Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £584, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 119 150
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 2 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.55% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £562 £498 £486
25th Percentile £569 £514 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £595 £664 £690
90th Percentile £600 £714 -
England median daily rate £603 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.23% - +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 Midlands +9 2 £584 -11.52% 3
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle