Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 319 342
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 +109
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 19 35 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 32
10th Percentile £582 £512 £471
25th Percentile £602 £563 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £688 £625 £664
90th Percentile £700 £709 £775
England median daily rate £625 £607 £636
% change year-on-year +2.97% -4.60% -2.12%

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 12,993 13,016 16,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.50% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 8,379 12,218
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 140 238
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.44 £23.80 £20.14
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £60.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.38% +24.04%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -4 2 £663 +1.61%
West London - 2 - -
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (21.05%) NAS
4 4 (21.05%) NetApp
4 4 (21.05%) SAN
4 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (15.79%) Ansible
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle
5 3 (15.79%) Terraform
5 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (10.53%) Apache
6 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 2 (10.53%) CentOS
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation

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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
1 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) NAS
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (10.53%) HTTP
3 2 (10.53%) SSL
4 1 (5.26%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) International Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Police
3 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Contract for Difference
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) NVMe
4 1 (5.26%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) CentOS
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (15.79%) DevOps
1 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
2 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
2 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
2 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
2 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
2 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
2 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
3 1 (5.26%) AI
3 1 (5.26%) Investment Management
3 1 (5.26%) Migration
3 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.26%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) RHCE
5 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (5.26%) CISM
6 1 (5.26%) CISSP
6 1 (5.26%) Degree
6 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) GPFS
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Nagios
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) NetApp
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft