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 £553, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 88 82 104
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.84% 6.41% 5.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.70% 7.15% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 39 70
10th Percentile £480 £483 £500
25th Percentile £520 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £745
90th Percentile £795 £753 £753
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile £73.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £100.00 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £103.30 £70.30 -
England median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year +19.74% -7.49% +8.10%

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 1,314 1,147 1,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.14% 89.61% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 490 982
10th Percentile £185 £220 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.91% -3.58%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £589
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 199 283
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.52 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.20 £47.50 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +17.94% +103.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +7 51 £553 -6.95% 13
Hertfordshire -28 17 £750 +20.00% 40
Essex +4 12 £513 -14.58% 9
Cambridgeshire -22 4 £600 +9.59% 26
Norfolk -19 3 £500 -4.76% 5
Suffolk +8 1 - - 9
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, 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 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (27.27%) AWS
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 23 (26.14%) Roadmaps
4 17 (19.32%) Analytics
4 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
5 15 (17.05%) Python
5 15 (17.05%) Serverless
6 14 (15.91%) Amazon S3
6 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.77%) Oracle
8 12 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.64%) Workday
9 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (12.50%) Migration
10 10 (11.36%) AI
10 10 (11.36%) Degree
10 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.36%) TOGAF
11 9 (10.23%) Natural Language Processing
12 8 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (9.09%) Data Architecture
12 8 (9.09%) ETL
12 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
13 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
13 7 (7.95%) CRM
13 7 (7.95%) Decision-Making
13 7 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB

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 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (5.68%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.27%) AWS
1 24 (27.27%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) Serverless
3 14 (15.91%) Amazon S3
3 14 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (6.82%) dbt
6 6 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.55%) GCP
9 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
1 3 (3.41%) Network Security
1 3 (3.41%) VPN
2 2 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (2.27%) DHCP
2 2 (2.27%) DNS
2 2 (2.27%) DWDM
2 2 (2.27%) LAN
2 2 (2.27%) SDH
2 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.82%) Power BI
3 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.27%) Big Data
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.27%) GIS
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Power Query
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.14%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 40 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Aviation
5 6 (6.82%) Retail
5 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.41%) Marketing
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.14%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.14%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) Express.js
3 1 (1.14%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.14%) Node.js
3 1 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) CMDB
4 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Life Science
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.14%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (26.14%) Roadmaps
3 17 (19.32%) Analytics
4 12 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (12.50%) Migration
6 10 (11.36%) AI
6 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (11.36%) TOGAF
7 9 (10.23%) Natural Language Processing
8 8 (9.09%) Data Architecture
8 8 (9.09%) ETL
9 7 (7.95%) CRM
9 7 (7.95%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.82%) CI/CD
10 6 (6.82%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.82%) Data Migration
10 6 (6.82%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.05%) Python
2 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.82%) SQL
4 5 (5.68%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.68%) CISSP
4 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) VCAP
6 2 (2.27%) CCIE
6 2 (2.27%) CCIE Security
6 2 (2.27%) CCNP
6 2 (2.27%) CISM
6 2 (2.27%) GIAC
6 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) CISA
7 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.68%) NIST
2 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.77%) Oracle
3 12 (13.64%) Workday
4 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
5 4 (4.55%) Databricks
5 4 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.41%) Citrix
6 3 (3.41%) VMware
6 3 (3.41%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.27%) F5
7 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.27%) Genesys
7 2 (2.27%) IBM
7 2 (2.27%) Juniper
7 2 (2.27%) Nokia
8 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow