Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Architect
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the North of England is £599, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 148 165
Rank change year-on-year -42 +17 +46
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 13 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.35% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.38% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £471 £497 £565
25th Percentile £511 £520 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -10.77% +1.56%
75th Percentile £634 £647 £688
90th Percentile £676 £703 £700
England median daily rate £650 £625 £630
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,085 3,651 4,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 92.01% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,733 1,980 3,137
10th Percentile £215 £263 £262
25th Percentile £365 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £561 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 223 223
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.39 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.00 £17.88
Median hourly rate £27.38 £31.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +12.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £51.50 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £61.59
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.66% +53.13%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 North of England.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the North of England

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the North of England

Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the North of England

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
North West -17 10 £598 +19.50% 2
Yorkshire -33 3 £600 +3.45%
Infrastructure Architect
England

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 November 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 North of England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) SAN
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) F5
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Middleware
3 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
4 4 (30.77%) IBM
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (30.77%) Unix
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Citrix
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) HP
5 3 (23.08%) IaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) SaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (38.46%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) CICS
2 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) IaaS
2 3 (23.08%) PaaS
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) FCoE
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) Multicast
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
5 2 (15.38%) zOS
6 1 (7.69%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Microservices
1 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
2 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
3 2 (15.38%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (15.38%) CAD
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Coaching
3 2 (15.38%) Due Diligence
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (15.38%) PLM
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) KVM
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) NFS
3 1 (7.69%) SRDF
3 1 (7.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (7.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) F5
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) IBM
4 3 (23.08%) Citrix
4 3 (23.08%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 2 (15.38%) EMC
5 2 (15.38%) NetApp
5 2 (15.38%) Siemens
6 1 (7.69%) Google
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.69%) Pure Storage