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 £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 29 13
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 210 66 168
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.45% 6.42% 8.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.37% 7.37% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 32 63
10th Percentile £494 £501 £496
25th Percentile £506 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - -9.23%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £722
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 28
10th Percentile £46.00 £61.50 £55.83
25th Percentile £49.40 £66.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61.25 £78.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £82.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

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 2,025 895 1,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 87.06% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 447 753
10th Percentile £193 £200 £209
25th Percentile £363 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +11.67% -7.89%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 179 623
10th Percentile £14.43 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.77 £17.14 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.72 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% -1.16% +25.18%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £72.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +10 65 £725 +16.00% 32
Bedfordshire +8 63 £525 -12.50% 4
Cambridgeshire +30 31 £650 -3.70% 28
Suffolk +9 20 £575 -4.17% 11
Norfolk - 17 £563 - 11
Essex -3 14 £600 +29.03% 28
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 34 (16.19%) AWS
2 32 (15.24%) Migration
3 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (10.48%) Microservices
6 21 (10.00%) Analytics
6 21 (10.00%) Azure
6 21 (10.00%) SAP
6 21 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (9.52%) Roadmaps
8 19 (9.05%) Agile
9 18 (8.57%) Data Architecture
9 18 (8.57%) Data Modelling
9 18 (8.57%) Event-Driven
10 17 (8.10%) Integration Patterns
11 16 (7.62%) CI/CD
11 16 (7.62%) DevOps
11 16 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (6.67%) Oracle
13 14 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (6.19%) Enterprise Architecture
14 13 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
14 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
14 13 (6.19%) TOGAF
14 13 (6.19%) Validation
15 12 (5.71%) AI
15 12 (5.71%) DV Cleared
15 12 (5.71%) ERP
16 11 (5.24%) Data Governance

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 6 (2.86%) CMS
1 6 (2.86%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Apache
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 13 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.19%) AWS
2 21 (10.00%) Azure
3 9 (4.29%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.81%) GCP
4 8 (3.81%) Serverless
5 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.43%) OCI
6 3 (1.43%) SaaS
6 3 (1.43%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.95%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.95%) dbt
7 2 (0.95%) GitHub
7 2 (0.95%) PaaS
7 2 (0.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.76%) WAN
2 8 (3.81%) LAN
3 7 (3.33%) Firewall
4 5 (2.38%) Internet
4 5 (2.38%) Junos
4 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.38%) WLAN
5 4 (1.90%) VPN
6 3 (1.43%) Network Security
7 2 (0.95%) 4G
7 2 (0.95%) DNS
7 2 (0.95%) IPsec
7 2 (0.95%) MPLS
7 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.95%) VLAN
7 2 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.48%) Modbus
8 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.33%) Power BI
1 7 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.43%) Big Data
3 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.43%) Metadata
3 3 (1.43%) Star Schema
4 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.95%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Git
1 3 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
2 2 (0.95%) JUnit
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.38%) Finance
3 17 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.81%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.38%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Billing
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.48%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) German Language
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.76%) REST
2 9 (4.29%) .NET
3 8 (3.81%) Node.js
4 7 (3.33%) React
5 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.86%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (2.86%) CSS
5 6 (2.86%) HTML
5 6 (2.86%) jQuery
6 4 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.43%) Kafka
8 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.95%) Spring
8 2 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.48%) Blazor
9 1 (0.48%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.48%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 11 (5.24%) SCADA
4 9 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) IoT
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.95%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) Clustering
10 1 (0.48%) CMDB
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.48%) FPGA
10 1 (0.48%) NHS
10 1 (0.48%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
1 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.24%) Migration
2 23 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (10.48%) Microservices
4 21 (10.00%) Analytics
4 21 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (9.52%) Roadmaps
6 19 (9.05%) Agile
7 18 (8.57%) Data Architecture
7 18 (8.57%) Data Modelling
7 18 (8.57%) Event-Driven
8 17 (8.10%) Integration Patterns
9 16 (7.62%) CI/CD
9 16 (7.62%) DevOps
9 16 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (6.19%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (6.19%) TOGAF
12 13 (6.19%) Validation
13 12 (5.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.81%) SQL
2 7 (3.33%) C#
3 5 (2.38%) Python
4 4 (1.90%) Java
5 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.48%) ABAP
6 1 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) Degree
5 8 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.90%) CFA
7 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.95%) CCNA
9 2 (0.95%) CCNP
9 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.48%) CCSP
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.81%) NIST
2 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.86%) GDPR
2 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.38%) Def Stans
4 4 (1.90%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) RMADS
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) Docker
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.43%) Terraform
2 2 (0.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
3 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) SAP
2 14 (6.67%) Oracle
3 9 (4.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.81%) VMware
5 7 (3.33%) Databricks
5 7 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.86%) Sitecore
7 5 (2.38%) Google
7 5 (2.38%) Juniper
8 4 (1.90%) Ariba
9 3 (1.43%) Confluent
9 3 (1.43%) IFS
9 3 (1.43%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.95%) Braze
10 2 (0.95%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco
10 2 (0.95%) Meraki
10 2 (0.95%) mParticle
10 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.95%) Qualys