Architect Contracts in Bedfordshire

Architect
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Architect daily rate in Bedfordshire is £555, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 44 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 20.00% 9.05% 7.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.89% 9.66% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 10
10th Percentile £501 £513 £469
25th Percentile £550 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £559 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +11.75% -11.50%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £628
90th Percentile £638 £583 £664
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £676
% change year-on-year - -11.24% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £100.05 - -
25th Percentile £100.13 - -
Median hourly rate £101.50 - -
75th Percentile £104.13 - -
90th Percentile £104.95 - -
East of England median hourly rate £72.50 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +20.83% -9.09% +32.00%

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 201 207 165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 93.67% 97.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 105 108
10th Percentile £189 £300 £184
25th Percentile £466 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +5.26% -3.94%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £581
90th Percentile £700 £625 £608
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 44 4
10th Percentile £26.82 £15.39 £27.00
25th Percentile £62.88 £26.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +26.83%
75th Percentile £89.75 £65.19 £82.50
90th Percentile £91.90 £67.50 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.90 £43.63
% change year-on-year -3.19% +0.62% +123.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 July 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 +5 38 £555 -0.67% 11
Dunstable - 2 £510 - 1
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 10 (22.73%) Workday
4 10 (22.73%) Analytics
4 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
5 8 (18.18%) Python
6 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 7 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (15.91%) DynamoDB
6 7 (15.91%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.91%) Natural Language Processing
6 7 (15.91%) Serverless
6 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
7 6 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (13.64%) Sentiment Analysis
7 6 (13.64%) Workday HCM
7 6 (13.64%) Power BI
7 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Oracle
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (11.36%) Aviation
9 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (9.09%) API Management

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 (2.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Workday HCM
2 3 (6.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) AWS
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (15.91%) Amazon S3
2 7 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
2 7 (15.91%) Serverless
3 6 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) LAN
1 2 (4.55%) Network Security
1 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.55%) VPN
1 2 (4.55%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) BGP
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.27%) DHCP
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) OSPF
2 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) DynamoDB
2 6 (13.64%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Aviation
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Kafka
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.27%) EPoS
1 1 (2.27%) Life Science
1 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
1 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 10 (22.73%) Analytics
4 7 (15.91%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.64%) Sentiment Analysis
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.09%) API Management
7 4 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
7 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.09%) Prototyping
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.82%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.82%) Containerisation
8 3 (6.82%) DevOps
8 3 (6.82%) High Availability
8 3 (6.82%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (6.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.82%) VCAP
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE Security
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) CCSP
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) GIAC
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
1 10 (22.73%) Workday
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Citrix
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.27%) Ariba
5 1 (2.27%) F5
5 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.27%) Genesys
5 1 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk