Infrastructure Architect Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 580 698
Rank change year-on-year -33 +118 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 91 46 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 51 33 127
10th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £64,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,250 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +16.24%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 78,810 35,838 90,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.06% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55,430 20,848 67,006
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,969 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in England

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -5 29 £100,000 - 5
North of England -6 29 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North West - 22 £75,000 - 3
South East -22 19 £85,000 +9.68% 1
East of England -7 9 - -
North East -50 5 - -
Midlands -30 3 £75,000 -6.25% 1
West Midlands -17 2 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -40 2 £80,000 +23.08%
South West - 2 - - 3
East Midlands -37 1 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2026, Infrastructure Architect 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Roadmaps
3 19 (20.88%) VMware
4 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
5 16 (17.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (17.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (15.38%) Terraform
7 13 (14.29%) AWS
7 13 (14.29%) Firewall
7 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (13.19%) Ansible
8 12 (13.19%) IaaS
9 11 (12.09%) DevOps
9 11 (12.09%) DNS
9 11 (12.09%) PaaS
9 11 (12.09%) Zero Trust
10 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
10 10 (10.99%) Budgeting
10 10 (10.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 10 (10.99%) Cisco
10 10 (10.99%) CISSP
10 10 (10.99%) PlantUML
10 10 (10.99%) Strategic Planning
10 10 (10.99%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (10.99%) Windows
11 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (8.79%) Security Architecture

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) AWS
3 12 (13.19%) IaaS
4 11 (12.09%) PaaS
5 6 (6.59%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.40%) GCP
7 3 (3.30%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) Firewall
2 11 (12.09%) DNS
3 7 (7.69%) Network Security
3 7 (7.69%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) Kerberos
5 4 (4.40%) WAN
6 3 (3.30%) LAN
6 3 (3.30%) NetScaler
6 3 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (3.30%) VSAN
7 1 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Git
1 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (23.08%) Finance
2 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Legal
5 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) OAuth
1 6 (6.59%) OpenID
1 6 (6.59%) SAML
2 5 (5.49%) LDAP
2 5 (5.49%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.49%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Windows
2 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.49%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) Roadmaps
2 16 (17.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (12.09%) DevOps
4 11 (12.09%) Zero Trust
5 10 (10.99%) Budgeting
5 10 (10.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 10 (10.99%) Strategic Planning
5 10 (10.99%) Threat Modelling
6 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (8.79%) Security Architecture
7 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (8.79%) TOGAF
8 7 (7.69%) RBAC
9 6 (6.59%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (6.59%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.59%) SQL
3 2 (2.20%) Bicep
4 1 (1.10%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) CISSP
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) TOGAF Certification
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) VCAP
4 3 (3.30%) VCDX
4 3 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.10%) Degree
6 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.40%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.30%) vCloud
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Terraform
2 12 (13.19%) Ansible
3 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.10%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) VMware
2 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.99%) Cisco
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle
5 4 (4.40%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.30%) Citrix
6 3 (3.30%) Dell
6 3 (3.30%) NetApp
6 3 (3.30%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk