Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 345 353
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +71
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 23 28 66
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 50
10th Percentile £536 £425 £467
25th Percentile £591 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £660
90th Percentile £764 £714 £750
England median daily rate £625 £625 £640
% change year-on-year - -2.34% -1.54%

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 13,093 14,735 18,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.78% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,686 9,545 13,504
10th Percentile £333 £333 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.25% -2.14%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £792
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 156 222
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £49.63 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £80.97 £73.74
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +2 3 £675 -4.12% 1
West London - 3 £525 -
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 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 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
3 7 (30.43%) Windows
4 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
4 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (26.09%) VMware
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) NAS
5 5 (21.74%) SAN
6 4 (17.39%) Ansible
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 4 (17.39%) IaaS
6 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) NetApp
6 4 (17.39%) Oracle
6 4 (17.39%) PaaS
6 4 (17.39%) Terraform
6 4 (17.39%) TOGAF
6 4 (17.39%) Unix
6 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
7 3 (13.04%) Bash
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco
7 3 (13.04%) Cloud Operations

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 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (8.70%) Tomcat
1 2 (8.70%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.35%) CICS
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) IaaS
3 4 (17.39%) PaaS
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) OCI
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) NAS
2 5 (21.74%) SAN
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) SSL
4 2 (8.70%) HTTP
5 1 (4.35%) DHCP
5 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
5 1 (4.35%) LAN
5 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) International Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Police
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.04%) Replication
4 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) CMDB
5 1 (4.35%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) NVMe
5 1 (4.35%) PCIe
5 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Unix
4 2 (8.70%) CentOS
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.35%) AIX
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.35%) Solaris
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (17.39%) TOGAF
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
4 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
4 2 (8.70%) Open Source
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) RHCE
4 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) SANS
5 1 (4.35%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) GPFS
4 1 (4.35%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Nagios
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) F5
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Isilon