Architect Contracts 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 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 70 151 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.12% 7.93% 8.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.06% 8.91% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 115
10th Percentile £483 £500 £466
25th Percentile £551 £531 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £672
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +3.38%
75th Percentile £650 £722 £745
90th Percentile £738 £780 £838
England median daily rate £625 £650 £668
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.69% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
10th Percentile £62.85 £55.50 £60.00
25th Percentile £64.88 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -9.09% +32.00%
75th Percentile £101.38 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £103.85 - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% - +14.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 992 1,694 1,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.79% 88.92% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 727 1,123
10th Percentile £190 £206 £200
25th Percentile £339 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 583 270
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.47 £18.00 £15.69
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.90 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +12.49% +100.13%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £76.10
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.57% +76.02%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Architect 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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect 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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +6 36 £555 -0.67% 68
Hertfordshire -14 16 £600 -11.11% 121
Cambridgeshire -8 8 £675 +12.50% 110
Essex +2 6 £458 -29.62% 87
Suffolk -6 3 £600 -7.69% 18
Norfolk -7 1 £500 - 27
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (34.29%) AWS
4 15 (21.43%) Azure
4 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (20.00%) Oracle
5 14 (20.00%) Python
6 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
6 13 (18.57%) Migration
6 13 (18.57%) Serverless
7 12 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (17.14%) Amazon S3
8 10 (14.29%) Analytics
8 10 (14.29%) SQL
9 9 (12.86%) Workday
10 8 (11.43%) High Availability
10 8 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (11.43%) Finance
11 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
11 7 (10.00%) Agile
11 7 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
11 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
11 7 (10.00%) Natural Language Processing
11 7 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (10.00%) DevOps
11 7 (10.00%) DynamoDB

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.43%) CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) AWS
2 15 (21.43%) Azure
3 13 (18.57%) Serverless
4 12 (17.14%) Amazon S3
4 12 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (5.71%) dbt
7 4 (5.71%) GCP
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.86%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Firewall
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
1 3 (4.29%) VPN
2 2 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (2.86%) LAN
2 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.43%) OSPF
3 1 (1.43%) Skype
3 1 (1.43%) VSAN
3 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.14%) Power BI
3 5 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.86%) Big Data
6 2 (2.86%) DB2
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.43%) Metadata
7 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.43%) Power Query
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.43%) ERwin
1 1 (1.43%) Git
1 1 (1.43%) GitLab
1 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
1 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 7 (10.00%) Aviation
4 7 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Marketing
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) Middleware
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.43%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.43%) CSS
3 1 (1.43%) JSR 170
3 1 (1.43%) Kafka
3 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.43%) Next.js
3 1 (1.43%) OSGi
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.86%) Life Science
2 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.43%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.43%) EPoS
3 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.43%) PKI
3 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.43%) PropTech
3 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.43%) RSA SecurID
3 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (41.43%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 13 (18.57%) Migration
4 10 (14.29%) Analytics
5 8 (11.43%) High Availability
5 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (10.00%) Agile
6 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (10.00%) DevOps
6 7 (10.00%) Natural Language Processing
7 6 (8.57%) Data Migration
7 6 (8.57%) ETL
7 6 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 5 (7.14%) Project Management
8 5 (7.14%) Prototyping
8 5 (7.14%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) Python
2 10 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.43%) Bicep
4 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.29%) CISSP
4 3 (4.29%) VCAP
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) CCIE
6 1 (1.43%) CCIE Security
6 1 (1.43%) CCNP
6 1 (1.43%) CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) CISA
6 1 (1.43%) CISM
6 1 (1.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.29%) NIST
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) GRC
4 1 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.43%) Docker
4 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) SCOM
3 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.86%) Workday
4 5 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.14%) SAP
4 5 (7.14%) VMware
5 4 (5.71%) StreamSets
6 3 (4.29%) Citrix
6 3 (4.29%) SnapLogic
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco
7 2 (2.86%) Databricks
7 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.86%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.43%) Adobe
8 1 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.43%) F5
8 1 (1.43%) HP
8 1 (1.43%) Splunk