Architect Contracts in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect daily rate in the East of England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 28 51
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -18
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 158 138 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.36% 7.01% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.42% 7.65% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 94 75
10th Percentile £500 £438 £513
25th Percentile £531 £508 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £676 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +4.00% +23.81%
75th Percentile £731 £745 £719
90th Percentile £800 £838 £803
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 0
10th Percentile £54.88 £61.50 -
25th Percentile - £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,677 1,805 2,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.68% 91.67% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 1,091 1,405
10th Percentile £206 £195 £170
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 273 356
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £41.81 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +161.31% -1.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +6 74 £675 -0.15% 21
Cambridgeshire +33 50 £600 +14.29% 30
Bedfordshire +5 13 £565 +18.95% 4
Essex -12 11 £675 +28.21% 7
Norfolk +7 5 £513 +2.50% 3
Suffolk -3 5 £675 -9.40% 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Architect contract 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 contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 49 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (26.58%) Manufacturing
4 40 (25.32%) Security Cleared
5 36 (22.78%) Aerospace
6 35 (22.15%) Electronics
6 35 (22.15%) Project Management
7 34 (21.52%) Test Strategy
7 34 (21.52%) Analogue Electronics
8 33 (20.89%) SC Cleared
9 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (14.56%) Degree
11 19 (12.03%) Roadmaps
12 18 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (10.76%) Agile
13 17 (10.76%) SAP
14 16 (10.13%) Finance
15 15 (9.49%) Java
16 13 (8.23%) AWS
16 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
16 13 (8.23%) Master's Degree
17 12 (7.59%) Cisco
17 12 (7.59%) Firewall
17 12 (7.59%) Validation
17 12 (7.59%) Migration
18 11 (6.96%) OpenText
18 11 (6.96%) Computer Science
18 11 (6.96%) SQL
18 11 (6.96%) Software Architecture
18 11 (6.96%) Palo Alto

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (2.53%) Appian
2 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.80%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 6 (3.80%) SAP FI-AP
3 5 (3.16%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.27%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.27%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.27%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.63%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.63%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.23%) AWS
2 8 (5.06%) Azure
3 7 (4.43%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (4.43%) GCP
3 7 (4.43%) GitHub
4 4 (2.53%) OCI
4 4 (2.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 4 (2.53%) Serverless
4 4 (2.53%) Unqork
5 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.27%) Route 53
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.63%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.63%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.59%) Firewall
2 10 (6.33%) WAN
3 9 (5.70%) LAN
4 8 (5.06%) SD-WAN
5 7 (4.43%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (4.43%) Software-Defined Radio
6 6 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (3.80%) WLAN
7 3 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.27%) BGP
8 2 (1.27%) OSPF
8 2 (1.27%) VPN
8 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.63%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.63%) Network Security
9 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (0.63%) MySQL
2 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.63%) Redis
2 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.33%) JIRA
2 5 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (1.90%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 49 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 42 (26.58%) Manufacturing
3 36 (22.78%) Aerospace
4 35 (22.15%) Electronics
5 16 (10.13%) Finance
6 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.43%) Banking
8 5 (3.16%) French Language
8 5 (3.16%) Retail
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
9 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Local Government
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.33%) DirectX
1 10 (6.33%) OpenGL
1 10 (6.33%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (6.33%) Vulkan
2 6 (3.80%) EDI
2 6 (3.80%) IDoc
2 6 (3.80%) RESTful
3 4 (2.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.53%) SAP Business Workflow
3 4 (2.53%) SOAP
3 4 (2.53%) Web Services
4 2 (1.27%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
4 2 (1.27%) Node.js
4 2 (1.27%) React
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.63%) React Native
5 1 (0.63%) Sensu
5 1 (0.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.52%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (6.33%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (6.33%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.33%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (5.06%) Digital Media
4 7 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.16%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) FMCG
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Life Science
8 1 (0.63%) ASIC
8 1 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.63%) Verilog
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) CentOS
2 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (22.15%) Project Management
3 34 (21.52%) Test Strategy
4 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (12.03%) Roadmaps
6 18 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
7 17 (10.76%) Agile
8 12 (7.59%) Migration
8 12 (7.59%) Validation
9 11 (6.96%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.96%) Software Architecture
9 11 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (6.33%) ITSM
10 10 (6.33%) Scrum
10 10 (6.33%) Use Case
11 9 (5.70%) Analytics
11 9 (5.70%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (5.70%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (5.70%) TOGAF
12 8 (5.06%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.49%) Java
2 11 (6.96%) SQL
3 10 (6.33%) Python
4 8 (5.06%) C
4 8 (5.06%) C++
5 6 (3.80%) ABAP
6 3 (1.90%) Bash
7 1 (0.63%) PHP
7 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.63%) Tcl
7 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.56%) Degree
4 13 (8.23%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.33%) PhD
6 8 (5.06%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.90%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) COBIT
1 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.63%) GDPR
2 1 (0.63%) GxP
2 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (1.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (5.06%) Terraform
2 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.90%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.63%) Nagios
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
4 1 (0.63%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (10.76%) SAP
2 12 (7.59%) Cisco
3 11 (6.96%) OpenText
3 11 (6.96%) Palo Alto
4 9 (5.70%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.80%) Google
7 5 (3.16%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.16%) Splunk
8 4 (2.53%) IBM
8 4 (2.53%) Pega
8 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) F5
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle
9 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.63%) Pardot
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Sparx
10 1 (0.63%) Workday