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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,503 3,262 3,964
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.01% 9.90% 9.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.86% 10.65% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,658 2,046 2,802
10th Percentile £463 £480 £510
25th Percentile £527 £540 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £714 £738 £743
90th Percentile £788 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 68 66
10th Percentile £33.64 £60.00 £57.50
25th Percentile £61.88 £62.19 £67.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £71.09
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +9.37%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £90.00 £83.88
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £71.09
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +7.71%

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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 1,283 £650 - 500
South East -1 352 £600 -7.69% 296
North of England -17 304 £600 -4.00% 186
Midlands -9 213 £575 -4.17% 133
North West -11 197 £575 -8.00% 103
South West -4 177 £650 - 96
West Midlands -7 145 £599 -4.92% 73
Yorkshire -32 92 £600 +3.45% 64
East of England -3 78 £555 -7.50% 64
East Midlands -5 67 £505 -8.18% 55
North East +1 17 £713 +9.62% 20
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 693 (27.69%) Azure
2 684 (27.33%) Security Cleared
3 681 (27.21%) Social Skills
4 591 (23.61%) AWS
5 481 (19.22%) Finance
6 474 (18.94%) SC Cleared
7 388 (15.50%) Microsoft
8 377 (15.06%) Roadmaps
9 348 (13.90%) Agile
10 335 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 324 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
12 309 (12.35%) Migration
13 282 (11.27%) DevOps
14 272 (10.87%) Public Sector
15 268 (10.71%) Data Modelling
16 265 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
17 250 (9.99%) GCP
18 247 (9.87%) CI/CD
19 243 (9.71%) Microservices
20 232 (9.27%) TOGAF
21 213 (8.51%) Banking
22 205 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 203 (8.11%) Python
24 198 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
25 191 (7.63%) Data Architecture
26 190 (7.59%) Analytics
27 188 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
28 182 (7.27%) Security Architecture
29 181 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence
30 174 (6.95%) Cybersecurity

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 48 (1.92%) Confluence
2 30 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 17 (0.68%) Apache
5 17 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.40%) CMS
8 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.24%) SAS
11 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.20%) Camunda
11 5 (0.20%) CICS
11 5 (0.20%) Mule
11 5 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 20 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 14 (0.56%) Siemens NX
3 12 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.16%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.12%) Revit
8 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.080%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.080%) Trello
10 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 80 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
4 15 (0.60%) Maximo
4 15 (0.60%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 12 (0.48%) Endur
6 12 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 9 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.32%) SAP MDG
10 8 (0.32%) SAP PS
11 7 (0.28%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 6 (0.24%) SAP HR
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
13 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 693 (27.69%) Azure
2 591 (23.61%) AWS
3 250 (9.99%) GCP
4 139 (5.55%) SaaS
5 118 (4.71%) Serverless
6 113 (4.51%) Power Platform
7 88 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 84 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.96%) GitHub
10 72 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 68 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 65 (2.60%) PaaS
14 60 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
14 60 (2.40%) Snowflake
15 56 (2.24%) IaaS
16 42 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 41 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 39 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
19 38 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 168 (6.71%) Firewall
2 90 (3.60%) WAN
3 86 (3.44%) LAN
3 86 (3.44%) Network Security
4 56 (2.24%) SD-WAN
4 56 (2.24%) VPN
5 40 (1.60%) DNS
6 31 (1.24%) BGP
7 30 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
9 23 (0.92%) SSL
10 21 (0.84%) MPLS
11 19 (0.76%) SAN
12 18 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
12 18 (0.72%) iSCSI
13 15 (0.60%) DHCP
13 15 (0.60%) Internet
13 15 (0.60%) VSAN
14 13 (0.52%) 4G
15 12 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (3.00%) Power BI
3 69 (2.76%) Data Lake
4 60 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 55 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 50 (2.00%) Metadata
7 49 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (1.80%) Big Data
9 37 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 36 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 31 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.16%) DynamoDB
13 24 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.96%) SAP HANA
14 21 (0.84%) GIS
15 20 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.80%) Relational Database
16 19 (0.76%) Delta Lake
17 18 (0.72%) RDBMS
18 17 (0.68%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 75 (3.00%) JIRA
2 60 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 41 (1.64%) Git
4 24 (0.96%) GitLab
5 16 (0.64%) ERwin
6 13 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 11 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.40%) Maven
9 8 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.28%) Gradle
11 6 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.20%) SonarLint
13 4 (0.16%) Liquibase
13 4 (0.16%) MLflow
13 4 (0.16%) MSI
14 3 (0.12%) Postman
14 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 681 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 481 (19.22%) Finance
3 272 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 213 (8.51%) Banking
5 188 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 75 (3.00%) Retail
8 59 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (2.20%) Marketing
