Infrastructure Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £76,250 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 541 684 493
Rank change year-on-year +143 -191 +266
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 30 81 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.11% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.12% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 22 69 58
10th Percentile - £65,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £101,250 £88,250
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Architect within the UK excluding London 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% 17
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 - - 6
West Midlands +54 2 - -
Midlands +50 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Infrastructure Architect
UK

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 22 (73.33%) Agile
3 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
4 16 (53.33%) DV Cleared
4 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
5 13 (43.33%) AWS
6 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
6 12 (40.00%) WMI
7 11 (36.67%) Linux
8 10 (33.33%) Oracle
8 10 (33.33%) MSI
8 10 (33.33%) TOGAF
8 10 (33.33%) Azure
8 10 (33.33%) Data Centre
9 9 (30.00%) SaaS
9 9 (30.00%) VMware
10 8 (26.67%) DevOps
10 8 (26.67%) Operational Technology
10 8 (26.67%) OCI
11 7 (23.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (23.33%) Terraform
11 7 (23.33%) SCADA
12 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
13 4 (13.33%) Firewall
13 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
13 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
13 4 (13.33%) SQL
13 4 (13.33%) Patch Management
13 4 (13.33%) Social Skills

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (30.00%) SaaS
4 8 (26.67%) OCI
5 4 (13.33%) IaaS
5 4 (13.33%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (6.67%) FCoE
2 2 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (6.67%) LAN
2 2 (6.67%) Multicast
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) MSI
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Advertising
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) LDAP
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (26.67%) Operational Technology
3 7 (23.33%) SCADA
4 2 (6.67%) Clustering
4 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Replication
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Solaris
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 8 (26.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (13.33%) Patch Management
6 3 (10.00%) Coaching
6 3 (10.00%) ITIL
6 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.67%) High Availability
7 2 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (6.67%) Migration
7 2 (6.67%) Network Design
7 2 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (6.67%) Server Virtualisation
8 1 (3.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) ISSAP
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
3 2 (6.67%) NFS
3 2 (6.67%) SRDF
3 2 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) WMI
2 7 (23.33%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Oracle
3 9 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) EMC
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) NetApp
5 1 (3.33%) Fujitsu
5 1 (3.33%) Hyperion
5 1 (3.33%) JD Edwards
5 1 (3.33%) PeopleSoft