Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 368 349
Rank change year-on-year +34 -19 +62
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 34 30 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.20% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 74
10th Percentile £513 £425 £500
25th Percentile £591 £481 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £610 £621
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% -1.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £719 £656 £658
90th Percentile £775 £709 £721
England median daily rate £625 £625 £630
% change year-on-year - -0.79% -1.18%

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 12,354 15,084 20,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.05% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,278 10,094 15,252
10th Percentile £326 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £673 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -6.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.50 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
% change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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
West London - 3 £525 -
Central London 0 1 £750 +10.78% 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 15 (44.12%) Azure
4 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
5 12 (35.29%) Windows
5 12 (35.29%) DevOps
6 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
7 10 (29.41%) Open Source
7 10 (29.41%) Linux
7 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (26.47%) Terraform
8 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
8 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (26.47%) IaaS
9 8 (23.53%) PaaS
9 8 (23.53%) Unix
9 8 (23.53%) Firewall
9 8 (23.53%) Cloud Security
9 8 (23.53%) Ansible
10 7 (20.59%) GCP
10 7 (20.59%) Finance
11 6 (17.65%) SSL
11 6 (17.65%) Oracle
11 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
12 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
12 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
12 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
12 5 (14.71%) Migration
12 5 (14.71%) VMware

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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (5.88%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.94%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) IaaS
4 8 (23.53%) PaaS
5 7 (20.59%) GCP
6 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
7 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) SaaS
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.94%) BigCommerce
9 1 (2.94%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 6 (17.65%) SSL
3 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (8.82%) NAS
4 3 (8.82%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) HTTP
6 1 (2.94%) DHCP
6 1 (2.94%) DSL
6 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.94%) JMeter
3 1 (2.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) International Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) OpenID
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Contract for Difference
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) NVMe
4 1 (2.94%) PCIe
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 8 (23.53%) Unix
4 2 (5.88%) CentOS
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) DevOps
2 10 (29.41%) Open Source
3 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (23.53%) Cloud Security
5 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) TOGAF
6 4 (11.76%) Agile
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Server Management
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.82%) High Availability
7 3 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Release Management
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.82%) Bash
2 3 (8.82%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (2.94%) COBOL
4 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 3 (8.82%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) RHCE
6 1 (2.94%) CCIE
6 1 (2.94%) CCNP
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CISM
6 1 (2.94%) CISSP
6 1 (2.94%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) OCP
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.94%) SANS
6 1 (2.94%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) GPFS
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) Lustre
4 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Nagios
4 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Salt
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) VMware
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco
3 2 (5.88%) Citrix
3 2 (5.88%) F5
3 2 (5.88%) NetApp
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Dell
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Isilon
4 1 (2.94%) New Relic
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.94%) Wind River