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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 330 352
Rank change year-on-year -91 +22 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 27 34 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 24
10th Percentile £504 £513 £425
25th Percentile £558 £591 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £610
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.66% -2.40%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £647
90th Percentile £820 £775 £708
England median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £75.40

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 18,782 12,397 15,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.74% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,136 8,290 10,213
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 204 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.54 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -15.61% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.40 £75.13
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +2.62%

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 September 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 21 September 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 -10 11 £644 -14.17% 12
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 12 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 10 (37.04%) Migration
3 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (25.93%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
6 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
6 4 (14.81%) Target Operating Model
6 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (14.81%) WAN
6 4 (14.81%) Windows
7 3 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (11.11%) ERP
7 3 (11.11%) Firewall
7 3 (11.11%) GCP
7 3 (11.11%) Google

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) WAN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) CCTV
4 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 10 (37.04%) Migration
3 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (25.93%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
4 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 5 (18.52%) Zero Trust
5 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
5 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Target Operating Model
6 3 (11.11%) Analytics
6 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (11.11%) ERP
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (11.11%) Security Architecture
6 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.41%) vSphere
3 1 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) EMC
5 1 (3.70%) NetApp
5 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.70%) Pure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Zscaler