Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 97 72 133
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.15% 9.74% 14.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.69% 10.51% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 41 66
10th Percentile - £513 £450
25th Percentile £525 £625 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -13.46%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £684
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
South West median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 31
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile - £78.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £79.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,261 685 853
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 92.69% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 344 454
10th Percentile £381 £250 £226
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.04% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £743 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 150 159
10th Percentile £21.35 £12.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.61 £18.87 £56.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -52.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.14 £68.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Architect job vacancy trend 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 26 September 2026.

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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 26 September 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 58 (59.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (56.70%) SC Cleared
3 33 (34.02%) Azure
4 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
4 23 (23.71%) Roadmaps
5 20 (20.62%) Data Governance
6 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (17.53%) DevOps
8 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
9 15 (15.46%) Data Architecture
9 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (14.43%) AWS
11 13 (13.40%) AI
11 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
11 13 (13.40%) Migration
12 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (12.37%) Metadata
12 12 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (11.34%) Architecture Governance
13 11 (11.34%) GCP
14 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 10 (10.31%) SQL
14 10 (10.31%) TOGAF
15 9 (9.28%) Architectural Patterns
15 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
15 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (8.25%) Agile
16 8 (8.25%) Architecture Roadmap
16 8 (8.25%) Decision-Making

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.02%) Azure
2 14 (14.43%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) GCP
4 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.25%) Serverless
6 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.19%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (5.15%) Vertex AI
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Storage
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Run
9 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.12%) PaaS
9 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 1 (1.03%) BGP
3 1 (1.03%) Calico
3 1 (1.03%) IPsec
3 1 (1.03%) MPLS
3 1 (1.03%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) OSPF
3 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.03%) VLAN
3 1 (1.03%) VSAN
3 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) Metadata
2 7 (7.22%) BigQuery
2 7 (7.22%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.12%) Looker
4 4 (4.12%) Power BI
4 4 (4.12%) Tableau
5 3 (3.09%) EDRMS
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.06%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Git
1 1 (1.03%) GitLab
1 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.25%) Finance
4 7 (7.22%) Military
5 5 (5.15%) Local Government
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Legal
8 2 (2.06%) Aviation
9 1 (1.03%) Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Kafka
2 2 (2.06%) Node.js
2 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.06%) Swagger
3 1 (1.03%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.03%) OpenID
3 1 (1.03%) Quarkus
3 1 (1.03%) React
3 1 (1.03%) React Native
3 1 (1.03%) RESTful
3 1 (1.03%) SAML
3 1 (1.03%) SOAP
3 1 (1.03%) Web Services
3 1 (1.03%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.09%) Clustering
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.06%) CESG
4 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.06%) Replication
5 1 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) SCADA
5 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.71%) Roadmaps
2 20 (20.62%) Data Governance
3 19 (19.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (17.53%) DevOps
5 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
6 15 (15.46%) Data Architecture
6 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (13.40%) AI
7 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.40%) Migration
8 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (11.34%) Architecture Governance
10 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 10 (10.31%) TOGAF
11 9 (9.28%) Architectural Patterns
11 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (8.25%) Architecture Roadmap
12 8 (8.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 3 (3.09%) Java
3 1 (1.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (59.79%) Security Cleared
2 55 (56.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.12%) CISM
5 4 (4.12%) CISSP
5 4 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.09%) CEH
7 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) CCNA
7 2 (2.06%) CCSP
7 2 (2.06%) CISA
7 2 (2.06%) CISMP
7 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.06%) ISACA
7 2 (2.06%) MCSE
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (6.19%) NIST
2 5 (5.15%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.06%) GDPR
5 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.06%) NCSC
5 2 (2.06%) QA
6 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.03%) COBIT
6 1 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.03%) KVM
3 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Argo
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) CASB
3 1 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.03%) Istio
3 1 (1.03%) QRadar
3 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.03%) Suricata
3 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Databricks
2 7 (7.22%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) VMware
4 3 (3.09%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Foundry
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Informatica
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.03%) webMethods