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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,267 2,414 3,811
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.91% 9.91% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.81% 10.68% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,883 1,612 2,517
10th Percentile £463 £480 £500
25th Percentile £513 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £745
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 34 48
10th Percentile £49.40 £53.40 £51.91
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £83.63
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -14.81% +19.48%
75th Percentile £89.00 £80.44 £87.53
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.70 £95.00
UK median hourly rate £71.27 £70.00 £82.38
% change year-on-year +1.81% -15.03% +17.69%

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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 1,973 £625 -3.85% 476
South East +4 704 £625 - 256
North of England +4 609 £600 - 194
Midlands -4 399 £575 -4.17% 95
North West +8 354 £610 +1.67% 100
West Midlands -1 299 £600 -0.46% 69
South West +2 288 £700 +16.67% 98
Yorkshire +4 231 £563 -6.25% 70
East of England +20 186 £550 -8.33% 71
East Midlands -3 96 £519 -8.59% 26
North East +3 33 £575 -7.95% 28
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,370 (32.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,010 (23.67%) Azure
3 936 (21.94%) SC Cleared
4 844 (19.78%) AWS
5 620 (14.53%) Roadmaps
6 610 (14.30%) Microsoft
7 566 (13.26%) Migration
8 560 (13.12%) Agile
9 487 (11.41%) DevOps
10 466 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 440 (10.31%) CI/CD
12 433 (10.15%) Enterprise Architecture
13 405 (9.49%) Data Modelling
14 403 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 382 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
16 371 (8.69%) Integration Patterns
17 370 (8.67%) TOGAF
18 362 (8.48%) AI
19 355 (8.32%) Analytics
20 344 (8.06%) GCP
20 344 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
21 342 (8.01%) Data Architecture
22 324 (7.59%) DV Cleared
23 315 (7.38%) Architectural Design
24 314 (7.36%) Architectural Patterns
25 305 (7.15%) Python
26 298 (6.98%) Microservices
27 262 (6.14%) Security Architecture
28 260 (6.09%) ServiceNow
29 247 (5.79%) SAP

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
1 106 (2.48%) Confluence
1 106 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 63 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.59%) SAS
4 23 (0.54%) CMS
5 20 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.37%) Apache
6 16 (0.37%) Appian
7 15 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 13 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (0.28%) nginx
10 11 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.16%) Camunda
12 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 49 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.023%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.023%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.023%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.023%) Revit
7 1 (0.023%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.023%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 110 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.26%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.23%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.23%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.21%) Maximo
11 9 (0.21%) SAP EWM
12 8 (0.19%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.16%) SAP QM
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
14 6 (0.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (23.67%) Azure
2 844 (19.78%) AWS
3 344 (8.06%) GCP
4 185 (4.34%) Power Platform
5 166 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 144 (3.37%) Serverless
7 143 (3.35%) SaaS
8 131 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (2.51%) IaaS
10 98 (2.30%) GitHub
10 98 (2.30%) PaaS
11 92 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 89 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 76 (1.78%) OpenShift
14 72 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (1.50%) Snowflake
16 63 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.38%) Firewall
2 148 (3.47%) Network Security
3 125 (2.93%) DNS
3 125 (2.93%) WAN
4 113 (2.65%) VPN
5 83 (1.95%) LAN
6 64 (1.50%) SD-WAN
7 36 (0.84%) DHCP
8 35 (0.82%) BGP
9 31 (0.73%) OSPF
10 30 (0.70%) MPLS
11 29 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.66%) TCP/IP
13 26 (0.61%) SAN
14 25 (0.59%) VLAN
15 20 (0.47%) VXLAN
15 20 (0.47%) Wireless
16 19 (0.45%) NAS
17 18 (0.42%) BIG-IP
18 17 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.33%) Power BI
2 114 (2.67%) Metadata
3 111 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 49 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (1.05%) Tableau
9 36 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (0.73%) Big Data
10 31 (0.73%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.54%) Delta Lake
13 23 (0.54%) GIS
14 21 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
15 20 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
16 19 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (0.40%) Relational Database
18 16 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 123 (2.88%) JIRA
2 89 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.10%) Git
4 41 (0.96%) GitLab
5 20 (0.47%) ERwin
6 13 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 9 (0.21%) MLflow
10 6 (0.14%) Postman
11 5 (0.12%) JUnit
11 5 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.094%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.094%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.094%) Selenium
12 4 (0.094%) Snyk
12 4 (0.094%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.094%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle Forms
General
1 875 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 690 (16.17%) Finance
3 477 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 280 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (6.30%) Banking
6 139 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 111 (2.60%) Retail
8 100 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.06%) Legal
10 87 (2.04%) Military
11 75 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 71 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.43%) Law
