Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
England > Midlands

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 131 133
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +61
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 5 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £401 £471 £536
25th Percentile £420 £558 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £592 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +2.93% -10.16%
75th Percentile £516 £611 £597
90th Percentile £552 £612 £614
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 2,592 2,472 2,619
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.86% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 1,539 1,827
10th Percentile £230 £231 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 97 120
10th Percentile £13.43 £12.66 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.40 £15.00 £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £31.91
90th Percentile £47.60 £50.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the Midlands

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies 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 31 October 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 -23 3 £550 -7.07% 1
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 1
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Midlands region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Workday