Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,008 1,869 2,360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.80% 7.97% 7.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.60% 8.45% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,317 1,682
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £569 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £650 £657 £645
% change year-on-year -1.10% +1.90% +10.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 50 17
10th Percentile £60.00 £39.34 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £91.00 £80.25 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +7 661 £650 - 139
North of England +14 435 £650 +1.96% 154
South West +5 433 £650 -2.26% 80
North West +17 281 £650 +4.00% 92
Midlands +9 235 £625 -3.85% 86
West Midlands +7 172 £650 -3.70% 48
East of England +15 153 £650 -3.85% 45
Yorkshire +5 142 £625 -3.85% 45
Scotland +1 105 £675 +3.85% 36
East Midlands +2 63 £610 -7.58% 37
North East +13 16 £631 +2.02% 17
Wales -11 12 £625 +8.70% 20
Northern Ireland +11 11 £650 +18.18% 17
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 985 (49.05%) Security Cleared
2 455 (22.66%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 341 (16.98%) Azure
5 321 (15.99%) Agile
6 318 (15.84%) Social Skills
7 261 (13.00%) Finance
8 259 (12.90%) Public Sector
9 223 (11.11%) Microsoft
10 208 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 205 (10.21%) AWS
11 205 (10.21%) Roadmaps
12 203 (10.11%) Degree
13 195 (9.71%) DevOps
14 183 (9.11%) WAN
15 174 (8.67%) Windows
16 172 (8.57%) Migration
16 172 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
17 153 (7.62%) TOGAF
17 153 (7.62%) Firewall
18 148 (7.37%) Security Architecture
19 145 (7.22%) LAN
20 139 (6.92%) Cisco
21 137 (6.82%) Telecoms
22 127 (6.32%) Project Management
22 127 (6.32%) Enterprise Architecture
23 122 (6.08%) Network Management
24 118 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
25 116 (5.78%) Active Directory
26 110 (5.48%) Technical Leadership

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.20%) Confluence
3 12 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.100%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.100%) GemFire
8 2 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.050%) Appian
9 1 (0.050%) Drupal
9 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (0.90%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.100%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.100%) Revit
5 1 (0.050%) CATIA
5 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI-AP
6 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 341 (16.98%) Azure
2 205 (10.21%) AWS
3 84 (4.18%) SaaS
4 74 (3.69%) PaaS
5 63 (3.14%) Power Platform
6 62 (3.09%) IaaS
7 47 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.14%) GCP
9 41 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
10 37 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.10%) Entra ID
14 16 (0.80%) OCI
15 15 (0.75%) Serverless
16 12 (0.60%) Azure Stack
17 11 (0.55%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.55%) GitHub
18 10 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 183 (9.11%) WAN
2 153 (7.62%) Firewall
3 145 (7.22%) LAN
4 89 (4.43%) VPN
5 79 (3.93%) SSL
6 53 (2.64%) MPLS
7 45 (2.24%) Network Security
8 40 (1.99%) BGP
9 39 (1.94%) VoIP
10 38 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
11 36 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
12 33 (1.64%) PBX
13 30 (1.49%) DNS
13 30 (1.49%) SD-WAN
14 27 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (1.10%) DHCP
16 17 (0.85%) SAN
17 16 (0.80%) WLAN
18 13 (0.65%) Junos
18 13 (0.65%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.49%) Metadata
4 26 (1.29%) Power BI
5 23 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 21 (1.05%) Big Data
8 18 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 10 (0.50%) OLAP
12 10 (0.50%) OLTP
13 9 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
14 7 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.30%) GIS
15 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle OLAP
15 6 (0.30%) Redis
15 6 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (1.89%) JIRA
2 23 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (0.60%) MSI
4 12 (0.60%) Robot Framework
5 8 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.35%) GitLab
7 6 (0.30%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) Git
8 4 (0.20%) kappa
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.100%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.100%) webpack
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 318 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 261 (13.00%) Finance
3 259 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 118 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 70 (3.49%) Banking
8 62 (3.09%) Electronics
9 52 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.14%) Marketing
12 31 (1.54%) Retail
13 25 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.00%) Legal
15 18 (0.90%) Local Government
16 15 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.60%) Back Office
18 8 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.35%) Aeronautics
19 7 (0.35%) Digital Economy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.69%) Web Services
2 50 (2.49%) Node.js
3 33 (1.64%) .NET
4 30 (1.49%) SAML
4 30 (1.49%) XML
5 29 (1.44%) REST
5 29 (1.44%) SOAP
6 28 (1.39%) Middleware
7 27 (1.34%) OpenID
8 25 (1.25%) OAuth
9 21 (1.05%) JSON
10 16 (0.80%) LDAP
10 16 (0.80%) RESTful
11 13 (0.65%) HTML
11 13 (0.65%) Kafka
11 13 (0.65%) React
12 11 (0.55%) SailPoint
13 10 (0.50%) DirectX
13 10 (0.50%) OpenGL
13 10 (0.50%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.28%) PKI
2 83 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.44%) Public Cloud
4 68 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 39 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.59%) Analogue Electronics
9 26 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.10%) Operational Technology
12 15 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.75%) NHS
12 15 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
13 14 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.65%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.50%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.50%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 174 (8.67%) Windows
2 85 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.74%) Android
4 54 (2.69%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.54%) Linux
6 17 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.100%) Solaris
12 2 (0.100%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.100%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (15.99%) Agile
2 208 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 205 (10.21%) Roadmaps
4 195 (9.71%) DevOps
5 172 (8.57%) Migration
5 172 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (7.62%) TOGAF
7 148 (7.37%) Security Architecture
8 127 (6.32%) Enterprise Architecture
8 127 (6.32%) Project Management
9 122 (6.08%) Network Management
10 110 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
11 104 (5.18%) IT Strategy
12 103 (5.13%) Business Strategy
12 103 (5.13%) Project Delivery
13 99 (4.93%) Customer Requirements
14 97 (4.83%) Cybersecurity
15 94 (4.68%) Data Modelling
15 94 (4.68%) Risk Management
16 92 (4.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 84 (4.18%) Java
2 73 (3.64%) SQL
3 62 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.59%) Python
5 23 (1.15%) C
6 20 (1.00%) C#
7 19 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.65%) C++
9 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.45%) Bash
11 8 (0.40%) ABAP
12 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.100%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.100%) Bicep
14 2 (0.100%) SOQL
15 1 (0.050%) PHP
15 1 (0.050%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.050%) SystemVerilog
15 1 (0.050%) VB
Qualifications
1 985 (49.05%) Security Cleared
2 455 (22.66%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 203 (10.11%) Degree
5 46 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.84%) CCNP
8 33 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (1.25%) CISSP
11 17 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.80%) CCNA
12 16 (0.80%) HND
13 14 (0.70%) CCIE
14 13 (0.65%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.65%) CISM
15 12 (0.60%) ISACA
15 12 (0.60%) PhD
16 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.29%) QA
2 40 (1.99%) NIST
3 38 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.39%) GDPR
6 26 (1.29%) JSP 440
7 19 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.85%) NCSC
9 15 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.75%) SLA
10 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.40%) COBIT
12 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.35%) RMADS
14 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) GRC
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 116 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.20%) Docker
4 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) XenApp
9 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.15%) KVM
10 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.050%) ACF2
11 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.050%) HDFS
11 1 (0.050%) IAG
11 1 (0.050%) UAG
11 1 (0.050%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 43 (2.14%) Terraform
2 30 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (1.29%) Ansible
3 26 (1.29%) Endace
4 13 (0.65%) WMI
5 10 (0.50%) SCCM
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.20%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) SCOM
7 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.20%) VxRail
8 3 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.100%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.100%) Kibana
9 2 (0.100%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.100%) Puppet
9 2 (0.100%) vRealize
Vendors
1 223 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.92%) Cisco
3 109 (5.43%) Juniper
4 86 (4.28%) VMware
5 81 (4.03%) SAP
6 58 (2.89%) Oracle
7 49 (2.44%) F5
8 42 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.89%) Google
10 37 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.54%) IBM
12 27 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.20%) Databricks
13 24 (1.20%) Dell
14 22 (1.10%) Nokia
15 20 (1.00%) Sparx
16 17 (0.85%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.80%) Adobe
18 14 (0.70%) Zscaler
19 13 (0.65%) ForgeRock