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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,728 3,034 3,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.95% 9.77% 9.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.82% 10.51% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 1,819 2,497
10th Percentile £462 £480 £500
25th Percentile £521 £542 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 40
10th Percentile £64.10 £58.95 £56.80
25th Percentile £73.78 £62.50 £64.06
Median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -7.49% +8.10%
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £98.50 £97.50 £85.92
UK median hourly rate £84.41 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +20.59% -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 27,794 28,871 36,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.97% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,815 17,661 25,211
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,691 1,070 1,414
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.37
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +49.84%
75th Percentile £56.47 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 1,274 £645 +0.94% 642
South East +2 450 £600 -4.00% 377
North of England -9 362 £600 - 184
Midlands -6 230 £575 -4.92% 129
South West 0 224 £680 +4.62% 130
North West -10 214 £599 -0.21% 122
West Midlands -17 163 £585 -6.27% 89
Yorkshire -19 131 £613 +5.60% 52
East of England -5 90 £553 -7.92% 74
East Midlands +1 66 £500 -9.09% 39
North East -9 18 £713 +18.82% 10
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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.

1 826 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 783 (28.70%) Azure
3 615 (22.54%) AWS
4 562 (20.60%) SC Cleared
5 419 (15.36%) Roadmaps
6 415 (15.21%) Microsoft
7 394 (14.44%) Agile
8 377 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 321 (11.77%) Migration
10 316 (11.58%) Data Modelling
11 310 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
12 293 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
12 293 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 289 (10.59%) DevOps
14 286 (10.48%) TOGAF
15 271 (9.93%) CI/CD
16 256 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
17 253 (9.27%) GCP
18 246 (9.02%) Microservices
19 223 (8.17%) AI
20 220 (8.06%) Data Architecture
21 214 (7.84%) Analytics
21 214 (7.84%) Python
22 202 (7.40%) DV Cleared
23 191 (7.00%) Terraform
24 190 (6.96%) Data Governance
25 187 (6.85%) Security Architecture
26 186 (6.82%) Mentoring
27 184 (6.74%) Firewall
28 175 (6.41%) Cybersecurity

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 79 (2.90%) Confluence
2 43 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.73%) SAS
6 17 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.55%) CMS
8 14 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.40%) Apache
11 7 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.22%) Smallworld
13 5 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.18%) Mule
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.44%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.073%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.037%) Revit
10 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 77 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
5 19 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.70%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.62%) Maximo
7 14 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.48%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.44%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.33%) Endur
12 8 (0.29%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.22%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.22%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.22%) SAP PP
14 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 783 (28.70%) Azure
2 615 (22.54%) AWS
3 253 (9.27%) GCP
4 132 (4.84%) SaaS
5 131 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 102 (3.74%) Serverless
7 85 (3.12%) Entra ID
8 81 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 72 (2.64%) GitHub
9 72 (2.64%) IaaS
10 67 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
11 61 (2.24%) Amazon S3
11 61 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
12 58 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.09%) PaaS
14 56 (2.05%) Snowflake
15 47 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 47 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 42 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
17 34 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 184 (6.74%) Firewall
2 98 (3.59%) WAN
3 89 (3.26%) LAN
3 89 (3.26%) Network Security
4 67 (2.46%) VPN
5 65 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 61 (2.24%) DNS
7 41 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (1.21%) BGP
9 30 (1.10%) SAN
10 25 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
10 25 (0.92%) DHCP
11 24 (0.88%) MPLS
12 22 (0.81%) SSL
13 20 (0.73%) VSAN
14 17 (0.62%) Internet
15 16 (0.59%) VLAN
16 15 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
16 15 (0.55%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (3.15%) Power BI
3 73 (2.68%) Metadata
4 71 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 44 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 32 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.10%) Big Data
10 29 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 27 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.95%) Relational Database
13 21 (0.77%) Tableau
14 19 (0.70%) GIS
15 18 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.66%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.55%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (3.92%) JIRA
2 60 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 42 (1.54%) Git
4 20 (0.73%) GitLab
5 18 (0.66%) ERwin
6 10 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.22%) Gradle
8 6 (0.22%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
