Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,773 2,403 3,944
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.62% 10.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 10.43% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,211 1,568 2,572
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £513 £545 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £744
90th Percentile £800 £793 £825
UK median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 27 96
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £77.56 £82.25 £87.12
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 40,014 23,037 34,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.23% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,629 15,128 22,693
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,043 2,688
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.63% -10.17%
75th Percentile £67.60 £58.72 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.39
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.99% -27.00% -14.77%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 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 +4 2,320 £625 -3.85% 449
South East +6 706 £625 +4.08% 177
North of England +6 702 £600 - 172
Midlands +2 440 £613 +4.30% 73
North West +4 374 £610 +2.31% 94
West Midlands 0 313 £625 +4.17% 59
South West +2 276 £645 +5.31% 71
Yorkshire +7 267 £558 -7.00% 45
East of England +21 210 £600 - 43
East Midlands +7 121 £575 +15.00% 14
North East +8 68 £575 -8.00% 35
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 1,385 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,176 (24.64%) Azure
3 1,011 (21.18%) SC Cleared
4 959 (20.09%) AWS
5 695 (14.56%) Migration
6 685 (14.35%) Roadmaps
7 644 (13.49%) Microsoft
8 579 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 569 (11.92%) DevOps
10 559 (11.71%) Agile
11 512 (10.73%) CI/CD
12 504 (10.56%) AI
13 498 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
14 457 (9.57%) Data Modelling
15 456 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 454 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
17 437 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
18 417 (8.74%) Data Architecture
19 397 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
20 388 (8.13%) Analytics
21 362 (7.58%) GCP
22 358 (7.50%) TOGAF
23 337 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
24 334 (7.00%) Microservices
25 333 (6.98%) Architectural Design
26 299 (6.26%) Security Architecture
27 294 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
28 291 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
29 281 (5.89%) Python
30 273 (5.72%) 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
1 104 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.55%) Confluence
3 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.86%) SAS
5 28 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.54%) Apache
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 17 (0.36%) Appian
8 17 (0.36%) CMS
8 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 12 (0.25%) nginx
10 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.19%) Camunda
12 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 23 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.042%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 122 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) Endur
14 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (24.64%) Azure
2 959 (20.09%) AWS
3 362 (7.58%) GCP
4 246 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 168 (3.52%) Entra ID
5 168 (3.52%) Serverless
6 166 (3.48%) SaaS
7 124 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 117 (2.45%) GitHub
9 105 (2.20%) PaaS
10 103 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 100 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
12 86 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.66%) IaaS
14 77 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 74 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 58 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.22%) OpenShift
17 55 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 55 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 169 (3.54%) Firewall
2 161 (3.37%) Network Security
3 115 (2.41%) DNS
4 102 (2.14%) WAN
5 95 (1.99%) VPN
6 74 (1.55%) LAN
7 55 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 43 (0.90%) DHCP
9 41 (0.86%) TCP/IP
10 40 (0.84%) BGP
11 33 (0.69%) VLAN
12 32 (0.67%) MPLS
12 32 (0.67%) OSPF
13 29 (0.61%) Wireless
14 26 (0.54%) SAN
15 25 (0.52%) NAS
16 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
17 21 (0.44%) BIG-IP
17 21 (0.44%) IPsec
18 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (3.67%) Power BI
2 132 (2.77%) Metadata
3 127 (2.66%) Data Lake
4 115 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 50 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.67%) Big Data
10 31 (0.65%) Tableau
11 29 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 28 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 20 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.42%) GIS
16 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (2.12%) JIRA
2 76 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.19%) Git
4 36 (0.75%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) JUnit
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
11 4 (0.084%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.084%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
General
1 878 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 788 (16.51%) Finance
3 525 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 294 (6.16%) Banking
5 247 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 193 (4.04%) Retail
7 144 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 107 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (1.93%) Legal
9 92 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 83 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 56 (1.17%) Law
12 52 (1.09%) Military
13 46 (0.96%) Billing
14 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 41 (0.86%) Marketing
16 39 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 34 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (4.73%) REST
2 166 (3.48%) Middleware
3 115 (2.41%) .NET
4 110 (2.30%) SOAP
5 84 (1.76%) OpenID
6 81 (1.70%) OAuth
7 70 (1.47%) Kafka
8 67 (1.40%) LDAP
8 67 (1.40%) SAML
9 64 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 49 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.94%) React
12 43 (0.90%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.82%) RESTful
14 38 (0.80%) JSON
15 33 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.65%) .NET Framework
17 30 (0.63%) Web Services
18 29 (0.61%) Node.js
19 27 (0.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 414 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 135 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 131 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 126 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 118 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 110 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 107 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 104 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 102 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 81 (1.70%) Operational Technology
11 77 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 75 (1.57%) CMDB
13 71 (1.49%) Public Cloud
14 70 (1.47%) AI Agents
15 66 (1.38%) Security Posture
16 43 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 42 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
18 41 (0.86%) Mainframe
18 41 (0.86%) Private Cloud
19 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 131 (2.74%) Windows
2 77 (1.61%) Linux
3 32 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.084%) AIX
10 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.084%) Solaris
11 3 (0.063%) VMS
11 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (14.56%) Migration
2 685 (14.35%) Roadmaps
3 579 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 569 (11.92%) DevOps
5 559 (11.71%) Agile
6 512 (10.73%) CI/CD
7 504 (10.56%) AI
8 498 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 457 (9.57%) Data Modelling
10 456 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 454 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
12 437 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
13 417 (8.74%) Data Architecture
14 397 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
15 388 (8.13%) Analytics
16 358 (7.50%) TOGAF
17 337 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
18 334 (7.00%) Microservices
19 333 (6.98%) Architectural Design
20 299 (6.26%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 281 (5.89%) Python
2 232 (4.86%) SQL
3 195 (4.09%) Java
4 122 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 93 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.17%) C#
7 48 (1.01%) Bicep
8 39 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 36 (0.75%) Bash
10 22 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 14 (0.29%) Scala
13 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) ABAP
16 8 (0.17%) C++
16 8 (0.17%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,385 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 1,011 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 271 (5.68%) DV Cleared
4 169 (3.54%) Degree
5 104 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 102 (2.14%) CISSP
7 87 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 87 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 71 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 49 (1.03%) CISM
12 46 (0.96%) CCNP
13 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.40%) CCIE
17 19 (0.40%) CCSP
18 18 (0.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (3.65%) NIST
2 157 (3.29%) GDPR
3 145 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (2.16%) NCSC
6 62 (1.30%) QA
7 40 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 27 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 19 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.38%) COBIT
15 17 (0.36%) HL7
15 17 (0.36%) IFRS
16 13 (0.27%) FINRA
16 13 (0.27%) MiFID
17 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 157 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.95%) Docker
3 76 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 19 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.38%) 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 (0.15%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) vCloud
12 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.084%) IAG
12 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.084%) RACF
12 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.063%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 228 (4.78%) Terraform
2 217 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.05%) Ansible
4 47 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.84%) Grafana
6 37 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.36%) Argo
10 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.27%) SCCM
12 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Istio
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 5 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
16 4 (0.084%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 644 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 273 (5.72%) SAP
3 251 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 218 (4.57%) Oracle
5 204 (4.27%) Databricks
6 155 (3.25%) VMware
7 153 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 119 (2.49%) Cisco
9 108 (2.26%) Google
10 69 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 58 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.15%) Splunk
13 47 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.86%) IBM
14 41 (0.86%) Sparx
14 41 (0.86%) Workday
15 40 (0.84%) Red Hat
16 39 (0.82%) OpenAI
17 38 (0.80%) Foundry
18 33 (0.69%) F5