Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,011 2,613 3,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.03% 9.46% 10.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.32% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 1,733 2,275
10th Percentile £475 £470 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £703 £738
90th Percentile £800 £787 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 19 76
10th Percentile £46.00 £37.19 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £86.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £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 42,051 25,317 31,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.70% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,530 16,429 20,502
10th Percentile £328 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,118 1,308 1,828
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +9 2,586 £625 -3.85% 1,615
South East 0 720 £630 +5.00% 361
North of England +4 695 £600 - 312
Midlands -1 420 £625 +8.70% 173
North West +7 394 £600 - 157
West Midlands -2 314 £627 +4.42% 122
South West -1 292 £625 -2.34% 193
Yorkshire +5 235 £600 - 122
East of England +17 162 £600 +8.11% 107
East Midlands +8 99 £600 +18.23% 51
North East 0 68 £600 -14.29% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 1,496 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 1,270 (25.34%) Azure
3 1,088 (21.71%) SC Cleared
4 1,033 (20.61%) AWS
5 745 (14.87%) Roadmaps
6 703 (14.03%) Migration
7 685 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 644 (12.85%) Microsoft
9 632 (12.61%) AI
10 592 (11.81%) Enterprise Architecture
11 564 (11.26%) Agile
12 553 (11.04%) DevOps
13 528 (10.54%) Data Modelling
14 517 (10.32%) CI/CD
15 511 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
16 498 (9.94%) Data Architecture
17 494 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 492 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
19 457 (9.12%) Analytics
20 402 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
21 401 (8.00%) TOGAF
22 391 (7.80%) GCP
23 358 (7.14%) Security Architecture
24 327 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
25 325 (6.49%) Microservices
26 320 (6.39%) DV Cleared
27 312 (6.23%) Event-Driven
28 310 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
29 302 (6.03%) Architectural Design
30 298 (5.95%) Data Governance

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 80 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.46%) SAS
3 54 (1.08%) Confluence
4 42 (0.84%) Apache
5 41 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) Appian
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.12%) Camunda
15 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
16 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
16 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 118 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Maximo
12 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 5 (0.100%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,270 (25.34%) Azure
2 1,033 (20.61%) AWS
3 391 (7.80%) GCP
4 259 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 190 (3.79%) Entra ID
6 176 (3.51%) SaaS
7 156 (3.11%) Serverless
8 121 (2.41%) GitHub
9 118 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 105 (2.10%) PaaS
11 103 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
13 99 (1.98%) Snowflake
14 74 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 73 (1.46%) IaaS
16 71 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.18%) OCI
18 55 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.13%) Network Security
2 152 (3.03%) Firewall
3 99 (1.98%) WAN
4 90 (1.80%) DNS
5 76 (1.52%) VPN
6 72 (1.44%) LAN
7 48 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 43 (0.86%) BGP
9 41 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 39 (0.78%) DHCP
11 35 (0.70%) MPLS
12 34 (0.68%) VLAN
13 29 (0.58%) SAN
13 29 (0.58%) Wireless
14 26 (0.52%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 23 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
18 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (3.73%) Power BI
2 165 (3.29%) Data Lake
3 149 (2.97%) Metadata
4 147 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 50 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.88%) Big Data
8 37 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 35 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 29 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (0.52%) GIS
14 21 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (1.46%) JIRA
2 68 (1.36%) Git
3 49 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.54%) GitLab
5 21 (0.42%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.12%) Maven
11 5 (0.100%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.100%) Storybook
12 4 (0.080%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.080%) MSI
12 4 (0.080%) Snyk
13 3 (0.060%) VTune
General
1 938 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 782 (15.61%) Finance
3 543 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 297 (5.93%) Banking
5 268 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 244 (4.87%) Retail
7 129 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
8 117 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 115 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 100 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 75 (1.50%) Legal
12 58 (1.16%) Marketing
13 53 (1.06%) Billing
14 47 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 47 (0.94%) Military
