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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 167 75 116
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.66% 6.00% 6.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.43% 6.94% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 40 46
10th Percentile £500 £450 £494
25th Percentile £528 £543 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -5.21% -7.69%
75th Percentile £694 £641 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £741
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 20
10th Percentile £46.00 £73.00 £52.50
25th Percentile £54.70 £83.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £102.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £104.40 -
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 1,980 1,081 1,453
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 86.55% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 503 624
10th Percentile £200 £189 £200
25th Percentile £375 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year - +15.94% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £569
90th Percentile £694 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 239 494
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.11 £19.13 £21.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.19% +12.49%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +26 66 £638 -12.07% 25
Bedfordshire -8 29 £538 -3.15% 3
Cambridgeshire +25 27 £650 -3.70% 24
Suffolk +4 18 £675 +12.50% 3
Norfolk +1 16 £563 +12.50% 3
Essex -14 11 £600 +29.03% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 25 (14.97%) AWS
2 22 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 20 (11.98%) Azure
4 19 (11.38%) Data Architecture
5 17 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
5 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (9.58%) Agile
6 16 (9.58%) Data Modelling
6 16 (9.58%) Event-Driven
6 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (8.38%) Roadmaps
8 14 (8.38%) SQL
9 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
10 12 (7.19%) AI
10 12 (7.19%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.59%) Analytics
11 11 (6.59%) Architectural Design
11 11 (6.59%) Architecture Governance
11 11 (6.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 11 (6.59%) Microsoft
12 10 (5.99%) Degree
12 10 (5.99%) Microservices
12 10 (5.99%) Migration
12 10 (5.99%) SAP
12 10 (5.99%) Validation
13 9 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (5.39%) Cybersecurity

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 3 (1.80%) CMS
2 2 (1.20%) Apache
2 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.97%) AWS
2 20 (11.98%) Azure
3 8 (4.79%) GCP
4 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.19%) Serverless
5 6 (3.59%) SaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.99%) OCI
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.20%) GitHub
8 2 (1.20%) PaaS
8 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.60%) IaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.19%) LAN
1 7 (4.19%) WAN
2 6 (3.59%) Firewall
3 5 (2.99%) Junos
3 5 (2.99%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.99%) WLAN
4 3 (1.80%) MPLS
5 2 (1.20%) 4G
5 2 (1.20%) IPsec
5 2 (1.20%) VLAN
5 2 (1.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.60%) Modbus
6 1 (0.60%) Network Security
6 1 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.60%) SNMP
6 1 (0.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.60%) TACACS
6 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.19%) Power BI
2 6 (3.59%) Metadata
3 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.80%) Big Data
4 3 (1.80%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.80%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
6 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Power Query
6 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Git
1 3 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.20%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.20%) JUnit
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 25 (14.97%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.18%) Finance
4 8 (4.79%) Retail
5 6 (3.59%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.20%) Billing
9 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) German Language
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.39%) REST
2 4 (2.40%) .NET
2 4 (2.40%) Node.js
3 3 (1.80%) Kafka
3 3 (1.80%) React
3 3 (1.80%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.20%) CSS
4 2 (1.20%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.20%) HTML
4 2 (1.20%) jQuery
4 2 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.20%) Spring
4 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.20%) XML
5 1 (0.60%) JSON
5 1 (0.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.79%) Operational Technology
4 7 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.59%) SCADA
6 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.80%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.20%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Unix
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (11.38%) Data Architecture
2 17 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
2 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (9.58%) Agile
3 16 (9.58%) Data Modelling
3 16 (9.58%) Event-Driven
3 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (8.38%) Roadmaps
6 12 (7.19%) AI
6 12 (7.19%) CI/CD
7 11 (6.59%) Analytics
7 11 (6.59%) Architectural Design
7 11 (6.59%) Architecture Governance
7 11 (6.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (5.99%) Microservices
8 10 (5.99%) Migration
8 10 (5.99%) Validation
9 9 (5.39%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.38%) SQL
2 4 (2.40%) Java
2 4 (2.40%) Python
3 3 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
4 2 (1.20%) C
4 2 (1.20%) C#
4 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.20%) ProC
5 1 (0.60%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) Degree
4 9 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.20%) CCNA
9 2 (1.20%) CCNP
9 2 (1.20%) CISSP
9 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.60%) CCIE
10 1 (0.60%) CCSP
10 1 (0.60%) CFA
10 1 (0.60%) CISM
10 1 (0.60%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) GDPR
1 7 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.80%) NIST
3 3 (1.80%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.80%) Ansible
1 3 (1.80%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.80%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
2 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.99%) SAP
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 6 (3.59%) IFS
4 6 (3.59%) Juniper
5 5 (2.99%) Databricks
5 5 (2.99%) Google
5 5 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.80%) BMC
6 3 (1.80%) Cisco
6 3 (1.80%) Confluent
6 3 (1.80%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.20%) Braze
7 2 (1.20%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.20%) mParticle
7 2 (1.20%) Qualys
7 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.20%) VMware
8 1 (0.60%) F5
8 1 (0.60%) Fortinet