Architect Contracts in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 14 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 199 118 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 19.10% 9.35% 6.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.10% 10.37% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 90 75
10th Percentile £500 £550 £513
25th Percentile £540 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £706 £745 £693
90th Percentile £770 £800 £773
South West median daily rate £650 £665 £625
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 2
10th Percentile - £66.00 £53.60
25th Percentile £67.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +8.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.13 £64.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.00 £66.40
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.53
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +14.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 990 1,138 1,352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 90.17% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 808 924
10th Percentile £249 £300 £267
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £575
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 146 114
10th Percentile £36.25 £32.76 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £57.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +55.95% -1.18%
75th Percentile £74.27 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.13 £65.53
South West median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Avonmouth - 1 £625 -
Architect
South West

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Bristol region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 145 (72.86%) Security Cleared
2 99 (49.75%) SC Cleared
3 61 (30.65%) DV Cleared
4 58 (29.15%) Telecoms
5 41 (20.60%) Degree
6 32 (16.08%) ITIL
7 30 (15.08%) Azure
7 30 (15.08%) ArchiMate
7 30 (15.08%) Roadmaps
8 29 (14.57%) Architecture Governance
8 29 (14.57%) Agile
9 28 (14.07%) TOGAF
10 27 (13.57%) Enterprise Architecture
11 25 (12.56%) Cisco
12 24 (12.06%) Microsoft
12 24 (12.06%) Network Management
13 23 (11.56%) Juniper
13 23 (11.56%) Public Sector
14 22 (11.06%) DevOps
15 21 (10.55%) Rational DOORS
15 21 (10.55%) Nokia
15 21 (10.55%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (10.05%) Decision-Making
16 20 (10.05%) Systems Engineering
17 19 (9.55%) IBM
17 19 (9.55%) BPMN
18 18 (9.05%) SaaS
18 18 (9.05%) PaaS
18 18 (9.05%) Data Management
19 17 (8.54%) AWS

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (3.02%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.01%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.53%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Teamcenter
2 4 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.08%) Azure
2 18 (9.05%) PaaS
2 18 (9.05%) SaaS
3 17 (8.54%) AWS
4 12 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.02%) GCP
6 5 (2.51%) IaaS
6 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.01%) Azure Stack
8 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.50%) OCI
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) VoIP
2 12 (6.03%) PBX
2 12 (6.03%) WAN
3 11 (5.53%) SDH
4 5 (2.51%) Junos
5 4 (2.01%) Firewall
6 2 (1.01%) Network Security
6 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.01%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.50%) DNS
7 1 (0.50%) IPsec
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) MPLS
7 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.50%) Skype
7 1 (0.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.03%) Oracle Database
1 10 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.01%) Power BI
3 4 (2.01%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (1.51%) GIS
5 2 (1.01%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (10.55%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (3.02%) JIRA
3 1 (0.50%) ERwin
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 58 (29.15%) Telecoms
2 23 (11.56%) Public Sector
3 11 (5.53%) Finance
3 11 (5.53%) Manufacturing
3 11 (5.53%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.52%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.52%) Digital Economy
6 5 (2.51%) Aeronautics
6 5 (2.51%) Banking
6 5 (2.51%) Marketing
7 3 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Military
9 1 (0.50%) Electronics
9 1 (0.50%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.03%) XML
2 5 (2.51%) RESTful
3 4 (2.01%) JSON
3 4 (2.01%) REST
4 3 (1.51%) SOAP
5 2 (1.01%) CSS
5 2 (1.01%) HTML
5 2 (1.01%) Middleware
5 2 (1.01%) React
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.55%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.03%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (4.52%) Blackberry
3 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.02%) CESG
5 7 (3.52%) Blog
5 7 (3.52%) Replication
6 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.51%) Verilog
6 5 (2.51%) VHDL
7 4 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.01%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.01%) CMDB
8 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) VMS
2 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.08%) ITIL
2 30 (15.08%) ArchiMate
2 30 (15.08%) Roadmaps
3 29 (14.57%) Agile
3 29 (14.57%) Architecture Governance
4 28 (14.07%) TOGAF
5 27 (13.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 24 (12.06%) Network Management
7 22 (11.06%) DevOps
8 20 (10.05%) Decision-Making
8 20 (10.05%) Systems Engineering
9 19 (9.55%) BPMN
10 18 (9.05%) Data Management
11 17 (8.54%) Strategic Roadmap
11 17 (8.54%) Strategic Thinking
12 15 (7.54%) Computer Science
12 15 (7.54%) Migration
13 14 (7.04%) Business Analysis
13 14 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (7.04%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.52%) SQL
2 6 (3.02%) PL/SQL
3 5 (2.51%) C
3 5 (2.51%) C++
3 5 (2.51%) Python
4 4 (2.01%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.01%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 145 (72.86%) Security Cleared
2 99 (49.75%) SC Cleared
3 61 (30.65%) DV Cleared
4 41 (20.60%) Degree
5 12 (6.03%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (5.53%) HND
7 10 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (4.52%) CCNP
8 9 (4.52%) CISM
8 9 (4.52%) CISSP
8 9 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (4.02%) CEH
9 8 (4.02%) CISA
9 8 (4.02%) CISMP
9 8 (4.02%) ISACA
9 8 (4.02%) SSCP
10 6 (3.02%) ISTQB
11 5 (2.51%) JNCIA
12 4 (2.01%) SAP Certification
13 3 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.03%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) GDPR
2 11 (5.53%) HIPAA
2 11 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.53%) NIST
3 8 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.01%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (2.01%) NCSC
5 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) XenApp
3 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.50%) SCCM
1 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (12.56%) Cisco
2 24 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.56%) Juniper
4 21 (10.55%) Nokia
5 19 (9.55%) IBM
6 12 (6.03%) Oracle
6 12 (6.03%) SAP
7 10 (5.03%) Google
8 9 (4.52%) Avaya
8 9 (4.52%) Ericsson
8 9 (4.52%) Ribbon
9 7 (3.52%) Dell
9 7 (3.52%) VMware
10 6 (3.02%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.51%) Adobe
11 5 (2.51%) Ciena
12 2 (1.01%) EMC
12 2 (1.01%) Mapbox
12 2 (1.01%) Sparx