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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 511 553
Rank change year-on-year +59 +42 +104
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 33 31 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.083% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.090% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 69
10th Percentile £450 £510 £561
25th Percentile £500 £569 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £688
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -7.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £645 £738 £750
90th Percentile £786 £850 £827
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +5.06%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
North of England +20 10 £600 +10.34%
London +34 9 £641 -8.43% 22
Midlands +28 9 £500 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +19 8 £500 -20.00% 1
North West +17 6 £600 +10.34%
South East +49 4 £450 -10.00% 7
Yorkshire +9 4 £500 -
South West +48 3 £785 +23.62%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Applications Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 17 (51.52%) Microservices
2 13 (39.39%) DevOps
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 12 (36.36%) Java
3 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
4 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (24.24%) Cost Reduction
5 8 (24.24%) Architectural Design
5 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
5 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (24.24%) SOA
5 8 (24.24%) Migration
6 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
6 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
6 7 (21.21%) Azure
6 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.21%) Interface Catalogue
6 7 (21.21%) IoT
6 7 (21.21%) Blockchain
7 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 6 (18.18%) Data Structures
7 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (18.18%) Serverless
7 6 (18.18%) Project Planning
7 6 (18.18%) Python
7 6 (18.18%) .NET
8 5 (15.15%) CISSP

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 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) CMS
1 1 (3.03%) JBoss
1 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) Serverless
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Unqork
5 1 (3.03%) Akamai
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.03%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) NAS
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Hudson
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Axis
2 3 (9.09%) Middleware
2 3 (9.09%) React
2 3 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) LDAP
3 2 (6.06%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) Ajax
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) CSS3
4 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) JMS
4 1 (3.03%) JSP
4 1 (3.03%) Servlets
4 1 (3.03%) SOAP
4 1 (3.03%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Blockchain
1 7 (21.21%) IoT
2 6 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Microservices
2 13 (39.39%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Agile
3 11 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (24.24%) Architectural Design
4 8 (24.24%) Cost Reduction
4 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
4 8 (24.24%) SOA
5 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.21%) Interface Catalogue
5 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
6 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Project Planning
6 6 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
7 5 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.12%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) PHP
5 2 (6.06%) Ruby
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) CISSP
4 3 (9.09%) CEH
5 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Virgin Media
3 2 (6.06%) Confluent
3 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow