Infrastructure Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Solution Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 542 592
Rank change year-on-year -10 +50 +152
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Solutions Architect 8 8 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.021% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.023% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 30
10th Percentile £529 £605 £463
25th Percentile £534 £607 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £638 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +7.14% -8.46%
75th Percentile £584 £688 £629
90th Percentile £586 £719 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £700 £588
% change year-on-year -21.43% +19.15% -6.75%

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 29,904 34,864 44,908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.98% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,888 21,031 30,699
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,645 1,438 1,521
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.00 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.15 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £42.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.18% -4.49% +97.78%

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Solutions Architect job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Top 9 Contract Job 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 13 October 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 +23 8 £563 -8.91% 6
UK excluding London -18 6 £550 -21.43% 5
North of England -23 3 £550 -24.14% 1
London +18 2 £575 -5.74% 1
South East +14 2 - - 4
North West -9 2 £550 - 1
Work from Home +19 1 - -
Yorkshire -22 1 - -
South West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Infrastructure Solutions 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 Infrastructure Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) Multicast
4 1 (12.50%) KVM
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure

Infrastructure Solutions 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 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) FCoE
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) MVS
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Agile
1 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
1 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (12.50%) CRM
1 1 (12.50%) High Availability
1 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microservices
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
1 1 (12.50%) Scrum
1 1 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (12.50%) SysML
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
1 1 (12.50%) UML
1 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) SRDF
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage
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