Architect Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Architect
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Architect daily rate in Cambridge is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.19% 7.14% 7.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 7.97% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £465 - £466
25th Percentile £488 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £613
90th Percentile £585 - £800
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 163 138 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 89.61% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 80 98
10th Percentile £253 £299 £140
25th Percentile £400 £340 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £624 £562 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 17
10th Percentile £23.16 £22.63 -
25th Percentile £27.21 £22.77 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.41 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.55% +17.05% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.68 £40.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £50.86 £82.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £15.65
% change year-on-year -30.12% +46.29% +0.97%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Architect job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Cambridge

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Cambridge over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Cambridge

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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 Cambridge region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Cadence
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (25.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Design Automation

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) FPGA
1 1 (25.00%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Design Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Fintech
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Power Management
1 1 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cadence
1 1 (25.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (25.00%) SAP