Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 229 253 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.68% 8.78% 8.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.37% 9.30% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 177 224
10th Percentile £413 £484 £482
25th Percentile £525 £550 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +1.63% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £657
90th Percentile £735 £751 £719
South East median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile - £60.67 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £71.42 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% -6.72% +39.83%
75th Percentile £87.53 £75.67 -
90th Percentile - £78.42 -
South East median hourly rate £87.46 £75.34 £59.00
% change year-on-year +16.09% +27.69% -15.11%

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 2,443 2,720 3,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 94.44% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,848 2,386
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
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 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 82 99
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.95 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £58.35
South East median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -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 3 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +2 189 £610 -6.15% 36
Buckinghamshire +3 32 £613 +7.46% 19
Oxfordshire +4 8 £650 +4.00% 7
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 117 (51.09%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.20%) DV Cleared
3 45 (19.65%) Security Architecture
3 45 (19.65%) DevOps
4 43 (18.78%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (17.47%) Firewall
6 37 (16.16%) Azure
7 35 (15.28%) Public Sector
8 31 (13.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 28 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (12.23%) WAN
10 23 (10.04%) LAN
10 23 (10.04%) VMware
10 23 (10.04%) Social Skills
11 22 (9.61%) AWS
12 19 (8.30%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.30%) Presales
13 18 (7.86%) SC Cleared
14 16 (6.99%) Agile
14 16 (6.99%) Telecoms
15 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
15 15 (6.55%) IT Strategy
16 14 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (6.11%) Cisco
16 14 (6.11%) Degree
17 13 (5.68%) Migration
17 13 (5.68%) TOGAF
18 11 (4.80%) Data Protection
18 11 (4.80%) Finance
18 11 (4.80%) Microsoft

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 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.87%) Confluence
1 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) CMS
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.75%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.31%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Maximo
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.44%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.16%) Azure
2 22 (9.61%) AWS
3 6 (2.62%) PaaS
4 5 (2.18%) IaaS
4 5 (2.18%) SaaS
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.31%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.87%) OCI
7 2 (0.87%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.44%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.44%) GCP
8 1 (0.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.47%) Firewall
2 31 (13.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 28 (12.23%) WAN
4 23 (10.04%) LAN
5 11 (4.80%) SSL
6 9 (3.93%) MPLS
7 7 (3.06%) Network Security
8 6 (2.62%) DHCP
8 6 (2.62%) DNS
9 5 (2.18%) Internet
10 4 (1.75%) VPN
11 3 (1.31%) BGP
11 3 (1.31%) SAN
11 3 (1.31%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (0.87%) PBX
12 2 (0.87%) VoIP
12 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) Big Data
2 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.44%) DTS
4 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.44%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.44%) Impala
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
4 1 (0.44%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) JIRA
2 4 (1.75%) Selenium
3 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.31%) GitLab
3 3 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.31%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.31%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.44%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (15.28%) Public Sector
2 23 (10.04%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.99%) Telecoms
4 11 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.80%) Finance
5 5 (2.18%) Retail
6 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.31%) Billing
7 3 (1.31%) Local Government
8 2 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Automotive
9 1 (0.44%) French Language
9 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.49%) Web Services
2 3 (1.31%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.31%) Java EE
2 3 (1.31%) JSON
2 3 (1.31%) REST
3 2 (0.87%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.87%) Kafka
3 2 (0.87%) OAuth
3 2 (0.87%) OpenID
3 2 (0.87%) SAML
3 2 (0.87%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.44%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.44%) J2EE
4 1 (0.44%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.44%) Next.js
4 1 (0.44%) Playwright
4 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.44%) RESTful
4 1 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.37%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.93%) PKI
4 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.62%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.18%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.87%) CSOC
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.44%) Clustering
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.44%) iPad
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.80%) Linux
2 3 (1.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Solaris
3 2 (0.87%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.65%) DevOps
1 45 (19.65%) Security Architecture
2 43 (18.78%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (8.30%) Presales
4 19 (8.30%) Roadmaps
5 16 (6.99%) Agile
6 15 (6.55%) IT Strategy
7 14 (6.11%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (5.68%) Migration
8 13 (5.68%) TOGAF
9 11 (4.80%) Data Protection
9 11 (4.80%) ITIL
10 10 (4.37%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (4.37%) Network Architecture
11 9 (3.93%) Microservices
12 8 (3.49%) Cryptography
12 8 (3.49%) Key Management
12 8 (3.49%) Mentoring
12 8 (3.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.62%) Java
2 3 (1.31%) Python
3 2 (0.87%) ActionScript
3 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
3 2 (0.87%) C
3 2 (0.87%) C++
3 2 (0.87%) SQL
4 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.44%) R
4 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (51.09%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.20%) DV Cleared
3 18 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.11%) Degree
5 7 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.18%) CCNP
7 4 (1.75%) ISACA
8 3 (1.31%) MCSE
8 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE
9 2 (0.87%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CCNA
10 1 (0.44%) CCSP
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) NIST
2 7 (3.06%) NCSC
2 7 (3.06%) QA
3 6 (2.62%) GDPR
4 5 (2.18%) COBIT
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (4.80%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.31%) Docker
4 2 (0.87%) KVM
4 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.44%) HDFS
5 1 (0.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (1.75%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.75%) Terraform
2 3 (1.31%) Ansible
2 3 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.31%) Podman
2 3 (1.31%) SCCM
2 3 (1.31%) SCOM
3 2 (0.87%) Endace
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (10.04%) VMware
2 14 (6.11%) Cisco
3 11 (4.80%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.80%) SAP
4 8 (3.49%) Oracle
5 6 (2.62%) Juniper
6 4 (1.75%) F5
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) Splunk
7 3 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.87%) Databricks
8 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.87%) Sparx
8 2 (0.87%) Veeam
8 2 (0.87%) Workday
9 1 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.44%) Meraki
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow