Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the South East is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 123 152
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +36
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 21 83 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 1.48% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.60% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 58 42
10th Percentile £562 £600 £500
25th Percentile £588 £613 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% +2.36%
75th Percentile £678 £825 £697
90th Percentile £699 - £719
England median daily rate £603 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.23% - +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,673 5,175 5,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 92.20% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,794 3,079 3,687
10th Percentile £225 £234 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 513 235
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £33.47 £48.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% -4.00% +143.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the South East

Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire -5 18 £650 -18.75% 11
Thames Valley +18 2 - - 8
Surrey +20 1 - -
Berkshire +12 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +9 1 - - 3
Infrastructure Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) DV Cleared
3 15 (71.43%) VMware
3 15 (71.43%) Windows
4 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (52.38%) SQL
7 8 (38.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
7 8 (38.10%) vSphere
8 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
8 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (33.33%) MCSE
9 6 (28.57%) NFS
9 6 (28.57%) NetApp
9 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
9 6 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
9 6 (28.57%) Veeam
9 6 (28.57%) VCP6
9 6 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
9 6 (28.57%) VCP5
9 6 (28.57%) Splunk
9 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (28.57%) Edge Virtualization
10 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (23.81%) Agile
11 4 (19.05%) Linux
11 4 (19.05%) Privileged Access Management

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

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
1 2 (9.52%) IaaS
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (19.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Edge Virtualization
1 6 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (19.05%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
5 1 (4.76%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (4.76%) High Availability
5 1 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (4.76%) Identity Management
5 1 (4.76%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.76%) Migration
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Prototyping
5 1 (4.76%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Management
5 1 (4.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) DV Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (33.33%) MCSE
4 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (28.57%) VCP5
5 6 (28.57%) VCP6
6 2 (9.52%) VCAP
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) vSphere
3 6 (28.57%) NFS
3 6 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) WMI
2 2 (9.52%) vRealize
2 2 (9.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) VMware
2 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) NetApp
3 6 (28.57%) Splunk
3 6 (28.57%) Veeam
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix