Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 29 65 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.39% 8.35% 6.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.13% 8.89% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 52 44
10th Percentile £505 £501 £574
25th Percentile £550 £550 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £745
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.11% +10.37%
75th Percentile £709 £752 -
90th Percentile £775 £910 £749
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £650 £672
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.24% +3.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 473 731 881
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.92% 93.96% 96.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 512 600
10th Percentile £163 £235 £263
25th Percentile £331 £335 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 35 34
10th Percentile - £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.75 £14.03
Median hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +35.21% +4.41%
75th Percentile £23.33 £47.13 £25.66
90th Percentile £28.40 £55.75 £61.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
% change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Birmingham

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

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

1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) VMware
5 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (17.24%) SolarWinds
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (17.24%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
6 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Azure
6 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) SQL
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
6 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.34%) LAN
7 3 (10.34%) ETL
7 3 (10.34%) VoIP
7 3 (10.34%) WAN
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Project Management
7 3 (10.34%) Legal
7 3 (10.34%) Network Security
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Figma
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) LAN
1 3 (10.34%) Network Security
1 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
1 3 (10.34%) VoIP
1 3 (10.34%) WAN
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (6.90%) MPLS
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.90%) Unified Communications
2 2 (6.90%) Wireless
3 1 (3.45%) ATM
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) Frame Relay
3 1 (3.45%) IPsec
3 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) SDH
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Big Data
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Kafka
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth
1 1 (3.45%) OpenID
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
2 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
2 5 (17.24%) Migration
2 5 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (17.24%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
3 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.34%) Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
4 3 (10.34%) ETL
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (6.90%) IT Strategy
5 2 (6.90%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CCIE
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) CITP
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) OCP
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) SolarWinds
1 5 (17.24%) VMware
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Autodesk
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.90%) Foundry
3 2 (6.90%) Meraki
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Ariba
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Workday