Hybrid/Remote Lead Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Lead Infrastructure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £788, 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 337 - 342
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Architect 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% - 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £701 - -
25th Percentile £741 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 - £830
75th Percentile £831 - -
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK median daily rate £850 - £782

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,368 9,279 14,168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 93.83% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,286 6,351 9,497
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 227 575
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £27.94 £17.95 £23.29
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.25 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.12% -18.02% -20.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Infrastructure Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Lead Infrastructure Architect job vacancies

Lead Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lead Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Lead Infrastructure Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Lead Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) BCP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX

Lead Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) BCP
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware