Infrastructure Architect Contracts in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £602, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 369 408
Rank change year-on-year +67 +39 -40
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 44 30 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 61
10th Percentile £500 £428 £500
25th Percentile £516 £558 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +1.63% -0.40%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £675
90th Percentile £741 £723 £738
England median daily rate £625 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +4.00%

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 11,986 16,408 23,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 11,759 17,463
10th Percentile £336 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 316 270
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.34 £20.17 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.70 £27.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -26.51% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect 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 30 June 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
Central London +4 3 £656 -2.78% 5
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (36.36%) Windows
2 16 (36.36%) Azure
3 15 (34.09%) AWS
4 13 (29.55%) Linux
4 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
5 12 (27.27%) DevOps
6 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 10 (22.73%) Open Source
7 10 (22.73%) Unix
7 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
7 10 (22.73%) Migration
8 9 (20.45%) Finance
8 9 (20.45%) Agile
8 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
8 9 (20.45%) Data Centre
8 9 (20.45%) Terraform
9 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (18.18%) IaaS
9 8 (18.18%) TOGAF
10 7 (15.91%) VMware
10 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (15.91%) PaaS
10 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
10 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
10 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (13.64%) Ansible
11 6 (13.64%) GCP
11 6 (13.64%) Entra ID

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 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) IaaS
4 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.91%) PaaS
5 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.64%) GCP
6 4 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) SaaS
8 2 (4.55%) BigCommerce
8 2 (4.55%) Cloud Run
8 2 (4.55%) Datadog
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.27%) OCI
9 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 4 (9.09%) SSL
3 3 (6.82%) SAN
4 2 (4.55%) DNS
4 2 (4.55%) DSL
4 2 (4.55%) NAS
5 1 (2.27%) DHCP
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.27%) VSAN
5 1 (2.27%) WAN
5 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.27%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JMeter
2 2 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.55%) VML
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.36%) Private Cloud
3 5 (11.36%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.27%) CMDB
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.27%) NHS
6 1 (2.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (36.36%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Linux
3 10 (22.73%) Unix
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) DevOps
2 10 (22.73%) Migration
2 10 (22.73%) Open Source
3 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.18%) TOGAF
5 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
6 6 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 6 (13.64%) Project Management
6 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.36%) ITIL
7 5 (11.36%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (9.09%) Prototyping
8 4 (9.09%) Rapid Prototyping
8 4 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) Bicep
2 2 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) CCIE
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) OCP
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.45%) Terraform
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.55%) Puppet
4 2 (4.55%) Salt
5 1 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) VMware
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) Veritas
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) Adobe
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco
6 2 (4.55%) Citrix
6 2 (4.55%) F5
6 2 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) New Relic
6 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.55%) SAP
6 2 (4.55%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.27%) Dell
7 1 (2.27%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.27%) HP
7 1 (2.27%) IBM
7 1 (2.27%) Isilon
7 1 (2.27%) Wind River