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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 27 19
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 162 73 141
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.79% 7.05% 7.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.50% 7.77% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 35 62
10th Percentile £463 £546 £496
25th Percentile £503 £600 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £743
90th Percentile £738 £770 £799
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 11
10th Percentile £49.40 £60.90 £57.25
25th Percentile £57.35 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £68.44 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.25 £88.00
England median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £77.64
% change year-on-year +0.03% -8.22% +10.91%

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 1,705 939 1,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 90.64% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 488 884
10th Percentile £190 £225 £225
25th Percentile £325 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 135 486
10th Percentile £13.72 £16.52 £14.08
25th Percentile £16.97 £22.50 £15.58
Median hourly rate £23.27 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% +50.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -17.10%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +14 61 £525 -17.65% 15
Hertfordshire -10 56 £725 +20.83% 18
Cambridgeshire +2 16 £650 +0.39% 17
Essex - 12 £525 - 7
Suffolk +15 10 £373 -44.86% 12
Norfolk - 7 £550 - 5
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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 (19.75%) Migration
2 26 (16.05%) AWS
3 22 (13.58%) Security Cleared
4 21 (12.96%) Roadmaps
5 19 (11.73%) Azure
5 19 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (11.11%) Analytics
7 17 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
7 17 (10.49%) Oracle
7 17 (10.49%) TOGAF
8 16 (9.88%) Microservices
8 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
9 15 (9.26%) Data Modelling
9 15 (9.26%) SAP
10 13 (8.02%) Data Architecture
11 12 (7.41%) DevOps
11 12 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
11 12 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (6.79%) AI
12 11 (6.79%) Degree
12 11 (6.79%) Microsoft
13 10 (6.17%) Agile
13 10 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (6.17%) ERP
14 9 (5.56%) Data Governance
14 9 (5.56%) IT Strategy
14 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
15 8 (4.94%) .NET
15 8 (4.94%) 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 6 (3.70%) CMS
1 6 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (2.47%) Smallworld
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.05%) AWS
2 19 (11.73%) Azure
3 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (3.09%) Serverless
5 4 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (2.47%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.47%) dbt
5 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.85%) OCI
7 2 (1.23%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.23%) GCP
7 2 (1.23%) PaaS
7 2 (1.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) Firewall
1 8 (4.94%) VPN
1 8 (4.94%) WAN
2 7 (4.32%) LAN
3 5 (3.09%) Internet
3 5 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.85%) DNS
5 3 (1.85%) Network Security
6 2 (1.23%) 4G
6 2 (1.23%) DWDM
6 2 (1.23%) IPsec
6 2 (1.23%) MPLS
6 2 (1.23%) SDH
6 2 (1.23%) VLAN
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.62%) DHCP
7 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.62%) Modbus
7 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.32%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.09%) Power BI
4 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.47%) GIS
5 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.62%) Big Data
7 1 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.62%) MySQL
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.62%) GitLab
2 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 35 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Finance
3 14 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Aviation
8 3 (1.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Local Government
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.94%) .NET
1 8 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.32%) REST
3 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (3.70%) CSS
3 6 (3.70%) HTML
3 6 (3.70%) jQuery
3 6 (3.70%) Node.js
3 6 (3.70%) React
4 1 (0.62%) Blazor
4 1 (0.62%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.62%) Kafka
4 1 (0.62%) Middleware
4 1 (0.62%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.17%) Operational Technology
2 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.94%) SCADA
3 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (0.62%) Clustering
6 1 (0.62%) CMDB
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.62%) FPGA
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.62%) NHS
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.62%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.75%) Migration
2 21 (12.96%) Roadmaps
3 19 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (11.11%) Analytics
5 17 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (10.49%) TOGAF
6 16 (9.88%) Microservices
6 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (9.26%) Data Modelling
8 13 (8.02%) Data Architecture
9 12 (7.41%) DevOps
9 12 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (6.79%) AI
11 10 (6.17%) Agile
11 10 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (6.17%) ERP
12 9 (5.56%) Data Governance
12 9 (5.56%) IT Strategy
13 8 (4.94%) Decision-Making
13 8 (4.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.32%) C#
2 5 (3.09%) Python
2 5 (3.09%) SQL
3 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.62%) PHP
4 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.79%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.47%) CFA
6 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.85%) CCNP
7 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.23%) CCNA
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.62%) CCIE
9 1 (0.62%) CCIE Security
9 1 (0.62%) CISM
9 1 (0.62%) GIAC
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.32%) NIST
2 5 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
3 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.62%) Firmware
3 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.23%) Terraform
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Oracle
2 15 (9.26%) SAP
3 11 (6.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.32%) VMware
5 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.70%) Sitecore
6 5 (3.09%) Cisco
7 4 (2.47%) Ariba
7 4 (2.47%) Meraki
8 3 (1.85%) Databricks
8 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.85%) Rockwell
8 3 (1.85%) StreamSets
9 2 (1.23%) F5
9 2 (1.23%) Foundry
9 2 (1.23%) Juniper
9 2 (1.23%) Nokia
9 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.23%) Qualys
9 2 (1.23%) Siemens