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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 85 62 204
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.55% 10.21% 18.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.95% 10.86% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 30 115
10th Percentile £502 - £500
25th Percentile £541 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £646
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.34% -4.30%
75th Percentile £722 £697 £706
90th Percentile £798 £753 £775
South West median daily rate £650 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 32
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £66.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £75.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £103.40 £78.00 £89.50
South West median hourly rate £82.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +17.86% - -

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 1,223 571 1,038
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 94.07% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 310 556
10th Percentile £363 £213 £259
25th Percentile £425 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% -11.80% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 88 248
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £27.50
25th Percentile £42.98 £24.49 £44.93
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -12.96% +3.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £46.73 £55.00
% change year-on-year +23.05% -15.04% -14.06%

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 10 June 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 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 50 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 44 (51.76%) SC Cleared
3 27 (31.76%) AWS
4 26 (30.59%) Azure
5 20 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 13 (15.29%) Data Architecture
6 13 (15.29%) DevOps
7 12 (14.12%) TOGAF
8 11 (12.94%) Agile
9 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
9 10 (11.76%) Migration
9 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (10.59%) Architecture Governance
10 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
11 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (9.41%) Data Governance
11 8 (9.41%) GCP
11 8 (9.41%) QA
11 8 (9.41%) Serverless
11 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (9.41%) Technology Roadmap
12 7 (8.24%) Application Security
12 7 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
12 7 (8.24%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.24%) ETL
12 7 (8.24%) Microservices
13 6 (7.06%) ArchiMate
13 6 (7.06%) Architectural Design
13 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
13 6 (7.06%) Data Lake

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 (2.35%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) AWS
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) GCP
3 8 (9.41%) Serverless
4 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Functions
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Storage
5 3 (3.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.35%) IaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.35%) PaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) 3GPP
2 4 (4.71%) TETRA
2 4 (4.71%) WAN
3 3 (3.53%) DNS
4 2 (2.35%) Firewall
4 2 (2.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.18%) BGP
5 1 (1.18%) Calico
5 1 (1.18%) IPsec
5 1 (1.18%) MPLS
5 1 (1.18%) Network Security
5 1 (1.18%) OSPF
5 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.18%) VLAN
5 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.35%) Metadata
3 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.18%) EDRMS
4 1 (1.18%) Looker
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.71%) Finance
4 2 (2.35%) Military
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Back Office
5 1 (1.18%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) Kafka
1 2 (2.35%) Node.js
1 2 (2.35%) SOAP
1 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
1 2 (2.35%) Swagger
2 1 (1.18%) OAuth
2 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.18%) OpenID
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.18%) React
2 1 (1.18%) React Native
2 1 (1.18%) REST
2 1 (1.18%) RESTful
2 1 (1.18%) SAML
2 1 (1.18%) Web Services
2 1 (1.18%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) Roadmaps
2 13 (15.29%) Data Architecture
2 13 (15.29%) DevOps
3 12 (14.12%) TOGAF
4 11 (12.94%) Agile
5 10 (11.76%) Migration
5 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.59%) Architecture Governance
6 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (9.41%) Data Governance
7 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (9.41%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (8.24%) Application Security
8 7 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (8.24%) Containerisation
8 7 (8.24%) ETL
8 7 (8.24%) Microservices
9 6 (7.06%) Cloud Security
9 6 (7.06%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.71%) SQL
2 2 (2.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 50 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 44 (51.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.35%) CCSP
7 2 (2.35%) CISM
7 2 (2.35%) CISSP
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.18%) CCSK
8 1 (1.18%) CEH
8 1 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.18%) Degree
8 1 (1.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 4 (4.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) COBIT
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) IFRS
3 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.18%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) KVM
3 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) Terraform
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.35%) Argo
4 1 (1.18%) Ansible
4 1 (1.18%) CASB
4 1 (1.18%) Istio
4 1 (1.18%) QRadar
4 1 (1.18%) SCCM
4 1 (1.18%) SCOM
4 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.18%) Suricata
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.53%) SAP
3 2 (2.35%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (2.35%) Google
3 2 (2.35%) Huawei
3 2 (2.35%) IBM
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle
3 2 (2.35%) Qualys
3 2 (2.35%) VMware
4 1 (1.18%) Ariba
4 1 (1.18%) Databricks
4 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.18%) EMC
4 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.18%) Splunk
4 1 (1.18%) webMethods