Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,839 2,471 3,890
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.03% 9.57% 10.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.94% 10.38% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,235 1,628 2,541
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £515 £545 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £738
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 20 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.07 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £72.58 £86.00 £85.65
90th Percentile £87.45 £100.00 £89.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

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 40,541 23,799 34,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.15% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,820 15,556 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,915 1,109 2,587
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £16.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £75.00 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.75% -28.67% -12.79%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Architect job vacancy trend in England

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in England

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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +7 2,362 £625 -3.85% 766
North of England +7 726 £600 - 289
South East +3 713 £625 +4.17% 242
Midlands +2 436 £613 +6.52% 116
North West +5 389 £610 +1.67% 175
West Midlands +1 313 £625 +4.17% 91
South West +2 279 £635 +3.67% 140
Yorkshire +11 273 £575 -4.17% 67
East of England +26 199 £600 - 55
East Midlands +6 117 £575 +15.00% 25
North East +11 71 £575 -8.00% 50
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2026, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 1,403 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 1,208 (24.96%) Azure
3 1,013 (20.93%) SC Cleared
4 981 (20.27%) AWS
5 706 (14.59%) Roadmaps
6 696 (14.38%) Migration
7 653 (13.49%) Microsoft
8 592 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 581 (12.01%) Agile
10 567 (11.72%) DevOps
11 539 (11.14%) AI
12 511 (10.56%) Enterprise Architecture
13 507 (10.48%) CI/CD
14 471 (9.73%) Data Modelling
15 463 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 452 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
17 445 (9.20%) Integration Patterns
18 435 (8.99%) Data Architecture
19 404 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
20 401 (8.29%) Analytics
21 373 (7.71%) TOGAF
22 365 (7.54%) GCP
23 338 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
24 334 (6.90%) Microservices
25 328 (6.78%) Architectural Design
26 314 (6.49%) Security Architecture
27 302 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
28 295 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
29 290 (5.99%) DV Cleared
30 282 (5.83%) SAP

