Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, 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 323 373 441
Rank change year-on-year +50 +68 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 13 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.13% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 11
10th Percentile £493 - -
25th Percentile £625 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £639 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +2.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £698
90th Percentile £763 £755 £725
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £628
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.40% +0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £61.80 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £81.47 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions 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
North of England - 5 £555 -
Scotland +13 3 £650 -7.14% 1
East of England - 3 - -
North West - 3 £410 -
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
South West +42 1 - -
South East +33 1 £775 +24.00% 1
Infrastructure Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) HPUX
3 6 (46.15%) Solaris
3 6 (46.15%) IBM
3 6 (46.15%) Sun
3 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (46.15%) Replication
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (46.15%) High Availability
3 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
3 6 (46.15%) Planning and Forecasting
4 5 (38.46%) Unisys
4 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Banking
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (30.77%) Business Transformation
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) Systems Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared

Infrastructure Solutions 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
1 6 (46.15%) Replication
2 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) HPUX
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) Planning and Forecasting
1 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (30.77%) Business Transformation
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Thinking
2 4 (30.77%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) MCSA
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) IBM
1 6 (46.15%) Sun
2 5 (38.46%) Unisys
3 3 (23.08%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler