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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,383 2,383 3,838
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.97% 9.74% 10.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.88% 10.51% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,952 1,584 2,513
10th Percentile £463 £481 £500
25th Percentile £513 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 35 69
10th Percentile £49.40 £53.70 £60.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £84.00 £80.29 £87.46
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.67 £90.40
UK median hourly rate £69.44 £68.75 £77.70
% change year-on-year +1.00% -11.52% +11.00%

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 36,897 22,673 34,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.66% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 15,121 22,965
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,492 898 2,411
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.70 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.41% -11.08% -20.78%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £29.24 £35.68
% change year-on-year +46.55% -18.05% -20.71%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +3 2,025 £625 -3.85% 287
South East +4 709 £625 - 139
North of England +6 629 £600 - 118
Midlands 0 410 £584 -2.63% 92
North West +9 368 £604 +0.63% 68
South West 0 299 £693 +15.42% 68
West Midlands -1 299 £607 +1.08% 70
Yorkshire +5 233 £558 -8.90% 33
East of England +18 199 £563 -6.25% 36
East Midlands -1 105 £525 -4.55% 22
North East +2 37 £575 -7.95% 17
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 1,358 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 1,012 (23.09%) Azure
3 932 (21.26%) SC Cleared
4 857 (19.55%) AWS
5 622 (14.19%) Roadmaps
6 608 (13.87%) Microsoft
7 582 (13.28%) Migration
8 571 (13.03%) Agile
9 496 (11.32%) DevOps
10 464 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 455 (10.38%) CI/CD
12 440 (10.04%) Enterprise Architecture
13 394 (8.99%) Data Modelling
14 392 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 389 (8.88%) AI
15 389 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
16 381 (8.69%) Integration Patterns
17 357 (8.15%) TOGAF
18 355 (8.10%) Analytics
19 345 (7.87%) GCP
20 341 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
21 339 (7.73%) Data Architecture
22 323 (7.37%) Architectural Patterns
23 315 (7.19%) DV Cleared
24 314 (7.16%) Architectural Design
25 305 (6.96%) Microservices
26 299 (6.82%) Python
27 276 (6.30%) ServiceNow
28 260 (5.93%) SAP
29 257 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code

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
1 107 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 100 (2.28%) Confluence
3 59 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.50%) SAS
5 21 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.46%) Apache
7 18 (0.41%) CMS
8 16 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.37%) Appian
9 14 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 13 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 13 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.25%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
15 7 (0.16%) Camunda
15 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
16 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 48 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 22 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Navisworks
6 6 (0.14%) Revit
7 4 (0.091%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.023%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 106 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 22 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 20 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 16 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP EWM
11 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.18%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.16%) Maximo
12 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.16%) SAP PM
12 7 (0.16%) SAP QM
13 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,012 (23.09%) Azure
2 857 (19.55%) AWS
3 345 (7.87%) GCP
4 193 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.86%) Entra ID
6 154 (3.51%) Serverless
7 147 (3.35%) SaaS
8 128 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
9 100 (2.28%) GitHub
9 100 (2.28%) PaaS
10 98 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
11 94 (2.14%) IaaS
12 85 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 75 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 74 (1.69%) Amazon S3
15 72 (1.64%) OpenShift
16 69 (1.57%) Snowflake
17 60 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
19 57 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 167 (3.81%) Firewall
2 148 (3.38%) Network Security
3 117 (2.67%) WAN
4 111 (2.53%) DNS
5 102 (2.33%) VPN
6 82 (1.87%) LAN
7 59 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 34 (0.78%) BGP
9 31 (0.71%) DHCP
10 29 (0.66%) OSPF
11 27 (0.62%) MPLS
11 27 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.57%) TCP/IP
13 24 (0.55%) VLAN
14 20 (0.46%) SAN
15 19 (0.43%) BIG-IP
15 19 (0.43%) NAS
16 18 (0.41%) VSAN
16 18 (0.41%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (3.29%) Power BI
2 110 (2.51%) Metadata
3 100 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 70 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 58 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 48 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (1.00%) Tableau
9 40 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (0.64%) Big Data
12 26 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.52%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.50%) GIS
15 21 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
16 17 (0.39%) MongoDB
16 17 (0.39%) Relational Database
17 16 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 113 (2.58%) JIRA
2 82 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.19%) Git
4 42 (0.96%) GitLab
5 18 (0.41%) ERwin
6 13 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.25%) MLflow
8 10 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.14%) Postman
10 5 (0.11%) JUnit
10 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.091%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.091%) Selenium
11 4 (0.091%) Snyk
11 4 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.091%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.068%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.068%) Rational DOORS
General
1 854 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 700 (15.97%) Finance
3 466 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 274 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 272 (6.21%) Banking
