Applications Architect Contracts in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect daily rate in England is £630 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 561 656
Rank change year-on-year +40 +95 -101
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 29 104 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 70 95
10th Percentile £509 £555 £514
25th Percentile £566 £571 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £694 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +6.73% +13.04%
75th Percentile £734 £750 £775
90th Percentile £798 £825 £884
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £643
% change year-on-year -7.41% +5.06% +11.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +51 11 £700 - 11
North of England +34 9 £544 -27.86% 1
North West +21 6 £544 -25.77%
West Midlands +34 3 £625 -
Midlands +27 3 £625 -10.71%
Yorkshire +20 3 - -
East of England - 2 - -
South West +20 1 £635 -8.27% 1
South East +8 1 £500 -13.79% 1
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Applications 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 England region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 9 (31.03%) Azure
1 9 (31.03%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
3 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (17.24%) Application Security
4 5 (17.24%) Microservices
4 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
6 3 (10.34%) Service Design
6 3 (10.34%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
6 3 (10.34%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (10.34%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
6 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) Data Management
6 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (10.34%) SQL
6 3 (10.34%) CRM

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Apigee
5 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) MSI
1 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OpenID
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
3 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.24%) Application Security
4 5 (17.24%) Microservices
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (10.34%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (10.34%) CRM
6 3 (10.34%) Data Management
6 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
6 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Service Design
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (10.34%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (10.34%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Citrix
1 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle