Senior Infrastructure Architect Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 703 724
Rank change year-on-year +68 +21 +279
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect 7 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.007% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.008% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £67,750 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.48%
75th Percentile £97,938 - £68,750
90th Percentile £107,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -29.48%

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 53,744 49,685 53,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.91% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33,208 25,763 41,197
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Architect
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 12 January 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 +85 7 £68,500 - 1
UK excluding London +48 7 £68,500 - 1
North of England - 5 £68,500 -
Work from Home - 5 £68,500 - 1
North West - 5 £68,500 -
Midlands +18 2 £105,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £105,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) IT Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) OCI
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Tech Ops

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) OCI
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) IT Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Tech Ops
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle