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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 105 73 112
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.56% 6.64% 6.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.29% 7.41% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 33 56
10th Percentile £469 £515 £498
25th Percentile £503 £600 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £649
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -3.70% -0.15%
75th Percentile £609 £688 £745
90th Percentile £706 £785 £763
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 4
10th Percentile - £60.60 £58.45
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80.31 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.25 -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +15.61% -5.27% +9.33%

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 1,441 985 1,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 89.55% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 450 853
10th Percentile £188 £230 £200
25th Percentile £325 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £676 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 150 341
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.60 £15.52
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +26.42% +92.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £41.91
% change year-on-year -21.43% -16.48% +19.73%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +16 49 £525 -19.23% 10
Hertfordshire -24 26 £738 +13.46% 42
Essex +8 14 £513 +13.89% 8
Suffolk +9 6 £340 -43.33% 5
Cambridgeshire -11 6 £650 +14.04% 13
Norfolk -17 4 £550 -18.52% 5
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 23 (21.90%) Migration
2 21 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 18 (17.14%) Analytics
4 17 (16.19%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (15.24%) SAP
5 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
5 16 (15.24%) TOGAF
6 14 (13.33%) AWS
6 14 (13.33%) SC Cleared
7 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (10.48%) SAP S/4HANA
9 10 (9.52%) Azure
9 10 (9.52%) Oracle
9 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (8.57%) Data Modelling
10 9 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 9 (8.57%) IT Strategy
10 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (7.62%) AI
11 8 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.62%) Decision-Making
11 8 (7.62%) ERP
11 8 (7.62%) ITIL
12 7 (6.67%) Business Continuity
12 7 (6.67%) Data Architecture
12 7 (6.67%) Degree
12 7 (6.67%) NIST
12 7 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
13 6 (5.71%) Data Management

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 (3.81%) Smallworld
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.95%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.95%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) AWS
2 10 (9.52%) Azure
3 5 (4.76%) Serverless
4 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.86%) dbt
5 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.90%) GCP
6 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.95%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) LAN
1 6 (5.71%) VPN
1 6 (5.71%) WAN
2 5 (4.76%) Internet
2 5 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.86%) Firewall
5 2 (1.90%) DNS
5 2 (1.90%) DWDM
5 2 (1.90%) SDH
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.95%) DHCP
6 1 (0.95%) Network Security
6 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) GIS
2 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.90%) Power BI
3 2 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.95%) Big Data
4 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.95%) GitLab
2 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.81%) Aviation
6 4 (3.81%) Retail
6 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.95%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.90%) Middleware
3 1 (0.95%) .NET
3 1 (0.95%) Express.js
3 1 (0.95%) MERN Stack
3 1 (0.95%) Node.js
3 1 (0.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 6 (5.71%) SCADA
3 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) CMDB
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) FPGA
5 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (0.95%) NHS
5 1 (0.95%) PCIe
5 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.90%) Migration
2 21 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 18 (17.14%) Analytics
4 17 (16.19%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (15.24%) TOGAF
6 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (8.57%) Data Modelling
8 9 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (8.57%) IT Strategy
8 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (7.62%) AI
9 8 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.62%) Decision-Making
9 8 (7.62%) ERP
9 8 (7.62%) ITIL
10 7 (6.67%) Business Continuity
10 7 (6.67%) Data Architecture
10 7 (6.67%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (5.71%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.81%) Python
2 3 (2.86%) SQL
3 1 (0.95%) C#
3 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.86%) CFA
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.90%) CISSP
7 1 (0.95%) CCIE
7 1 (0.95%) CCIE Security
7 1 (0.95%) CCNP
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.95%) CISM
7 1 (0.95%) GIAC
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) NIST
2 5 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (4.76%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) QA
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (0.95%) Firmware
1 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) SAP
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.71%) VMware
4 4 (3.81%) Meraki
4 4 (3.81%) Workday
5 3 (2.86%) Ariba
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco
5 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.90%) Databricks
6 2 (1.90%) F5
6 2 (1.90%) IBM
6 2 (1.90%) Juniper
6 2 (1.90%) Nokia
6 2 (1.90%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.95%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.95%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Zscaler