Architect Contracts in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect daily rate in the East of England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 26 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 145 146 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.65% 7.03% 4.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.54% 7.68% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 101 78
10th Percentile £500 £438 £493
25th Percentile £550 £525 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £736 £788 £719
90th Percentile £800 £838 £803
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 0
10th Percentile £58.90 £39.68 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £73.45 - -
England median hourly rate £75.20 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year +7.43% +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,697 1,900 2,393
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 91.48% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,160 1,379
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £541
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 297 371
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 0 68 £675 -3.57% 20
Cambridgeshire +39 47 £600 +14.29% 17
Essex -12 13 £650 +23.46% 3
Bedfordshire +5 12 £558 -14.23% 5
Suffolk -5 4 £675 -9.40%
Norfolk +5 1 £525 +13.51% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (26.90%) Manufacturing
3 39 (26.90%) Security Cleared
4 33 (22.76%) Aerospace
5 32 (22.07%) SC Cleared
6 31 (21.38%) Test Strategy
6 31 (21.38%) Electronics
6 31 (21.38%) Project Management
6 31 (21.38%) Analogue Electronics
7 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (15.17%) Degree
8 18 (12.41%) Roadmaps
9 17 (11.72%) SAP
9 17 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
10 15 (10.34%) Finance
11 14 (9.66%) AWS
12 13 (8.97%) Firewall
12 13 (8.97%) Agile
12 13 (8.97%) Master's Degree
13 12 (8.28%) Cisco
13 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
14 11 (7.59%) Palo Alto
14 11 (7.59%) Java
14 11 (7.59%) Migration
14 11 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (6.90%) Vulkan
15 10 (6.90%) Ray Tracing
15 10 (6.90%) 3D Graphics
15 10 (6.90%) TOGAF

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 2 (1.38%) Confluence
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.69%) CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 6 (4.14%) SAP FI-AP
3 5 (3.45%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.38%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.38%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.38%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.38%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.69%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.69%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.66%) AWS
2 8 (5.52%) Azure
3 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.14%) GCP
4 6 (4.14%) GitHub
5 4 (2.76%) OCI
5 4 (2.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 4 (2.76%) Serverless
6 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.38%) Route 53
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.69%) CloudFront
8 1 (0.69%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Firewall
2 10 (6.90%) WAN
3 9 (6.21%) LAN
4 8 (5.52%) SD-WAN
5 7 (4.83%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (4.83%) Software-Defined Radio
6 6 (4.14%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (4.14%) WLAN
7 3 (2.07%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.38%) BGP
8 2 (1.38%) OSPF
8 2 (1.38%) VPN
8 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.69%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.69%) Network Security
9 1 (0.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (0.69%) MySQL
2 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.69%) Redis
2 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) JIRA
2 3 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (1.38%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
General
1 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.90%) Manufacturing
3 33 (22.76%) Aerospace
4 31 (21.38%) Electronics
5 15 (10.34%) Finance
6 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.83%) Banking
8 5 (3.45%) French Language
9 4 (2.76%) Retail
10 3 (2.07%) Local Government
10 3 (2.07%) Marketing
10 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.69%) Automotive
12 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.69%) Games
12 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) DirectX
1 10 (6.90%) OpenGL
1 10 (6.90%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (6.90%) Vulkan
2 6 (4.14%) EDI
2 6 (4.14%) IDoc
3 4 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.76%) SAP Business Workflow
4 2 (1.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.38%) Kafka
4 2 (1.38%) Node.js
4 2 (1.38%) React
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.69%) React Native
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) SAML
5 1 (0.69%) Sensu
5 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.38%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (6.90%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.90%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (5.52%) Digital Media
4 7 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.69%) FMCG
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) CentOS
2 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (21.38%) Project Management
2 31 (21.38%) Test Strategy
3 22 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (12.41%) Roadmaps
5 17 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (8.97%) Agile
7 11 (7.59%) Migration
7 11 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (6.90%) ITSM
8 10 (6.90%) Software Architecture
8 10 (6.90%) TOGAF
9 9 (6.21%) Computer Science
9 9 (6.21%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (6.21%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (5.52%) Analytics
10 8 (5.52%) Business Strategy
10 8 (5.52%) DevOps
10 8 (5.52%) Service Management
11 7 (4.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.59%) Java
2 9 (6.21%) Python
3 8 (5.52%) C
3 8 (5.52%) C++
3 8 (5.52%) SQL
4 6 (4.14%) ABAP
5 2 (1.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.69%) PHP
6 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.17%) Degree
4 13 (8.97%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.90%) PhD
6 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.83%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.07%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.69%) CISSP
10 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.07%) NIST
3 2 (1.38%) COBIT
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) GxP
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (5.52%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.69%) Nagios
4 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.69%) Puppet
4 1 (0.69%) SCCM
4 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (11.72%) SAP
2 12 (8.28%) Cisco
3 11 (7.59%) Palo Alto
4 8 (5.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.83%) OpenText
6 6 (4.14%) Google
7 5 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.45%) Splunk
8 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.38%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.38%) F5
9 2 (1.38%) Oracle
9 2 (1.38%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.69%) Aruba
10 1 (0.69%) Citrix
10 1 (0.69%) HP
10 1 (0.69%) Pardot
10 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Sparx