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
1 102 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.38%) Confluence
3 50 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 43 (0.89%) SAS
5 29 (0.60%) Apache
6 28 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (0.41%) Appian
9 19 (0.39%) CMS
10 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.21%) Anypoint
13 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Camunda
15 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.12%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 16 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.041%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.021%) Notion
Business Applications
1 123 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 25 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Maximo
13 6 (0.12%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) Endur
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,208 (24.96%) Azure
2 981 (20.27%) AWS
3 365 (7.54%) GCP
4 250 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 184 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 173 (3.58%) SaaS
7 168 (3.47%) Serverless
8 121 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (2.42%) GitHub
10 112 (2.31%) PaaS
11 108 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
12 101 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 91 (1.88%) Snowflake
14 84 (1.74%) IaaS
15 75 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.47%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.28%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 56 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
19 54 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.68%) Firewall
2 172 (3.55%) Network Security
3 117 (2.42%) DNS
4 109 (2.25%) WAN
5 97 (2.00%) VPN
6 79 (1.63%) LAN
7 58 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.95%) DHCP
9 45 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 44 (0.91%) BGP
11 38 (0.79%) VLAN
12 35 (0.72%) MPLS
13 34 (0.70%) OSPF
14 29 (0.60%) Wireless
15 26 (0.54%) SAN
16 25 (0.52%) NAS
17 24 (0.50%) IPsec
18 23 (0.48%) BIG-IP
19 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
20 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (3.68%) Power BI
2 140 (2.89%) Metadata
3 137 (2.83%) Data Lake
4 121 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (0.74%) Big Data
9 32 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.56%) Delta Lake
10 27 (0.56%) Oracle Database
11 24 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (0.50%) Tableau
12 23 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 18 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.35%) GIS
15 17 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (1.96%) JIRA
2 72 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 63 (1.30%) Git
4 33 (0.68%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.083%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.083%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.083%) Snyk
General
1 896 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 800 (16.53%) Finance
3 529 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 292 (6.03%) Banking
5 264 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 212 (4.38%) Retail
7 148 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 119 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 89 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 83 (1.72%) Legal
12 52 (1.07%) Billing
13 50 (1.03%) Military
14 49 (1.01%) Law
15 48 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.95%) Marketing
17 37 (0.76%) Aerospace
17 37 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.68%) Investment Banking
19 31 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (4.67%) REST
2 165 (3.41%) Middleware
3 118 (2.44%) .NET
4 108 (2.23%) SOAP
5 81 (1.67%) OpenID
6 80 (1.65%) OAuth
7 72 (1.49%) Kafka
8 67 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.36%) SAML
10 55 (1.14%) LDAP
11 48 (0.99%) OAuth2
12 46 (0.95%) React
13 45 (0.93%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.79%) JSON
14 38 (0.79%) RESTful
15 33 (0.68%) .NET Framework
15 33 (0.68%) AngularJS
16 32 (0.66%) Node.js
17 30 (0.62%) Web Services
18 29 (0.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 415 (8.58%) Cloud Native
2 142 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 131 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 128 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 123 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 111 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 106 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 104 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 92 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 79 (1.63%) Operational Technology
12 76 (1.57%) CMDB
13 72 (1.49%) AI Agents
14 70 (1.45%) Public Cloud
15 58 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 48 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 43 (0.89%) Private Cloud
19 41 (0.85%) Mainframe
20 37 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (2.69%) Windows
2 76 (1.57%) Linux
3 35 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.58%) Android
4 28 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 5 (0.10%) AIX
7 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.083%) Solaris
8 4 (0.083%) VMS
8 4 (0.083%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (14.59%) Roadmaps
2 696 (14.38%) Migration
3 592 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 581 (12.01%) Agile
5 567 (11.72%) DevOps
6 539 (11.14%) AI
7 511 (10.56%) Enterprise Architecture
8 507 (10.48%) CI/CD
9 471 (9.73%) Data Modelling
10 463 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 452 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
12 445 (9.20%) Integration Patterns
13 435 (8.99%) Data Architecture
14 404 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
15 401 (8.29%) Analytics
16 373 (7.71%) TOGAF
17 338 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
18 334 (6.90%) Microservices
19 328 (6.78%) Architectural Design
20 314 (6.49%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 276 (5.70%) Python
2 236 (4.88%) SQL
3 196 (4.05%) Java
4 106 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 94 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 58 (1.20%) C#
7 50 (1.03%) Bicep
8 41 (0.85%) Bash
9 40 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 13 (0.27%) Scala
13 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.19%) ABAP
14 9 (0.19%) C++
14 9 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.17%) R
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,403 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 1,013 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 290 (5.99%) DV Cleared
4 175 (3.62%) Degree
5 110 (2.27%) CISSP
6 106 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 95 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 95 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 69 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 54 (1.12%) CISM
12 49 (1.01%) CCNP
13 43 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 28 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.45%) CCIE
18 21 (0.43%) CCSP
19 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.66%) NIST
2 156 (3.22%) GDPR
3 147 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 131 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.21%) NCSC
6 62 (1.28%) QA
7 41 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.64%) GRC
9 29 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 29 (0.60%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 22 (0.45%) SEPA
13 18 (0.37%) COBIT
13 18 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.37%) IFRS
14 17 (0.35%) HL7
15 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 10 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 155 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.92%) Docker
3 73 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.41%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.17%) NFS
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.14%) Postfix
11 7 (0.14%) vCloud
12 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.083%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.083%) IAG
12 4 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.083%) RACF
12 4 (0.083%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 233 (4.82%) Terraform
2 223 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.03%) Ansible
4 49 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.91%) Grafana
5 44 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 21 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.37%) Argo
10 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.29%) SCCM
12 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.14%) Consul
13 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
13 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 7 (0.14%) Puppet
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 653 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 282 (5.83%) SAP
3 253 (5.23%) ServiceNow
4 228 (4.71%) Oracle
5 210 (4.34%) Databricks
6 155 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 148 (3.06%) VMware
8 122 (2.52%) Cisco
9 115 (2.38%) Google
10 67 (1.38%) CyberArk
11 57 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 56 (1.16%) Splunk
13 48 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.91%) IBM
15 43 (0.89%) Workday
16 39 (0.81%) Red Hat
16 39 (0.81%) Sparx
17 38 (0.79%) Foundry
17 38 (0.79%) OpenAI
18 36 (0.74%) F5