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 £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 26 15
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 197 66 152
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.31% 7.10% 8.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.14% 7.98% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 29 64
10th Percentile £463 £523 £500
25th Percentile £503 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% -5.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £731
90th Percentile £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 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 £70.64 £70.00 £83.50
% change year-on-year +0.91% -16.17% +19.29%

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 1,942 827 1,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 88.92% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 440 794
10th Percentile £193 £210 £213
25th Percentile £348 £395 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 167 559
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% +27.91% +30.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -18.60%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -1 69 £688 +14.58% 24
Bedfordshire +18 64 £525 -16.00% 6
Cambridgeshire +11 21 £650 -3.70% 16
Norfolk - 18 £563 - 6
Essex - 16 £600 - 12
Suffolk +4 9 £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 18 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 (15.74%) AWS
1 31 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.23%) Migration
3 22 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (10.15%) Analytics
4 20 (10.15%) Microservices
5 18 (9.14%) Azure
5 18 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (8.63%) SAP
6 17 (8.63%) SC Cleared
7 16 (8.12%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.12%) DevOps
8 15 (7.61%) Integration Patterns
8 15 (7.61%) Roadmaps
9 14 (7.11%) Agile
9 14 (7.11%) Data Architecture
9 14 (7.11%) Data Modelling
9 14 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (6.60%) AI
10 13 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (6.09%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (6.09%) Event-Driven
11 12 (6.09%) Oracle
11 12 (6.09%) WAN
12 11 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (5.58%) Degree
12 11 (5.58%) DV Cleared
12 11 (5.58%) ERP
12 11 (5.58%) LAN
12 11 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA

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 4 (2.03%) Smallworld
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
3 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (5.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.74%) AWS
2 18 (9.14%) Azure
3 8 (4.06%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.55%) GCP
4 7 (3.55%) Serverless
5 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.52%) OCI
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.02%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.02%) dbt
7 2 (1.02%) GitHub
7 2 (1.02%) Route 53
7 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.09%) WAN
2 11 (5.58%) LAN
3 6 (3.05%) Firewall
3 6 (3.05%) VPN
4 5 (2.54%) Internet
4 5 (2.54%) Junos
4 5 (2.54%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.54%) WLAN
5 4 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.52%) Network Security
7 2 (1.02%) 4G
7 2 (1.02%) DNS
7 2 (1.02%) IPsec
7 2 (1.02%) MPLS
7 2 (1.02%) VLAN
8 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.51%) Modbus
8 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.55%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.05%) Power BI
3 4 (2.03%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.03%) GIS
4 3 (1.52%) Big Data
4 3 (1.52%) Metadata
4 3 (1.52%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.02%) Tableau
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) MySQL
6 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
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%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.68%) Finance
3 14 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.06%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.52%) Banking
6 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.02%) Local Government
7 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.51%) Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) German Language
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.06%) .NET
1 8 (4.06%) Node.js
1 8 (4.06%) REST
2 7 (3.55%) React
3 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (3.05%) CSS
3 6 (3.05%) HTML
3 6 (3.05%) jQuery
4 4 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.02%) Kafka
5 2 (1.02%) Spring
5 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.51%) Blazor
6 1 (0.51%) JSON
6 1 (0.51%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.51%) Next.js
6 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.08%) Operational Technology
3 8 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.06%) SCADA
4 6 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) IoT
6 2 (1.02%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) CMDB
7 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.51%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.51%) PCIe
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) Windows
1 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.23%) Migration
2 22 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (10.15%) Analytics
3 20 (10.15%) Microservices
4 18 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (8.12%) CI/CD
5 16 (8.12%) DevOps
6 15 (7.61%) Integration Patterns
6 15 (7.61%) Roadmaps
7 14 (7.11%) Agile
7 14 (7.11%) Data Architecture
7 14 (7.11%) Data Modelling
7 14 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (6.60%) AI
8 13 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (6.09%) Enterprise Architecture
9 12 (6.09%) Event-Driven
10 11 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (5.58%) ERP
10 11 (5.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.55%) C#
2 6 (3.05%) SQL
3 5 (2.54%) Python
4 4 (2.03%) Java
5 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.58%) Degree
3 11 (5.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.54%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.03%) CFA
5 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.02%) CCNA
7 2 (1.02%) CCNP
7 2 (1.02%) CISSP
7 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCSP
8 1 (0.51%) CISM
8 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.57%) NIST
2 6 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.54%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.52%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (8.63%) SAP
2 12 (6.09%) Oracle
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.06%) VMware
5 6 (3.05%) Sitecore
6 5 (2.54%) Google
6 5 (2.54%) Juniper
6 5 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.03%) Ariba
7 4 (2.03%) Databricks
7 4 (2.03%) Meraki
8 3 (1.52%) IFS
8 3 (1.52%) Rockwell
9 2 (1.02%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) Qualys
9 2 (1.02%) Siemens
10 1 (0.51%) Forcepoint