Infrastructure Architect Job Trends

Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 601 631
Rank change year-on-year -59 +30 -61
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 149 66 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 77 51 86
10th Percentile £72,750 £67,750 £65,625
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £107,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 October 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
England -69 133 £90,000 +16.13% 86
London -3 72 £110,500 +10.50% 47
UK excluding London -123 68 £75,000 -3.23% 40
North of England -34 37 £75,000 +9.49% 9
North West -3 36 £75,000 +9.49% 6
Work from Home -36 34 £85,000 -15.00% 43
South East -55 11 £100,000 +29.03% 18
South West - 8 - - 1
Wales - 7 £69,973 -
East of England -36 4 - - 2
East Midlands -38 1 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Midlands -60 1 £65,000 -18.75% 3
North East -69 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 68 (45.64%) Azure
2 39 (26.17%) Roadmaps
3 35 (23.49%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (21.48%) AWS
4 32 (21.48%) VMware
4 32 (21.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 30 (20.13%) Terraform
6 24 (16.11%) Ansible
6 24 (16.11%) DevOps
7 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
8 20 (13.42%) IaaS
8 20 (13.42%) TOGAF
9 19 (12.75%) Budgeting
9 19 (12.75%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 19 (12.75%) Cisco
9 19 (12.75%) PaaS
9 19 (12.75%) PlantUML
9 19 (12.75%) Strategic Planning
9 19 (12.75%) Threat Modelling
9 19 (12.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (10.74%) AI
10 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.74%) Firewall
10 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
10 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (10.07%) Enterprise Architecture
11 15 (10.07%) Risk Management
11 15 (10.07%) Technology Roadmap

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 19 (12.75%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.64%) Azure
2 32 (21.48%) AWS
3 20 (13.42%) IaaS
4 19 (12.75%) PaaS
5 13 (8.72%) Nutanix
6 12 (8.05%) Entra ID
7 8 (5.37%) GCP
7 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.68%) SaaS
9 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.67%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.74%) Firewall
2 12 (8.05%) DNS
2 12 (8.05%) Network Security
3 8 (5.37%) Kerberos
3 8 (5.37%) NAS
3 8 (5.37%) SAN
4 6 (4.03%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (4.03%) iSCSI
5 4 (2.68%) VPN
6 2 (1.34%) LAN
6 2 (1.34%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.34%) VSAN
6 2 (1.34%) WAN
6 2 (1.34%) WLAN
7 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Git
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (34.90%) Finance
2 28 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.68%) Banking
5 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.34%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) Terraform
2 10 (6.71%) OAuth
2 10 (6.71%) OpenID
2 10 (6.71%) SAML
3 8 (5.37%) LDAP
3 8 (5.37%) REST
4 3 (2.01%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.34%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.75%) Data Centre
2 19 (12.75%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.37%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (4.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 5 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.01%) Social Media
10 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.67%) Life Science
11 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Windows
2 7 (4.70%) Linux
3 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.17%) Roadmaps
2 35 (23.49%) Disaster Recovery
2 35 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (16.11%) DevOps
4 20 (13.42%) TOGAF
5 19 (12.75%) Budgeting
5 19 (12.75%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 19 (12.75%) Strategic Planning
5 19 (12.75%) Threat Modelling
6 16 (10.74%) AI
6 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (10.07%) Enterprise Architecture
7 15 (10.07%) Risk Management
7 15 (10.07%) Technology Roadmap
8 14 (9.40%) Zero Trust
9 13 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.03%) Bicep
3 2 (1.34%) SQL
4 1 (0.67%) Bash
4 1 (0.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (12.75%) TOGAF Certification
2 13 (8.72%) CISSP
3 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.03%) Dell Certification
7 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.01%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.34%) Degree
10 2 (1.34%) VCAP
10 2 (1.34%) VCDX
10 2 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.67%) CISM
11 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) PMO
2 4 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (21.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.38%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.37%) vSphere
5 3 (2.01%) KVM
6 2 (1.34%) vCloud
6 2 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (16.11%) Ansible
2 12 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.03%) Avamar
3 6 (4.03%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (4.03%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (4.03%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (4.03%) VxRail
4 5 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.67%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) VMware
2 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.75%) Cisco
4 8 (5.37%) Dell
4 8 (5.37%) NetApp
4 8 (5.37%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (4.03%) 3PAR
5 6 (4.03%) Isilon
5 6 (4.03%) Veeam
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle
7 2 (1.34%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.34%) Workday
8 1 (0.67%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) Tenable