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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 110 61 155
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 8.35% 8.93% 15.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.92% 9.65% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 24 85
10th Percentile £511 - £450
25th Percentile £525 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £665 £718 £725
90th Percentile £738 £786 £775
South West median daily rate £625 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 31
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £66.25 £67.50
Median hourly rate £92.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% - -
75th Percentile £102.88 £78.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £103.45 £79.50 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £92.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.14% - -

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 1,233 632 924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 92.53% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 324 511
10th Percentile £377 £240 £238
25th Percentile £438 £360 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £596 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £644 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 107 224
10th Percentile £19.33 £13.21 £31.97
25th Percentile £45.00 £18.51 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -50.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.38 £73.65 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% -61.31% +3.17%

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 1 August 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 1 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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 70 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 63 (57.27%) SC Cleared
3 33 (30.00%) Azure
4 29 (26.36%) AWS
5 24 (21.82%) Roadmaps
6 18 (16.36%) Data Governance
7 17 (15.45%) Data Architecture
7 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
8 16 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (13.64%) TOGAF
10 14 (12.73%) DevOps
10 14 (12.73%) Migration
11 13 (11.82%) Agile
11 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
12 12 (10.91%) Architecture Governance
13 11 (10.00%) GCP
13 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (8.18%) Architectural Patterns
14 9 (8.18%) Security Architecture
14 9 (8.18%) Serverless
15 8 (7.27%) Decision-Making
15 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
15 8 (7.27%) ETL
15 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Transformation
15 8 (7.27%) Metadata
15 8 (7.27%) Microservices
15 8 (7.27%) QA

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 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.91%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.00%) Azure
2 29 (26.36%) AWS
3 11 (10.00%) GCP
4 9 (8.18%) Serverless
5 7 (6.36%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (3.64%) Azure Functions
6 4 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (3.64%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.64%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.64%) PaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub
7 3 (2.73%) OCI
7 3 (2.73%) SaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.82%) IaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.55%) WAN
2 4 (3.64%) DNS
2 4 (3.64%) TETRA
3 3 (2.73%) Firewall
4 2 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.91%) BGP
5 1 (0.91%) Calico
5 1 (0.91%) IPsec
5 1 (0.91%) MPLS
5 1 (0.91%) Network Security
5 1 (0.91%) OSPF
5 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.91%) VLAN
5 1 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Metadata
2 7 (6.36%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.64%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.82%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.82%) Looker
6 1 (0.91%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.91%) Power BI
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 15 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.36%) Finance
4 5 (4.55%) Military
5 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Legal
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Aviation
6 2 (1.82%) Local Government
7 1 (0.91%) Back Office
7 1 (0.91%) Electronics
7 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.82%) Kafka
1 2 (1.82%) Node.js
1 2 (1.82%) SOAP
1 2 (1.82%) Spring Boot
1 2 (1.82%) Swagger
2 1 (0.91%) OAuth
2 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.91%) OpenID
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.91%) Quarkus
2 1 (0.91%) React
2 1 (0.91%) React Native
2 1 (0.91%) REST
2 1 (0.91%) RESTful
2 1 (0.91%) SAML
2 1 (0.91%) Web Services
2 1 (0.91%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.82%) CESG
4 2 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.82%) Replication
4 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.91%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.91%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.82%) Roadmaps
2 18 (16.36%) Data Governance
3 17 (15.45%) Data Architecture
4 16 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (13.64%) TOGAF
6 14 (12.73%) DevOps
6 14 (12.73%) Migration
7 13 (11.82%) Agile
7 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
8 12 (10.91%) Architecture Governance
9 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.18%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (8.18%) Security Architecture
11 8 (7.27%) Decision-Making
11 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 8 (7.27%) Microservices
11 8 (7.27%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.45%) SQL
2 3 (2.73%) Java
Qualifications
1 70 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 63 (57.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.64%) CISM
6 4 (3.64%) CISSP
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.73%) CEH
8 2 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.82%) CCNA
8 2 (1.82%) CCSP
8 2 (1.82%) CISA
8 2 (1.82%) CISMP
8 2 (1.82%) MCSE
8 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) QA
2 7 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.45%) NIST
3 6 (5.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.73%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.91%) COBIT
6 1 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.91%) GRC
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS
6 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.64%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.91%) KVM
4 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.91%) Ansible
4 1 (0.91%) CASB
4 1 (0.91%) Istio
4 1 (0.91%) QRadar
4 1 (0.91%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) SCOM
4 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Suricata
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle
3 5 (4.55%) Google
3 5 (4.55%) VMware
4 3 (2.73%) Databricks
4 3 (2.73%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.73%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.82%) Cisco
5 2 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.82%) Huawei
5 2 (1.82%) IBM
5 2 (1.82%) Qualys
6 1 (0.91%) Ariba
6 1 (0.91%) EMC
6 1 (0.91%) Informatica
6 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.91%) Splunk
6 1 (0.91%) webMethods