Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 77 139 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.64% 15.27% 10.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.49% 16.05% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 71 74
10th Percentile £455 £450 £550
25th Percentile £614 £480 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £725
90th Percentile £798 £775 £782
South West median daily rate £650 £650 £650
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 31 11
10th Percentile £64.00 - £61.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £67.50 £68.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £85.00 £81.50
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £71.50
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -5.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 670 866 1,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 95.16% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 467 690
10th Percentile £250 £254 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £640
90th Percentile £745 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 165 115
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.50 £18.73
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Bristol region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 53 (68.83%) Security Cleared
2 46 (59.74%) SC Cleared
3 29 (37.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (22.08%) Logistics
4 17 (22.08%) Visualisation
5 15 (19.48%) Identity Management
6 10 (12.99%) Decision-Making
7 9 (11.69%) Social Skills
7 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
7 9 (11.69%) ITIL
7 9 (11.69%) Azure
7 9 (11.69%) AWS
8 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (10.39%) NIST
8 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (10.39%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 7 (9.09%) Finance
9 7 (9.09%) Service Management
10 6 (7.79%) Migration
10 6 (7.79%) VMware
10 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
10 6 (7.79%) Network Security
10 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (7.79%) SIEM
10 6 (7.79%) Threat Modelling
10 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
11 5 (6.49%) NCSC
11 5 (6.49%) Problem-Solving

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:

Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) AWS
1 9 (11.69%) Azure
2 3 (3.90%) Akamai
3 2 (2.60%) GCP
3 2 (2.60%) iPaaS
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (1.30%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.30%) IaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Network Security
2 5 (6.49%) WAN
3 4 (5.19%) LAN
4 3 (3.90%) Firewall
5 2 (2.60%) LTE
5 2 (2.60%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.60%) VPN
6 1 (1.30%) Wireless
6 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (1.30%) Power BI
1 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (11.69%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Back Office
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) Qt
2 3 (3.90%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.60%) Node.js
3 2 (2.60%) React
4 1 (1.30%) ADO
4 1 (1.30%) Kafka
4 1 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.60%) FMCG
3 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.30%) IoT
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (22.08%) Logistics
2 17 (22.08%) Visualisation
3 15 (19.48%) Identity Management
4 10 (12.99%) Decision-Making
5 9 (11.69%) ITIL
5 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
6 8 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (10.39%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 7 (9.09%) Service Management
8 6 (7.79%) Migration
8 6 (7.79%) SIEM
8 6 (7.79%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Security
9 5 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (6.49%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.19%) Ada
1 4 (5.19%) C++
2 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 53 (68.83%) Security Cleared
2 46 (59.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CCIE
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) NIST
2 5 (6.49%) NCSC
3 4 (5.19%) Def Stans
3 4 (5.19%) IEC 61508
3 4 (5.19%) MISRA
3 4 (5.19%) MISRA C
4 3 (3.90%) GRC
4 3 (3.90%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) VMware
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) Cisco
3 3 (3.90%) F5
3 3 (3.90%) Google
3 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.30%) Brocade
5 1 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.30%) Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Okta
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) webMethods