Architect Contracts in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect daily rate in the East of England is £600, 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 30 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 62 146 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.61% 7.65% 7.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.48% 8.54% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 62 101
10th Percentile £523 £500 £438
25th Percentile - £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £736 £750
90th Percentile £756 £800 £838
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 17
10th Percentile - £55.83 £39.68
25th Percentile £61.50 £60.00 £61.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £80.80 £71.03 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +4 34 £600 -11.11% 24
Bedfordshire +3 13 £625 +12.11% 11
Cambridgeshire -18 11 £675 +12.50% 49
Suffolk -7 4 £600 -11.11% 11
Architect
England

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

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 of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (25.81%) Roadmaps
4 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
4 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (20.97%) SQL
6 11 (17.74%) Migration
7 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.52%) Agile
7 9 (14.52%) Degree
7 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
7 9 (14.52%) Finance
7 9 (14.52%) Project Management
7 9 (14.52%) AWS
8 8 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (12.90%) Oracle
8 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
8 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
8 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
8 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.29%) SAP
9 7 (11.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (11.29%) Azure
9 7 (11.29%) DevOps
10 6 (9.68%) Logical Data Model
10 6 (9.68%) Analytics
10 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.68%) QA

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (8.06%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) AWS
2 7 (11.29%) Azure
3 2 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.23%) SaaS
3 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.61%) Cohesity
4 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
1 5 (8.06%) Network Security
2 3 (4.84%) LAN
2 3 (4.84%) VPN
2 3 (4.84%) WAN
3 2 (3.23%) OSPF
3 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.61%) BGP
4 1 (1.61%) BGP-4
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.61%) Junos
4 1 (1.61%) Skype
4 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.61%) VSAN
4 1 (1.61%) Wireless
4 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Metadata
2 5 (8.06%) DB2
3 4 (6.45%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.23%) Power BI
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.61%) ERwin
1 1 (1.61%) GitLab
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
1 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (9.68%) Aviation
6 4 (6.45%) Retail
7 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.23%) Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) Middleware
2 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.61%) CSS
3 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.61%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.23%) EPoS
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Life Science
6 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
6 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.61%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
1 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.81%) Roadmaps
3 11 (17.74%) Migration
4 9 (14.52%) Agile
4 9 (14.52%) Project Management
4 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
5 8 (12.90%) Data Modelling
5 8 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (11.29%) DevOps
7 6 (9.68%) Analytics
7 6 (9.68%) Cloud Security
7 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (9.68%) Data Architecture
7 6 (9.68%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (8.06%) Business Case
8 5 (8.06%) Business Transformation
8 5 (8.06%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (8.06%) Metadata Management
8 5 (8.06%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) SQL
2 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
2 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.61%) Bicep
3 1 (1.61%) Java
3 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) CCNP
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) CCIE
6 1 (1.61%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.61%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.61%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) SCOM
2 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle
2 7 (11.29%) SAP
3 4 (6.45%) Cisco
3 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.45%) Workday
4 3 (4.84%) SnapLogic
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) Ariba
5 2 (3.23%) IFS
5 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.61%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.61%) F5
6 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.61%) HP
6 1 (1.61%) Juniper
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk