Architect Contracts in Bristol

Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Architect daily rate in Bristol is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 63 187 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 9.75% 16.77% 10.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.40% 17.76% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 104 84
10th Percentile - £500 £563
25th Percentile £450 £531 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £714 £725 £738
90th Percentile £763 £775 £788
South West median daily rate £620 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -4.62% -1.52% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 11
10th Percentile £63.63 - £66.00
25th Percentile £65.31 £67.50 £68.13
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £81.00
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% - +7.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 606 1,053 1,080
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.44% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 580 753
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £357 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £638
90th Percentile £644 £688 £705
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 254 129
10th Percentile £17.69 £27.65 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £44.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £50.49 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.21% +3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.20 £80.00 £84.00
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £56.97 £62.50
% change year-on-year -42.51% -8.86% +34.41%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Bristol

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Bristol

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 29 (46.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (17.46%) Decision-Making
5 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
5 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.29%) AWS
7 8 (12.70%) Azure
7 8 (12.70%) Network Security
7 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (12.70%) Finance
7 8 (12.70%) Migration
7 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
7 8 (12.70%) ITIL
8 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
8 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (11.11%) Firewall
9 6 (9.52%) LAN
9 6 (9.52%) WAN
9 6 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
9 6 (9.52%) Network Architecture
9 6 (9.52%) Cloud Security
9 6 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.94%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
10 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 3 (4.76%) Akamai
3 3 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (3.17%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.59%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) IaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) Network Security
2 7 (11.11%) Firewall
3 6 (9.52%) LAN
3 6 (9.52%) WAN
4 2 (3.17%) LTE
5 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) Wireless
5 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.59%) Power BI
1 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
1 2 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.59%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Legal
4 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Law
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Automotive
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Qt
2 3 (4.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) LDAP
3 1 (1.59%) OAuth
3 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.59%) OpenID
3 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.17%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (17.46%) Decision-Making
3 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
4 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (12.70%) ITIL
4 8 (12.70%) Migration
5 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (9.52%) Cloud Security
6 6 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (9.52%) Network Architecture
6 6 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (7.94%) Architectural Design
7 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
7 5 (7.94%) Multithreading
7 5 (7.94%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (7.94%) Service Management
7 5 (7.94%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (6.35%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.35%) Ada
1 4 (6.35%) C++
2 1 (1.59%) Bicep
2 1 (1.59%) Python
2 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 29 (46.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CCIE
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) NIST
2 4 (6.35%) Def Stans
2 4 (6.35%) IEC 61508
2 4 (6.35%) MISRA
2 4 (6.35%) MISRA C
3 3 (4.76%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.59%) NCSC
4 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) VMware
3 3 (4.76%) F5
3 3 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.59%) webMethods