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 £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 29 14
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 188 63 153
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.95% 6.77% 8.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.72% 7.57% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 28 63
10th Percentile £500 £521 £500
25th Percentile £506 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% -5.04%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £731
90th Percentile £738 £766 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 14
10th Percentile £49.40 £60.75 £58.08
25th Percentile - £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.63 £80.73
England median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £83.77
% change year-on-year +0.03% -14.94% +19.66%

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 1,934 832 1,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.37% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 447 813
10th Percentile £193 £213 £207
25th Percentile £338 £395 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £680 £667
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 167 551
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.23 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +39.53% +21.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.90%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -3 68 £725 +20.83% 24
Bedfordshire +19 61 £525 -16.00% 4
Cambridgeshire +12 18 £650 -10.34% 11
Norfolk - 18 £563 - 6
Essex - 14 £600 - 11
Suffolk +2 9 £373 -37.92% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 April 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 30 (15.96%) Migration
1 30 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.89%) AWS
3 20 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (10.11%) Microservices
5 18 (9.57%) Analytics
6 17 (9.04%) SC Cleared
7 16 (8.51%) Azure
8 15 (7.98%) DevOps
8 15 (7.98%) Integration Patterns
8 15 (7.98%) SAP
8 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (7.45%) CI/CD
9 14 (7.45%) Roadmaps
10 13 (6.91%) Agile
10 13 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (6.38%) AI
11 12 (6.38%) Data Modelling
11 12 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (6.38%) Event-Driven
11 12 (6.38%) Oracle
12 11 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (5.85%) Data Architecture
12 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared
12 11 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
12 11 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.85%) TOGAF
12 11 (5.85%) WAN
13 10 (5.32%) LAN
14 9 (4.79%) 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 (3.19%) CMS
1 6 (3.19%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (2.13%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.89%) AWS
2 16 (8.51%) Azure
3 6 (3.19%) GCP
3 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.66%) Serverless
5 4 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.60%) OCI
7 2 (1.06%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.06%) GitHub
7 2 (1.06%) PaaS
7 2 (1.06%) Route 53
7 2 (1.06%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) WAN
2 10 (5.32%) LAN
3 6 (3.19%) Firewall
3 6 (3.19%) VPN
4 5 (2.66%) Internet
5 4 (2.13%) Junos
5 4 (2.13%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.13%) WLAN
6 3 (1.60%) Network Security
7 2 (1.06%) 4G
7 2 (1.06%) DNS
7 2 (1.06%) IPsec
7 2 (1.06%) MPLS
7 2 (1.06%) VLAN
8 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.53%) Modbus
8 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.13%) GIS
2 4 (2.13%) Power BI
3 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.06%) Big Data
4 2 (1.06%) Metadata
4 2 (1.06%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.06%) JUnit
2 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (15.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.70%) Finance
3 13 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.26%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.60%) Banking
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Local Government
7 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Electronics
8 1 (0.53%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.26%) .NET
1 8 (4.26%) REST
2 7 (3.72%) Node.js
3 6 (3.19%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (3.19%) CSS
3 6 (3.19%) HTML
3 6 (3.19%) jQuery
3 6 (3.19%) React
4 4 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.06%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.06%) Kafka
5 2 (1.06%) Spring
5 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.53%) Blazor
6 1 (0.53%) JSON
6 1 (0.53%) Next.js
6 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.32%) Operational Technology
3 8 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.26%) SCADA
4 5 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.53%) PCIe
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
1 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.96%) Migration
2 20 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (10.11%) Microservices
4 18 (9.57%) Analytics
5 15 (7.98%) DevOps
5 15 (7.98%) Integration Patterns
5 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (7.45%) CI/CD
6 14 (7.45%) Roadmaps
7 13 (6.91%) Agile
7 13 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (6.38%) AI
8 12 (6.38%) Data Modelling
8 12 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 12 (6.38%) Event-Driven
9 11 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (5.85%) Data Architecture
9 11 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (5.85%) TOGAF
10 9 (4.79%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.72%) C#
2 4 (2.13%) Java
2 4 (2.13%) Python
2 4 (2.13%) SQL
3 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) Degree
5 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.13%) CFA
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.06%) CCNA
8 2 (1.06%) CCNP
8 2 (1.06%) CISSP
8 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CISM
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.79%) NIST
2 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.66%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) Terraform
2 2 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (7.98%) SAP
2 12 (6.38%) Oracle
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.26%) VMware
4 6 (3.19%) Sitecore
5 5 (2.66%) Google
6 4 (2.13%) Ariba
6 4 (2.13%) Juniper
6 4 (2.13%) Meraki
6 4 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.60%) Databricks
7 3 (1.60%) IFS
7 3 (1.60%) Rockwell
8 2 (1.06%) Checkmarx
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco
8 2 (1.06%) Foundry
8 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.06%) Qualys
8 2 (1.06%) Siemens
9 1 (0.53%) Cerner