Architect Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 September 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
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 23 43 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.08% 11.72% 10.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.72% 12.54% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 62
10th Percentile £479 £450 £481
25th Percentile £631 £490 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £516 £593
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -12.87% +0.85%
75th Percentile £725 £560 £700
90th Percentile £735 £638 £743
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 298 343 701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 93.46% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 229 534
10th Percentile £210 £250 £275
25th Percentile £329 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £637 £625 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 12 15
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.89 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.04 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £19.35 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +17.99% +5.81%
75th Percentile £29.61 £31.50 £21.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £36.67 £22.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £51.42
% change year-on-year -57.00% +13.75% +110.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 29 September 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 -7 23 £700 +35.59% 11
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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 12 (52.17%) Roadmaps
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) TOGAF
3 7 (30.43%) Retail
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) General Ledger
5 5 (21.74%) Marketing
5 5 (21.74%) Financial Institution
5 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (17.39%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
6 4 (17.39%) Avolution ABACUS
6 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) MODAF
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Big Data
6 4 (17.39%) ArchiMate
7 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
7 3 (13.04%) Sitecore
7 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365

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:

Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Retail
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Financial Institution
4 5 (21.74%) General Ledger
4 5 (21.74%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Roadmaps
2 8 (34.78%) TOGAF
3 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centricity
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) ArchiMate
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
6 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
6 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) MODAF
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
7 2 (8.70%) Product Information Management
7 2 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) COBIT
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
1 3 (13.04%) Sitecore
2 1 (4.35%) Citrix
2 1 (4.35%) JDA
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) SAP