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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 18 3
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 109 61 148
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 8.09% 8.75% 15.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.69% 9.49% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 27 82
10th Percentile - £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -4.87%
75th Percentile £688 £783 £725
90th Percentile £775 £808 £774
South West median daily rate £648 £640 £650
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 31
10th Percentile £66.25 £64.00 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £66.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £94.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% - -5.72%
75th Percentile £103.06 £78.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.50 £79.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -2.10%

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 1,255 643 880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.25% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 329 495
10th Percentile £377 £247 £260
25th Percentile £449 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -10.60% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £590
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 115 186
10th Percentile £20.96 £12.82 £22.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.36 £56.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £69.69 £65.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.10 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +148.51% -62.74% +8.00%

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 25 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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 69 (63.30%) Security Cleared
2 64 (58.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (30.28%) Azure
4 26 (23.85%) Roadmaps
5 23 (21.10%) Microsoft
6 21 (19.27%) AWS
7 17 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (14.68%) Data Governance
9 15 (13.76%) DevOps
9 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (13.76%) TOGAF
10 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (11.01%) Agile
11 12 (11.01%) Data Architecture
12 11 (10.09%) Data Modelling
12 11 (10.09%) Security Architecture
13 10 (9.17%) Architecture Governance
13 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Transformation
13 10 (9.17%) Migration
13 10 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (8.26%) Decision-Making
14 9 (8.26%) Entra ID
14 9 (8.26%) GCP
15 8 (7.34%) AI
15 8 (7.34%) Architecture Roadmap
15 8 (7.34%) CI/CD
15 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Architecture
15 8 (7.34%) Metadata
15 8 (7.34%) Microservices
15 8 (7.34%) Serverless

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 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.92%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.28%) Azure
2 21 (19.27%) AWS
3 9 (8.26%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.26%) GCP
4 8 (7.34%) Serverless
5 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Functions
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (3.67%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.67%) PaaS
7 3 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (2.75%) GitHub
7 3 (2.75%) OCI
7 3 (2.75%) SaaS
8 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.59%) WAN
2 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) TETRA
3 2 (1.83%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.92%) BGP
4 1 (0.92%) Calico
4 1 (0.92%) IPsec
4 1 (0.92%) MPLS
4 1 (0.92%) Network Security
4 1 (0.92%) OSPF
4 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.92%) VLAN
4 1 (0.92%) VSAN
4 1 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Metadata
2 7 (6.42%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.75%) EDRMS
4 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.83%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.17%) Finance
4 6 (5.50%) Military
5 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Legal
6 3 (2.75%) Local Government
7 2 (1.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.92%) Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.83%) Kafka
2 2 (1.83%) Node.js
2 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.83%) Swagger
3 1 (0.92%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.92%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (0.92%) OAuth
3 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.92%) OpenID
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.92%) Quarkus
3 1 (0.92%) React
3 1 (0.92%) React Native
3 1 (0.92%) RESTful
3 1 (0.92%) SAML
3 1 (0.92%) SOAP
3 1 (0.92%) Web Services
3 1 (0.92%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.83%) CESG
4 2 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.83%) Replication
4 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.92%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.92%) Clustering
5 1 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Unix
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.85%) Roadmaps
2 17 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (14.68%) Data Governance
4 15 (13.76%) DevOps
4 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (13.76%) TOGAF
5 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (11.01%) Agile
6 12 (11.01%) Data Architecture
7 11 (10.09%) Data Modelling
7 11 (10.09%) Security Architecture
8 10 (9.17%) Architecture Governance
8 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 10 (9.17%) Migration
8 10 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (8.26%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.34%) AI
10 8 (7.34%) Architecture Roadmap
10 8 (7.34%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.34%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.50%) SQL
2 3 (2.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 69 (63.30%) Security Cleared
2 64 (58.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (3.67%) CISM
5 4 (3.67%) CISSP
6 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) CEH
7 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.83%) CCNA
7 2 (1.83%) CCSP
7 2 (1.83%) CISA
7 2 (1.83%) CISMP
7 2 (1.83%) MCSE
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.50%) NIST
2 5 (4.59%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 3 (2.75%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.83%) GDPR
5 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.92%) COBIT
6 1 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.92%) IFRS
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.67%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) KVM
3 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Argo
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.92%) Ansible
3 1 (0.92%) CASB
3 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.92%) Istio
3 1 (0.92%) QRadar
3 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.92%) Suricata
3 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) Databricks
3 5 (4.59%) VMware
4 4 (3.67%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 2 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.83%) Huawei
6 2 (1.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) Qualys
7 1 (0.92%) Ariba
7 1 (0.92%) Foundry
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) webMethods