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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 104 63 140
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.67% 9.22% 15.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.25% 9.98% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 30 74
10th Percentile £500 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £572 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £694 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +20.65% -11.54%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £675
90th Percentile £800 £805 £775
South West median daily rate £648 £643 £650
% change year-on-year +0.78% -1.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 31
10th Percentile £88.50 £64.00 -
25th Percentile £91.88 £66.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £100.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -10.83%
75th Percentile £103.13 £78.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.50 £79.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £97.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +39.29% - -6.48%

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 1,260 631 863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 92.39% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 322 474
10th Percentile £359 £250 £261
25th Percentile £449 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £590
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 113 172
10th Percentile £22.75 £12.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.34 £18.22 £54.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £79.75
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +148.51% -62.74% +12.50%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 68 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 63 (60.58%) SC Cleared
3 33 (31.73%) Azure
4 26 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
6 19 (18.27%) AWS
7 17 (16.35%) Data Governance
7 17 (16.35%) DevOps
8 16 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (14.42%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 13 (12.50%) TOGAF
11 12 (11.54%) Data Architecture
12 11 (10.58%) Architecture Governance
12 11 (10.58%) Migration
12 11 (10.58%) Security Architecture
13 10 (9.62%) Agile
13 10 (9.62%) CI/CD
13 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Transformation
14 9 (8.65%) AI
14 9 (8.65%) Decision-Making
14 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
14 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
14 9 (8.65%) GCP
14 9 (8.65%) Metadata
14 9 (8.65%) Serverless
14 9 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
15 8 (7.69%) Containerisation

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 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.96%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) Azure
2 19 (18.27%) AWS
3 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.65%) GCP
3 9 (8.65%) Serverless
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Storage
5 4 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.85%) PaaS
6 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.88%) OCI
6 3 (2.88%) SaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub
7 2 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) WAN
2 4 (3.85%) DNS
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.92%) TETRA
5 1 (0.96%) BGP
5 1 (0.96%) Calico
5 1 (0.96%) IPsec
5 1 (0.96%) MPLS
5 1 (0.96%) Network Security
5 1 (0.96%) OSPF
5 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.96%) VLAN
5 1 (0.96%) VSAN
5 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) Metadata
2 7 (6.73%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.88%) EDRMS
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.92%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.92%) Looker
5 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.92%) Tableau
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Git
1 1 (0.96%) GitLab
1 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.65%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Military
5 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Local Government
6 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Legal
7 2 (1.92%) Aviation
8 1 (0.96%) Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.92%) Kafka
2 2 (1.92%) Node.js
2 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.92%) Swagger
3 1 (0.96%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (0.96%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (0.96%) OAuth
3 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.96%) OpenID
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.96%) Quarkus
3 1 (0.96%) React
3 1 (0.96%) React Native
3 1 (0.96%) RESTful
3 1 (0.96%) SAML
3 1 (0.96%) SOAP
3 1 (0.96%) Web Services
3 1 (0.96%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.92%) CESG
4 2 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.92%) Replication
4 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.96%) Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) SCADA
5 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.81%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 17 (16.35%) Data Governance
2 17 (16.35%) DevOps
3 16 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (14.42%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (14.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 13 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 12 (11.54%) Data Architecture
7 11 (10.58%) Architecture Governance
7 11 (10.58%) Migration
7 11 (10.58%) Security Architecture
8 10 (9.62%) Agile
8 10 (9.62%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 9 (8.65%) AI
9 9 (8.65%) Decision-Making
9 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (7.69%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.73%) SQL
2 3 (2.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 63 (60.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.85%) CISM
6 4 (3.85%) CISSP
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.88%) CEH
8 2 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CCNA
8 2 (1.92%) CCSP
8 2 (1.92%) CISA
8 2 (1.92%) CISMP
8 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.92%) ISACA
8 2 (1.92%) MCSE
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.77%) NIST
2 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.81%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.88%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 2 (1.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.96%) COBIT
6 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.96%) IFRS
6 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) KVM
3 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.92%) Argo
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.96%) CASB
3 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.96%) Istio
3 1 (0.96%) QRadar
3 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.96%) Suricata
3 1 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.77%) Databricks
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) VMware
4 4 (3.85%) Google
5 3 (2.88%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.88%) SAP
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco
6 2 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.92%) Huawei
6 2 (1.92%) IBM
6 2 (1.92%) Qualys
7 1 (0.96%) Ariba
7 1 (0.96%) Foundry
7 1 (0.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) webMethods