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 £559, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 79 102 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.03% 6.76% 7.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.18% 7.58% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 98
10th Percentile £463 £473 £500
25th Percentile £543 £525 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £745
90th Percentile £818 £765 £838
England median daily rate £625 £626 £650
% change year-on-year -0.16% -3.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 7
10th Percentile £73.00 £57.75 £60.00
25th Percentile £83.13 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £100.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £102.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £104.40 £64.13 £70.11
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% +5.88%

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 1,101 1,346 1,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.05% 89.26% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 538 983
10th Percentile £190 £200 £197
25th Percentile £363 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +0.51%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £625 £709
England median daily rate £510 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 327 270
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.46 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +0.34% +120.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.70 £84.43
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.52
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.13% +75.06%

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
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 44 £553 -1.78% 7
Hertfordshire -17 14 £800 +23.08% 33
Essex +3 13 £500 -16.67% 1
Cambridgeshire -17 7 £675 +15.38% 28
Norfolk -15 1 £500 -2.44%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (30.38%) Azure
4 22 (27.85%) AWS
5 18 (22.78%) Roadmaps
6 17 (21.52%) Python
6 17 (21.52%) Serverless
6 17 (21.52%) Analytics
7 16 (20.25%) Amazon S3
7 16 (20.25%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (20.25%) Oracle
7 16 (20.25%) Data Modelling
7 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
8 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (16.46%) Migration
9 12 (15.19%) Salesforce
9 12 (15.19%) Workday
10 11 (13.92%) ETL
10 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (13.92%) Degree
11 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (11.39%) Data Architecture
12 9 (11.39%) TOGAF
12 9 (11.39%) Finance
13 8 (10.13%) dbt
13 8 (10.13%) Snowflake
13 8 (10.13%) SQL
13 8 (10.13%) CRM
13 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture

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 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.27%) CMS
2 1 (1.27%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (6.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.38%) Azure
2 22 (27.85%) AWS
3 17 (21.52%) Serverless
4 16 (20.25%) Amazon S3
4 16 (20.25%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.13%) dbt
5 8 (10.13%) Snowflake
6 7 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (8.86%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (5.06%) GCP
10 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (3.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Network Security
2 1 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.27%) DHCP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) LAN
2 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.86%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.59%) Power BI
3 6 (7.59%) RDBMS
3 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (6.33%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.80%) Big Data
5 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.27%) Metadata
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Power Query
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.27%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.27%) ERwin
1 1 (1.27%) Git
1 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Aviation
5 4 (5.06%) Marketing
5 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.53%) Middleware
2 2 (2.53%) React
3 1 (1.27%) Express.js
3 1 (1.27%) JSR 170
3 1 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.27%) MERN Stack
3 1 (1.27%) Next.js
3 1 (1.27%) Node.js
3 1 (1.27%) OSGi
3 1 (1.27%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Life Science
3 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.27%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (22.78%) Roadmaps
3 17 (21.52%) Analytics
4 16 (20.25%) Data Modelling
5 13 (16.46%) Migration
6 11 (13.92%) ETL
6 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (11.39%) Data Architecture
8 9 (11.39%) TOGAF
9 8 (10.13%) CRM
9 8 (10.13%) Data Integration
9 8 (10.13%) Data Migration
9 8 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.86%) Data Engineering
10 7 (8.86%) High Availability
10 7 (8.86%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Python
2 8 (10.13%) SQL
3 7 (8.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.80%) CISSP
3 3 (3.80%) VCAP
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.27%) CCIE
5 1 (1.27%) CCIE Security
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) CCSP
5 1 (1.27%) CISA
5 1 (1.27%) CISM
5 1 (1.27%) GIAC
5 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.80%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) GRC
3 1 (1.27%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.80%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Terraform
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle
2 12 (15.19%) Salesforce
2 12 (15.19%) Workday
3 6 (7.59%) SAP
3 6 (7.59%) StreamSets
4 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Citrix
5 3 (3.80%) SnapLogic
5 3 (3.80%) VMware
6 2 (2.53%) Genesys
6 2 (2.53%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Thycotic