Technical Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Technical Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Technical Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 502 576 689
Rank change year-on-year +74 +113 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Infrastructure Architect 18 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.014% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.015% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile - £594 -
25th Percentile - £669 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £775 £756
90th Percentile £638 £813 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £628 £725 £644
% change year-on-year -13.45% +12.62% +10.44%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Infrastructure Architect within the UK 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
England +68 16 £500 -33.33% 2
London +46 10 £500 -33.33%
UK excluding London +67 8 £628 -13.45% 2
Work from Home +44 7 £630 -16.00%
South East - 5 £630 -
Scotland +14 2 £625 -16.67%
North of England +19 1 - -
North West +17 1 - -

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

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

1 10 (55.56%) SaaS
1 10 (55.56%) PaaS
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
2 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (33.33%) OCI
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Data Guard
4 4 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
4 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (22.22%) PKI
4 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (22.22%) MS Visio
4 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) Use Case
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) MCSE
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Unix
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (22.22%) Veritas
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement

Technical Infrastructure 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:

Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) PaaS
1 10 (55.56%) SaaS
2 6 (33.33%) OCI
3 4 (22.22%) IaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
1 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Microservices
1 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
1 4 (22.22%) Use Case
1 4 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
2 3 (16.67%) Attestation
2 3 (16.67%) Document Management
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (16.67%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) MCSE
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (22.22%) NCSC
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 6 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Data Guard
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 4 (22.22%) Veritas
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft