Hybrid/Remote Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Architect daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 284 325
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +105
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 24 39 74
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.32% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 59
10th Percentile £500 £509 £463
25th Percentile £506 £580 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £618 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +7.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £691
90th Percentile £713 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 9,410 11,305 17,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.20% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,159 7,102 12,209
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 196 379
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.45 £17.11
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.42 £25.98
Median hourly rate £41.68 £42.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

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

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 11 (45.83%) AWS
1 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Windows
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Firewall
4 7 (29.17%) Linux
5 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (25.00%) Open Source
6 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Terraform
6 5 (20.83%) VMware
7 4 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (16.67%) Ansible
7 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
8 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
8 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
8 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
8 3 (12.50%) IaaS

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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) CloudStack
1 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
4 3 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.17%) Cohesity
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 3 (12.50%) SSL
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) DHCP
4 1 (4.17%) NAS
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Back Office
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Front Office
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.17%) IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (12.50%) Release Management
5 3 (12.50%) Server Management
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (8.33%) TOGAF
7 1 (4.17%) Application Virtualisation
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) Go
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) CISM
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SANS
4 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) NetApp
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Commvault
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Isilon
4 1 (4.17%) Meraki
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle