Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 498 897 824
Rank change year-on-year +399 -73 -231
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 245 177 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 125 124 180
10th Percentile £56,219 £58,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £68,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +0.64% +11.43%
75th Percentile £110,000 £90,250 £91,250
90th Percentile - £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,351 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,985 118,425 121,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 37,346 74,222 83,417
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 16 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 5 December 2023. 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 +377 188 £85,000 +6.25% 46
Work from Home +318 148 £102,500 +28.13% 20
UK excluding London +257 119 £65,351 -15.68% 23
London +304 110 £102,500 +20.59% 26
North of England +149 31 £59,526 -14.96% 4
Scotland +77 24 £59,526 -8.42%
North West +135 21 £65,351 -12.87% 4
South West +100 18 £62,400 -32.30% 2
South East +129 16 £88,750 +13.06% 13
Midlands +131 10 £62,000 -17.33% 3
Yorkshire +92 10 £59,526 -14.96%
Wales +20 10 - -
Northern Ireland - 9 £67,500 - 1
East Midlands +46 7 - - 1
West Midlands +123 3 £62,000 -14.48% 2
East of England +120 1 £70,000 -8.20%

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2023, 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 featuring Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 150 (61.22%) Social Skills
2 146 (59.59%) Azure
3 129 (52.65%) Windows
4 127 (51.84%) Linux
5 121 (49.39%) PaaS
6 118 (48.16%) IaaS
6 118 (48.16%) Public Cloud
7 109 (44.49%) Actionable Insight
8 108 (44.08%) Agile
9 107 (43.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 102 (41.63%) Terraform
11 94 (38.37%) Project Management
11 94 (38.37%) SAN
11 94 (38.37%) Presentation Skills
12 93 (37.96%) Technology Transformation
13 90 (36.73%) Finance
14 84 (34.29%) Ansible
14 84 (34.29%) SaaS
15 78 (31.84%) TOGAF
16 75 (30.61%) Private Cloud
17 73 (29.80%) Mentoring
18 69 (28.16%) Security Architecture
18 69 (28.16%) Oracle
19 65 (26.53%) Containerisation
20 57 (23.27%) Risk Register
20 57 (23.27%) Waterfall
20 57 (23.27%) Virtual Team
21 56 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
22 53 (21.63%) Asset Management
23 49 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis

Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.41%) Apache
1 1 (0.41%) MS Exchange
1 1 (0.41%) nginx
1 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
1 1 (0.41%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 146 (59.59%) Azure
2 121 (49.39%) PaaS
3 118 (48.16%) IaaS
4 84 (34.29%) SaaS
5 26 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (8.57%) AWS
7 3 (1.22%) Azure AKS
7 3 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.22%) GCP
7 3 (1.22%) Serverless
8 2 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.82%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.41%) Datadog
9 1 (0.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (38.37%) SAN
2 36 (14.69%) Firewall
3 35 (14.29%) VPN
4 23 (9.39%) WAN
5 22 (8.98%) LAN
6 18 (7.35%) Internet
7 15 (6.12%) VLAN
8 4 (1.63%) DNS
9 3 (1.22%) DHCP
9 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.22%) Skype
9 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.41%) HTTP
10 1 (0.41%) Network Security
10 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.41%) Wireless
10 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Ignite
2 1 (0.41%) DB2
2 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
1 1 (0.41%) Git
1 1 (0.41%) GitLab
1 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.41%) JUnit
1 1 (0.41%) Selenium
1 1 (0.41%) Subversion
1 1 (0.41%) TestNG
1 1 (0.41%) Travis CI
General
1 150 (61.22%) Social Skills
2 94 (38.37%) Presentation Skills
3 90 (36.73%) Finance
4 56 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (10.61%) Retail
7 22 (8.98%) Banking
8 14 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (5.71%) Billing
9 5 (2.04%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.90%) Middleware
2 4 (1.63%) JSON
2 4 (1.63%) YAML
3 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.41%) HTML
3 1 (0.41%) Java EE
3 1 (0.41%) OpenID
3 1 (0.41%) SAML
3 1 (0.41%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (48.16%) Public Cloud
2 75 (30.61%) Private Cloud
3 57 (23.27%) Virtual Team
4 38 (15.51%) Data Centre
5 24 (9.80%) Replication
6 12 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.08%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.63%) PKI
9 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.41%) CLARiiON
10 1 (0.41%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.41%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 129 (52.65%) Windows
2 127 (51.84%) Linux
3 31 (12.65%) Ubuntu
4 17 (6.94%) VMS
5 15 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 14 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (5.71%) SUSE
6 14 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (4.49%) Solaris
8 10 (4.08%) HPUX
9 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.49%) Actionable Insight
2 108 (44.08%) Agile
3 107 (43.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (38.37%) Project Management
5 93 (37.96%) Technology Transformation
6 78 (31.84%) TOGAF
7 73 (29.80%) Mentoring
8 69 (28.16%) Security Architecture
9 65 (26.53%) Containerisation
10 57 (23.27%) Risk Register
10 57 (23.27%) Waterfall
11 53 (21.63%) Asset Management
12 49 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
13 38 (15.51%) Roadmaps
14 29 (11.84%) Project Delivery
15 28 (11.43%) DevSecOps
16 26 (10.61%) Technology Roadmap
17 22 (8.98%) DevOps
17 22 (8.98%) Technical Architecture
18 18 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.98%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.35%) SQL
3 3 (1.22%) Python
3 3 (1.22%) Ruby
4 1 (0.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (16.33%) Azure Certification
2 26 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (7.35%) MCSE
5 15 (6.12%) MCSA
6 14 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (4.90%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.67%) Degree
9 8 (3.27%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.86%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.22%) CISM
13 3 (1.22%) CISSP
13 3 (1.22%) ISACA
13 3 (1.22%) ISSAP
13 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.41%) CCNP
14 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.41%) COBIT
1 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 42 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.12%) vSphere
4 14 (5.71%) vCloud
5 5 (2.04%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.82%) Docker
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.41%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (41.63%) Terraform
2 84 (34.29%) Ansible
3 8 (3.27%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.63%) SCCM
5 3 (1.22%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) logstash
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.41%) Nagios
6 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (28.16%) Oracle
2 44 (17.96%) Citrix
3 35 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 32 (13.06%) VMware
5 25 (10.20%) HP
6 14 (5.71%) Fujitsu
6 14 (5.71%) Veeam
7 12 (4.90%) IBM
8 11 (4.49%) Sun
9 10 (4.08%) Unisys
10 5 (2.04%) Cisco
11 4 (1.63%) NetApp
12 3 (1.22%) CA
12 3 (1.22%) Google
13 1 (0.41%) Aruba
13 1 (0.41%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.41%) Dell
13 1 (0.41%) EMC
13 1 (0.41%) F5
13 1 (0.41%) Red Hat