Architect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect daily rate in the East of England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 29 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 155 82 100
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.39% 6.14% 6.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.05% 7.26% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 46 47
10th Percentile £488 £466 £478
25th Percentile £550 £528 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -6.88% -10.65%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £681
90th Percentile £738 £813 £760
England median daily rate £622 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.56% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 16
10th Percentile - £73.00 £56.25
25th Percentile £46.00 £83.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £102.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - £104.40 £64.38
England median hourly rate £68.33 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.57% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,198 1,130 1,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 84.58% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 509 546
10th Percentile £190 £194 £213
25th Percentile £353 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 651 280 295
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.51 £16.24 £21.37
Median hourly rate £48.84 £30.21 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +61.65% -31.18% +32.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £68.45
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 7 October 2026.

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 7 October 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
Hertfordshire +16 54 £625 -21.88% 61
Cambridgeshire +24 33 £620 -8.15% 79
Bedfordshire -9 27 £600 +8.60% 15
Suffolk - 19 £625 - 11
Essex -16 16 £575 +15.00% 26
Norfolk -2 5 £581 +16.25% 7
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 7 October 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 East of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 24 (15.48%) AWS
1 24 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (14.84%) Roadmaps
3 21 (13.55%) Data Architecture
3 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
4 18 (11.61%) Migration
5 17 (10.97%) Data Modelling
5 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (10.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
6 16 (10.32%) SAP
6 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (9.68%) Azure
8 14 (9.03%) Agile
8 14 (9.03%) Event-Driven
8 14 (9.03%) SQL
9 13 (8.39%) Architecture Governance
10 12 (7.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (7.74%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (6.45%) Architectural Design
11 10 (6.45%) Decision-Making
11 10 (6.45%) Logistics
11 10 (6.45%) Microservices
11 10 (6.45%) SC Cleared
11 10 (6.45%) Security Architecture
12 9 (5.81%) Analytics
12 9 (5.81%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (5.81%) Metadata
12 9 (5.81%) Metadata Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.65%) CMS
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (1.29%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.29%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.65%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.48%) AWS
2 15 (9.68%) Azure
3 7 (4.52%) GCP
4 6 (3.87%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.23%) dbt
5 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.23%) SaaS
5 5 (3.23%) Serverless
6 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.58%) OCI
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.94%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.29%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.29%) GitHub
8 2 (1.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) Firewall
1 5 (3.23%) WAN
2 4 (2.58%) LAN
2 4 (2.58%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.94%) Junos
3 3 (1.94%) Network Security
3 3 (1.94%) NGFW
3 3 (1.94%) VPN
3 3 (1.94%) WLAN
4 2 (1.29%) BGP
4 2 (1.29%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) MPLS
5 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.65%) SNMP
5 1 (0.65%) TACACS
5 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.81%) Metadata
2 8 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.87%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.58%) Power BI
5 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.29%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) Big Data
6 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) Power Query
6 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Git
2 2 (1.29%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.29%) JUnit
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (15.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (10.32%) Finance
3 15 (9.68%) Retail
4 7 (4.52%) Banking
5 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.94%) Billing
6 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.29%) Electronics
7 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.65%) Front Office
8 1 (0.65%) German Language
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.87%) REST
2 4 (2.58%) RESTful
2 4 (2.58%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.94%) Kafka
3 3 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.29%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.29%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.29%) gRPC
4 2 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.29%) Spring
4 2 (1.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.29%) XML
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) Express.js
5 1 (0.65%) IDoc
5 1 (0.65%) Middleware
5 1 (0.65%) Node.js
5 1 (0.65%) React
5 1 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.87%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.23%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.58%) SCADA
7 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.94%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) CMDB
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.29%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (14.84%) Roadmaps
3 21 (13.55%) Data Architecture
4 18 (11.61%) Migration
5 17 (10.97%) Data Modelling
5 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (9.03%) Agile
7 14 (9.03%) Event-Driven
8 13 (8.39%) Architecture Governance
9 12 (7.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (7.74%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (6.45%) Architectural Design
10 10 (6.45%) Decision-Making
10 10 (6.45%) Logistics
10 10 (6.45%) Microservices
10 10 (6.45%) Security Architecture
11 9 (5.81%) Analytics
11 9 (5.81%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.03%) SQL
2 3 (1.94%) Java
2 3 (1.94%) Python
3 2 (1.29%) Apex Code
3 2 (1.29%) C
3 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.29%) ProC
4 1 (0.65%) ABAP
4 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) Degree
5 5 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.94%) CCNP
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.65%) CCIE
8 1 (0.65%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) GDPR
2 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.94%) QA
3 3 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.29%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Istio
3 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.65%) linkerd
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
1 16 (10.32%) SAP
2 8 (5.16%) Oracle
3 5 (3.23%) Cisco
3 5 (3.23%) Google
3 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.58%) Databricks
4 4 (2.58%) IFS
4 4 (2.58%) Juniper
4 4 (2.58%) Workday
5 3 (1.94%) BMC
5 3 (1.94%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.29%) Braze
6 2 (1.29%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.29%) Confluent
6 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.29%) EMC
6 2 (1.29%) Forcepoint
6 2 (1.29%) mParticle