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 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 670 656
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 +349
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 44 173 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.091% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26 130 87
10th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £56,219
25th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £64,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +14.09% -12.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,125 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +14.09% -12.35%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +71 16 £77,500 +3.33% 22
London +32 14 £105,000 +10.53% 12
North of England +40 9 £65,000 -38.10% 4
North East +53 6 £65,000 -33.33% 1
Yorkshire +59 3 £65,000 -42.22% 1
East of England +45 3 - - 8
West Midlands +54 2 - -
Midlands +50 2 - - 10
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 33 (75.00%) Windows
2 27 (61.36%) AWS
3 23 (52.27%) Data Centre
3 23 (52.27%) Agile
4 20 (45.45%) Linux
5 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
6 16 (36.36%) DV Cleared
6 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 15 (34.09%) TOGAF
8 13 (29.55%) Azure
8 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
9 12 (27.27%) WMI
9 12 (27.27%) Firewall
9 12 (27.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (25.00%) Risk Management
11 10 (22.73%) Finance
11 10 (22.73%) VMware
11 10 (22.73%) MSI
11 10 (22.73%) Oracle
11 10 (22.73%) SaaS
11 10 (22.73%) DevOps
11 10 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (20.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
13 8 (18.18%) AWS Certification
13 8 (18.18%) Terraform
13 8 (18.18%) Cloud Security
13 8 (18.18%) Operational Technology
13 8 (18.18%) OCI

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 2 (4.55%) Confluence
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.27%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) SaaS
4 8 (18.18%) OCI
5 5 (11.36%) IaaS
5 5 (11.36%) PaaS
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) LAN
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (4.55%) FCoE
3 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
3 2 (4.55%) Multicast
3 2 (4.55%) NAS
3 2 (4.55%) SAN
4 1 (2.27%) BGP
4 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.27%) MPLS
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) OSPF
4 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) MSI
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (22.73%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Advertising
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) LDAP
1 2 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 23 (52.27%) Data Centre
2 9 (20.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
3 8 (18.18%) Operational Technology
4 7 (15.91%) Public Cloud
4 7 (15.91%) SCADA
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.55%) Clustering
6 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) Replication
7 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (75.00%) Windows
2 20 (45.45%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Solaris
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Agile
2 15 (34.09%) TOGAF
3 11 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (18.18%) Cloud Security
7 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
8 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (9.09%) High Availability
9 4 (9.09%) Patch Management
9 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
10 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
10 3 (6.82%) Coaching
10 3 (6.82%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (6.82%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (6.82%) Migration
10 3 (6.82%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) Bash
4 1 (2.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 12 (27.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 8 (18.18%) AWS Certification
5 7 (15.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.82%) ISSAP
8 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.27%) Degree
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (4.55%) KVM
3 2 (4.55%) NFS
3 2 (4.55%) SRDF
3 2 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) WMI
2 8 (18.18%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 10 (22.73%) VMware
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) EMC
4 2 (4.55%) F5
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (2.27%) Fujitsu
5 1 (2.27%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.27%) JD Edwards
5 1 (2.27%) PeopleSoft