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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 71 68 122
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 8.85% 8.62% 11.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.56% 9.03% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 77
10th Percentile £517 - £582
25th Percentile £620 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £775 £678 £700
90th Percentile £804 £784 £750
South West median daily rate £675 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £66.63 £64.88 £61.25
25th Percentile £67.19 £66.56 £63.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - -
75th Percentile £76.56 £73.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £74.25 £81.86
South West median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -10.26% +11.43%

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 743 753 997
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 95.44% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 417 640
10th Percentile £214 £213 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £743 £715 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 104 127
10th Percentile £13.40 £17.50 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £39.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £39.47 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.74% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.06 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.85 £74.31 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -50.00% +15.06% -8.18%

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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 48 (67.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (63.38%) SC Cleared
3 30 (42.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (26.76%) Logistics
5 18 (25.35%) Visualisation
6 16 (22.54%) Identity Management
7 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.27%) ITIL
8 8 (11.27%) Service Management
9 7 (9.86%) AWS
9 7 (9.86%) Azure
10 6 (8.45%) Agile
10 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (8.45%) SIEM
11 5 (7.04%) AI
11 5 (7.04%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (7.04%) Migration
11 5 (7.04%) NCSC
11 5 (7.04%) VMware
11 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (5.63%) CI/CD
12 4 (5.63%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (5.63%) Data Architecture
12 4 (5.63%) Data Modelling
12 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
12 4 (5.63%) JSP 440
12 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning
12 4 (5.63%) Mentoring
12 4 (5.63%) Microservices

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) AWS
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 2 (2.82%) Akamai
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (1.41%) Azure AI
3 1 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (1.41%) GCP
3 1 (1.41%) IaaS
3 1 (1.41%) iPaaS
3 1 (1.41%) PaaS
3 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.41%) SaaS
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.41%) Metadata
1 1 (1.41%) Power BI
1 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.41%) Git
1 1 (1.41%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.63%) Back Office
3 4 (5.63%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Legal
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Military
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) Node.js
1 2 (2.82%) React
1 2 (2.82%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.41%) ADO
2 1 (1.41%) Kafka
2 1 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.41%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.41%) FMCG
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (26.76%) Logistics
3 18 (25.35%) Visualisation
4 16 (22.54%) Identity Management
5 10 (14.08%) Roadmaps
6 8 (11.27%) ITIL
6 8 (11.27%) Service Management
7 6 (8.45%) Agile
7 6 (8.45%) Decision-Making
7 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (8.45%) SIEM
8 5 (7.04%) AI
8 5 (7.04%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (7.04%) Migration
9 4 (5.63%) Data Architecture
9 4 (5.63%) Data Modelling
9 4 (5.63%) Machine Learning
9 4 (5.63%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.63%) Microservices
9 4 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
2 1 (1.41%) Ada
2 1 (1.41%) C++
2 1 (1.41%) Java
2 1 (1.41%) Python
2 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (67.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (63.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) NCSC
2 4 (5.63%) JSP 440
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
3 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) GRC
4 1 (1.41%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.41%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.41%) MISRA
4 1 (1.41%) MISRA C
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.82%) SCOM
1 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) VMware
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Cisco
3 2 (2.82%) F5
3 2 (2.82%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.41%) Brocade
4 1 (1.41%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (1.41%) Foundry
4 1 (1.41%) IBM
4 1 (1.41%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.41%) Okta
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) webMethods