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 £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 531 745
Rank change year-on-year -149 +214 -137
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 78 242 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.39% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.44% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 66 66 57
10th Percentile £65,625 - £60,750
25th Percentile £66,563 £56,219 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +1.82%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £84,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +22 37 £75,000 +1.01% 10
South West -32 11 £80,000 +21.19%
North of England -11 10 £105,000 +52.57% 2
Scotland -89 8 £75,000 +26.00% 1
West Midlands +12 7 £100,000 +48.15% 1
Midlands -22 7 £100,000 +48.15% 1
Yorkshire +72 6 £112,500 +62.42%
Wales -16 4 £50,000 -33.33%
North West -26 3 £89,250 +29.68% 2
East of England +19 1 £67,500 -15.63%
North East - 1 £97,500 -
Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 49 (62.82%) Azure
2 41 (52.56%) AWS
3 32 (41.03%) Data Centre
4 29 (37.18%) Microsoft
5 28 (35.90%) Roadmaps
6 25 (32.05%) Security Cleared
7 24 (30.77%) Firewall
8 22 (28.21%) VPN
8 22 (28.21%) Kubernetes
9 21 (26.92%) Terraform
10 20 (25.64%) DevOps
11 18 (23.08%) Containerisation
12 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (21.79%) Virtual Machines
12 17 (21.79%) Windows
13 16 (20.51%) Agile
14 15 (19.23%) Hyper-V
14 15 (19.23%) Computer Science
14 15 (19.23%) Data Protection
14 15 (19.23%) Degree
14 15 (19.23%) Oracle
14 15 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (17.95%) GCP
15 14 (17.95%) Google
15 14 (17.95%) SaaS
15 14 (17.95%) DV Cleared
16 13 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (16.67%) Amazon S3
16 13 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (16.67%) PowerShell

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 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.82%) Azure
2 41 (52.56%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) GCP
3 14 (17.95%) SaaS
4 13 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 13 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (16.67%) Serverless
5 12 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (12.82%) OCI
7 9 (11.54%) CloudFront
7 9 (11.54%) Route 53
7 9 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (10.26%) IaaS
8 8 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (10.26%) PaaS
9 5 (6.41%) Snowflake
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (30.77%) Firewall
2 22 (28.21%) VPN
3 10 (12.82%) VLAN
4 9 (11.54%) DNS
5 8 (10.26%) Network Security
6 7 (8.97%) DHCP
7 6 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 4 (5.13%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.28%) HTTP
9 1 (1.28%) LAN
9 1 (1.28%) WAN
9 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.41%) Big Data
2 5 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.41%) Redis
3 4 (5.13%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.85%) Power BI
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) MSI
General
1 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.13%) Finance
3 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) Middleware
2 2 (2.56%) JSON
2 2 (2.56%) YAML
3 1 (1.28%) HTML
3 1 (1.28%) OpenID
3 1 (1.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (41.03%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 8 (10.26%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.69%) CCTV
5 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.41%) Private Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) IoT
7 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.56%) PKI
7 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.28%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Windows
2 11 (14.10%) Windows Server
3 10 (12.82%) Unix
4 9 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Roadmaps
2 20 (25.64%) DevOps
3 18 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (20.51%) Agile
6 15 (19.23%) Computer Science
6 15 (19.23%) Data Protection
7 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.82%) IT Strategy
8 10 (12.82%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 9 (11.54%) Cloud Security
9 9 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 9 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.97%) Scrum
11 7 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
12 6 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.54%) Python
3 5 (6.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (19.23%) Degree
3 14 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 13 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
6 10 (12.82%) AWS Certification
6 10 (12.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (11.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (8.97%) CISSP
9 6 (7.69%) CCNA
9 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (6.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (5.13%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (2.56%) CCNP
12 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
12 2 (2.56%) PMP
13 1 (1.28%) CCIE
13 1 (1.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (21.79%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (19.23%) Hyper-V
3 9 (11.54%) Docker
4 8 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (7.69%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (26.92%) Terraform
3 5 (6.41%) Grafana
3 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.41%) SCOM
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.28%) WMI
5 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (37.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.23%) Oracle
3 14 (17.95%) Google
4 12 (15.38%) VMware
5 6 (7.69%) Cisco
6 5 (6.41%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.28%) Citrix
7 1 (1.28%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Tanium