Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 80 67 175
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.31% 12.20% 17.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.72% 12.74% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 45 110
10th Percentile £535 - £504
25th Percentile £597 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £700
90th Percentile - £725 £775
South West median daily rate £703 £625 £669
% change year-on-year +12.48% -6.57% +0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £62.85 £77.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £64.88 £85.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £69.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -23.33% +28.57%
75th Percentile £78.75 £72.38 £95.00
90th Percentile - £73.95 -
South West median hourly rate £72.50 £69.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +5.07% -23.33% +28.57%

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 1,036 526 983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 95.81% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 306 551
10th Percentile £309 £181 £256
25th Percentile £403 £308 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £634
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 73 173
10th Percentile £17.87 £35.20 £37.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £61.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -25.05%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 45 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 42 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (25.00%) Logistics
5 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 15 (18.75%) Identity Management
7 14 (17.50%) AWS
8 13 (16.25%) Azure
9 12 (15.00%) Data Architecture
10 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
11 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (11.25%) Migration
13 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
13 7 (8.75%) Service Management
14 6 (7.50%) Data Governance
14 6 (7.50%) DevOps
14 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
15 5 (6.25%) Agile
15 5 (6.25%) Architectural Design
15 5 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
15 5 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
15 5 (6.25%) Containerisation
15 5 (6.25%) Data Migration
15 5 (6.25%) Data Strategy
15 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
15 5 (6.25%) GCP
15 5 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
15 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 5 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
15 5 (6.25%) Validation

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 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) SAP PP
2 2 (2.50%) SAP EWM
2 2 (2.50%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.50%) SAP QM
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) AWS
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 5 (6.25%) GCP
4 4 (5.00%) Serverless
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.25%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.25%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
1 2 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Metadata
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Git
General
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Back Office
5 1 (1.25%) Electronics
5 1 (1.25%) Legal
5 1 (1.25%) Local Government
5 1 (1.25%) Military
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) REST
1 2 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (25.00%) Logistics
3 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 15 (18.75%) Identity Management
5 12 (15.00%) Data Architecture
6 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
9 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.75%) Service Management
10 6 (7.50%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.50%) DevOps
10 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (6.25%) Architectural Design
11 5 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (6.25%) Containerisation
11 5 (6.25%) Data Strategy
11 5 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.50%) Python
1 2 (2.50%) Ruby
2 1 (1.25%) Java
2 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 42 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) SCOM
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) Google
3 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco
4 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.25%) EMC
4 1 (1.25%) Foundry
4 1 (1.25%) IBM
4 1 (1.25%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.25%) Sage
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce