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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 28 12
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 202 64 163
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.11% 6.60% 8.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.01% 7.57% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 28 62
10th Percentile £478 £570 £500
25th Percentile £503 - £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% -8.65%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £731
90th Percentile £738 £742 £800
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 11 28
10th Percentile £46.00 £61.50 £55.83
25th Percentile £49.40 £66.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £78.63 £63.75
90th Percentile - £82.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.91 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.84% +4.15% -

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 2,018 845 1,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 87.20% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 436 755
10th Percentile £196 £203 £206
25th Percentile £356 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £518 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 167 605
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £31.47 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -1.16% -2.45%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £84.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% -20.53% -16.11%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +7 65 £725 +20.83% 18
Bedfordshire +9 63 £525 -12.50% 3
Cambridgeshire +26 30 £650 -3.70% 37
Norfolk - 17 £563 - 10
Essex 0 16 £600 +29.03% 14
Suffolk +1 11 £538 -10.42% 5
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 32 (15.84%) AWS
2 30 (14.85%) Migration
3 28 (13.86%) Security Cleared
4 21 (10.40%) Microservices
5 20 (9.90%) SAP
5 20 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (9.41%) Analytics
6 19 (9.41%) Azure
6 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (8.91%) Roadmaps
8 17 (8.42%) Data Modelling
9 16 (7.92%) Agile
9 16 (7.92%) CI/CD
9 16 (7.92%) Data Architecture
9 16 (7.92%) DevOps
9 16 (7.92%) Event-Driven
9 16 (7.92%) Integration Patterns
10 15 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (6.93%) Oracle
12 13 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (6.44%) ERP
12 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
13 12 (5.94%) DV Cleared
13 12 (5.94%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
13 12 (5.94%) TOGAF
13 12 (5.94%) Validation
14 11 (5.45%) AI
14 11 (5.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 10 (4.95%) 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 (2.97%) CMS
1 6 (2.97%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.99%) Apache
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.84%) AWS
2 19 (9.41%) Azure
3 9 (4.46%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.96%) Serverless
5 7 (3.47%) GCP
6 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.98%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.49%) OCI
7 3 (1.49%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.99%) Azure AI
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.99%) dbt
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.95%) WAN
2 9 (4.46%) LAN
3 6 (2.97%) Firewall
4 5 (2.48%) Internet
4 5 (2.48%) Junos
4 5 (2.48%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.48%) WLAN
5 4 (1.98%) VPN
6 3 (1.49%) Network Security
7 2 (0.99%) 4G
7 2 (0.99%) DNS
7 2 (0.99%) IPsec
7 2 (0.99%) MPLS
7 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.99%) VLAN
7 2 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.50%) Modbus
8 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.47%) Power BI
1 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.49%) Big Data
4 3 (1.49%) Metadata
4 3 (1.49%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.99%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) GIS
6 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Git
1 3 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.99%) IntelliJ
2 2 (0.99%) JUnit
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (15.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.87%) Finance
3 14 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.96%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.48%) Retail
7 4 (1.98%) Banking
8 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Billing
9 2 (0.99%) Local Government
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) German Language
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.95%) REST
2 9 (4.46%) .NET
3 8 (3.96%) Node.js
4 7 (3.47%) React
5 6 (2.97%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.97%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (2.97%) CSS
5 6 (2.97%) HTML
5 6 (2.97%) jQuery
6 4 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.49%) Kafka
8 2 (0.99%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.99%) Spring
8 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.50%) Blazor
9 1 (0.50%) IDoc
9 1 (0.50%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.44%) Operational Technology
3 11 (5.45%) SCADA
4 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) IoT
8 2 (0.99%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.50%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.50%) PCIe
9 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Windows
1 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (14.85%) Migration
2 21 (10.40%) Microservices
3 20 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (9.41%) Analytics
4 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (8.91%) Roadmaps
6 17 (8.42%) Data Modelling
7 16 (7.92%) Agile
7 16 (7.92%) CI/CD
7 16 (7.92%) Data Architecture
7 16 (7.92%) DevOps
7 16 (7.92%) Event-Driven
7 16 (7.92%) Integration Patterns
8 15 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (6.44%) ERP
10 12 (5.94%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (5.94%) TOGAF
10 12 (5.94%) Validation
11 11 (5.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.96%) SQL
2 7 (3.47%) C#
3 5 (2.48%) Python
4 4 (1.98%) Java
5 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.46%) Degree
5 8 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.98%) CFA
7 4 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.99%) CCNA
9 2 (0.99%) CCNP
9 2 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.50%) CCSP
10 1 (0.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.96%) NIST
2 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.48%) Def Stans
2 5 (2.48%) GDPR
2 5 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.49%) QA
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.49%) Terraform
2 2 (0.99%) Ansible
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (9.90%) SAP
2 14 (6.93%) Oracle
3 9 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.96%) VMware
5 7 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.97%) Databricks
6 6 (2.97%) Sitecore
7 5 (2.48%) Google
7 5 (2.48%) Juniper
8 4 (1.98%) Ariba
9 3 (1.49%) IFS
9 3 (1.49%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.99%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.99%) Cisco
10 2 (0.99%) Confluent
10 2 (0.99%) Foundry
10 2 (0.99%) Meraki
10 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.99%) Qualys
10 2 (0.99%) Siemens