10 53 (2.12%) Legal
11 49 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.16%) Back Office
17 28 (1.12%) Military
18 24 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 21 (0.84%) Billing
20 20 (0.80%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.52%) REST
2 83 (3.32%) Kafka
3 74 (2.96%) Middleware
4 73 (2.92%) .NET
5 70 (2.80%) Web Services
6 47 (1.88%) SOAP
7 44 (1.76%) RESTful
8 37 (1.48%) OAuth
9 34 (1.36%) React
10 31 (1.24%) JSON
10 31 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
11 30 (1.20%) SAML
12 27 (1.08%) Spring Boot
13 26 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
14 25 (1.00%) AngularJS
15 23 (0.92%) Visualforce
16 22 (0.88%) LDAP
17 20 (0.80%) .NET Framework
18 19 (0.76%) HTML
18 19 (0.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 173 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.16%) Data Centre
3 94 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 93 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 83 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 49 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 47 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 39 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 33 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
13 32 (1.28%) SCADA
14 28 (1.12%) CSOC
14 28 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.12%) IoT
15 27 (1.08%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.04%) CMDB
16 26 (1.04%) NHS
16 26 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.67%) Windows
2 97 (3.88%) Linux
3 49 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 24 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (0.88%) Unix
6 19 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.52%) Android
7 13 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.28%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) VMS
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) CentOS
11 4 (0.16%) HPUX
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.12%) zOS
13 2 (0.080%) Debian
13 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.080%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (15.06%) Roadmaps
2 348 (13.90%) Agile
3 335 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 324 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
5 309 (12.35%) Migration
6 282 (11.27%) DevOps
7 268 (10.71%) Data Modelling
8 265 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
9 247 (9.87%) CI/CD
10 243 (9.71%) Microservices
11 232 (9.27%) TOGAF
12 205 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 198 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
14 191 (7.63%) Data Architecture
15 190 (7.59%) Analytics
16 182 (7.27%) Security Architecture
17 181 (7.23%) Artificial Intelligence
18 174 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
19 173 (6.91%) Data Governance
20 162 (6.47%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 203 (8.11%) Python
2 173 (6.91%) Java
3 162 (6.47%) SQL
4 73 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 59 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 51 (2.04%) C#
7 39 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.32%) Bicep
9 27 (1.08%) Apex Code
10 21 (0.84%) Bash
11 17 (0.68%) C++
12 14 (0.56%) Go
13 13 (0.52%) Scala
14 12 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.48%) R
15 11 (0.44%) C
16 8 (0.32%) PHP
16 8 (0.32%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.28%) COBOL
17 7 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 684 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 474 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 156 (6.23%) DV Cleared
4 121 (4.83%) Degree
5 75 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 73 (2.92%) CISSP
7 69 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 52 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 32 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.20%) CISM
14 29 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 29 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 23 (0.92%) CCIE
16 21 (0.84%) CCNP
17 17 (0.68%) MCSE
17 17 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (4.63%) NIST
2 114 (4.55%) GDPR
3 109 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (2.84%) Data Quality
5 45 (1.80%) NCSC
6 37 (1.48%) QA
7 32 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 31 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 22 (0.88%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 17 (0.68%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.56%) GRC
13 13 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.52%) SLA
14 10 (0.40%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.32%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.28%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.28%) IEC 61508
18 6 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 112 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 87 (3.48%) Docker
3 79 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.16%) vSphere
5 23 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (0.72%) NFS
7 14 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.16%) Postfix
13 2 (0.080%) KVM
13 2 (0.080%) OpenAM
13 2 (0.080%) OpenIDM
13 2 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.080%) vCloud
13 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.080%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 159 (6.35%) Terraform
2 157 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 61 (2.44%) Ansible
4 37 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.64%) Grafana
8 10 (0.40%) SCCM
9 6 (0.24%) Puppet
10 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.16%) OPNET
11 4 (0.16%) WMI
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) Kibana
13 2 (0.080%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.080%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.080%) SCOM
13 2 (0.080%) SELinux
Vendors
1 388 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 171 (6.83%) SAP
3 129 (5.15%) Oracle
4 114 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 113 (4.51%) VMware
6 102 (4.08%) Cisco
7 101 (4.04%) Google
8 99 (3.96%) ServiceNow
9 90 (3.60%) Databricks
10 74 (2.96%) Splunk
11 42 (1.68%) Fortinet
12 36 (1.44%) IBM
13 29 (1.16%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.16%) Workday
14 28 (1.12%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.04%) F5
15 26 (1.04%) Juniper
15 26 (1.04%) NetApp
16 23 (0.92%) Citrix
16 23 (0.92%) Informatica