Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 27 18
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 245 214 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.18% 7.38% 8.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.88% 7.82% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 149 226
10th Percentile £448 £484 £475
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £652
90th Percentile £740 £755 £700
South East median daily rate £650 £650 £620
% change year-on-year - +4.84% +8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £81.86 £55.83 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £59.31 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.75 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -16.98% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £74.31 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £77.88 -
South East median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +24.94% +18.64% -19.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,481 2,738 3,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,897 2,307
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 100
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £58.26
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire +9 203 £618 -5.00% 33
Buckinghamshire +8 34 £625 +9.65% 16
Oxfordshire +7 8 £563 -8.16% 6
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 131 (53.47%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.16%) DV Cleared
3 49 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 47 (19.18%) DevOps
5 45 (18.37%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (16.33%) Firewall
7 39 (15.92%) Azure
8 36 (14.69%) Public Sector
9 31 (12.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 29 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (11.43%) WAN
12 26 (10.61%) Presales
13 25 (10.20%) AWS
14 24 (9.80%) LAN
15 23 (9.39%) VMware
15 23 (9.39%) Social Skills
16 20 (8.16%) Data Centre
16 20 (8.16%) SC Cleared
17 19 (7.76%) Roadmaps
18 17 (6.94%) Telecoms
19 15 (6.12%) Microsoft
19 15 (6.12%) Degree
19 15 (6.12%) IT Strategy
20 14 (5.71%) TOGAF
21 13 (5.31%) Agile
21 13 (5.31%) Migration
21 13 (5.31%) Finance
21 13 (5.31%) Cisco
21 13 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
22 12 (4.90%) Microservices

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.41%) CMS
1 1 (0.41%) Confluence
1 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Maximo
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.41%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.41%) SAP MII
2 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.92%) Azure
2 25 (10.20%) AWS
3 6 (2.45%) PaaS
4 5 (2.04%) Azure Stack
5 4 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.63%) IaaS
5 4 (1.63%) SaaS
6 2 (0.82%) Azure API Management
6 2 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.82%) OCI
6 2 (0.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (0.41%) Serverless
7 1 (0.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.33%) Firewall
2 31 (12.65%) Intrusion Detection
3 28 (11.43%) WAN
4 24 (9.80%) LAN
5 11 (4.49%) DHCP
5 11 (4.49%) DNS
5 11 (4.49%) SSL
6 8 (3.27%) MPLS
7 5 (2.04%) Network Security
8 4 (1.63%) Internet
8 4 (1.63%) VPN
9 3 (1.22%) BGP
9 3 (1.22%) SAN
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.82%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.82%) PBX
10 2 (0.82%) VoIP
11 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.63%) Big Data
1 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.82%) Power BI
3 2 (0.82%) Redis
3 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.41%) DTS
4 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.41%) Impala
4 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (1.63%) Selenium
3 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.22%) GitLab
3 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (14.69%) Public Sector
2 23 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.94%) Telecoms
4 13 (5.31%) Finance
5 8 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.86%) Retail
7 3 (1.22%) Local Government
7 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Banking
8 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Automotive
9 1 (0.41%) French Language
9 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.41%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.27%) Web Services
2 6 (2.45%) REST
3 4 (1.63%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.63%) JSON
4 3 (1.22%) .NET
4 3 (1.22%) Java EE
4 3 (1.22%) OAuth
4 3 (1.22%) OpenID
5 2 (0.82%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.82%) SAML
6 1 (0.41%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.41%) Kafka
6 1 (0.41%) Next.js
6 1 (0.41%) Playwright
6 1 (0.41%) RESTful
6 1 (0.41%) SOAP
6 1 (0.41%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.41%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.08%) PKI
3 9 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.67%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.63%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.82%) CSOC
7 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.41%) Clustering
8 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.41%) iPad
8 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.04%) Windows
3 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Solaris
4 2 (0.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 47 (19.18%) DevOps
3 45 (18.37%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (10.61%) Presales
6 19 (7.76%) Roadmaps
7 15 (6.12%) IT Strategy
8 14 (5.71%) TOGAF
9 13 (5.31%) Agile
9 13 (5.31%) Migration
9 13 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (4.90%) Microservices
11 11 (4.49%) ITIL
12 10 (4.08%) Cryptography
12 10 (4.08%) Data Protection
12 10 (4.08%) Network Architecture
12 10 (4.08%) Privileged Access Management
13 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (3.67%) Key Management
13 9 (3.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.45%) SQL
2 5 (2.04%) Java
3 3 (1.22%) C#
4 2 (0.82%) ActionScript
4 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
4 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.41%) Python
5 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (53.47%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.16%) DV Cleared
3 20 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.12%) Degree
5 6 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.04%) CCNP
7 4 (1.63%) ISACA
8 3 (1.22%) MCSE
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CCDP
9 1 (0.41%) CCIE
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.41%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) NIST
2 7 (2.86%) NCSC
2 7 (2.86%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) GDPR
4 4 (1.63%) COBIT
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) FATCA
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Docker
4 2 (0.82%) KVM
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.41%) HDFS
5 1 (0.41%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (1.63%) Terraform
2 3 (1.22%) Ansible
2 3 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.22%) Podman
2 3 (1.22%) SCCM
2 3 (1.22%) SCOM
3 2 (0.82%) Endace
4 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.39%) VMware
2 15 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.31%) Cisco
4 7 (2.86%) Juniper
4 7 (2.86%) Oracle
5 6 (2.45%) SAP
6 4 (1.63%) F5
6 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.63%) Splunk
6 4 (1.63%) Workday
7 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.82%) Apple
8 2 (0.82%) Citrix
8 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.82%) Veeam
9 1 (0.41%) Concur
9 1 (0.41%) Databricks
9 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto