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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,967 2,645 3,548
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.04% 9.58% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.44% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 1,763 2,341
10th Percentile £475 £468 £485
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 £713 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 19 81
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 £72.58 £86.50 £85.25
90th Percentile £83.40 £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 41,654 25,335 31,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 91.78% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,384 16,465 21,086
10th Percentile £325 £288 £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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,020 1,281 2,007
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.20 £17.79 £19.22
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +6 2,522 £623 -4.23% 1,016
South East 0 727 £638 +6.25% 243
North of England +6 718 £600 - 196
Midlands -3 410 £620 +7.83% 117
North West +4 395 £600 - 106
West Midlands -3 301 £626 +4.33% 88
South West -4 287 £625 - 106
Yorkshire +6 255 £600 - 59
East of England +17 172 £600 +5.49% 59
East Midlands +6 103 £600 +20.00% 28
North East +1 76 £600 -14.29% 32
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 1,465 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,247 (25.11%) Azure
3 1,069 (21.52%) SC Cleared
4 1,035 (20.84%) AWS
5 759 (15.28%) Roadmaps
6 702 (14.13%) Migration
7 650 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 645 (12.99%) Microsoft
9 602 (12.12%) AI
10 579 (11.66%) Enterprise Architecture
11 575 (11.58%) Agile
12 552 (11.11%) DevOps
13 523 (10.53%) Data Modelling
14 511 (10.29%) CI/CD
15 488 (9.82%) Data Architecture
15 488 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
16 480 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 476 (9.58%) Integration Patterns
18 449 (9.04%) Analytics
19 411 (8.27%) Architectural Patterns
20 407 (8.19%) TOGAF
21 382 (7.69%) GCP
22 343 (6.91%) Security Architecture
23 337 (6.78%) Microservices
24 335 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
25 317 (6.38%) Architectural Design
26 314 (6.32%) DV Cleared
27 302 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
28 298 (6.00%) Event-Driven
29 293 (5.90%) 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 86 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.45%) SAS
3 53 (1.07%) Confluence
4 42 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.81%) Apache
6 36 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 18 (0.36%) CMS
10 14 (0.28%) 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%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Camunda
16 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
17 4 (0.081%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
17 4 (0.081%) SAP EP
Applications
1 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
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 1,247 (25.11%) Azure
2 1,035 (20.84%) AWS
3 382 (7.69%) GCP
4 256 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 188 (3.78%) Entra ID
6 172 (3.46%) SaaS
7 156 (3.14%) Serverless
8 118 (2.38%) GitHub
9 116 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 110 (2.21%) PaaS
11 105 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 98 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
13 97 (1.95%) Snowflake
14 79 (1.59%) IaaS
15 74 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 74 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 51 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 165 (3.32%) Network Security
2 161 (3.24%) Firewall
3 100 (2.01%) WAN
4 96 (1.93%) DNS
5 78 (1.57%) VPN
6 73 (1.47%) LAN
7 48 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 44 (0.89%) BGP
8 44 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 40 (0.81%) DHCP
10 36 (0.72%) MPLS
11 34 (0.68%) VLAN
12 29 (0.58%) Wireless
13 28 (0.56%) SAN
14 27 (0.54%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 23 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 21 (0.42%) IPsec
19 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (3.72%) Power BI
2 157 (3.16%) Metadata
3 156 (3.14%) Data Lake
4 144 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 55 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.89%) Big Data
8 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 35 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (0.66%) Delta Lake
12 29 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (0.52%) GIS
14 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
14 20 (0.40%) Tableau
15 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 77 (1.55%) JIRA
2 65 (1.31%) Git
3 55 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.62%) GitLab
5 24 (0.48%) ERwin
6 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.16%) MLflow
6 8 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.12%) Maven
8 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
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 (0.060%) Rational DOORS
General
1 926 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 786 (15.82%) Finance
3 539 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 300 (6.04%) Banking
5 272 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 231 (4.65%) Retail
7 124 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 124 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 115 (2.32%) Telecoms
9 99 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 74 (1.49%) Legal
11 56 (1.13%) Marketing
12 52 (1.05%) Billing
13 50 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 48 (0.97%) Law
15 46 (0.93%) Military
16 41 (0.83%) Aerospace
17 40 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 37 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.75%) REST
2 167 (3.36%) Middleware
3 116 (2.34%) .NET
4 107 (2.15%) SOAP
5 99 (1.99%) Kafka
6 88 (1.77%) OAuth
7 70 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 53 (1.07%) OpenID
9 48 (0.97%) React
9 48 (0.97%) SAML
10 47 (0.95%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.91%) JSON
12 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 37 (0.74%) .NET Framework
15 34 (0.68%) PySpark
16 31 (0.62%) LDAP
17 28 (0.56%) Node.js
17 28 (0.56%) Web Services
18 27 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 411 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 120 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 117 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 108 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 95 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 94 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 84 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 74 (1.49%) CMDB
14 67 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
16 56 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 52 (1.05%) Data Structures
18 50 (1.01%) Private Cloud
19 44 (0.89%) Mainframe
20 40 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.21%) Windows
2 78 (1.57%) Linux
3 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.50%) Android
4 25 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) 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 (0.060%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) CatOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (15.28%) Roadmaps
2 702 (14.13%) Migration
3 650 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 602 (12.12%) AI
5 579 (11.66%) Enterprise Architecture
6 575 (11.58%) Agile
7 552 (11.11%) DevOps
8 523 (10.53%) Data Modelling
9 511 (10.29%) CI/CD
10 488 (9.82%) Data Architecture
10 488 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
11 480 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 476 (9.58%) Integration Patterns
13 449 (9.04%) Analytics
14 411 (8.27%) Architectural Patterns
15 407 (8.19%) TOGAF
16 343 (6.91%) Security Architecture
17 337 (6.78%) Microservices
18 335 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
19 317 (6.38%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 252 (5.07%) Python
2 232 (4.67%) SQL
3 206 (4.15%) Java
4 112 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 86 (1.73%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.17%) C#
7 47 (0.95%) Bash
8 44 (0.89%) Bicep
9 42 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.28%) Ruby
12 13 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.22%) Scala
15 10 (0.20%) ABAP
15 10 (0.20%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,465 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,069 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 314 (6.32%) DV Cleared
4 170 (3.42%) Degree
5 126 (2.54%) CISSP
6 111 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 92 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 71 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.15%) CISM
13 45 (0.91%) CCNP
14 41 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.58%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
19 20 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.26%) NIST
3 152 (3.06%) GDPR
4 116 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.91%) NCSC
6 56 (1.13%) QA
7 55 (1.11%) GRC
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) SEPA
13 21 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.38%) IFRS
15 17 (0.34%) HL7
16 14 (0.28%) SLA
17 13 (0.26%) COBIT
17 13 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 147 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 99 (1.99%) Docker
3 67 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.38%) 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%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.081%) Squid
15 3 (0.060%) KVM
15 3 (0.060%) RACF
15 3 (0.060%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 237 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 219 (4.41%) Terraform
3 93 (1.87%) Ansible
4 47 (0.95%) Grafana
5 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Argo
8 21 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.14%) SCCM
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) Istio
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
15 4 (0.081%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.081%) Puppet
Vendors
1 645 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 290 (5.84%) SAP
3 257 (5.17%) Oracle
4 250 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 225 (4.53%) Databricks
6 152 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 138 (2.78%) VMware
8 126 (2.54%) Google
9 122 (2.46%) Cisco
10 58 (1.17%) IBM
11 55 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.01%) Workday
13 48 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 48 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.89%) Foundry
15 40 (0.81%) Splunk
16 37 (0.74%) Sparx
17 36 (0.72%) Ariba
17 36 (0.72%) OpenAI
18 34 (0.68%) F5