6 133 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 129 (2.94%) Retail
8 97 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 90 (2.05%) Legal
10 87 (1.98%) Military
11 76 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 65 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.39%) Law
14 59 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 56 (1.28%) Marketing
16 43 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 41 (0.94%) Billing
18 34 (0.78%) Investment Banking
19 27 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 27 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (5.04%) REST
2 162 (3.70%) Middleware
3 115 (2.62%) SOAP
4 98 (2.24%) .NET
5 82 (1.87%) OpenID
6 80 (1.83%) LDAP
7 71 (1.62%) OAuth
8 65 (1.48%) Kafka
9 58 (1.32%) SAML
10 53 (1.21%) JSON
11 43 (0.98%) OAuth2
12 41 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
13 36 (0.82%) React
14 33 (0.75%) SailPoint
15 32 (0.73%) AngularJS
15 32 (0.73%) RESTful
16 29 (0.66%) Spring
16 29 (0.66%) Web Services
17 25 (0.57%) PySpark
18 23 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 362 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 131 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 114 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 114 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 109 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
5 108 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 93 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 88 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 72 (1.64%) PKI
9 72 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 68 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 64 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 63 (1.44%) CMDB
13 60 (1.37%) Operational Technology
14 42 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 42 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 41 (0.94%) Private Cloud
16 38 (0.87%) Data Structures
17 31 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 155 (3.54%) Windows
2 93 (2.12%) Linux
3 33 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.57%) Android
4 25 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.37%) Unix
6 15 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.25%) zOS
10 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.18%) VMS
11 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.068%) CentOS
13 3 (0.068%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.068%) Solaris
13 3 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.046%) AIX
14 2 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (14.19%) Roadmaps
2 582 (13.28%) Migration
3 571 (13.03%) Agile
4 496 (11.32%) DevOps
5 464 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 455 (10.38%) CI/CD
7 440 (10.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 394 (8.99%) Data Modelling
9 392 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 389 (8.88%) AI
10 389 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
11 381 (8.69%) Integration Patterns
12 357 (8.15%) TOGAF
13 355 (8.10%) Analytics
14 341 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
15 339 (7.73%) Data Architecture
16 323 (7.37%) Architectural Patterns
17 314 (7.16%) Architectural Design
18 305 (6.96%) Microservices
19 257 (5.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 299 (6.82%) Python
2 225 (5.13%) SQL
3 173 (3.95%) PowerShell
4 167 (3.81%) Java
5 77 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.23%) C#
7 42 (0.96%) Bicep
8 34 (0.78%) Bash
9 33 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.39%) Ruby
11 16 (0.37%) Scala
12 14 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.23%) R
15 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.18%) VB
17 7 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,358 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 932 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 315 (7.19%) DV Cleared
4 177 (4.04%) Degree
5 118 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 112 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 96 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 94 (2.14%) CISSP
9 75 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 61 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 47 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.05%) CISM
14 44 (1.00%) CCNP
15 42 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (0.87%) Master's Degree
17 32 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 31 (0.71%) ISEB
19 24 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 24 (0.55%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (3.72%) GDPR
2 161 (3.67%) NIST
3 124 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 122 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 90 (2.05%) NCSC
6 57 (1.30%) QA
7 43 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.87%) COBIT
9 30 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 26 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (0.59%) GRC
11 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.41%) SEPA
12 17 (0.39%) HL7
12 17 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 13 (0.30%) FINRA
14 13 (0.30%) MiFID
15 12 (0.27%) JSP 440
16 11 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.37%) Docker
3 92 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.46%) VMware NSX
5 28 (0.64%) vSphere
6 22 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) vCloud
11 9 (0.21%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) NFS
13 7 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.16%) Varnish
14 5 (0.11%) Postfix
14 5 (0.11%) RACF
15 4 (0.091%) Firmware
15 4 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.068%) IAG
16 3 (0.068%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 234 (5.34%) Terraform
2 209 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.21%) Ansible
4 49 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.84%) Grafana
7 30 (0.68%) OPNET
8 29 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.50%) SCCM
11 16 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.32%) Argo
13 11 (0.25%) WMI
14 10 (0.23%) Istio
15 8 (0.18%) Puppet
16 7 (0.16%) Consul
17 5 (0.11%) Endace
17 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 608 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 276 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 260 (5.93%) SAP
4 182 (4.15%) Oracle
4 182 (4.15%) VMware
5 164 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 158 (3.60%) Databricks
7 105 (2.40%) Cisco
8 93 (2.12%) Google
9 82 (1.87%) CyberArk
10 62 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 54 (1.23%) Splunk
12 50 (1.14%) Workday
13 48 (1.10%) Remedy
14 47 (1.07%) Red Hat
15 44 (1.00%) IBM
15 44 (1.00%) Sparx
16 43 (0.98%) Atlassian
17 40 (0.91%) Palo Alto
18 39 (0.89%) BeyondTrust