Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 302 362
Rank change year-on-year -88 +60 +66
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 28 45 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 18
10th Percentile £550 £500 £435
25th Percentile £586 £550 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £600 £665
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -9.77% +3.10%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £775
90th Percentile £688 £713 £949
England median daily rate £625 £603 £650
% change year-on-year +3.65% -7.23% -

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 16,283 11,850 16,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.48% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,852 8,139 12,050
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 147 341
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.09 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.70 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.41% -11.08% -20.78%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -12 7 £638 +6.25%
South London - 1 - -
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) Migration
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
4 7 (25.00%) AWS
4 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (25.00%) VMware
4 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (21.43%) GCP
5 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 6 (21.43%) Windows
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
6 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.86%) Terraform
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
7 4 (14.29%) Google
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (14.29%) NAS
7 4 (14.29%) NetApp
7 4 (14.29%) SAN
7 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 4 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) B2B
8 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.71%) Cisco

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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) NAS
2 4 (14.29%) SAN
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Replication
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Migration
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) B2B
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
6 3 (10.71%) ITIL
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (7.14%) Data Migration
7 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
7 2 (7.14%) Observability
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Bash
1 1 (3.57%) Bicep
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 4 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) NetApp
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow