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 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 13 14 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 44 69 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.43% 8.93% 7.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.40% 9.65% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 39
10th Percentile £406 £500 £593
25th Percentile £550 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £745
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.11% +10.37%
75th Percentile £697 £750 -
90th Percentile £720 £905 £760
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +8.00%

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 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

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 1 May 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 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 Birmingham region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
4 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 11 (25.00%) Migration
6 9 (20.45%) AWS
7 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
8 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
8 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) DevOps
8 7 (15.91%) TOGAF
9 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
10 5 (11.36%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (11.36%) Performance Metrics
10 5 (11.36%) GCP
10 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
10 5 (11.36%) VMware
10 5 (11.36%) Agile
10 5 (11.36%) SolarWinds
10 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
10 5 (11.36%) Data Integration
10 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.36%) B2B
10 5 (11.36%) SQL
10 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling

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 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 4 (9.09%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.55%) OCI
8 1 (2.27%) Akamai
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.27%) Figma
8 1 (2.27%) Heroku
8 1 (2.27%) IaaS
8 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.27%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) ATM
3 1 (2.27%) Frame Relay
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (2.27%) IPsec
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) SDH
3 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.27%) VoIP
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) Big Data
3 2 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) Postman
1 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Legal
5 3 (6.82%) Finance
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Banking
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Military
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) CSS3
2 1 (2.27%) EDI
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) HTML5
2 1 (2.27%) IDoc
2 1 (2.27%) J2EE
2 1 (2.27%) JDBC
2 1 (2.27%) jQuery
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth
2 1 (2.27%) OpenID
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.27%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) SAML
2 1 (2.27%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.27%) SAPUI5
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.55%) SCADA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Migration
2 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
2 7 (15.91%) DevOps
2 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (15.91%) TOGAF
3 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
4 5 (11.36%) Agile
4 5 (11.36%) B2B
4 5 (11.36%) Data Integration
4 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
4 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
4 5 (11.36%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (11.36%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (11.36%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
4 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (9.09%) Data Extraction
5 4 (9.09%) ERP
5 4 (9.09%) Interface Catalogue
5 4 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) ABAP
3 2 (4.55%) COBOL
3 2 (4.55%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) Groovy
4 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (6.82%) CISSP
5 2 (4.55%) GIAC
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CEH
6 1 (2.27%) CISM
6 1 (2.27%) CITP
6 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.27%) OCP
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.27%) SANS
6 1 (2.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.82%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) SolarWinds
2 5 (11.36%) VMware
3 2 (4.55%) Databricks
3 2 (4.55%) Foundry
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Ariba
4 1 (2.27%) F5
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Imperva
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) Qualys
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Workday