Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,556 3,081 3,777
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.95% 9.89% 9.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.82% 10.63% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 1,839 2,674
10th Percentile £462 £469 £508
25th Percentile £525 £529 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £713 £732 £738
90th Percentile £792 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 42
10th Percentile £61.50 - £57.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £60.00 £65.31
Median hourly rate £83.00 £70.00 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -7.49% +8.10%
75th Percentile £95.00 £78.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £99.00 £94.94 £88.44
UK median hourly rate £81.50 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +16.43% -6.67% +7.14%

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 26,022 28,980 37,943
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 92.99% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,702 17,689 26,414
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.60% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,501 1,127 1,418
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.38 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +55.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.73% -10.67% +61.82%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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 -2 1,251 £650 +1.56% 634
South East +2 376 £600 -6.98% 595
North of England -12 347 £600 +3.18% 255
Midlands -7 226 £575 -1.37% 130
North West -10 213 £600 - 152
South West -4 184 £662 +1.91% 167
West Midlands -15 155 £585 -6.46% 81
Yorkshire -24 119 £606 +5.43% 75
East of England -7 82 £555 -7.50% 100
East Midlands -6 70 £500 +4.71% 46
North East -9 16 £738 +28.54% 29
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, 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.

1 748 (29.26%) Azure
2 688 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 618 (24.18%) AWS
4 475 (18.58%) SC Cleared
5 394 (15.41%) Microsoft
6 383 (14.98%) Roadmaps
7 349 (13.65%) Agile
8 346 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 318 (12.44%) Migration
10 303 (11.85%) Data Modelling
11 302 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
12 295 (11.54%) DevOps
13 293 (11.46%) Enterprise Architecture
14 269 (10.52%) CI/CD
15 250 (9.78%) GCP
15 250 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 250 (9.78%) TOGAF
16 249 (9.74%) Microservices
17 223 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
18 215 (8.41%) AI
19 213 (8.33%) Python
20 208 (8.14%) Data Architecture
21 200 (7.82%) Analytics
22 191 (7.47%) Data Governance
23 185 (7.24%) Security Architecture
24 179 (7.00%) Architectural Design
25 178 (6.96%) Terraform
26 176 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
26 176 (6.89%) Firewall
27 174 (6.81%) 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 58 (2.27%) Confluence
2 34 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.59%) SAS
7 12 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 12 (0.47%) CMS
8 11 (0.43%) Apache
9 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.23%) Smallworld
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) CICS
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
13 4 (0.16%) Camunda
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.16%) ThingWorx
13 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.51%) Siemens NX
4 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.039%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.039%) Revit
8 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 88 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 18 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 15 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 14 (0.55%) Maximo
5 14 (0.55%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.51%) SAP PM
7 12 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 10 (0.39%) Endur
9 9 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.35%) SAP MDG
10 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 6 (0.23%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.20%) Avolution ABACUS
12 5 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 748 (29.26%) Azure
2 618 (24.18%) AWS
3 250 (9.78%) GCP
4 138 (5.40%) SaaS
5 131 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 108 (4.23%) Serverless
7 90 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 78 (3.05%) GitHub
9 72 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 70 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 70 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
11 64 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 62 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
13 60 (2.35%) IaaS
13 60 (2.35%) PaaS
14 56 (2.19%) Snowflake
15 46 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 46 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 41 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 176 (6.89%) Firewall
2 88 (3.44%) WAN
3 82 (3.21%) LAN
4 81 (3.17%) Network Security
5 59 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 57 (2.23%) VPN
7 48 (1.88%) DNS
8 36 (1.41%) BGP
9 32 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (0.98%) MPLS
11 25 (0.98%) SAN
11 25 (0.98%) SSL
12 21 (0.82%) DHCP
13 17 (0.67%) Fibre Channel
13 17 (0.67%) iSCSI
13 17 (0.67%) VSAN
14 16 (0.63%) Internet
15 15 (0.59%) OSPF
16 13 (0.51%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (3.44%) Power BI
3 68 (2.66%) Data Lake
4 65 (2.54%) Metadata
5 53 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 45 (1.76%) SQL Server
8 40 (1.56%) Big Data
9 32 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.21%) BigQuery
11 30 (1.17%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.98%) Relational Database
12 25 (0.98%) SAP HANA
13 23 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.82%) GIS
15 20 (0.78%) Oracle Database
16 19 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.74%) Data Vault
17 18 (0.70%) Delta Lake
17 18 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 86 (3.36%) JIRA
2 64 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.72%) Git
4 22 (0.86%) GitLab
5 18 (0.70%) ERwin
6 11 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.31%) Maven
9 7 (0.27%) Gradle
9 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.20%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.20%) SonarLint
12 4 (0.16%) MLflow
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.12%) Hudson
13 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 694 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 480 (18.78%) Finance
3 286 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 202 (7.90%) Banking
5 191 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 79 (3.09%) Retail
8 64 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 62 (2.43%) Marketing
10 50 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.84%) Legal
14 43 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.06%) Military
17 24 (0.94%) Back Office
18 23 (0.90%) Billing
19 21 (0.82%) Aerospace
20 20 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.26%) REST
2 80 (3.13%) Middleware
3 73 (2.86%) Kafka
4 63 (2.46%) .NET
5 62 (2.43%) Web Services
6 54 (2.11%) SOAP
7 46 (1.80%) RESTful
8 43 (1.68%) OAuth
9 41 (1.60%) JSON
10 38 (1.49%) SAML
11 35 (1.37%) AngularJS
11 35 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 34 (1.33%) React
13 25 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (0.98%) Spring Boot
14 24 (0.94%) Node.js
15 23 (0.90%) LDAP
15 23 (0.90%) Visualforce
16 22 (0.86%) OAuth2
16 22 (0.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 103 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 101 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 89 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 37 (1.45%) PKI
10 35 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
11 34 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 34 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 31 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.10%) CSOC
13 28 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.06%) CMDB
14 27 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.02%) NHS
16 25 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 122 (4.77%) Windows
2 86 (3.36%) Linux
3 44 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (0.82%) Unix
6 14 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.47%) Android
7 12 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.20%) VMS
11 3 (0.12%) Solaris
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.12%) zOS
12 2 (0.078%) CentOS
12 2 (0.078%) Debian
13 1 (0.039%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (14.98%) Roadmaps
2 349 (13.65%) Agile
3 346 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 318 (12.44%) Migration
5 303 (11.85%) Data Modelling
6 302 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
7 295 (11.54%) DevOps
8 293 (11.46%) Enterprise Architecture
9 269 (10.52%) CI/CD
10 250 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 250 (9.78%) TOGAF
11 249 (9.74%) Microservices
12 223 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
13 215 (8.41%) AI
14 208 (8.14%) Data Architecture
15 200 (7.82%) Analytics
16 191 (7.47%) Data Governance
17 185 (7.24%) Security Architecture
18 179 (7.00%) Architectural Design
19 176 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 213 (8.33%) Python
2 160 (6.26%) SQL
3 158 (6.18%) Java
4 65 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 59 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 45 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 33 (1.29%) C#
8 31 (1.21%) Bicep
9 30 (1.17%) Apex Code
10 26 (1.02%) Bash
11 15 (0.59%) C++
12 14 (0.55%) R
13 13 (0.51%) Go
14 12 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.43%) C
15 11 (0.43%) Scala
16 8 (0.31%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.27%) Korn
18 6 (0.23%) COBOL
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 688 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 475 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 165 (6.46%) DV Cleared
4 131 (5.13%) Degree
5 84 (3.29%) CISSP
6 80 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 67 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 56 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 52 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 42 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 37 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 36 (1.41%) Master's Degree
14 34 (1.33%) CISM
15 26 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 26 (1.02%) CCNP
16 25 (0.98%) CCIE
17 21 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 17 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 16 (0.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.24%) GDPR
2 109 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 107 (4.19%) NIST
4 87 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.88%) NCSC
6 46 (1.80%) QA
7 37 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 27 (1.06%) HIPAA
10 24 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.78%) GRC
12 19 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 14 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.43%) JSP 440
15 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.39%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.31%) MiFID
16 8 (0.31%) SLA
17 7 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 106 (4.15%) Docker
2 102 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 76 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.29%) vSphere
5 23 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 17 (0.67%) NFS
8 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.16%) Postfix
12 2 (0.078%) KVM
12 2 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.039%) Lustre
13 1 (0.039%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.039%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.039%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 178 (6.96%) Terraform
2 159 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 69 (2.70%) Ansible
4 47 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.55%) Grafana
8 13 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 8 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (0.31%) SCCM
10 6 (0.23%) Argo
10 6 (0.23%) WMI
11 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.16%) Puppet
12 4 (0.16%) SCOM
13 3 (0.12%) OPNET
13 3 (0.12%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.078%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.078%) vRealize
Vendors
1 394 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 174 (6.81%) SAP
3 137 (5.36%) Oracle
4 127 (4.97%) Salesforce
5 115 (4.50%) VMware
6 101 (3.95%) Cisco
7 100 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 85 (3.33%) Google
9 84 (3.29%) Databricks
10 74 (2.90%) Splunk
11 47 (1.84%) Fortinet
12 39 (1.53%) Palo Alto
13 34 (1.33%) CyberArk
13 34 (1.33%) F5
13 34 (1.33%) Workday
14 33 (1.29%) IBM
15 32 (1.25%) Juniper
16 28 (1.10%) MuleSoft
17 27 (1.06%) OpenAI
18 26 (1.02%) Virgin Media