Lead Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 - 379
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Architect 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% - 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% - 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £736 - -
25th Percentile £772 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £782
75th Percentile £925 - £830
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £850 - £782

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 22,284 11,788 19,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.21% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,998 7,554 11,618
10th Percentile £283 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £681 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,487 844 2,244
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.79 £15.75
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
South West - 5 £850 - 2
South East - 3 £775 -
Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) BCP
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) DHCP
3 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) SCCM
3 3 (37.50%) Server Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) VMware ESXi

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) BCP
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Server Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) F5
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware