Architect Contracts in Bedfordshire

Architect
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Architect daily rate in Bedfordshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 13 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.33% 4.88% 4.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.77% 5.50% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile £600 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £558 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -14.23% +1.96%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £766
90th Percentile £669 - £831
East of England median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. 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 Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 133 218 180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.26% 88.62% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 127 130
10th Percentile £266 £263 £174
25th Percentile £500 £359 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £684 £560 £594
90th Percentile £700 £625 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 6
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.31 £18.50
25th Percentile £27.71 £15.39 £29.31
Median hourly rate £60.75 £31.80 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +91.04% -50.12% +15.91%
75th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 £87.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Bedfordshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Bedfordshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Bedfordshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton -3 5 £600 +7.62% 23
Dunstable - 1 - -
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Bedfordshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Prototyping
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Workday HCM
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Workday
4 4 (30.77%) Aviation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Supply Chain Management
6 2 (15.38%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) SAP
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) Ariba
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Data Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Workday HCM
2 2 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) OSPF
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Aviation
5 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) EPoS
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Prototyping
4 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Data Management
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Supply Chain Management
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Workday
2 2 (15.38%) Ariba
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk