Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,791 4,515 6,594
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.26% 8.93% 9.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.06% 9.44% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 3,169 4,429
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £831 £807
UK median daily rate £650 £660 £638
% change year-on-year -1.52% +3.53% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 64 19
10th Percentile £60.00 £37.48 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £75.20 £70.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% +2.94% +14.77%
75th Percentile £87.46 £70.25 £72.03
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £81.96
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +6.06% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +2 1,775 £675 -3.57% 425
South East +8 662 £650 - 142
North of England +10 436 £650 - 138
South West +6 435 £650 -2.26% 73
North West +14 288 £650 +1.96% 83
Midlands +8 236 £634 -2.50% 70
West Midlands +13 174 £650 -2.51% 40
East of England +9 145 £650 -7.14% 49
Yorkshire +3 136 £650 - 41
East Midlands +3 61 £622 -5.76% 30
North East +19 16 £631 +5.21% 15
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,321 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 803 (21.18%) Azure
3 741 (19.55%) SC Cleared
4 671 (17.70%) Social Skills
5 663 (17.49%) Finance
6 588 (15.51%) Agile
7 569 (15.01%) AWS
8 509 (13.43%) DV Cleared
9 487 (12.85%) Microsoft
10 485 (12.79%) Public Sector
11 413 (10.89%) Migration
12 396 (10.45%) Roadmaps
13 380 (10.02%) DevOps
14 333 (8.78%) Data Modelling
15 320 (8.44%) Degree
15 320 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
16 297 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 283 (7.47%) Security Architecture
18 247 (6.52%) Enterprise Architecture
19 246 (6.49%) TOGAF
20 245 (6.46%) Data Architecture
21 237 (6.25%) Firewall
22 220 (5.80%) Windows
23 213 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
23 213 (5.62%) GCP
24 211 (5.57%) WAN
24 211 (5.57%) Banking
25 209 (5.51%) Microservices
26 206 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
27 204 (5.38%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 95 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.16%) Confluence
3 36 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (0.84%) Apache
5 26 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.45%) CMS
9 14 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) IIS
12 6 (0.16%) SAS
13 5 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.079%) Camunda
15 2 (0.053%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.053%) Drupal
15 2 (0.053%) GemFire
15 2 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 20 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 8 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.053%) Revit
8 1 (0.026%) CATIA
8 1 (0.026%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 67 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 65 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 58 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
6 12 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.21%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
10 6 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
10 6 (0.16%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.16%) SAP MM
10 6 (0.16%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
11 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 803 (21.18%) Azure
2 569 (15.01%) AWS
3 213 (5.62%) GCP
4 172 (4.54%) Power Platform
4 172 (4.54%) SaaS
5 137 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 128 (3.38%) PaaS
7 115 (3.03%) IaaS
8 98 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
9 76 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 75 (1.98%) Serverless
11 61 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (1.42%) Snowflake
13 37 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 36 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (0.95%) GitHub
15 34 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 34 (0.90%) OCI
16 30 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 237 (6.25%) Firewall
2 211 (5.57%) WAN
3 169 (4.46%) LAN
4 97 (2.56%) VPN
5 90 (2.37%) Network Security
6 86 (2.27%) SSL
7 55 (1.45%) MPLS
8 51 (1.35%) VoIP
9 49 (1.29%) DNS
10 46 (1.21%) SD-WAN
11 42 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
12 40 (1.06%) BGP
12 40 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
13 35 (0.92%) PBX
14 33 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (0.82%) DHCP
16 27 (0.71%) SAN
17 22 (0.58%) Internet
18 18 (0.47%) WLAN
19 17 (0.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (2.66%) NoSQL
2 101 (2.66%) Power BI
3 97 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 93 (2.45%) Metadata
5 86 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 85 (2.24%) Big Data
7 55 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 45 (1.19%) Data Vault
9 44 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (0.95%) Metadata Repository
11 35 (0.92%) RDBMS
11 35 (0.92%) Tableau
12 33 (0.87%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 28 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (0.53%) MySQL
16 20 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (1.53%) JIRA
2 50 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.03%) ERwin
4 23 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (0.42%) Git
6 15 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 15 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (0.34%) MSI
7 13 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 12 (0.32%) GitLab
9 8 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.16%) Selenium
11 6 (0.16%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.11%) kappa
13 4 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 671 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 663 (17.49%) Finance
3 485 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 213 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (5.57%) Banking
6 178 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 151 (3.98%) Manufacturing
8 103 (2.72%) Marketing
9 97 (2.56%) Electronics
