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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 79 76 206
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.13% 13.01% 19.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.53% 13.67% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 47 114
10th Percentile £510 - £500
25th Percentile £531 £450 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £646
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.99% -4.30%
75th Percentile £713 £674 £716
90th Percentile £775 £725 £775
South West median daily rate £675 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 32
10th Percentile - £62.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £63.44 £67.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £102.69 £73.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £103.40 £77.50 £95.00
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.79% -

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 1,210 556 1,004
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 95.21% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 324 546
10th Percentile £363 £213 £257
25th Percentile £417 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £562 £600
90th Percentile £652 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 90 232
10th Percentile £18.56 £18.51 £35.13
25th Percentile £45.00 £31.06 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -5.93% +3.05%
75th Percentile £67.75 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 21 May 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 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 46 (58.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (51.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (34.18%) AWS
4 22 (27.85%) Azure
5 14 (17.72%) Roadmaps
6 13 (16.46%) DevOps
7 11 (13.92%) Data Architecture
7 11 (13.92%) TOGAF
8 10 (12.66%) Agile
8 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.39%) Data Modelling
9 9 (11.39%) Migration
10 8 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.13%) QA
10 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (8.86%) Application Security
11 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
11 7 (8.86%) GCP
11 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.86%) Serverless
11 7 (8.86%) Technology Roadmap
12 6 (7.59%) Architectural Design
12 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
12 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
12 6 (7.59%) Security Architecture
12 6 (7.59%) Technical Architecture
12 6 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (6.33%) 3GPP

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 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) AWS
2 22 (27.85%) Azure
3 7 (8.86%) GCP
3 7 (8.86%) Serverless
4 4 (5.06%) GitHub
5 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.53%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.53%) IaaS
6 2 (2.53%) PaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) Intacct
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) 3GPP
2 4 (5.06%) TETRA
3 2 (2.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (2.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.27%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.27%) Looker
2 1 (1.27%) Metadata
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.06%) Finance
4 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.27%) Back Office
4 1 (1.27%) Electronics
4 1 (1.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.53%) REST
1 2 (2.53%) SOAP
2 1 (1.27%) Kafka
2 1 (1.27%) Node.js
2 1 (1.27%) OAuth
2 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.27%) OpenID
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.27%) React
2 1 (1.27%) React Native
2 1 (1.27%) SAML
2 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.72%) Roadmaps
2 13 (16.46%) DevOps
3 11 (13.92%) Data Architecture
3 11 (13.92%) TOGAF
4 10 (12.66%) Agile
4 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (11.39%) Data Modelling
5 9 (11.39%) Migration
6 8 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (8.86%) Application Security
7 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
7 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.86%) Technology Roadmap
8 6 (7.59%) Architectural Design
8 6 (7.59%) Security Architecture
8 6 (7.59%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (6.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.53%) Python
1 2 (2.53%) Ruby
2 1 (1.27%) Java
2 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (58.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (51.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.53%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) GRC
4 1 (1.27%) IFRS
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Argo
3 1 (1.27%) CASB
3 1 (1.27%) SCCM
3 1 (1.27%) SCOM
3 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (2.53%) Google
3 2 (2.53%) Huawei
3 2 (2.53%) Qualys
3 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.27%) Ariba
4 1 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.27%) Databricks
4 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.27%) EMC
4 1 (1.27%) IBM
4 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle
4 1 (1.27%) Sage
4 1 (1.27%) VMware