14 59 (1.38%) Marketing
15 52 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 46 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.80%) Billing
18 32 (0.75%) Investment Banking
19 30 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 25 (0.59%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.11%) REST
2 164 (3.84%) Middleware
3 108 (2.53%) SOAP
4 89 (2.09%) .NET
5 78 (1.83%) OpenID
6 77 (1.80%) LDAP
7 68 (1.59%) OAuth
8 63 (1.48%) Kafka
9 59 (1.38%) SAML
10 56 (1.31%) JSON
11 44 (1.03%) OAuth2
12 36 (0.84%) AngularJS
12 36 (0.84%) React
13 33 (0.77%) RESTful
13 33 (0.77%) SailPoint
14 30 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
15 29 (0.68%) Spring
16 28 (0.66%) Web Services
17 24 (0.56%) PySpark
18 22 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 334 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 139 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 126 (2.95%) Data Centre
4 109 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 107 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 105 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 82 (1.92%) PKI
9 70 (1.64%) Security Posture
10 69 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 66 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 60 (1.41%) CMDB
12 60 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 60 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 50 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 43 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.01%) Private Cloud
15 40 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 32 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 162 (3.80%) Windows
2 96 (2.25%) Linux
3 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.59%) Android
4 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.37%) Unix
6 14 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.33%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.23%) zOS
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.21%) VMS
9 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.070%) Solaris
11 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.047%) AIX
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
13 1 (0.023%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (14.53%) Roadmaps
2 566 (13.26%) Migration
3 560 (13.12%) Agile
4 487 (11.41%) DevOps
5 466 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 440 (10.31%) CI/CD
7 433 (10.15%) Enterprise Architecture
8 405 (9.49%) Data Modelling
9 403 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 382 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
11 371 (8.69%) Integration Patterns
12 370 (8.67%) TOGAF
13 362 (8.48%) AI
14 355 (8.32%) Analytics
15 344 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
16 342 (8.01%) Data Architecture
17 315 (7.38%) Architectural Design
18 314 (7.36%) Architectural Patterns
19 298 (6.98%) Microservices
20 262 (6.14%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 305 (7.15%) Python
2 216 (5.06%) SQL
3 181 (4.24%) PowerShell
4 161 (3.77%) Java
5 69 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 53 (1.24%) C#
7 41 (0.96%) Bash
8 39 (0.91%) Bicep
9 29 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.40%) Ruby
11 16 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.30%) Scala
14 10 (0.23%) R
15 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.19%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.19%) VB
17 7 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,370 (32.11%) Security Cleared
2 936 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 324 (7.59%) DV Cleared
4 174 (4.08%) Degree
5 115 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 110 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 102 (2.39%) CISSP
8 97 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 62 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 52 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.10%) CCNP
14 46 (1.08%) CISM
15 41 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 34 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 32 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
18 31 (0.73%) ISEB
19 30 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 28 (0.66%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (4.03%) GDPR
2 166 (3.89%) NIST
3 135 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 126 (2.95%) Data Quality
5 92 (2.16%) NCSC
6 65 (1.52%) QA
7 50 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.87%) COBIT
9 30 (0.70%) GRC
10 27 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.40%) HL7
11 17 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.33%) MiFID
15 13 (0.30%) FINRA
15 13 (0.30%) PSD2
15 13 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 186 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 111 (2.60%) Docker
3 99 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.66%) VMware NSX
5 34 (0.80%) vSphere
6 22 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) vCloud
11 9 (0.21%) Squid
12 8 (0.19%) NFS
13 7 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.16%) Varnish
14 5 (0.12%) Postfix
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.094%) Firmware
15 4 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.070%) IAG
16 3 (0.070%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 240 (5.62%) Terraform
2 215 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 104 (2.44%) Ansible
4 53 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (0.82%) Grafana
6 35 (0.82%) vCenter Server
7 30 (0.70%) OPNET
8 22 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.52%) SCCM
9 21 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.47%) Argo
11 13 (0.30%) WMI
12 9 (0.21%) Istio
13 7 (0.16%) Consul
13 7 (0.16%) Puppet
14 5 (0.12%) Endace
14 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 610 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.09%) ServiceNow
3 247 (5.79%) SAP
4 191 (4.48%) VMware
5 169 (3.96%) Oracle
5 169 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 153 (3.59%) Databricks
7 114 (2.67%) Cisco
8 89 (2.09%) Google
9 84 (1.97%) CyberArk
10 62 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 56 (1.31%) Splunk
12 52 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 50 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 50 (1.17%) Remedy
14 47 (1.10%) IBM
15 46 (1.08%) Sparx
16 45 (1.05%) Workday
17 44 (1.03%) Atlassian
18 39 (0.91%) BeyondTrust