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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 599 671
Rank change year-on-year -16 +72 +67
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 85 43 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50 27 129
10th Percentile £71,125 £62,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £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 £90,000 £78,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +14.29%

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 77,255 35,140 85,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 89.76% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,481 20,253 64,048
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,750
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 6 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 6 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
North of England -13 27 £75,000 +15.38% 3
London +1 22 £100,000 -4.76% 5
South East -17 22 £85,000 +9.68% 1
North West - 20 £75,000 - 3
East of England -12 9 - -
North East -42 5 - -
Midlands -24 3 £80,000 +3.23% 1
West Midlands -30 3 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire -40 2 £80,000 +23.08%
South West - 2 - - 2
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 19 (22.35%) Roadmaps
3 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
4 17 (20.00%) VMware
5 13 (15.29%) Firewall
5 13 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (14.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.94%) DNS
7 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (11.76%) AWS
8 10 (11.76%) IaaS
8 10 (11.76%) Terraform
8 10 (11.76%) Zero Trust
9 9 (10.59%) Active Directory
9 9 (10.59%) PaaS
9 9 (10.59%) Security Architecture
9 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.41%) Ansible
10 8 (9.41%) CISSP
10 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.41%) DevOps
10 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
10 8 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (8.24%) Budgeting
11 7 (8.24%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 7 (8.24%) Cisco
11 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.24%) PlantUML
11 7 (8.24%) PowerShell

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 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 10 (11.76%) AWS
2 10 (11.76%) IaaS
3 9 (10.59%) PaaS
4 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.71%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.53%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.18%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) Firewall
2 11 (12.94%) DNS
3 7 (8.24%) VPN
4 6 (7.06%) Network Security
5 5 (5.88%) WAN
6 4 (4.71%) Kerberos
7 3 (3.53%) LAN
7 3 (3.53%) NetScaler
7 3 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.53%) VSAN
8 1 (1.18%) MPLS
8 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (17.65%) Finance
2 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) OAuth
1 5 (5.88%) OpenID
1 5 (5.88%) SAML
2 4 (4.71%) LDAP
2 4 (4.71%) REST
3 1 (1.18%) .NET
3 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.71%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.53%) Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.35%) Roadmaps
2 12 (14.12%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (11.76%) Zero Trust
5 9 (10.59%) Security Architecture
5 9 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (9.41%) DevOps
6 8 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.24%) Budgeting
7 7 (8.24%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.24%) Strategic Planning
7 7 (8.24%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (8.24%) TOGAF
8 6 (7.06%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (7.06%) RBAC
9 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.06%) SQL
3 2 (2.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) CISSP
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) VCAP
4 3 (3.53%) VCDX
4 3 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CISM
5 1 (1.18%) Degree
5 1 (1.18%) SANS
5 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
3 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.71%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.53%) vCloud
4 3 (3.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Terraform
2 8 (9.41%) Ansible
3 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) CASB
5 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (8.24%) Cisco
4 5 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (4.71%) Broadcom
6 3 (3.53%) Citrix
6 3 (3.53%) Dell
6 3 (3.53%) NetApp
6 3 (3.53%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) Zscaler