Infrastructure Architect Jobs

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 to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 621 1024
Rank change year-on-year -57 +403 -318
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 205 384 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.41% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 152 104 138
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,250 £63,106 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £74,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -12.06% +4.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Infrastructure Architect
Top 15 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 May 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
England +22 182 £89,000 +19.46% 19
London +148 114 £93,750 +10.29% 6
Work from Home +55 102 £90,000 +20.81% 5
UK excluding London -187 78 £75,000 +7.14% 12
South East +10 35 £75,000 +9.09% 8
South West -32 11 £80,000 +21.19%
North of England -9 10 £105,000 +52.57%
West Midlands +14 9 £100,000 +53.85% 3
Midlands -32 9 £100,000 +42.86% 4
Scotland -88 8 £75,000 +26.00%
Yorkshire +65 6 £112,500 +62.42%
Wales -11 4 £50,000 -33.33%
North West -38 3 £89,250 +29.68%
East of England +7 1 £67,500 -15.63%
North East - 1 £97,500 -

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

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

1 128 (62.44%) Azure
2 70 (34.15%) Terraform
2 70 (34.15%) Microsoft
3 68 (33.17%) Firewall
4 62 (30.24%) VPN
5 61 (29.76%) Social Skills
6 60 (29.27%) Windows
7 59 (28.78%) Linux
8 55 (26.83%) Data Centre
9 52 (25.37%) AWS
10 48 (23.41%) Public Cloud
10 48 (23.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (22.44%) Active Directory
12 45 (21.95%) Finance
13 44 (21.46%) Agile
14 43 (20.98%) Roadmaps
15 42 (20.49%) Azure Certification
16 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
17 39 (19.02%) Microsoft 365
18 37 (18.05%) Asset Management
19 36 (17.56%) Citrix
20 33 (16.10%) Ubuntu
21 32 (15.61%) PaaS
22 31 (15.12%) Oracle
23 30 (14.63%) WAN
23 30 (14.63%) Retail
23 30 (14.63%) DV Cleared
23 30 (14.63%) IaaS
23 30 (14.63%) Kubernetes
24 29 (14.15%) VMware

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 10 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 5 (2.44%) IIS
2 5 (2.44%) JBoss
2 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.44%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.44%) WebLogic
2 5 (2.44%) WildFly
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 128 (62.44%) Azure
2 52 (25.37%) AWS
3 39 (19.02%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (15.61%) PaaS
5 30 (14.63%) IaaS
6 21 (10.24%) Serverless
7 20 (9.76%) SaaS
8 17 (8.29%) GCP
9 15 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (4.88%) OCI
12 9 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.39%) CloudFront
12 9 (4.39%) Route 53
12 9 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.93%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 68 (33.17%) Firewall
2 62 (30.24%) VPN
3 30 (14.63%) WAN
4 28 (13.66%) LAN
5 22 (10.73%) VLAN
6 21 (10.24%) Internet
7 12 (5.85%) SAN
8 11 (5.37%) DNS
9 9 (4.39%) DHCP
9 9 (4.39%) Network Security
10 7 (3.41%) Wireless
11 6 (2.93%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.93%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (2.44%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.98%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.93%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.44%) Big Data
4 5 (2.44%) DB2
4 5 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.44%) Redis
5 3 (1.46%) Power BI
6 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Git
2 1 (0.49%) MSI
General
1 61 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.95%) Finance
3 30 (14.63%) Retail
4 18 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.85%) Billing
6 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.95%) Banking
7 4 (1.95%) Marketing
8 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Electronics
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.93%) CSS
2 5 (2.44%) Middleware
2 5 (2.44%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (0.98%) JSON
3 2 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (26.83%) Data Centre
2 48 (23.41%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.85%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.85%) Replication
4 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.90%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.93%) CCTV
5 6 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.95%) IoT
6 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (29.27%) Windows
2 59 (28.78%) Linux
3 33 (16.10%) Ubuntu
4 24 (11.71%) Windows Server
5 21 (10.24%) VMS
6 12 (5.85%) SUSE
6 12 (5.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (4.88%) Unix
8 5 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 44 (21.46%) Agile
3 43 (20.98%) Roadmaps
4 37 (18.05%) Asset Management
5 26 (12.68%) DevOps
5 26 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (11.22%) Containerisation
7 22 (10.73%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (10.73%) Project Delivery
8 21 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (10.24%) Application Security
8 21 (10.24%) DevSecOps
9 20 (9.76%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.27%) TOGAF
11 18 (8.78%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (8.29%) Presales
12 17 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.32%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.17%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.78%) SQL
3 13 (6.34%) Python
4 1 (0.49%) C
4 1 (0.49%) Java
4 1 (0.49%) R
4 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (20.49%) Azure Certification
2 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 30 (14.63%) DV Cleared
4 24 (11.71%) Degree
5 20 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (6.34%) MCSE
8 12 (5.85%) MCSA
8 12 (5.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (5.37%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.88%) AWS Certification
10 10 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (3.41%) CCNA
13 7 (3.41%) CISSP
14 5 (2.44%) RHCA
15 4 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (1.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (22.44%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (8.78%) Docker
5 17 (8.29%) vSphere
6 15 (7.32%) Hyper-V
7 12 (5.85%) vCloud
8 5 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (34.15%) Terraform
2 30 (14.63%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.24%) Ansible
4 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.44%) Grafana
5 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) SCOM
6 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.49%) WMI
6 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.56%) Citrix
3 31 (15.12%) Oracle
4 29 (14.15%) VMware
5 17 (8.29%) Google
6 13 (6.34%) Cisco
6 13 (6.34%) Fujitsu
7 12 (5.85%) HP
7 12 (5.85%) Veeam
8 6 (2.93%) Darktrace
9 5 (2.44%) IBM
9 5 (2.44%) Juniper
9 5 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.44%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.95%) Dell
11 2 (0.98%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.98%) SAP
12 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow