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 10 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 157 76 102
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.80% 5.88% 6.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.54% 6.95% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 38 42
10th Percentile £500 £455 £465
25th Percentile £550 £509 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £554 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% -7.71% -10.65%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £684
90th Percentile £738 £703 £749
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 18
10th Percentile £46.00 £73.00 £57.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £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 £62.81
90th Percentile - £104.40 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.83 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.20% +3.57% -0.12%

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 2,081 1,094 1,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 84.61% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 487 531
10th Percentile £193 £186 £206
25th Percentile £370 £360 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.15%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £570
90th Percentile £688 £685 £625
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 253 369
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.84 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.50 £21.37
Median hourly rate £48.84 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.10% -15.79% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £64.10
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +23 59 £625 -13.79% 27
Cambridgeshire +16 26 £624 -7.52% 36
Bedfordshire -6 25 £569 +2.94% 6
Suffolk - 17 £694 -
Norfolk 0 15 £563 +12.50% 2
Essex -14 15 £588 +17.50% 15
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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 26 (16.56%) AWS
2 24 (15.29%) Security Cleared
3 20 (12.74%) Event-Driven
3 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (11.46%) Data Architecture
4 18 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
5 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
6 16 (10.19%) Agile
6 16 (10.19%) Integration Patterns
6 16 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (9.55%) Azure
7 15 (9.55%) Data Modelling
7 15 (9.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (9.55%) Migration
8 14 (8.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (8.92%) SAP
8 14 (8.92%) SQL
9 13 (8.28%) Architecture Governance
10 12 (7.64%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.37%) Architectural Design
11 10 (6.37%) Decision-Making
11 10 (6.37%) Microservices
11 10 (6.37%) Security Architecture
12 9 (5.73%) Analytics
12 9 (5.73%) DV Cleared
12 9 (5.73%) Microsoft
12 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
13 8 (5.10%) AI
13 8 (5.10%) Cloud Security

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 1 (0.64%) Apache
1 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.64%) CMS
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (1.27%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.27%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.64%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.56%) AWS
2 15 (9.55%) Azure
3 8 (5.10%) Serverless
4 7 (4.46%) GCP
5 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.18%) SaaS
6 4 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.91%) OCI
7 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.27%) dbt
8 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) LAN
1 6 (3.82%) WAN
2 5 (3.18%) Firewall
2 5 (3.18%) Junos
2 5 (3.18%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.18%) WLAN
3 3 (1.91%) Network Security
3 3 (1.91%) NGFW
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.64%) BGP
5 1 (0.64%) Internet
5 1 (0.64%) MPLS
5 1 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.64%) SNMP
5 1 (0.64%) TACACS
5 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.10%) Metadata
2 6 (3.82%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.55%) Power BI
4 3 (1.91%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.27%) Big Data
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Power Query
6 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.27%) JUnit
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 22 (14.01%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.92%) Finance
4 13 (8.28%) Retail
5 6 (3.82%) Banking
6 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.91%) Billing
8 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.64%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.64%) Electronics
10 1 (0.64%) Front Office
10 1 (0.64%) German Language
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) REST
2 3 (1.91%) Kafka
2 3 (1.91%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
3 2 (1.27%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.27%) Node.js
3 2 (1.27%) RESTful
3 2 (1.27%) Spring
3 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.27%) XML
4 1 (0.64%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.64%) JSON
4 1 (0.64%) MACH
4 1 (0.64%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.64%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.64%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.64%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.64%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.73%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.82%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.18%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.55%) SCADA
8 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.27%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.64%) CMDB
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Unix
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.74%) Event-Driven
1 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (11.46%) Data Architecture
2 18 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
3 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
4 16 (10.19%) Agile
4 16 (10.19%) Integration Patterns
4 16 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (9.55%) Data Modelling
5 15 (9.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 15 (9.55%) Migration
6 13 (8.28%) Architecture Governance
7 12 (7.64%) CI/CD
8 10 (6.37%) Architectural Design
8 10 (6.37%) Decision-Making
8 10 (6.37%) Microservices
8 10 (6.37%) Security Architecture
9 9 (5.73%) Analytics
10 8 (5.10%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.92%) SQL
2 4 (2.55%) Java
2 4 (2.55%) Python
3 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
3 2 (1.27%) C
3 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.27%) ProC
4 1 (0.64%) ABAP
4 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.73%) DV Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.46%) Degree
5 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.91%) CCNP
7 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CISSP
8 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.64%) CCIE
9 1 (0.64%) CCSP
9 1 (0.64%) CISM
9 1 (0.64%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.91%) NIST
3 3 (1.91%) QA
3 3 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) Istio
3 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.64%) linkerd
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (8.92%) SAP
2 9 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.82%) IFS
3 6 (3.82%) Juniper
3 6 (3.82%) Oracle
4 5 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.55%) Cisco
5 4 (2.55%) Databricks
5 4 (2.55%) Google
6 3 (1.91%) BMC
6 3 (1.91%) Confluent
6 3 (1.91%) Forcepoint
6 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.27%) Braze
7 2 (1.27%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.27%) mParticle
7 2 (1.27%) Workday
8 1 (0.64%) Apple
8 1 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.64%) VMware
86 Architect jobs in the East of England