Applications Architect Contracts in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 500 574
Rank change year-on-year +63 +74 +117
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 55 45 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 49
10th Percentile £450 £569 £551
25th Percentile £500 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +1.85% +3.85%
75th Percentile £645 £823 £750
90th Percentile £738 £854 £835
UK median daily rate £604 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -10.52% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £87.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - £88.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £92.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £92.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 24,431 34,632 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.92% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,933 22,678 32,135
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 2,542 1,381
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.57% +76.02%
75th Percentile £57.31 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
London +44 26 £630 -17.65% 46
North of England +14 13 £600 - 20
Midlands +12 9 £500 -20.00% 21
North West +12 9 £600 - 11
West Midlands +9 8 £500 -20.00% 10
South East +37 4 £450 -33.04% 29
Yorkshire +5 4 £500 - 9
South West +36 3 £513 -18.00% 17
East Midlands - 1 - - 11
Applications Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, 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 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (41.82%) Microservices
3 20 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 18 (32.73%) DevOps
4 18 (32.73%) Agile
5 17 (30.91%) Java
6 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
8 12 (21.82%) Azure
9 11 (20.00%) Unqork
9 11 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
11 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (16.36%) .NET
11 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
11 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
11 9 (16.36%) Application Security
11 9 (16.36%) Thought Leadership
11 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
11 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
12 8 (14.55%) Architectural Design
12 8 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (14.55%) Cost Reduction
12 8 (14.55%) SOA
12 8 (14.55%) Migration
12 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (12.73%) Python

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 2 (3.64%) Anypoint
1 2 (3.64%) JBoss
1 2 (3.64%) Mule
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Unqork
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
4 6 (10.91%) Serverless
5 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.82%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (1.82%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) HTTP
3 2 (3.64%) AMQP
3 2 (3.64%) DSL
3 2 (3.64%) SSL
4 1 (1.82%) NAS
4 1 (1.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.45%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) Hudson
4 1 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Billing
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) .NET
2 6 (10.91%) React
2 6 (10.91%) REST
3 4 (7.27%) Kafka
4 3 (5.45%) Apache Axis
4 3 (5.45%) Apache Camel
4 3 (5.45%) Middleware
4 3 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.45%) RESTful
4 3 (5.45%) SOAP
4 3 (5.45%) Spring
4 3 (5.45%) Web Services
4 3 (5.45%) XML
5 2 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.64%) CSS
5 2 (3.64%) HTML
5 2 (3.64%) jQuery
5 2 (3.64%) JWT
5 2 (3.64%) LDAP
5 2 (3.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (12.73%) Blockchain
2 7 (12.73%) IoT
3 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.45%) Cyberattack
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
1 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Microservices
2 20 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 18 (32.73%) Agile
3 18 (32.73%) DevOps
4 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.36%) Application Security
6 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
6 9 (16.36%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (14.55%) Architectural Design
7 8 (14.55%) Cost Reduction
7 8 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (14.55%) Migration
7 8 (14.55%) SOA
7 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.73%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (12.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Java
2 7 (12.73%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.27%) Bash
4 4 (7.27%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) PHP
4 4 (7.27%) SQL
4 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) DataWeave
6 2 (3.64%) Ruby
7 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) CISSP
4 5 (9.09%) Degree
5 4 (7.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (7.27%) CEH
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) GDPR
2 4 (7.27%) HIPAA
2 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.64%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
2 4 (7.27%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.64%) Confluent
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe
5 1 (1.82%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (1.82%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) UiPath