Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +30
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 65 79 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.50% 9.06% 10.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.73% 9.61% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 91
10th Percentile £402 £445 £538
25th Percentile £450 £458 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £567 £657
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -13.63% +14.17%
75th Percentile £587 £645 £745
90th Percentile £735 £708 £800
England median daily rate £625 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £34.63 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £37.23 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.90%

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 606 822 960
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.60% 94.27% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 520 748
10th Percentile £205 £187 £213
25th Percentile £329 £310 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £595
90th Percentile £588 £623 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 93 47
10th Percentile £14.82 £11.83 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -15.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £35.13
90th Percentile £37.41 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
Northamptonshire -12 27 £450 -10.00% 30
Derbyshire +22 16 £550 - 21
Leicestershire +2 11 £630 +1.65% 15
Nottinghamshire +9 6 £563 +7.14% 26
Lincolnshire -2 5 - - 13
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 26 (40.00%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) Finance
3 18 (27.69%) Banking
4 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
5 14 (21.54%) Azure
6 12 (18.46%) Migration
6 12 (18.46%) Microservices
6 12 (18.46%) Roadmaps
7 11 (16.92%) Java
8 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
8 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.85%) Architectural Design
9 9 (13.85%) Agile
10 8 (12.31%) Service Delivery
10 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
10 8 (12.31%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
11 7 (10.77%) Strategic Roadmap
11 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
11 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
11 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
11 7 (10.77%) ETL
11 7 (10.77%) TOGAF
11 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (9.23%) Domain-Driven Design
12 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
12 6 (9.23%) VMware
12 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (9.23%) Docker
12 6 (9.23%) DevOps

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 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Fusion 360
1 4 (6.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (6.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) AWS
2 14 (21.54%) Azure
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (6.15%) GCP
3 4 (6.15%) Serverless
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) SaaS
5 2 (3.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) DMZ
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (3.08%) HSRP
2 2 (3.08%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) IPsec
2 2 (3.08%) OSPF
2 2 (3.08%) VLAN
3 1 (1.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) GIS
3 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.54%) Power BI
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Maven
3 2 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Gradle
4 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 18 (27.69%) Banking
3 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Police
5 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Law
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) RESTful
2 4 (6.15%) Kafka
3 3 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (4.62%) Middleware
3 3 (4.62%) OAuth
3 3 (4.62%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) LDAP
4 2 (3.08%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (3.08%) OpenID
4 2 (3.08%) SAML
4 2 (3.08%) SOAP
4 2 (3.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) JWT
5 1 (1.54%) Loki
5 1 (1.54%) RAML
5 1 (1.54%) Spring
5 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.54%) Swagger
5 1 (1.54%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.54%) Derivative
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Microservices
1 12 (18.46%) Migration
1 12 (18.46%) Roadmaps
2 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.85%) Agile
3 9 (13.85%) Architectural Design
4 8 (12.31%) Integration Patterns
4 8 (12.31%) Service Delivery
5 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
5 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (10.77%) ETL
5 7 (10.77%) Strategic Roadmap
5 7 (10.77%) TOGAF
6 6 (9.23%) DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (7.69%) Data Architecture
7 5 (7.69%) PLM
7 5 (7.69%) Requirements Management
7 5 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) Java
2 4 (6.15%) SQL
3 3 (4.62%) Python
4 2 (3.08%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CCNP
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
1 6 (9.23%) VMware
2 5 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.69%) Siemens
3 4 (6.15%) Autodesk
4 3 (4.62%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 2 (3.08%) F5
5 2 (3.08%) Google
5 2 (3.08%) Juniper
5 2 (3.08%) NetApp
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
5 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.54%) Avaya
6 1 (1.54%) Databricks
6 1 (1.54%) Logitech
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk
6 1 (1.54%) Trapeze