Technical Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Technical Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 557 627
Rank change year-on-year -14 +70 +167
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Infrastructure Architect 3 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.019% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.020% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 21
10th Percentile £477 £485 £525
25th Percentile £481 £514 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £653 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +0.38% +7.00%
75th Percentile £518 £788 £750
90th Percentile £520 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £653 £575
% change year-on-year -23.18% +13.48% +2.95%

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 30,556 34,341 44,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.89% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,309 20,704 30,643
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 1,701 1,344 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Technical Infrastructure Architect
Top 6 Contract Job 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 25 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 -1 3 £501 -0.94% 1
UK excluding London -27 2 £501 -23.18%
South East +5 1 £505 -0.20%
North of England - 1 £498 -
London - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £498 -

Technical Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Technical 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 Technical Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

Technical 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%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle