Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,926 2,640 3,653
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.98% 9.65% 10.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.52% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 1,764 2,404
10th Percentile £475 £469 £488
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £712 £738
90th Percentile £790 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.12% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 21 87
10th Percentile £46.00 £38.96 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £73.25 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £83.60 £100.00 £88.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,522 25,105 32,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.81% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,299 16,309 21,568
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,983 1,254 2,147
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.51
25th Percentile £22.46 £17.87 £18.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.63% -7.70%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +7 2,500 £620 -4.62% 1,048
North of England +6 719 £600 - 224
South East 0 712 £638 +6.25% 248
Midlands -3 407 £623 +8.26% 110
North West +5 391 £605 +0.83% 114
West Midlands -5 299 £626 +4.33% 77
South West -2 284 £625 - 110
Yorkshire +7 259 £600 - 70
East of England +16 173 £600 +4.35% 61
East Midlands +4 102 £600 +20.00% 32
North East +1 77 £600 -15.79% 40
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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 1,433 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,236 (25.09%) Azure
3 1,037 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 1,017 (20.65%) AWS
5 757 (15.37%) Roadmaps
6 691 (14.03%) Migration
7 651 (13.22%) Microsoft
8 633 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 595 (12.08%) AI
10 574 (11.65%) Agile
11 570 (11.57%) Enterprise Architecture
12 552 (11.21%) DevOps
13 511 (10.37%) Data Modelling
14 505 (10.25%) CI/CD
15 477 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 475 (9.64%) Data Architecture
17 472 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
18 469 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
19 438 (8.89%) Analytics
20 412 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
21 406 (8.24%) TOGAF
22 377 (7.65%) GCP
23 340 (6.90%) Security Architecture
24 337 (6.84%) Microservices
25 327 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
26 317 (6.44%) Architectural Design
27 311 (6.31%) DV Cleared
28 304 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
29 300 (6.09%) Event-Driven
30 292 (5.93%) 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 85 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.32%) SAS
3 52 (1.06%) Confluence
4 40 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 38 (0.77%) Apache
5 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 19 (0.39%) CMS
9 15 (0.30%) Appian
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 7 (0.14%) Camunda
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
16 4 (0.081%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
16 4 (0.081%) SAP EP
Applications
1 18 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.041%) Windchill
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 123 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) Maximo
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (25.09%) Azure
2 1,017 (20.65%) AWS
3 377 (7.65%) GCP
4 254 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 191 (3.88%) Entra ID
6 178 (3.61%) SaaS
7 154 (3.13%) Serverless
8 118 (2.40%) GitHub
9 115 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 110 (2.23%) PaaS
11 107 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 96 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
13 93 (1.89%) Snowflake
14 81 (1.64%) IaaS
15 70 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 68 (1.38%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 54 (1.10%) OpenShift
19 53 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
20 52 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.37%) Network Security
2 161 (3.27%) Firewall
3 99 (2.01%) WAN
4 97 (1.97%) DNS
5 79 (1.60%) VPN
6 72 (1.46%) LAN
7 49 (0.99%) SD-WAN
8 45 (0.91%) BGP
9 44 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.83%) DHCP
11 37 (0.75%) MPLS
12 34 (0.69%) VLAN
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
14 28 (0.57%) OSPF
14 28 (0.57%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 24 (0.49%) IPsec
17 23 (0.47%) VXLAN
18 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
19 19 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (3.63%) Power BI
2 151 (3.07%) Metadata
3 150 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 135 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 56 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.89%) Big Data
8 42 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 29 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 29 (0.59%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (0.53%) GIS
14 25 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.41%) Tableau
16 18 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 80 (1.62%) JIRA
2 65 (1.32%) Git
3 58 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.63%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.16%) MLflow
7 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.10%) Maven
9 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.10%) Storybook
10 4 (0.081%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.081%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.081%) Snyk
11 3 (0.061%) VTune
General
1 910 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 785 (15.94%) Finance
3 528 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 301 (6.11%) Banking
5 267 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 227 (4.61%) Retail
7 128 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 125 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 117 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 97 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 75 (1.52%) Legal
12 55 (1.12%) Marketing
13 51 (1.04%) Billing
14 49 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.93%) Military
16 45 (0.91%) Law
17 41 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 37 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (4.77%) REST
2 165 (3.35%) Middleware
3 115 (2.33%) .NET
4 107 (2.17%) SOAP
5 94 (1.91%) Kafka
6 87 (1.77%) OAuth
7 70 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 56 (1.14%) OpenID
9 52 (1.06%) SAML
10 48 (0.97%) OAuth2
10 48 (0.97%) React
11 43 (0.87%) JSON
11 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
12 40 (0.81%) RESTful
13 37 (0.75%) .NET Framework
14 34 (0.69%) PySpark
15 33 (0.67%) LDAP
16 29 (0.59%) Web Services
17 28 (0.57%) AngularJS
17 28 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 410 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 131 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
4 128 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 120 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 114 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 106 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 92 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 92 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 87 (1.77%) Operational Technology
11 85 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 74 (1.50%) CMDB
13 68 (1.38%) Public Cloud
14 57 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
15 53 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 52 (1.06%) Data Structures
17 49 (0.99%) Private Cloud
18 44 (0.89%) Mainframe
19 40 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.29%) Windows
2 81 (1.64%) Linux
3 32 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.51%) Android
4 25 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.41%) Unix
6 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.081%) Solaris
11 4 (0.081%) VMS
12 3 (0.061%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.041%) CentOS
13 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (15.37%) Roadmaps
2 691 (14.03%) Migration
3 633 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 595 (12.08%) AI
5 574 (11.65%) Agile
6 570 (11.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 552 (11.21%) DevOps
8 511 (10.37%) Data Modelling
9 505 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 477 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 475 (9.64%) Data Architecture
12 472 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
13 469 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
14 438 (8.89%) Analytics
15 412 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
16 406 (8.24%) TOGAF
17 340 (6.90%) Security Architecture
18 337 (6.84%) Microservices
19 327 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
20 317 (6.44%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 250 (5.08%) Python
2 231 (4.69%) SQL
3 204 (4.14%) Java
4 109 (2.21%) JavaScript
5 85 (1.73%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.18%) C#
7 45 (0.91%) Bicep
8 44 (0.89%) Bash
9 41 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.28%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) Scala
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) C++
15 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.16%) R
15 8 (0.16%) VBA
16 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,433 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,037 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 311 (6.31%) DV Cleared
4 171 (3.47%) Degree
5 128 (2.60%) CISSP
6 111 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 97 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 93 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 71 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.18%) CISM
13 45 (0.91%) CCNP
14 41 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.59%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.47%) CCSP
19 20 (0.41%) CCIE
20 19 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (3.41%) NIST
2 167 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.09%) GDPR
4 120 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (2.01%) NCSC
6 57 (1.16%) QA
7 51 (1.04%) GRC
8 39 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 21 (0.43%) SEPA
13 19 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.39%) IFRS
14 17 (0.35%) HL7
15 14 (0.28%) COBIT
16 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 11 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 152 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 96 (1.95%) Docker
3 67 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 5 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.081%) Squid
15 3 (0.061%) KVM
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 235 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 214 (4.34%) Terraform
3 93 (1.89%) Ansible
4 47 (0.95%) Grafana
5 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.37%) Argo
10 16 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.14%) SCCM
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.10%) Istio
15 5 (0.10%) MOM
15 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.081%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 651 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 287 (5.83%) SAP
3 251 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 250 (5.08%) Oracle
5 217 (4.41%) Databricks
6 153 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 138 (2.80%) VMware
8 121 (2.46%) Cisco
9 120 (2.44%) Google
10 58 (1.18%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.12%) IBM
12 50 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 49 (0.99%) Workday
14 47 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 46 (0.93%) Splunk
16 42 (0.85%) Foundry
17 36 (0.73%) Ariba
17 36 (0.73%) Sparx
18 35 (0.71%) OpenAI
19 34 (0.69%) F5