10 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.15%) MLflow
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.11%) MSI
11 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 757 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 501 (18.37%) Finance
3 321 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 233 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (6.89%) Banking
6 86 (3.15%) Telecoms
7 82 (3.01%) Retail
8 67 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (2.42%) Marketing
10 60 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.72%) Legal
14 43 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 41 (1.50%) Military
16 26 (0.95%) Back Office
17 23 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 23 (0.84%) Billing
18 21 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (4.99%) REST
2 82 (3.01%) Middleware
3 65 (2.38%) .NET
4 64 (2.35%) Kafka
4 64 (2.35%) SOAP
5 58 (2.13%) JSON
6 50 (1.83%) OAuth
7 46 (1.69%) RESTful
8 44 (1.61%) SAML
9 39 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
10 38 (1.39%) Web Services
11 35 (1.28%) AngularJS
12 30 (1.10%) React
13 28 (1.03%) OAuth2
13 28 (1.03%) OpenID
14 27 (0.99%) Spring Boot
15 26 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (0.95%) Visualforce
16 22 (0.81%) Node.js
16 22 (0.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 213 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
4 97 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 86 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 71 (2.60%) PKI
8 49 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 38 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.36%) CMDB
14 34 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (1.10%) NHS
16 30 (1.10%) Security Posture
17 25 (0.92%) SCADA
18 24 (0.88%) Data Structures
18 24 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 128 (4.69%) Windows
2 76 (2.79%) Linux
3 47 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.48%) Unix
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 7
8 9 (0.33%) Android
8 9 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.073%) CentOS
12 2 (0.073%) zOS
13 1 (0.037%) AIX
13 1 (0.037%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (15.36%) Roadmaps
2 394 (14.44%) Agile
3 377 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 321 (11.77%) Migration
5 316 (11.58%) Data Modelling
6 310 (11.36%) Enterprise Architecture
7 293 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 289 (10.59%) DevOps
9 286 (10.48%) TOGAF
10 271 (9.93%) CI/CD
11 256 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
12 246 (9.02%) Microservices
13 223 (8.17%) AI
14 220 (8.06%) Data Architecture
15 214 (7.84%) Analytics
16 190 (6.96%) Data Governance
17 187 (6.85%) Security Architecture
18 186 (6.82%) Mentoring
19 175 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 214 (7.84%) Python
2 153 (5.61%) Java
3 151 (5.54%) SQL
4 95 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 67 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 36 (1.32%) C#
8 33 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 31 (1.14%) Bash
10 26 (0.95%) Bicep
11 17 (0.62%) R
12 14 (0.51%) C++
13 11 (0.40%) C
13 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.29%) Scala
16 6 (0.22%) Go
16 6 (0.22%) PHP
16 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 826 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 562 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 202 (7.40%) DV Cleared
4 147 (5.39%) Degree
5 96 (3.52%) CISSP
6 90 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 82 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 63 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
9 62 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 57 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (1.47%) CISM
13 34 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 32 (1.17%) CCNP
15 31 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 30 (1.10%) CCIE
17 22 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 17 (0.62%) CCSP
19 15 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.43%) GDPR
2 112 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.96%) NIST
4 89 (3.26%) Data Quality
5 49 (1.80%) NCSC
6 45 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 42 (1.54%) QA
8 29 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 24 (0.88%) GRC
10 23 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.73%) COBIT
11 20 (0.73%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.66%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
13 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.40%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 105 (3.85%) Docker
2 87 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.28%) vSphere
4 27 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.55%) NFS
7 10 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.073%) KVM
13 1 (0.037%) GPFS
13 1 (0.037%) HDFS
13 1 (0.037%) SRDF
13 1 (0.037%) Varnish
13 1 (0.037%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 191 (7.00%) Terraform
2 153 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 70 (2.57%) Ansible
4 48 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.55%) Grafana
8 15 (0.55%) OPNET
8 15 (0.55%) SCCM
9 13 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.33%) Argo
10 9 (0.33%) WMI
11 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.15%) SCOM
12 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.073%) vRealize
Vendors
1 415 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.09%) SAP
3 143 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 139 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 131 (4.80%) VMware
6 130 (4.77%) Oracle
7 115 (4.22%) Cisco
8 89 (3.26%) Databricks
9 86 (3.15%) Google
10 59 (2.16%) Splunk
11 51 (1.87%) Fortinet
12 45 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 43 (1.58%) IBM
14 41 (1.50%) Workday
15 37 (1.36%) F5
16 35 (1.28%) CyberArk
17 34 (1.25%) Juniper
18 32 (1.17%) Remedy
19 30 (1.10%) Virgin Media
20 29 (1.06%) NetApp