Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 549 600
Rank change year-on-year -35 +51 +180
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.009% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.009% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £501 - £608
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - £770
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £759 - -
90th Percentile £814 - £833
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -23.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Enterprise Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Enterprise Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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
England -39 2 £663 - 3
Work from Home - 2 £475 -
UK excluding London - 2 £663 - 1
South West - 2 £663 -

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Enterprise 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 featuring Enterprise Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft