Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 328 353
Rank change year-on-year -72 +25 +38
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 29 43 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.34% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 22
10th Percentile £504 £500 £425
25th Percentile £550 £525 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £603 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.52% -0.95%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £666
90th Percentile £731 £760 £748
England median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,508 12,723 15,563
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.07% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,114 8,611 11,076
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 200 228
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.39% -17.38%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.13 £52.44
90th Percentile £77.83 £63.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 27 July 2026.

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 27 July 2026. 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
Central London -1 14 £631 -6.48% 3
South London - 1 - -
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 13 (44.83%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
4 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
5 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
5 6 (20.69%) Windows
6 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.24%) Firewall
6 5 (17.24%) GCP
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) VMware
6 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
7 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.79%) Cisco
7 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
7 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
7 4 (13.79%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
7 4 (13.79%) Zero Trust
8 3 (10.34%) Architectural Design

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 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.45%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 2 (6.90%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) SAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.45%) CCTV
5 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) IoT
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Migration
2 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) TOGAF
6 4 (13.79%) Zero Trust
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Bash
1 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Bicep
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco
4 3 (10.34%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) EMC
6 1 (3.45%) NetApp
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage