Architect Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 22 23
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 39 34 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.53% 7.14% 7.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.41% 7.61% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 43
10th Percentile £512 £547 £482
25th Percentile £569 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £625
90th Percentile £743 £750 £738
South East median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +5.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +12 33 £600 -6.47% 37
Bletchley - 3 £545 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 23 (58.97%) TOGAF
2 22 (56.41%) Security Cleared
3 20 (51.28%) SC Cleared
4 18 (46.15%) VMware
4 18 (46.15%) Microservices
4 18 (46.15%) NCSC
4 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 16 (41.03%) NIST
5 16 (41.03%) DevSecOps
5 16 (41.03%) AWS
5 16 (41.03%) ITIL
6 15 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (38.46%) MCSE
6 15 (38.46%) Azure
6 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (35.90%) IT Strategy
7 14 (35.90%) VMware NSX
7 14 (35.90%) Containerisation
7 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (35.90%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (35.90%) Palo Alto
7 14 (35.90%) Cisco
7 14 (35.90%) Zachman Framework
7 14 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
9 12 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (30.77%) SaaS
9 12 (30.77%) VSAN
9 12 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (28.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Camunda
3 1 (2.56%) SAS
3 1 (2.56%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (5.13%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Azure
3 12 (30.77%) SaaS
4 10 (25.64%) PaaS
5 8 (20.51%) IaaS
6 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) VSAN
2 5 (12.82%) BGP
2 5 (12.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (12.82%) MPLS
2 5 (12.82%) NGFW
2 5 (12.82%) OSPF
2 5 (12.82%) SD-WAN
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.82%) VPN
2 5 (12.82%) WAN
3 4 (10.26%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) VLAN
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (2.56%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) ERwin
1 5 (12.82%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Finance
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.13%) Kafka
1 2 (5.13%) Keycloak
1 2 (5.13%) OpenJDK
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (28.21%) PKI
3 10 (25.64%) Public Cloud
4 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) TOGAF
2 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) Microservices
3 16 (41.03%) DevSecOps
3 16 (41.03%) ITIL
4 15 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (35.90%) Containerisation
5 14 (35.90%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.90%) IT Strategy
5 14 (35.90%) Zachman Framework
6 13 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
7 10 (25.64%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (20.51%) Agile
8 8 (20.51%) Requirements Management
8 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
8 8 (20.51%) Use Case
9 7 (17.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 6 (15.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.56%) Magik
2 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 20 (51.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (38.46%) MCSE
3 15 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (28.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (12.82%) CCNP
6 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.13%) CRISC
8 2 (5.13%) Degree
9 1 (2.56%) CCNA
9 1 (2.56%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (2.56%) CISSP
9 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (46.15%) NCSC
2 16 (41.03%) NIST
3 12 (30.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (35.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) VMware
2 14 (35.90%) Cisco
2 14 (35.90%) Palo Alto
3 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.38%) Sparx
5 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.56%) BiZZdesign