Infrastructure Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, 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 278 274 312
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 58 126 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.65% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 93 105
10th Percentile £528 £551 £500
25th Percentile £569 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £800 £700
90th Percentile £725 £825 £748
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £69.12 - -
25th Percentile £70.73 £70.20 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% - -
75th Percentile - £80.59 -
90th Percentile £77.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £75.40 -
% change year-on-year -0.52% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Infrastructure Architect within the UK excluding London 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
South East -10 24 £640 -5.19% 39
Scotland +10 9 £625 -8.76% 3
South West +47 8 £625 -11.97% 14
North of England +16 7 £725 +16.00% 20
East of England - 5 - - 12
North West +13 4 £738 +18.00% 10
Yorkshire +10 3 £700 +18.64% 7
Wales - 3 £480 - 2
Midlands +10 2 £584 +6.18% 19
West Midlands +9 2 £584 -11.52% 11
Infrastructure Architect
UK

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 37 (63.79%) Windows
2 35 (60.34%) Security Cleared
3 30 (51.72%) VMware
4 25 (43.10%) Linux
4 25 (43.10%) DV Cleared
5 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
6 20 (34.48%) Active Directory
7 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
8 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 15 (25.86%) Agile
9 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
9 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (22.41%) Privileged Access Management
10 12 (20.69%) Data Centre
11 11 (18.97%) Finance
12 10 (17.24%) Azure
13 9 (15.52%) High Availability
13 9 (15.52%) IBM
13 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (15.52%) SQL
13 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
14 8 (13.79%) DevSecOps
14 8 (13.79%) HPUX
14 8 (13.79%) Solaris
14 8 (13.79%) Sun
14 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (13.79%) Replication
14 8 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
14 8 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) IaaS
4 3 (5.17%) PaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.45%) SSL
4 1 (1.72%) Firewall
4 1 (1.72%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) NGFW
4 1 (1.72%) PBX
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) MSI
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.97%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) SAML
2 1 (1.72%) OAuth
2 1 (1.72%) OpenID
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Replication
3 7 (12.07%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (63.79%) Windows
2 25 (43.10%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) HPUX
3 8 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Solaris
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.86%) Agile
2 13 (22.41%) Privileged Access Management
3 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (15.52%) High Availability
3 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (13.79%) DevSecOps
4 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (12.07%) DevOps
5 7 (12.07%) Process Improvement
5 7 (12.07%) TOGAF
6 6 (10.34%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (10.34%) Migration
6 6 (10.34%) Planning and Forecasting
6 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.34%) Systems Thinking
7 5 (8.62%) ITSM
7 5 (8.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (8.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) Python
4 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 35 (60.34%) Security Cleared
2 25 (43.10%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (8.62%) MCSE
6 4 (6.90%) VCP5
6 4 (6.90%) VCP6
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.17%) CISSP
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.45%) Degree
8 2 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (3.45%) VCAP
9 1 (1.72%) CCNP
9 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CITP
9 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
2 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.34%) NFS
3 6 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (10.34%) vSphere
4 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) vRealize
1 4 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 3 (5.17%) WMI
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (51.72%) VMware
2 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.52%) IBM
4 8 (13.79%) Sun
5 7 (12.07%) Unisys
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco
6 4 (6.90%) NetApp
6 4 (6.90%) Splunk
6 4 (6.90%) Veeam
7 3 (5.17%) HP
8 2 (3.45%) Google
9 1 (1.72%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.72%) Mitel
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle
9 1 (1.72%) Siemens