15 46 (0.92%) Law
16 41 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (4.67%) REST
2 163 (3.25%) Middleware
3 116 (2.31%) .NET
4 106 (2.12%) SOAP
5 102 (2.04%) Kafka
6 96 (1.92%) OAuth
7 72 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
8 58 (1.16%) OpenID
9 54 (1.08%) SAML
10 52 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.90%) JSON
12 43 (0.86%) React
13 40 (0.80%) RESTful
13 40 (0.80%) SailPoint
14 35 (0.70%) .NET Framework
14 35 (0.70%) PySpark
15 28 (0.56%) XML
16 27 (0.54%) LDAP
17 26 (0.52%) GraphQL
17 26 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 427 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 140 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 125 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 122 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 112 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 108 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 97 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 88 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 84 (1.68%) Operational Technology
12 72 (1.44%) CMDB
13 66 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 60 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 59 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 55 (1.10%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.12%) Windows
2 82 (1.64%) Linux
3 33 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.42%) Android
6 20 (0.40%) Unix
7 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.20%) zOS
9 9 (0.18%) AIX
10 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.100%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.100%) Solaris
12 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.080%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (14.87%) Roadmaps
2 703 (14.03%) Migration
3 685 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 632 (12.61%) AI
5 592 (11.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 564 (11.26%) Agile
7 553 (11.04%) DevOps
8 528 (10.54%) Data Modelling
9 517 (10.32%) CI/CD
10 511 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
11 498 (9.94%) Data Architecture
12 494 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 492 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
14 457 (9.12%) Analytics
15 402 (8.02%) Architectural Patterns
16 401 (8.00%) TOGAF
17 358 (7.14%) Security Architecture
18 327 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
19 325 (6.49%) Microservices
20 312 (6.23%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 240 (4.79%) Python
2 232 (4.63%) SQL
3 203 (4.05%) Java
4 115 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 82 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.08%) C#
7 44 (0.88%) Bash
7 44 (0.88%) Bicep
8 39 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 14 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.28%) Ruby
10 14 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.24%) C++
12 11 (0.22%) Scala
13 9 (0.18%) ABAP
13 9 (0.18%) Groovy
14 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,496 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 1,088 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 320 (6.39%) DV Cleared
4 163 (3.25%) Degree
5 129 (2.57%) CISSP
6 110 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 91 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 85 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 69 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 59 (1.18%) CISM
13 42 (0.84%) CCNP
14 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.50%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 19 (0.38%) CCIE
19 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.43%) NIST
3 151 (3.01%) GDPR
4 131 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.90%) NCSC
6 59 (1.18%) GRC
7 57 (1.14%) QA
8 39 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.42%) SEPA
14 20 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 19 (0.38%) IFRS
16 15 (0.30%) HL7
17 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.26%) SLA
19 12 (0.24%) COBIT
19 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 150 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.02%) Docker
3 59 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
12 5 (0.100%) IAG
13 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.080%) Squid
14 3 (0.060%) KVM
14 3 (0.060%) SRDF
15 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 244 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 220 (4.39%) Terraform
3 87 (1.74%) Ansible
4 43 (0.86%) Grafana
5 40 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.34%) Argo
9 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.14%) Istio
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.12%) SCCM
15 5 (0.100%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.100%) MOM
15 5 (0.100%) NetBackup
16 4 (0.080%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 644 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 280 (5.59%) SAP
3 270 (5.39%) Oracle
4 249 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 231 (4.61%) Databricks
6 161 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 134 (2.67%) Google
8 123 (2.45%) Cisco
9 122 (2.43%) VMware
10 57 (1.14%) CyberArk
11 56 (1.12%) IBM
12 52 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 52 (1.04%) Workday
13 49 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.86%) Foundry
15 38 (0.76%) Sparx
16 36 (0.72%) Splunk
17 34 (0.68%) Ariba
18 33 (0.66%) OpenAI
19 31 (0.62%) F5