Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £550, 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 10 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 51 64 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.51% 8.28% 9.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.81% 8.83% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 52 79
10th Percentile £408 £491 £513
25th Percentile £458 £525 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £622 £660
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -5.76% +13.79%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £745
90th Percentile £719 £760 £780
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.10 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.20 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.09% - -
75th Percentile £30.30 £60.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 472 725 980
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.06% 93.79% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 483 754
10th Percentile £200 £163 £213
25th Percentile £350 £258 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £565
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 79 62
10th Percentile £11.44 £11.81 £11.80
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £51.91 £64.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the East Midlands 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
Leicestershire +8 19 £630 +1.65% 6
Northamptonshire -7 16 £458 -18.08% 12
Derbyshire +16 9 £550 +4.76% 11
Nottinghamshire +1 4 £563 -22.63% 16
Lincolnshire -3 3 - - 4
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (27.45%) AWS
4 10 (19.61%) Agile
5 9 (17.65%) Banking
5 9 (17.65%) Firewall
5 9 (17.65%) Finance
5 9 (17.65%) F5
5 9 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 8 (15.69%) Migration
6 8 (15.69%) DevOps
6 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.73%) Azure
8 6 (11.76%) Law
8 6 (11.76%) VMware
8 6 (11.76%) Java
8 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
8 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.80%) Microservices
9 5 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
9 5 (9.80%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (9.80%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.80%) Cisco
9 5 (9.80%) DNS
9 5 (9.80%) Juniper
9 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
9 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
9 5 (9.80%) IPsec

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Fusion 360
1 1 (1.96%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) AWS
2 7 (13.73%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) Serverless
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Apigee
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.96%) IaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Kong
6 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (9.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (9.80%) IPsec
3 4 (7.84%) HSRP
3 4 (7.84%) OSPF
3 4 (7.84%) VLAN
4 1 (1.96%) 3G
4 1 (1.96%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.96%) 4G
4 1 (1.96%) 5G
4 1 (1.96%) LTE
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
4 1 (1.96%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Maven
General
1 9 (17.65%) Banking
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Law
2 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Police
4 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) Kafka
2 3 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (5.88%) OAuth
2 3 (5.88%) REST
2 3 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.92%) Middleware
3 2 (3.92%) OpenID
3 2 (3.92%) SAML
3 2 (3.92%) SOAP
4 1 (1.96%) JWT
4 1 (1.96%) RAML
4 1 (1.96%) Spring
4 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.96%) Swagger
4 1 (1.96%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Derivative
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Agile
2 8 (15.69%) DevOps
2 8 (15.69%) Migration
2 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
4 5 (9.80%) Data Modelling
4 5 (9.80%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (9.80%) Microservices
4 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
5 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (7.84%) Biometrics
5 4 (7.84%) BPR
5 4 (7.84%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 4 (7.84%) IT Governance
5 4 (7.84%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (7.84%) Scrum
5 4 (7.84%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (7.84%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (3.92%) Apex Code
2 2 (3.92%) SQL
3 1 (1.96%) Bash
3 1 (1.96%) C#
3 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) CCNP
3 4 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
1 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) F5
1 9 (17.65%) SolarWinds
2 6 (11.76%) VMware
3 5 (9.80%) Cisco
3 5 (9.80%) Juniper
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.92%) Google
6 2 (3.92%) NetApp
7 1 (1.96%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.96%) Avaya
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Logitech
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle
7 1 (1.96%) Siemens
7 1 (1.96%) Splunk