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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 85 72 78
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.35% 6.33% 4.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.03% 7.11% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 35 48
10th Percentile £470 £465 £500
25th Percentile £513 £533 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -7.62% -0.08%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £745
90th Percentile £785 £770 £750
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile - £61.05 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% +9.17% -8.40%
75th Percentile £85.00 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £89.10 £72.45 -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +27.00% -13.76% +9.33%

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 1,410 1,012 1,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.79% 88.93% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 454 877
10th Percentile £185 £213 £200
25th Percentile £335 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -4.42% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 156 286
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.46 £16.81
Median hourly rate £29.00 £47.50 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +10.08% +110.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.63 £84.36
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 41 £553 -11.60% 27
Hertfordshire -25 20 £750 +20.00% 52
Essex +5 13 £505 -14.04% 43
Norfolk -13 4 £500 -25.93% 12
Cambridgeshire -21 4 £525 -7.89% 21
Suffolk +4 3 £280 -45.37% 16
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 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 (28.24%) Roadmaps
2 17 (20.00%) Analytics
3 16 (18.82%) Azure
4 15 (17.65%) AWS
5 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.12%) Data Modelling
6 12 (14.12%) Migration
6 12 (14.12%) Oracle
6 12 (14.12%) Workday
7 11 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
8 10 (11.76%) AI
8 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
9 9 (10.59%) Data Architecture
9 9 (10.59%) Degree
10 8 (9.41%) ETL
10 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
10 8 (9.41%) Serverless
11 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (8.24%) CRM
11 7 (8.24%) Customer Engagement
11 7 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.24%) Data Integration
11 7 (8.24%) Data Migration
11 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (8.24%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (8.24%) Python

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 4 (4.71%) Smallworld
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (5.88%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.82%) Azure
2 15 (17.65%) AWS
3 8 (9.41%) Serverless
4 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.06%) dbt
5 6 (7.06%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.71%) GCP
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.18%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.18%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) LAN
1 5 (5.88%) VPN
2 4 (4.71%) WAN
2 4 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.53%) Firewall
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.35%) DHCP
4 2 (2.35%) DNS
4 2 (2.35%) DWDM
4 2 (2.35%) Network Security
4 2 (2.35%) SDH
4 2 (2.35%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.71%) GIS
2 4 (4.71%) Power BI
3 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Aviation
5 6 (7.06%) Retail
5 6 (7.06%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.53%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.35%) Middleware
3 1 (1.18%) Express.js
3 1 (1.18%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.18%) Node.js
3 1 (1.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.35%) SCADA
4 1 (1.18%) CMDB
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.18%) NHS
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.18%) SystemC
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Roadmaps
2 17 (20.00%) Analytics
3 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.12%) Data Modelling
4 12 (14.12%) Migration
5 11 (12.94%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (11.76%) AI
6 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
7 9 (10.59%) Data Architecture
8 8 (9.41%) ETL
9 7 (8.24%) CRM
9 7 (8.24%) Customer Engagement
9 7 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.24%) Data Integration
9 7 (8.24%) Data Migration
9 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.24%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (7.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) Python
2 5 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
2 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.71%) CISSP
5 2 (2.35%) CCIE
5 2 (2.35%) CCIE Security
5 2 (2.35%) CCNP
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.35%) CISM
5 2 (2.35%) GIAC
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) NIST
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.18%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
4 1 (1.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Oracle
1 12 (14.12%) Workday
2 11 (12.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco
4 4 (4.71%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.71%) SAP
4 4 (4.71%) StreamSets
5 2 (2.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.35%) F5
5 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.35%) Genesys
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Juniper
5 2 (2.35%) Meraki
5 2 (2.35%) Nokia
5 2 (2.35%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.18%) Cerner
6 1 (1.18%) NEC
6 1 (1.18%) Siemens