Infrastructure Architect Jobs in England

Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 700 599
Rank change year-on-year +59 -101 +438
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 56 148 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 40 109 94
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £56,219
25th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +21.43% -15.92%
75th Percentile £79,063 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £98,875 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -8.82% +23.64% -18.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,366 84,988 69,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 94.67% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 61,085 48,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Architect in England

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +78 23 £77,500 +3.33% 18
London +39 11 £100,000 +8.11% 3
Midlands +60 8 £80,000 +3.23% 3
North of England +53 8 £65,000 -38.10% 3
East Midlands - 7 £80,000 -
North East +48 6 £65,000 -33.33%
East of England +39 6 - -
Yorkshire +42 2 £65,000 -42.22%
West Midlands +48 1 - - 3
Infrastructure Architect
UK

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Infrastructure Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 38 (67.86%) Windows
2 32 (57.14%) Agile
3 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 23 (41.07%) DV Cleared
4 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
5 21 (37.50%) AWS
5 21 (37.50%) Data Centre
6 19 (33.93%) PowerShell
6 19 (33.93%) Linux
7 18 (32.14%) WMI
8 16 (28.57%) MSI
9 13 (23.21%) TOGAF
9 13 (23.21%) SaaS
10 12 (21.43%) PaaS
10 12 (21.43%) Azure
10 12 (21.43%) IaaS
11 11 (19.64%) Finance
12 9 (16.07%) Firewall
12 9 (16.07%) VMware
12 9 (16.07%) DevOps
13 8 (14.29%) Terraform
13 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
13 8 (14.29%) Oracle
13 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 8 (14.29%) Operational Technology
14 7 (12.50%) OCI
14 7 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
14 7 (12.50%) SCADA

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) AWS
2 13 (23.21%) SaaS
3 12 (21.43%) Azure
3 12 (21.43%) IaaS
3 12 (21.43%) PaaS
4 7 (12.50%) OCI
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) LAN
2 6 (10.71%) WAN
3 5 (8.93%) Network Security
4 4 (7.14%) Ethernet
4 4 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (1.79%) BGP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.79%) FCoE
5 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.79%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.79%) MPLS
5 1 (1.79%) Multicast
5 1 (1.79%) NAS
5 1 (1.79%) OSPF
5 1 (1.79%) SAN
5 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (28.57%) MSI
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Advertising
4 4 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) LDAP
1 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 7 (12.50%) SCADA
4 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Clustering
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (67.86%) Windows
2 19 (33.93%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) AIX
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) Solaris
5 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) Agile
2 13 (23.21%) TOGAF
3 9 (16.07%) DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (10.71%) ITIL
6 6 (10.71%) Project Management
7 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.93%) Patch Management
7 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.14%) Cloud Security
9 3 (5.36%) Customer Service
9 3 (5.36%) High Availability
9 3 (5.36%) Product Roadmap
9 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.36%) Technology Roadmap
10 2 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (3.57%) Product Management
10 2 (3.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Bash
3 1 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) DV Cleared
1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.71%) ISSAP
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.79%) KVM
3 1 (1.79%) NFS
3 1 (1.79%) SRDF
3 1 (1.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (32.14%) WMI
2 8 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) VMware
3 8 (14.29%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Fujitsu
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (1.79%) EMC
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (1.79%) NetApp