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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 582 1051
Rank change year-on-year -132 +469 -306
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Architect 195 401 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.42% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.46% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 142 101 133
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £70,375 £61,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,823 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.98% -1.68% -

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -54 172 £85,000 +21.43% 22
London +132 99 £95,000 +10.14% 9
Work from Home +13 95 £90,000 +28.57% 3
UK excluding London -216 83 £75,000 +8.98% 12
South East -7 35 £75,000 +7.14% 4
West Midlands -9 14 £80,000 +32.06% 6
Midlands -38 14 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South West -44 11 £80,000 +28.13%
North of England -27 10 £105,000 +76.39% 1
Scotland -109 8 £75,000 +26.00%
Yorkshire +45 6 £112,500 +88.99%
Wales -20 4 £50,000 -33.33%
North West -47 3 £89,250 +42.94% 1
East of England -9 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 1 June 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.

1 118 (60.51%) Azure
2 68 (34.87%) Firewall
3 65 (33.33%) Terraform
4 62 (31.79%) Microsoft
5 60 (30.77%) VPN
6 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
7 57 (29.23%) Windows
8 56 (28.72%) Linux
9 54 (27.69%) AWS
10 52 (26.67%) Data Centre
11 46 (23.59%) Roadmaps
12 43 (22.05%) Agile
13 42 (21.54%) Active Directory
13 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (21.03%) Security Cleared
15 40 (20.51%) Finance
16 37 (18.97%) Public Cloud
17 36 (18.46%) Azure Certification
18 33 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (15.90%) Kubernetes
19 31 (15.90%) Oracle
20 30 (15.38%) WAN
20 30 (15.38%) Citrix
20 30 (15.38%) Ubuntu
20 30 (15.38%) DV Cleared
21 28 (14.36%) Retail
21 28 (14.36%) Asset Management
21 28 (14.36%) LAN
22 27 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 26 (13.33%) 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 (5.13%) WebSphere
2 5 (2.56%) IIS
2 5 (2.56%) JBoss
2 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.56%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.56%) WebLogic
2 5 (2.56%) WildFly
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 118 (60.51%) Azure
2 54 (27.69%) AWS
3 33 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (12.82%) IaaS
4 25 (12.82%) PaaS
5 20 (10.26%) SaaS
6 18 (9.23%) Serverless
7 16 (8.21%) GCP
8 15 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (5.13%) OCI
11 9 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.62%) CloudFront
11 9 (4.62%) Route 53
11 9 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.08%) Mimecast
12 6 (3.08%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 68 (34.87%) Firewall
2 60 (30.77%) VPN
3 30 (15.38%) WAN
4 28 (14.36%) LAN
5 21 (10.77%) Internet
6 19 (9.74%) VLAN
7 12 (6.15%) DNS
8 9 (4.62%) DHCP
8 9 (4.62%) Network Security
8 9 (4.62%) SAN
9 7 (3.59%) Wireless
10 6 (3.08%) SD-WAN
10 6 (3.08%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
12 2 (1.03%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.08%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.56%) Big Data
4 5 (2.56%) DB2
4 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.56%) Redis
5 3 (1.54%) Power BI
6 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) MSI
2 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.51%) Finance
3 28 (14.36%) Retail
4 17 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.62%) Billing
6 5 (2.56%) Marketing
7 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Banking
7 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Electronics
9 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) CSS
2 5 (2.56%) Middleware
2 5 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (1.54%) JSON
3 3 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 37 (18.97%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.62%) Replication
5 8 (4.10%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.08%) CCTV
6 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.05%) IoT
7 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (29.23%) Windows
2 56 (28.72%) Linux
3 30 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 21 (10.77%) VMS
4 21 (10.77%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.13%) Unix
6 9 (4.62%) SUSE
6 9 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.59%) Roadmaps
2 43 (22.05%) Agile
3 42 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (14.36%) Asset Management
5 27 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (13.33%) DevOps
7 22 (11.28%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (11.28%) Containerisation
8 21 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (10.77%) Application Security
8 21 (10.77%) DevSecOps
9 20 (10.26%) Project Delivery
10 19 (9.74%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.74%) TOGAF
11 17 (8.72%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (8.21%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.69%) Data Protection
13 15 (7.69%) Presales
14 12 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.79%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.69%) SQL
3 13 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (0.51%) C
4 1 (0.51%) Java
4 1 (0.51%) R
4 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.46%) Azure Certification
3 30 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 23 (11.79%) Degree
5 19 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
8 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
9 10 (5.13%) MCSE
10 9 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.62%) MCSA
10 9 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.59%) CCNA
12 7 (3.59%) CISSP
13 5 (2.56%) RHCA
14 4 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (1.54%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (21.54%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (9.74%) Docker
5 15 (7.69%) Hyper-V
6 14 (7.18%) vSphere
7 9 (4.62%) vCloud
8 5 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (33.33%) Terraform
2 31 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.77%) Ansible
4 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.56%) Grafana
5 5 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.56%) SCOM
6 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.51%) WMI
6 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (31.79%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.90%) Oracle
3 30 (15.38%) Citrix
4 26 (13.33%) VMware
5 16 (8.21%) Google
6 14 (7.18%) Cisco
7 10 (5.13%) Fujitsu
8 9 (4.62%) HP
8 9 (4.62%) Veeam
9 6 (3.08%) Darktrace
10 5 (2.56%) IBM
10 5 (2.56%) Juniper
10 5 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.56%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.05%) Dell
12 2 (1.03%) Forcepoint
12 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.03%) SAP
13 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow