Lead Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK 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 629 - 591
Rank change year-on-year - - +124
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Architect 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% - 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - 0.022%
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 excluding London median daily rate £850 - £782

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 43,929 27,125 40,035
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 92.53% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,003 17,719 26,065
10th Percentile £318 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,852 1,052 2,665
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.25 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.36% -30.00% -4.76%

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 8 £850 - 2
UK excluding London - 8 £850 - 5
South West - 5 £850 - 2
Work from Home - 4 £788 - 3
South East - 3 £775 -

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

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 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 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