Architect Contracts in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect daily rate in the North of England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 438 356 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.33% 6.24% 7.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.02% 6.54% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 248 371
10th Percentile £464 £512 £500
25th Percentile £540 £551 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £734 £739 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
England median daily rate £650 £672 £650
% change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.00 -
25th Percentile - £52.84 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -0.86%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +18 283 £650 +4.00% 93
Yorkshire +4 142 £625 -3.85% 47
North East +17 17 £613 -1.01% 17
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 102 (23.29%) Azure
2 96 (21.92%) Agile
3 79 (18.04%) DevOps
4 78 (17.81%) Security Cleared
5 74 (16.89%) SC Cleared
6 71 (16.21%) Risk Management
7 65 (14.84%) Social Skills
8 61 (13.93%) Public Sector
8 61 (13.93%) Finance
8 61 (13.93%) Firewall
8 61 (13.93%) Security Architecture
9 59 (13.47%) Windows
10 57 (13.01%) CI/CD
11 55 (12.56%) Design Patterns
12 50 (11.42%) Migration
12 50 (11.42%) Android
12 50 (11.42%) Apple iOS
13 48 (10.96%) Windows Server
14 47 (10.73%) VPN
15 46 (10.50%) Node.js
15 46 (10.50%) AWS
16 44 (10.05%) Mobile Device Management
17 43 (9.82%) Microsoft
17 43 (9.82%) Zero Trust
18 42 (9.59%) TOGAF
19 41 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (9.36%) Threat Intelligence
20 40 (9.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
20 40 (9.13%) Microservices
21 39 (8.90%) Degree

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 9 (2.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (1.14%) Confluence
2 5 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.14%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.68%) Aareon QL
5 2 (0.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.23%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (23.29%) Azure
2 46 (10.50%) AWS
3 21 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (4.57%) SaaS
5 17 (3.88%) PaaS
6 16 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (3.42%) GCP
7 15 (3.42%) IaaS
8 13 (2.97%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.60%) Cloudflare
10 7 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.37%) Akamai
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.37%) Azure Stack
11 6 (1.37%) Kong
11 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.14%) Apigee
12 5 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.93%) Firewall
2 47 (10.73%) VPN
3 30 (6.85%) Network Security
4 11 (2.51%) LAN
5 10 (2.28%) WAN
6 7 (1.60%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (1.14%) VoIP
8 4 (0.91%) Converged Networks
8 4 (0.91%) DNS
8 4 (0.91%) ISDN
8 4 (0.91%) Skype
8 4 (0.91%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.68%) MQTT
10 2 (0.46%) DHCP
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.23%) Internet
11 1 (0.23%) SAN
11 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.51%) Metadata
4 9 (2.05%) Power BI
5 8 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.14%) Big Data
7 5 (1.14%) GIS
7 5 (1.14%) OLAP
7 5 (1.14%) OLTP
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.68%) Bigtable
9 3 (0.68%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (0.68%) DB2
9 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (1.60%) JIRA
2 4 (0.91%) ERwin
3 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) GitLab
4 2 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 65 (14.84%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.93%) Finance
2 61 (13.93%) Public Sector
3 31 (7.08%) Banking
4 18 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.20%) Manufacturing
6 13 (2.97%) Retail
7 9 (2.05%) Legal
7 9 (2.05%) Marketing
8 8 (1.83%) Local Government
9 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.37%) Electronics
10 6 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.50%) Node.js
2 12 (2.74%) XML
3 11 (2.51%) REST
3 11 (2.51%) SOAP
4 9 (2.05%) Middleware
4 9 (2.05%) Web Services
5 8 (1.83%) JSON
5 8 (1.83%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.37%) Kafka
6 6 (1.37%) React
7 5 (1.14%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (1.14%) J2EE
7 5 (1.14%) OAuth
7 5 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.14%) Spring
8 4 (0.91%) .NET
8 4 (0.91%) Apache Camel
8 4 (0.91%) HTML
8 4 (0.91%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.91%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.45%) Public Cloud
2 15 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.97%) NHS
4 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.37%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.14%) CMDB
6 5 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.14%) DataPower
6 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.14%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.14%) Mainframe
7 4 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.91%) Security Posture
7 4 (0.91%) Taxonomies
7 4 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.47%) Windows
2 50 (11.42%) Android
2 50 (11.42%) Apple iOS
3 48 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.60%) Linux
5 6 (1.37%) Unix
6 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.46%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.92%) Agile
2 79 (18.04%) DevOps
3 71 (16.21%) Risk Management
4 61 (13.93%) Security Architecture
5 57 (13.01%) CI/CD
6 55 (12.56%) Design Patterns
7 50 (11.42%) Migration
8 44 (10.05%) Mobile Device Management
9 43 (9.82%) Zero Trust
10 42 (9.59%) TOGAF
11 41 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (9.36%) Threat Intelligence
12 40 (9.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 40 (9.13%) Microservices
13 39 (8.90%) Technology Strategy
14 38 (8.68%) Roadmaps
15 37 (8.45%) Architectural Design
16 36 (8.22%) IT Strategy
17 35 (7.99%) Data Management
17 35 (7.99%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.71%) Java
2 13 (2.97%) SQL
3 11 (2.51%) Python
4 9 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.68%) C
7 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 78 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.90%) Degree
4 14 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.83%) CISSP
6 7 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.37%) CCNP
8 4 (0.91%) CCIE
8 4 (0.91%) CCIE Security
9 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.68%) CISM
9 3 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) MCP
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) RIBA
11 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.51%) NIST
4 10 (2.28%) QA
5 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.91%) GDPR
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) ACF2
4 1 (0.23%) IAG
4 1 (0.23%) RACF
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.68%) Terraform
4 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Istio
5 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.34%) ServiceNow
3 16 (3.65%) Google
4 14 (3.20%) Oracle
4 14 (3.20%) SAP
5 13 (2.97%) F5
6 10 (2.28%) Sparx
7 9 (2.05%) Adobe
7 9 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.83%) Cisco
8 8 (1.83%) VMware
9 6 (1.37%) Brio
9 6 (1.37%) Databricks
10 5 (1.14%) Apple
10 5 (1.14%) AVEVA
10 5 (1.14%) IBM
10 5 (1.14%) TSYS
11 4 (0.91%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.91%) Pega