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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 345 357
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 34 32 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.20% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.21% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 73
10th Percentile £513 £425 £500
25th Percentile £591 £497 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% -2.40% -2.34%
75th Percentile £719 £647 £660
90th Percentile £775 £708 £724
England median daily rate £650 £625 £634
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.38% -0.59%

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 12,486 15,331 20,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,366 10,240 15,087
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -5.25% +15.44%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £66.54 £72.19 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 0 1 £750 +10.78% 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 12 (35.29%) Windows
5 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
6 10 (29.41%) Linux
6 10 (29.41%) Open Source
7 9 (26.47%) IaaS
7 9 (26.47%) Finance
7 9 (26.47%) Terraform
8 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
8 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (23.53%) Firewall
8 8 (23.53%) Unix
8 8 (23.53%) PaaS
9 7 (20.59%) Ansible
9 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
10 6 (17.65%) GCP
10 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
10 6 (17.65%) SSL
10 6 (17.65%) Oracle
11 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
11 5 (14.71%) Migration
11 5 (14.71%) VMware
11 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
11 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
12 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (5.88%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.94%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) IaaS
4 8 (23.53%) PaaS
5 6 (17.65%) GCP
6 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
7 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) SaaS
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.94%) OCI
9 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 6 (17.65%) SSL
3 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (8.82%) NAS
4 3 (8.82%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) HTTP
6 1 (2.94%) DHCP
6 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (2.94%) NVMe
5 1 (2.94%) PCIe
5 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 8 (23.53%) Unix
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) DevOps
2 10 (29.41%) Open Source
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
5 5 (14.71%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (11.76%) Server Management
7 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.82%) High Availability
7 3 (8.82%) Release Management
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (5.88%) Security Architecture
8 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) Bash
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
3 2 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.82%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) RHCE
6 1 (2.94%) CCIE
6 1 (2.94%) CCNP
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CISM
6 1 (2.94%) CISSP
6 1 (2.94%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) SANS
6 1 (2.94%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) GPFS
4 1 (2.94%) Lustre
4 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Nagios
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Citrix
4 2 (5.88%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) NetApp
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Dell
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) Isilon
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Wind River