Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contracts

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 566 662
Rank change year-on-year +67 +96 +125
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 20 34 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.078% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.084% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 30
10th Percentile £461 £598 £499
25th Percentile £600 £613 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £628
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.40% +0.40%
75th Percentile £775 £728 £705
90th Percentile £790 £763 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £639 £625
% change year-on-year +1.76% +2.20% +2.04%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +49 15 £738 +18.00% 3
UK excluding London +41 13 £650 +1.76% 4
Work from Home +50 5 £475 -24.00%
London +34 5 £775 +24.00%
North of England - 5 £555 -
Scotland +9 3 £650 -7.14% 1
North West - 3 £410 -
East of England - 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
South West +41 1 - -
South East +30 1 £775 +24.00% 1

Infrastructure Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 featuring Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 7 (35.00%) Linux
3 7 (35.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (30.00%) High Availability
4 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (30.00%) HPUX
4 6 (30.00%) Solaris
4 6 (30.00%) IBM
4 6 (30.00%) Sun
4 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (30.00%) Finance
4 6 (30.00%) Mainframe
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Replication
4 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (25.00%) Unisys
5 5 (25.00%) AWS
6 4 (20.00%) Business Transformation
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (20.00%) Azure
6 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared

Infrastructure Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) S/MIME
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (30.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (30.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) HPUX
2 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
3 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (15.00%) ITSM
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCNP
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) DICOM
2 1 (5.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) IBM
1 6 (30.00%) Sun
2 5 (25.00%) Unisys
3 3 (15.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler