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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 130 76 134
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.57% 6.91% 7.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.37% 7.63% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 63
10th Percentile £463 £518 £500
25th Percentile £503 £600 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -3.49%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £746
90th Percentile £738 £783 £798
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 10
10th Percentile £49.40 £60.90 £59.73
25th Percentile £52.05 £61.50 £60.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75.31 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £82.25 £88.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £77.27
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.40% +10.38%

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 1,554 996 1,648
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 90.55% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 461 885
10th Percentile £186 £230 £221
25th Percentile £313 £338 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 142 387
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £21.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £51.25 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +27.14% +91.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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
Bedfordshire +13 55 £525 -17.65% 2
Hertfordshire -14 42 £725 +16.00% 28
Essex +7 13 £515 +14.44% 2
Suffolk +8 8 £350 -48.19% 2
Cambridgeshire -8 7 £650 +14.04% 11
Norfolk -19 5 £550 -18.52% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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 (24.62%) Migration
2 23 (17.69%) AWS
3 20 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 18 (13.85%) Analytics
5 17 (13.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (13.08%) Security Cleared
6 16 (12.31%) SAP
6 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (12.31%) TOGAF
7 15 (11.54%) Oracle
8 14 (10.77%) Azure
8 14 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (10.77%) SC Cleared
9 13 (10.00%) Microservices
10 11 (8.46%) SAP S/4HANA
11 10 (7.69%) AI
11 10 (7.69%) DevOps
12 9 (6.92%) Data Modelling
12 9 (6.92%) IT Strategy
12 9 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (6.15%) Agile
13 8 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.15%) Decision-Making
13 8 (6.15%) Degree
13 8 (6.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 8 (6.15%) ERP
13 8 (6.15%) ITIL
13 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
13 8 (6.15%) Salesforce
14 7 (5.38%) CI/CD

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 (3.08%) CMS
1 4 (3.08%) Sitecore CMS
1 4 (3.08%) Smallworld
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (8.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.69%) AWS
2 14 (10.77%) Azure
3 6 (4.62%) Serverless
4 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.08%) dbt
5 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.54%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.54%) GCP
7 2 (1.54%) Route 53
8 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.77%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) WAN
2 6 (4.62%) LAN
2 6 (4.62%) VPN
3 5 (3.85%) Internet
3 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.08%) Firewall
4 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.31%) DNS
5 3 (2.31%) Network Security
6 2 (1.54%) DWDM
6 2 (1.54%) SDH
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.77%) DHCP
7 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.08%) GIS
4 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) Power BI
5 2 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.77%) Big Data
6 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.77%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.62%) Finance
3 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.31%) Aviation
7 3 (2.31%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.77%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Local Government
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.85%) .NET
2 5 (3.85%) Node.js
2 5 (3.85%) React
3 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET
3 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (3.08%) CSS
3 4 (3.08%) HTML
3 4 (3.08%) jQuery
3 4 (3.08%) REST
4 1 (0.77%) Express.js
4 1 (0.77%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.38%) Operational Technology
2 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.62%) SCADA
3 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.77%) CMDB
5 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.77%) FPGA
5 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) IoT
5 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (0.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.77%) PCIe
5 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.77%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.62%) Migration
2 20 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 18 (13.85%) Analytics
4 17 (13.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (12.31%) TOGAF
6 14 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.00%) Microservices
8 10 (7.69%) AI
8 10 (7.69%) DevOps
9 9 (6.92%) Data Modelling
9 9 (6.92%) IT Strategy
9 9 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (6.15%) Agile
10 8 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.15%) Decision-Making
10 8 (6.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (6.15%) ERP
10 8 (6.15%) ITIL
11 7 (5.38%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.85%) C#
1 5 (3.85%) Python
2 3 (2.31%) SQL
3 1 (0.77%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.15%) Degree
4 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.31%) CFA
8 2 (1.54%) CISSP
8 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.77%) CCIE
9 1 (0.77%) CCIE Security
9 1 (0.77%) CCNP
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.77%) CISM
9 1 (0.77%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) NIST
2 5 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (3.85%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.77%) Firmware
2 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) SAP
2 15 (11.54%) Oracle
3 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.15%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.62%) VMware
5 4 (3.08%) Databricks
5 4 (3.08%) Meraki
5 4 (3.08%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.31%) Ariba
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco
6 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.31%) StreamSets
7 2 (1.54%) F5
7 2 (1.54%) Foundry
7 2 (1.54%) IBM
7 2 (1.54%) Juniper
7 2 (1.54%) Nokia
7 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.77%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow