Architect Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Architect daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £605, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 25
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 23 7 25
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.76% 2.12% 5.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.93% 2.51% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 8
10th Percentile £358 £514 £465
25th Percentile £430 £609 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £738
90th Percentile £694 - £779
East of England median daily rate £604 £555 £600
% change year-on-year +8.83% -7.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £54.25
25th Percentile £46.00 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £48.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -11.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 290 279 331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.29% 84.55% 76.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 108 121
10th Percentile £305 £209 £220
25th Percentile £413 £364 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £442
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +13.69% -1.78%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 67 109
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.74 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -21.67% +20.60%
75th Percentile £34.62 £31.00 £28.93
90th Percentile £48.00 £57.51 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +69.64%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Architect job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 23 August 2026. 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
Huntingdon - 16 £605 -
Cambridge +4 6 £575 -14.81% 2
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (47.83%) BPSS Clearance
1 11 (47.83%) SAP
2 6 (26.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
3 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
4 3 (13.04%) CRUD
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
4 3 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 2 (8.70%) Apex Code
5 2 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (8.70%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.70%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 2 (8.70%) Data Integration
5 2 (8.70%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) ERP
5 2 (8.70%) ETL
5 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) GDPR
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.70%) Microservices

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (26.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.70%) SAP HR
2 2 (8.70%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Billing
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (8.70%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) IDoc
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
1 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
2 3 (13.04%) CRUD
2 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
2 3 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 2 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (8.70%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.70%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 2 (8.70%) ETL
3 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.70%) Microservices
3 2 (8.70%) Programme Governance
3 2 (8.70%) Quote-to-Cash
3 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
3 2 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Istio
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.70%) Workday
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow