Applications Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect daily rate in England is £645, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 449 493
Rank change year-on-year -74 +44 +40
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 79 46 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 35 30
10th Percentile £423 £432 £558
25th Percentile £562 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £604 £688
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -12.15% +1.85%
75th Percentile £700 £651 £823
90th Percentile £730 £785 £854
UK median daily rate £645 £617 £675
% change year-on-year +4.54% -8.59% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 39,574 22,803 34,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.34% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,391 14,987 22,732
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,789 1,003 2,669
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.68% -10.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.52 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.48% -26.63% -16.67%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Applications Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Applications Architect job vacancy trend in England

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in England

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies 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 15 June 2026. 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 -33 53 £650 +3.17% 11
North of England -71 18 £413 -31.25% 1
North West -34 16 £350 -41.67%
South West -28 3 £383 -40.92%
Yorkshire -54 2 £475 -5.00% 1
South East -62 2 £650 +44.44% 3
Midlands -62 2 £626 +25.20%
East Midlands -22 1 £850 -
West Midlands -68 1 £402 -19.60%
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, Applications 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 England region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 29 (36.71%) AWS
2 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
3 25 (31.65%) Azure
4 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
5 19 (24.05%) Application Security
6 16 (20.25%) Microservices
7 15 (18.99%) Business Strategy
7 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
7 15 (18.99%) Enterprise Architecture
8 14 (17.72%) Java
9 13 (16.46%) TOGAF
10 12 (15.19%) DevOps
10 12 (15.19%) GCP
10 12 (15.19%) Python
11 11 (13.92%) Architectural Design
12 10 (12.66%) AI
12 10 (12.66%) Migration
12 10 (12.66%) Roadmaps
13 9 (11.39%) Azure Certification
13 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
13 9 (11.39%) Docker
13 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
13 9 (11.39%) SaaS
14 8 (10.13%) .NET
14 8 (10.13%) Agile
14 8 (10.13%) Architectural Patterns
14 8 (10.13%) IBM
14 8 (10.13%) Integration Patterns
14 8 (10.13%) SAP
14 8 (10.13%) Security Architecture

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (7.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) AWS
2 25 (31.65%) Azure
3 12 (15.19%) GCP
4 9 (11.39%) SaaS
5 7 (8.86%) IaaS
5 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (7.59%) PaaS
7 5 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.27%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.27%) Google Gemini
9 1 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (1.27%) Serverless
9 1 (1.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) Ant
3 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.27%) JMeter
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (32.91%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Banking
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.06%) Law
4 4 (5.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Legal Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) .NET
2 5 (6.33%) Middleware
3 4 (5.06%) J2EE
3 4 (5.06%) REST
4 3 (3.80%) JSP
5 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.53%) React
5 2 (2.53%) Web Services
6 1 (1.27%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.27%) LangChain
6 1 (1.27%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.27%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.27%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.27%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.27%) RESTful
6 1 (1.27%) SOAP
6 1 (1.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.06%) LIMS
3 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Application Security
2 16 (20.25%) Microservices
3 15 (18.99%) Business Strategy
3 15 (18.99%) CI/CD
3 15 (18.99%) Enterprise Architecture
4 13 (16.46%) TOGAF
5 12 (15.19%) DevOps
6 11 (13.92%) Architectural Design
7 10 (12.66%) AI
7 10 (12.66%) Migration
7 10 (12.66%) Roadmaps
8 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.13%) Agile
9 8 (10.13%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (10.13%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (10.13%) Security Architecture
9 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.86%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.86%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.72%) Java
2 12 (15.19%) Python
3 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.80%) C#
4 3 (3.80%) SQL
5 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 6 (7.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.06%) CISSP
7 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.80%) CISM
7 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.80%) GIAC
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.27%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) ISO 20022
1 6 (7.59%) PSD2
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) SEPA
4 2 (2.53%) TARGET2
5 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) IBM
1 8 (10.13%) SAP
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) iManage
3 5 (6.33%) Intapp
3 5 (6.33%) Litera
4 3 (3.80%) Aderant
4 3 (3.80%) Cribl.io
4 3 (3.80%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) Ariba
6 1 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.27%) Workday