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 £553, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 24 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 83 79 104
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.44% 6.17% 5.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.18% 6.88% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 70
10th Percentile £450 £460 £500
25th Percentile £516 £533 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £638 £704 £745
90th Percentile £800 £765 £753
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £73.75 £60.90 -
25th Percentile - £63.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £66.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile £103.30 £74.60 -
England median hourly rate £86.25 £70.00 £76.10
% change year-on-year +23.21% -8.02% +8.71%

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 1,344 1,149 1,646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.02% 89.70% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 488 964
10th Percentile £185 £220 £192
25th Percentile £334 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £590
90th Percentile £680 £654 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 202 291
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.49 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.05 £47.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +17.94% +101.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +41.17%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 25 November 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
Bedfordshire +11 45 £551 -7.16% 3
Hertfordshire -25 17 £750 +15.38% 33
Essex +4 12 £513 -14.58% 11
Suffolk +11 3 £280 -34.12% 1
Norfolk -17 3 £500 -25.93% 2
Cambridgeshire -22 3 £525 -7.89% 12
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, 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 (28.92%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) Roadmaps
3 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.48%) Analytics
4 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
5 16 (19.28%) AWS
6 13 (15.66%) Migration
6 13 (15.66%) Oracle
7 12 (14.46%) Data Modelling
7 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (14.46%) Workday
8 11 (13.25%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (12.05%) AI
9 10 (12.05%) Degree
9 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.05%) TOGAF
10 8 (9.64%) Data Architecture
10 8 (9.64%) ETL
10 8 (9.64%) Python
10 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
10 8 (9.64%) Serverless
11 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
11 7 (8.43%) CRM
11 7 (8.43%) Customer Engagement
11 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
11 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
12 6 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory

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 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.61%) Smallworld
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (6.02%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) AWS
3 8 (9.64%) Serverless
4 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.23%) dbt
5 6 (7.23%) Snowflake
6 5 (6.02%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.82%) GCP
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.20%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) VPN
2 4 (4.82%) LAN
2 4 (4.82%) WAN
2 4 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.61%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) Network Security
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.41%) DWDM
4 2 (2.41%) SDH
4 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) Power BI
2 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.61%) GIS
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.61%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.41%) Big Data
4 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) Power Query
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Aviation
5 6 (7.23%) Retail
5 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.61%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.41%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) Express.js
3 1 (1.20%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.20%) Node.js
3 1 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) CMDB
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Life Science
4 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.20%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) Roadmaps
2 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.48%) Analytics
4 13 (15.66%) Migration
5 12 (14.46%) Data Modelling
5 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (13.25%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (12.05%) AI
7 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (12.05%) TOGAF
8 8 (9.64%) Data Architecture
8 8 (9.64%) ETL
9 7 (8.43%) CRM
9 7 (8.43%) Customer Engagement
10 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (7.23%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.23%) Data Integration
10 6 (7.23%) Data Migration
10 6 (7.23%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (7.23%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) Python
2 6 (7.23%) SQL
3 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Degree
2 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.02%) CISSP
4 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.61%) VCAP
6 2 (2.41%) CCIE
6 2 (2.41%) CCIE Security
6 2 (2.41%) CCNP
6 2 (2.41%) CISM
6 2 (2.41%) GIAC
6 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.20%) CCSP
7 1 (1.20%) CISA
7 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.02%) NIST
2 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) GRC
3 1 (1.20%) PMO
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle
3 12 (14.46%) Workday
4 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.82%) Cisco
5 4 (4.82%) Databricks
5 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.82%) SAP
5 4 (4.82%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.61%) Citrix
6 3 (3.61%) VMware
6 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.41%) F5
7 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.41%) Genesys
7 2 (2.41%) IBM
7 2 (2.41%) Juniper
7 2 (2.41%) Meraki
7 2 (2.41%) Nokia
8 1 (1.20%) CyberArk