Architect Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 10 28
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 32 70 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.32% 9.76% 5.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.95% 10.14% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 35
10th Percentile £507 £530 £525
25th Percentile £550 £567 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £745
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.11% +10.37%
75th Percentile £634 £750 -
90th Percentile £773 £895 -
West Midlands median daily rate £599 £630 £675
% change year-on-year -4.92% -6.67% +3.85%

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 538 690 801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 96.23% 96.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 453 534
10th Percentile £180 £201 £260
25th Percentile £334 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £548 £625 £600
90th Percentile £639 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 26
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.49% +81.91% +5.56%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £34.29 £56.25 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Birmingham

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Birmingham

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
3 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (18.75%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
5 5 (15.63%) SaaS
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (15.63%) Power BI
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
6 4 (12.50%) Cisco
6 4 (12.50%) Project Management
6 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 3 (9.38%) Fortinet

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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.63%) SaaS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.25%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
1 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
1 3 (9.38%) VoIP
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
1 3 (9.38%) Wireless
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) MPLS
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.13%) ATM
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Frame Relay
3 1 (3.13%) NGFW
3 1 (3.13%) SDH
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.38%) Data Mining
4 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Legal
4 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) .NET
1 1 (3.13%) EDI
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth
1 1 (3.13%) OpenID
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SAML
1 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
2 7 (21.88%) Migration
3 6 (18.75%) Analytics
3 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Project Management
5 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 3 (9.38%) Agile
6 3 (9.38%) ArchiMate
6 3 (9.38%) Data Design
6 3 (9.38%) Records Management
6 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.38%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) C#
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.38%) CCIE
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) CCNP
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CISSP
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) OCP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.25%) Autodesk
4 2 (6.25%) Meraki
4 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) JD Edwards
5 1 (3.13%) Juniper
5 1 (3.13%) NetScout
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Pega
5 1 (3.13%) QAD
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Workday