Applications Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect daily rate in England is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 466 485
Rank change year-on-year -121 +19 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 52 51 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 25
10th Percentile £543 £441 £575
25th Percentile £563 £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £630 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -10.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £700 £693 £823
90th Percentile £775 £757 £862
UK median daily rate £600 £630 £675
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 42,476 25,002 30,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 91.41% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,485 16,122 19,317
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,304 1,327 1,545
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.67 £14.60
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.03 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.07% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% +3.29%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -72 35 £650 +3.17% 15
North of England -66 11 £504 -27.74% 6
North West -48 10 £504 -27.74% 6
South West -44 3 £383 -19.31%
South East -73 2 £569 +26.39% 4
Midlands -63 1 £850 +70.00% 5
East Midlands - 1 £850 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Applications Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) Security Cleared
3 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 15 (28.85%) Migration
4 15 (28.85%) SDLC
5 13 (25.00%) Microservices
6 12 (23.08%) .NET
6 12 (23.08%) DevOps
7 11 (21.15%) .NET Framework
7 11 (21.15%) Agile
7 11 (21.15%) AI
8 10 (19.23%) AWS
9 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
9 9 (17.31%) OO
9 9 (17.31%) OOP
9 9 (17.31%) Scrum
10 8 (15.38%) Application Security
10 8 (15.38%) Architectural Design
10 8 (15.38%) Java
10 8 (15.38%) Security Architecture
11 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
11 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
11 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
12 6 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (11.54%) Cloud Security
12 6 (11.54%) SAP
13 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
13 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
13 5 (9.62%) GCP
13 5 (9.62%) Microsoft

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 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) CIMPLICITY
2 1 (1.92%) Predix
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) GCP
3 5 (9.62%) Serverless
4 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 4 (7.69%) SaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.77%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
5 3 (5.77%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JMeter
General
1 13 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) .NET
2 11 (21.15%) .NET Framework
3 4 (7.69%) REST
4 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.85%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (3.85%) JSP
4 2 (3.85%) React
4 2 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.92%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 8 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) SCADA
5 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Migration
1 15 (28.85%) SDLC
2 13 (25.00%) Microservices
3 12 (23.08%) DevOps
4 11 (21.15%) Agile
4 11 (21.15%) AI
5 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.31%) OO
5 9 (17.31%) OOP
5 9 (17.31%) Scrum
6 8 (15.38%) Application Security
6 8 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 8 (15.38%) Security Architecture
7 7 (13.46%) Roadmaps
7 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
8 6 (11.54%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (11.54%) Cloud Security
9 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) Java
2 4 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Bash
3 2 (3.85%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) CISSP
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.77%) NIST
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) PSD2
2 1 (1.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Argo
2 2 (3.85%) Grafana
2 2 (3.85%) Istio
2 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) SAP
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) iManage
4 3 (5.77%) Intapp
4 3 (5.77%) Litera
5 2 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) Aderant
6 1 (1.92%) Ariba
6 1 (1.92%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.92%) NEC
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) Workday
32 Applications Architect jobs in England