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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 34 14
Rank change year-on-year +25 -20 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 197 62 156
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.78% 5.69% 8.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.65% 6.58% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 34 57
10th Percentile £500 £470 £498
25th Percentile £509 £551 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £731
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
England median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 25
10th Percentile £46.00 £62.85 £55.50
25th Percentile £49.40 £64.88 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £83.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.71% +38.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £101.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £103.85 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 2,041 942 1,712
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 86.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 466 736
10th Percentile £191 £194 £206
25th Percentile £354 £338 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £442
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +10.41% -6.95%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £641
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 186 593
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.33 £16.65
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -12.21% +10.19%
75th Percentile £65.88 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £74.85 £84.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
% change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +16 70 £705 +17.50% 24
Bedfordshire +6 49 £525 -12.50% 4
Cambridgeshire +27 30 £650 -3.70% 13
Suffolk +11 19 £650 +8.33% 2
Norfolk -4 16 £563 +12.50% 3
Essex -10 13 £600 +31.15% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 33 (16.75%) AWS
2 23 (11.68%) Azure
2 23 (11.68%) Migration
2 23 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (10.15%) Analytics
3 20 (10.15%) Microservices
3 20 (10.15%) SAP
4 19 (9.64%) Agile
5 18 (9.14%) Event-Driven
5 18 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (8.63%) Data Architecture
6 17 (8.63%) Integration Patterns
6 17 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (8.12%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.12%) Roadmaps
8 15 (7.61%) Data Modelling
9 14 (7.11%) DevOps
9 14 (7.11%) Oracle
10 13 (6.60%) DV Cleared
10 13 (6.60%) SAP S/4HANA
11 12 (6.09%) AI
11 12 (6.09%) Microsoft
11 12 (6.09%) REST
12 11 (5.58%) Architectural Design
12 11 (5.58%) Architecture Governance
12 11 (5.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (5.58%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (5.58%) Validation

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 (3.05%) CMS
1 6 (3.05%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.02%) Apache
2 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 13 (6.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.75%) AWS
2 23 (11.68%) Azure
3 9 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.06%) GCP
4 8 (4.06%) Serverless
5 6 (3.05%) SaaS
6 5 (2.54%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.54%) OCI
7 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.52%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.02%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.02%) dbt
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.06%) Firewall
1 8 (4.06%) WAN
2 6 (3.05%) LAN
3 5 (2.54%) Junos
3 5 (2.54%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.54%) WLAN
4 3 (1.52%) Network Security
5 2 (1.02%) 4G
5 2 (1.02%) DNS
5 2 (1.02%) IPsec
5 2 (1.02%) MPLS
5 2 (1.02%) VLAN
5 2 (1.02%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.51%) Modbus
6 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.55%) Power BI
3 6 (3.05%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.52%) Big Data
5 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.52%) Metadata
5 3 (1.52%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Power Query
7 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Git
1 3 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.02%) JUnit
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (16.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.18%) Finance
3 19 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.55%) Retail
5 4 (2.03%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.03%) Banking
5 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.02%) Billing
7 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) Front Office
8 1 (0.51%) German Language
8 1 (0.51%) Law
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Local Government
8 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.09%) REST
2 8 (4.06%) .NET
2 8 (4.06%) Node.js
3 7 (3.55%) React
4 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (3.05%) CSS
4 6 (3.05%) HTML
4 6 (3.05%) jQuery
5 4 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.52%) Kafka
7 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.02%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.02%) Spring
7 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.02%) XML
8 1 (0.51%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.57%) Operational Technology
3 7 (3.55%) SCADA
4 6 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.02%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.51%) IoT
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.02%) Unix
1 2 (1.02%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (11.68%) Migration
1 23 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (10.15%) Analytics
2 20 (10.15%) Microservices
3 19 (9.64%) Agile
4 18 (9.14%) Event-Driven
4 18 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (8.63%) Data Architecture
5 17 (8.63%) Integration Patterns
5 17 (8.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (8.12%) CI/CD
6 16 (8.12%) Roadmaps
7 15 (7.61%) Data Modelling
8 14 (7.11%) DevOps
9 12 (6.09%) AI
10 11 (5.58%) Architecture Governance
10 11 (5.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (5.58%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (5.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.08%) SQL
2 6 (3.05%) C#
3 4 (2.03%) Java
3 4 (2.03%) Python
4 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.02%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.02%) C
5 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.02%) ProC
6 1 (0.51%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 23 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.60%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.08%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.02%) CCNA
9 2 (1.02%) CCNP
9 2 (1.02%) CFA
9 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.05%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.03%) NIST
4 3 (1.52%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.51%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 8 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (10.15%) SAP
2 14 (7.11%) Oracle
3 12 (6.09%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.06%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.55%) Databricks
6 6 (3.05%) Sitecore
7 5 (2.54%) Google
7 5 (2.54%) Juniper
8 3 (1.52%) Confluent
8 3 (1.52%) IFS
8 3 (1.52%) Rockwell
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.02%) Ariba
9 2 (1.02%) Braze
9 2 (1.02%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) mParticle
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) Qualys