%) Ansible
8 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (23.33%) Open Source
8 7 (23.33%) Unix
9 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
9 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (20.00%) SSL
10 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 5 (16.67%) GCP
10 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 5 (16.67%) Oracle
11 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
11 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
11 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
11 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 4 (13.33%) HTTPS

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.33%) CICS
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) IaaS
3 8 (26.67%) PaaS
4 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (16.67%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) SaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) OCI
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) SSL
3 4 (13.33%) HTTPS
4 3 (10.00%) DNS
4 3 (10.00%) NAS
4 3 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (6.67%) HTTP
6 1 (3.33%) DHCP
6 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
6 1 (3.33%) LAN
6 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) International Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.33%) NVMe
5 1 (3.33%) PCIe
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
5 1 (3.33%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) CentOS
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.33%) AIX
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.33%) Solaris
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) DevOps
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (23.33%) Open Source
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (13.33%) Server Management
4 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
5 3 (10.00%) Agile
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.00%) High Availability
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (10.00%) Migration
5 3 (10.00%) Release Management
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.67%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Bash
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Bicep
4 1 (3.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) RHCE
5 2 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CCIE
6 1 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CISM
6 1 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (3.33%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.33%) SANS
6 1 (3.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) GPFS
3 1 (3.33%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (26.67%) Terraform
3 7 (23.33%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) Nagios
4 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) Citrix
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Isilon