Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £622 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 18 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -20
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 61 93 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.96% 8.91% 5.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.48% 9.47% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 78 58
10th Percentile £500 £513 £457
25th Percentile £531 £540 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £660 £578
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +14.29% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £745 £659
90th Percentile £762 £783 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.20 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year +7.43% +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 719 982 1,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.06% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 754 986
10th Percentile £166 £213 £179
25th Percentile £260 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £504
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +17.64%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Northamptonshire +19 23 £581 +3.29% 10
Leicestershire +15 16 £620 +7.78% 4
Nottinghamshire -7 11 £727 -2.42% 12
Lincolnshire +4 9 £675 +2.27% 2
Derbyshire -14 1 £525 -2.78% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Migration
2 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) Azure
3 13 (21.31%) OpenID
3 13 (21.31%) OAuth
3 13 (21.31%) LDAP
3 13 (21.31%) SAML
3 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
3 13 (21.31%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (18.03%) Architectural Design
5 11 (18.03%) AWS
6 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
6 10 (16.39%) Windows
6 10 (16.39%) Identity Management
6 10 (16.39%) ForgeRock
6 10 (16.39%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
7 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.11%) Service Management
8 8 (13.11%) Firewall
8 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
8 8 (13.11%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
9 7 (11.48%) SQL
9 7 (11.48%) CRM
10 6 (9.84%) Agile

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 (1.64%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (1.64%) RMDS
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 11 (18.03%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) LAN
2 1 (1.64%) Multicast
2 1 (1.64%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
2 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.20%) RDBMS
2 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.56%) Big Data
4 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Power BI
6 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Back Office
7 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) LDAP
1 13 (21.31%) OAuth
1 13 (21.31%) OpenID
1 13 (21.31%) SAML
2 5 (8.20%) RAML
2 5 (8.20%) RESTful
2 5 (8.20%) Web Services
3 4 (6.56%) OpenAPI
3 4 (6.56%) Swagger
4 3 (4.92%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.64%) gRPC
5 1 (1.64%) IDoc
5 1 (1.64%) JMS
5 1 (1.64%) Kafka
5 1 (1.64%) Middleware
5 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.64%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.28%) FMCG
1 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.64%) CMDB
2 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.64%) SCADA
2 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Migration
3 12 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (18.03%) Architectural Design
5 10 (16.39%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (16.39%) Identity Management
6 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.11%) Service Management
8 7 (11.48%) CRM
9 6 (9.84%) Agile
9 6 (9.84%) Data Architecture
9 6 (9.84%) ITSM
10 5 (8.20%) Analytics
10 5 (8.20%) API Design
10 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
10 5 (8.20%) Design Patterns
10 5 (8.20%) Open Source
11 4 (6.56%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (6.56%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) C#
2 4 (6.56%) Java
2 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.92%) Bash
3 3 (4.92%) Python
4 2 (3.28%) ABAP
5 1 (1.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.64%) PMO
1 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.28%) Docker
3 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) ForgeRock
3 3 (4.92%) Databricks
3 3 (4.92%) Okta
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Ariba
5 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco
5 1 (1.64%) Citrix
5 1 (1.64%) F5
5 1 (1.64%) Infor
5 1 (1.64%) Juniper
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) Zuora