Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 14 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 102 74 124
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.55% 9.89% 14.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.15% 10.68% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 41 59
10th Percentile £525 £563 -
25th Percentile £550 £669 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +36.36% -17.29%
75th Percentile £711 £775 £681
90th Percentile £800 £805 £778
South West median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 28
10th Percentile - £63.63 -
25th Percentile - £65.31 £67.50
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -
75th Percentile - £72.19 £72.50
90th Percentile - £76.13 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £95.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +38.18% -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 1,251 693 829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 92.65% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 336 433
10th Percentile £381 £235 £213
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% +0.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £584
90th Percentile £688 £775 £701
South West median daily rate £536 £510 £505
% change year-on-year +5.10% +0.99% -6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 149 150
10th Percentile £20.60 £12.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.52 £18.87 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £33.50 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -50.55% +4.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.48 £68.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +138.57% -62.74% +14.73%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 54 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 51 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 32 (31.37%) Azure
4 27 (26.47%) Roadmaps
5 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
5 23 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (21.57%) Data Governance
7 19 (18.63%) AWS
8 18 (17.65%) DevOps
9 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
10 16 (15.69%) Data Modelling
10 16 (15.69%) Migration
11 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
11 15 (14.71%) Metadata
11 15 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (13.73%) AI
12 14 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (12.75%) GCP
13 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (10.78%) Architectural Patterns
15 11 (10.78%) Architecture Governance
15 11 (10.78%) Enterprise Architecture
15 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
15 11 (10.78%) SQL
15 11 (10.78%) TOGAF
16 10 (9.80%) Architecture Roadmap
16 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Transformation
16 10 (9.80%) Technical Architecture
17 9 (8.82%) BigQuery

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 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.37%) Azure
2 19 (18.63%) AWS
3 13 (12.75%) GCP
4 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (7.84%) Cloud Functions
6 8 (7.84%) Serverless
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (4.90%) Vertex AI
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.92%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.92%) GitHub
8 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) WAN
2 5 (4.90%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) Firewall
3 2 (1.96%) Network Security
3 2 (1.96%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.98%) BGP
4 1 (0.98%) Calico
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) IPsec
4 1 (0.98%) MPLS
4 1 (0.98%) OSPF
4 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.98%) VLAN
4 1 (0.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.98%) VSAN
4 1 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) Metadata
2 9 (8.82%) BigQuery
3 7 (6.86%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.92%) Data Vault
5 4 (3.92%) Looker
5 4 (3.92%) Power BI
5 4 (3.92%) Tableau
6 3 (2.94%) EDRMS
6 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
2 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.80%) Finance
4 7 (6.86%) Military
5 5 (4.90%) Local Government
6 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Legal
8 2 (1.96%) Aviation
9 1 (0.98%) Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) Terraform
2 2 (1.96%) Kafka
2 2 (1.96%) Node.js
2 2 (1.96%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.96%) Swagger
3 1 (0.98%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (0.98%) OAuth
3 1 (0.98%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.98%) OpenID
3 1 (0.98%) Quarkus
3 1 (0.98%) React
3 1 (0.98%) React Native
3 1 (0.98%) RESTful
3 1 (0.98%) SAML
3 1 (0.98%) SOAP
3 1 (0.98%) Web Services
3 1 (0.98%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.92%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.94%) Clustering
3 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.96%) CESG
4 2 (1.96%) Replication
5 1 (0.98%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.98%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.98%) SCADA
5 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Unix
3 2 (1.96%) Linux
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.47%) Roadmaps
2 23 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (21.57%) Data Governance
4 18 (17.65%) DevOps
5 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 16 (15.69%) Data Modelling
6 16 (15.69%) Migration
7 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 15 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (13.73%) AI
8 14 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (10.78%) Architectural Patterns
11 11 (10.78%) Architecture Governance
11 11 (10.78%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (10.78%) TOGAF
12 10 (9.80%) Architecture Roadmap
12 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Transformation
12 10 (9.80%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.78%) SQL
2 3 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (0.98%) Python
Qualifications
1 54 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 51 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.90%) CISSP
6 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.92%) CISM
6 4 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.94%) CEH
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.96%) CCNA
8 2 (1.96%) CCSP
8 2 (1.96%) CISA
8 2 (1.96%) CISMP
8 2 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.96%) ISACA
8 2 (1.96%) MCSE
8 2 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.86%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.88%) NIST
4 3 (2.94%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.96%) GDPR
5 2 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.96%) NCSC
5 2 (1.96%) QA
6 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.98%) COBIT
6 1 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.92%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) KVM
3 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Argo
2 2 (1.96%) CASB
3 1 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.98%) Istio
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.98%) QRadar
3 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.98%) Suricata
3 1 (0.98%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) Google
3 8 (7.84%) Databricks
4 5 (4.90%) Oracle
4 5 (4.90%) VMware
5 4 (3.92%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (2.94%) Cisco
6 3 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.98%) Foundry
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) Informatica
7 1 (0.98%) Netskope
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) webMethods
7 1 (0.98%) Zscaler