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 £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 280 296
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +38
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 56 117 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.58% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.62% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 85 105
10th Percentile £550 £550 £500
25th Percentile £572 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £800 £690
90th Percentile £725 £825 £723
UK median daily rate £603 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.23% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £69.38 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £70.20 -
Median hourly rate £73.75 £75.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £75.40 -
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -

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 11,749 18,731 21,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.50% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,490 11,452 15,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 826 2,272 1,106
10th Percentile £13.93 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

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 22 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 22 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 -11 23 £650 -5.45% 11
Scotland +13 9 £625 +1.83% 2
South West +35 8 £625 -11.97% 5
North of England +17 7 £713 +14.00% 4
East of England - 5 - - 2
Yorkshire +12 4 £650 +10.17% 1
North West +9 3 £738 +18.00% 1
West Midlands +7 2 £584 -11.52% 1
Midlands +2 2 £584 +6.18% 3
Wales - 2 £463 -
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 36 (64.29%) Windows
2 33 (58.93%) Security Cleared
3 27 (48.21%) VMware
4 25 (44.64%) Microsoft
4 25 (44.64%) DV Cleared
5 24 (42.86%) Linux
6 20 (35.71%) Active Directory
7 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
8 15 (26.79%) Agile
8 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (23.21%) Privileged Access Management
10 12 (21.43%) Data Centre
11 11 (19.64%) Finance
11 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
12 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (17.86%) SQL
12 10 (17.86%) High Availability
12 10 (17.86%) Azure
13 9 (16.07%) IBM
14 8 (14.29%) Replication
14 8 (14.29%) HPUX
14 8 (14.29%) Solaris
14 8 (14.29%) Sun
14 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
14 8 (14.29%) DevSecOps
14 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
15 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement

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 (5.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) AWS
3 3 (5.36%) GCP
3 3 (5.36%) IaaS
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.79%) OCI
5 1 (1.79%) PaaS
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (8.93%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.79%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) HTTP
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) PBX
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) MSI
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (19.64%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) OAuth
1 1 (1.79%) OpenID
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.29%) Replication
3 7 (12.50%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (64.29%) Windows
2 24 (42.86%) Linux
3 8 (14.29%) HPUX
3 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (14.29%) Solaris
3 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Agile
2 13 (23.21%) Privileged Access Management
3 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (17.86%) High Availability
3 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 7 (12.50%) DevOps
5 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.71%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (10.71%) Migration
6 6 (10.71%) Planning and Forecasting
6 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.71%) Systems Thinking
7 5 (8.93%) Business Transformation
7 5 (8.93%) Edge Virtualization
7 5 (8.93%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (8.93%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (58.93%) Security Cleared
2 25 (44.64%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (10.71%) MCSE
4 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.93%) VCP5
5 5 (8.93%) VCP6
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) CISSP
7 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.57%) Degree
7 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (3.57%) VCAP
8 1 (1.79%) CITP
8 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.79%) OCP
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.79%) NIST
2 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.50%) vSphere
4 5 (8.93%) NFS
4 5 (8.93%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) WMI
2 2 (3.57%) vRealize
2 2 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (48.21%) VMware
2 25 (44.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.07%) IBM
4 8 (14.29%) Sun
5 7 (12.50%) Unisys
6 5 (8.93%) NetApp
6 5 (8.93%) Splunk
6 5 (8.93%) Veeam
7 4 (7.14%) Cisco
8 3 (5.36%) HP
9 2 (3.57%) Google
9 2 (3.57%) Oracle
10 1 (1.79%) Citrix
10 1 (1.79%) Ericsson
10 1 (1.79%) Mitel
10 1 (1.79%) Siemens