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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 187 64 145
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.92% 6.77% 7.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.66% 7.55% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 29 58
10th Percentile £500 £523 £499
25th Percentile £506 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £731
90th Percentile £738 £765 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 14
10th Percentile £49.40 £60.75 £58.08
25th Percentile - £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.76% -7.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.63 £80.73
England median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £83.63
% change year-on-year +0.03% -14.81% +19.48%

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 1,936 848 1,697
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.64% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 456 819
10th Percentile £193 £213 £206
25th Percentile £336 £390 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £675 £688 £662
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 163 533
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £27.00 £60.00 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +43.51% +19.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.23
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.05% -21.54%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -3 67 £688 +14.58% 32
Bedfordshire +18 60 £525 -16.00% 7
Cambridgeshire +10 18 £650 -10.34% 14
Norfolk - 17 £556 - 7
Essex - 15 £563 - 5
Suffolk +8 10 £373 -37.92% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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 31 (16.58%) Migration
2 29 (15.51%) AWS
2 29 (15.51%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (10.16%) Microservices
5 18 (9.63%) Analytics
6 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
7 16 (8.56%) Azure
7 16 (8.56%) DevOps
8 15 (8.02%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.02%) Roadmaps
8 15 (8.02%) SAP
8 15 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (6.95%) Agile
9 13 (6.95%) Integration Patterns
9 13 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (6.42%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (6.42%) Oracle
10 12 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
11 11 (5.88%) AI
11 11 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (5.88%) Data Modelling
11 11 (5.88%) Event-Driven
11 11 (5.88%) TOGAF
12 10 (5.35%) Data Architecture
12 10 (5.35%) DV Cleared
12 10 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (5.35%) WAN
13 9 (4.81%) Data Governance
13 9 (4.81%) Degree

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 (3.21%) CMS
1 6 (3.21%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (2.14%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.53%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.51%) AWS
2 16 (8.56%) Azure
3 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.21%) Serverless
4 5 (2.67%) GCP
5 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.60%) GitHub
6 3 (1.60%) OCI
7 2 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.07%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.07%) PaaS
7 2 (1.07%) Route 53
7 2 (1.07%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) WAN
2 9 (4.81%) LAN
3 7 (3.74%) Firewall
3 7 (3.74%) VPN
4 5 (2.67%) Internet
5 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.60%) Junos
6 3 (1.60%) Network Security
6 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.60%) WLAN
7 2 (1.07%) 4G
7 2 (1.07%) DNS
7 2 (1.07%) IPsec
7 2 (1.07%) MPLS
7 2 (1.07%) VLAN
8 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.53%) Modbus
8 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.14%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.14%) GIS
2 4 (2.14%) Power BI
3 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.07%) Big Data
4 2 (1.07%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) Metadata
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.07%) Git
2 2 (1.07%) IntelliJ
2 2 (1.07%) JUnit
2 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 30 (16.04%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Finance
3 13 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.28%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.60%) Banking
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.07%) Local Government
7 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Electronics
8 1 (0.53%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) .NET
1 8 (4.28%) REST
2 7 (3.74%) Node.js
3 6 (3.21%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.21%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (3.21%) CSS
3 6 (3.21%) HTML
3 6 (3.21%) jQuery
3 6 (3.21%) React
4 4 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.07%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.07%) Kafka
5 2 (1.07%) Spring
5 2 (1.07%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.53%) Blazor
6 1 (0.53%) Next.js
6 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) Operational Technology
3 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.28%) SCADA
4 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.07%) IoT
6 2 (1.07%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.53%) NHS
7 1 (0.53%) PCIe
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
1 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (16.58%) Migration
2 20 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (10.16%) Microservices
4 18 (9.63%) Analytics
5 16 (8.56%) DevOps
6 15 (8.02%) CI/CD
6 15 (8.02%) Roadmaps
6 15 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (6.95%) Agile
7 13 (6.95%) Integration Patterns
7 13 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (6.42%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (5.88%) AI
9 11 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (5.88%) Data Modelling
9 11 (5.88%) Event-Driven
9 11 (5.88%) TOGAF
10 10 (5.35%) Data Architecture
10 10 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (4.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.74%) C#
2 4 (2.14%) Java
2 4 (2.14%) Python
2 4 (2.14%) SQL
3 2 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.35%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.81%) Degree
5 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.14%) CFA
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.07%) CCNA
8 2 (1.07%) CCNP
8 2 (1.07%) CISSP
8 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CISM
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) NIST
2 6 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.67%) Def Stans
4 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.14%) QA
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.07%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (8.02%) SAP
2 12 (6.42%) Oracle
3 8 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.28%) VMware
4 6 (3.21%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.14%) Ariba
5 4 (2.14%) Google
5 4 (2.14%) Meraki
6 3 (1.60%) Databricks
6 3 (1.60%) IFS
6 3 (1.60%) Juniper
6 3 (1.60%) Rockwell
6 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.07%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.07%) Cisco
7 2 (1.07%) Foundry
7 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.07%) Qualys
7 2 (1.07%) Siemens
8 1 (0.53%) Cerner