Architect Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Architect daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 24 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 8 37 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.56% 7.25% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 8.64% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 4
10th Percentile - £500 £389
25th Percentile £663 £528 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +23.08% -24.42%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £591
90th Percentile - £800 £686
East of England median daily rate £600 £600 £661
% change year-on-year - -9.23% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £83.00 £60.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +38.33% -9.09% +32.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 261 428 455
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.39% 83.92% 81.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 155 279
10th Percentile £250 £220 £213
25th Percentile £379 £325 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £536
90th Percentile £688 £619 £600
East of England median daily rate £489 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +11.83% -7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 163 90
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +37.87% +6.90%
75th Percentile £31.00 £28.75 £20.56
90th Percentile £55.13 £62.50 £27.63
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.90 £41.80
% change year-on-year -14.58% +5.02% +114.36%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Peterborough +14 4 £675 +12.50% 25
Cambridge -17 4 £700 +31.58% 80
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (37.50%) SnapLogic
3 3 (37.50%) Middleware
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) API Integration
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) Route 53
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (12.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) API Integration
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) API Design
2 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Presales
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Debt
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
2 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (37.50%) SnapLogic