10 90 (2.37%) Retail
11 79 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 46 (1.21%) Legal
15 43 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 39 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 37 (0.98%) Local Government
18 35 (0.92%) Investment Banking
19 24 (0.63%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (2.35%) Web Services
2 75 (1.98%) .NET
3 72 (1.90%) REST
4 68 (1.79%) SAML
5 66 (1.74%) Node.js
6 62 (1.64%) XML
7 60 (1.58%) JSON
8 53 (1.40%) Middleware
9 45 (1.19%) OpenID
10 44 (1.16%) OAuth
11 40 (1.06%) Kafka
12 37 (0.98%) SOAP
13 36 (0.95%) LDAP
13 36 (0.95%) SailPoint
14 34 (0.90%) HTML
14 34 (0.90%) React
15 27 (0.71%) RESTful
16 23 (0.61%) gRPC
16 23 (0.61%) Spring Boot
17 22 (0.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 142 (3.75%) Data Centre
2 102 (2.69%) Product Ownership
3 100 (2.64%) PKI
4 85 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 84 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 69 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 68 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 50 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 48 (1.27%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (0.84%) IoT
16 31 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
17 30 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (0.76%) Security Posture
19 27 (0.71%) Mainframe
20 25 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 220 (5.80%) Windows
2 114 (3.01%) Linux
3 87 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 59 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 57 (1.50%) Android
6 23 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.55%) Unix
8 20 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.42%) VMS
10 14 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.34%) Solaris
12 12 (0.32%) CentOS
13 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
14 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.079%) zOS
17 2 (0.053%) AIX
17 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
18 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
18 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (15.51%) Agile
2 413 (10.89%) Migration
3 396 (10.45%) Roadmaps
4 380 (10.02%) DevOps
5 333 (8.78%) Data Modelling
6 320 (8.44%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 283 (7.47%) Security Architecture
9 247 (6.52%) Enterprise Architecture
10 246 (6.49%) TOGAF
11 245 (6.46%) Data Architecture
12 209 (5.51%) Microservices
13 206 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
14 204 (5.38%) Analytics
14 204 (5.38%) Business Intelligence
15 195 (5.14%) CI/CD
16 186 (4.91%) Business Strategy
16 186 (4.91%) ITIL
17 180 (4.75%) Architectural Design
18 176 (4.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 203 (5.35%) Python
2 202 (5.33%) SQL
3 169 (4.46%) Java
4 107 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 98 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.37%) C#
7 36 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.63%) Scala
9 19 (0.50%) C
10 18 (0.47%) C++
11 17 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.32%) Bash
13 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.24%) Go
15 8 (0.21%) ABAP
16 6 (0.16%) Bicep
17 5 (0.13%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,321 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 741 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 509 (13.43%) DV Cleared
4 320 (8.44%) Degree
5 101 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (2.56%) CISSP
7 70 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (1.53%) CISM
9 56 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 55 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.27%) AWS Certification
12 41 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 41 (1.08%) CISA
13 40 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.06%) CCNP
14 27 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (0.55%) SANS
16 17 (0.45%) CCIE
17 16 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (3.32%) NIST
2 99 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.29%) QA
4 86 (2.27%) GDPR
5 84 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.19%) NCSC
7 33 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.71%) SLA
9 26 (0.69%) JSP 440
10 25 (0.66%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 16 (0.42%) COBIT
12 16 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.32%) GRC
15 10 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.24%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.18%) RMADS
18 5 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 163 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 73 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (1.48%) Docker
4 38 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.40%) vSphere
6 12 (0.32%) KVM
6 12 (0.32%) RACF
7 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.24%) IAG
8 8 (0.21%) ACF2
9 7 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.13%) vCloud
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.079%) HDFS
13 3 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (3.43%) Terraform
2 89 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 77 (2.03%) Ansible
4 44 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.63%) Endace
7 18 (0.47%) Grafana
7 18 (0.47%) Puppet
8 14 (0.37%) Kibana
9 13 (0.34%) WMI
10 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 12 (0.32%) SCCM
11 11 (0.29%) logstash
12 9 (0.24%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.18%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.16%) Packer
14 6 (0.16%) PingFederate
14 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 487 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 194 (5.12%) SAP
3 171 (4.51%) Cisco
4 163 (4.30%) Oracle
5 132 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 115 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 114 (3.01%) VMware
8 112 (2.95%) Google
9 107 (2.82%) Juniper
10 87 (2.29%) Sparx
11 69 (1.82%) Databricks
12 68 (1.79%) IBM
13 47 (1.24%) F5
13 47 (1.24%) Informatica
14 45 (1.19%) Palo Alto
15 37 (0.98%) CyberArk
16 34 (0.90%) Dell
17 28 (0.74%) Adobe
18 27 (0.71%) Citrix
19 25 (0.66%) Okta