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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,137 2,512 3,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.08% 9.03% 10.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 9.88% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 1,654 2,093
10th Percentile £481 £463 £480
25th Percentile £525 £527 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £640
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -2.27% -1.62%
75th Percentile £713 £711 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £823
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -0.80% -1.57% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 17 70
10th Percentile £46.00 £35.42 £60.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -0.25%
75th Percentile £78.63 £87.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £100.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.06% +3.57% -0.25%

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 42,792 25,414 30,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.34% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,591 16,383 19,325
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,397 1,362 1,531
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.56
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +6.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 2,621 £625 -2.95% 1,901
South East +1 741 £625 +4.17% 428
North of England +5 710 £600 - 326
Midlands +2 427 £626 +9.11% 178
North West +8 413 £600 +4.35% 178
South West +3 343 £640 -0.78% 155
West Midlands +1 318 £650 +8.42% 123
Yorkshire +11 233 £575 -4.17% 117
East of England +11 157 £616 +11.04% 123
East Midlands +3 104 £600 +20.00% 54
North East -5 65 £600 -15.79% 31
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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 1,584 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,343 (26.14%) Azure
3 1,149 (22.37%) SC Cleared
4 1,045 (20.34%) AWS
5 911 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 820 (15.96%) Roadmaps
7 741 (14.42%) Migration
8 727 (14.15%) Microsoft
9 681 (13.26%) Enterprise Architecture
10 677 (13.18%) AI
11 637 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
12 566 (11.02%) DevOps
13 558 (10.86%) Agile
14 542 (10.55%) Data Modelling
15 532 (10.36%) CI/CD
15 532 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 514 (10.01%) Data Architecture
17 480 (9.34%) Integration Patterns
18 452 (8.80%) Analytics
19 425 (8.27%) Security Architecture
20 417 (8.12%) TOGAF
21 412 (8.02%) GCP
22 407 (7.92%) Architectural Patterns
23 357 (6.95%) DV Cleared
24 343 (6.68%) Architecture Governance
25 339 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
26 337 (6.56%) Event-Driven
27 322 (6.27%) Data Governance
27 322 (6.27%) Microservices
28 313 (6.09%) Decision-Making

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 74 (1.44%) SAS
2 64 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 48 (0.93%) Confluence
4 43 (0.84%) Apache
5 37 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 29 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 21 (0.41%) CMS
10 14 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.14%) Documentum
11 7 (0.14%) NetWeaver
12 6 (0.12%) Appian
13 5 (0.097%) Camunda
13 5 (0.097%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.097%) SAP EP
14 4 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.078%) IIS
14 4 (0.078%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.16%) Revit
6 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.039%) Windchill
9 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.019%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.019%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.019%) Notion
9 1 (0.019%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 131 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.31%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
9 8 (0.16%) SAP MDG
9 8 (0.16%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
11 6 (0.12%) Maximo
12 5 (0.097%) SAP CRM
12 5 (0.097%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,343 (26.14%) Azure
2 1,045 (20.34%) AWS
3 412 (8.02%) GCP
4 280 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 197 (3.83%) SaaS
6 191 (3.72%) Entra ID
7 165 (3.21%) Serverless
8 141 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 123 (2.39%) GitHub
10 114 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 113 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
12 108 (2.10%) Snowflake
13 86 (1.67%) PaaS
14 70 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 60 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
16 60 (1.17%) OCI
17 58 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 56 (1.09%) IaaS
19 53 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.78%) Network Security
2 134 (2.61%) Firewall
3 102 (1.99%) WAN
4 75 (1.46%) DNS
5 70 (1.36%) LAN
6 65 (1.27%) VPN
7 51 (0.99%) SD-WAN
8 43 (0.84%) BGP
9 39 (0.76%) DHCP
10 37 (0.72%) MPLS
10 37 (0.72%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.56%) VLAN
12 27 (0.53%) SAN
13 24 (0.47%) VXLAN
14 22 (0.43%) NAS
15 21 (0.41%) Wireless
16 20 (0.39%) NX-OS
17 19 (0.37%) OSPF
18 18 (0.35%) BIG-IP
19 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (3.66%) Metadata
2 185 (3.60%) Power BI
3 173 (3.37%) Data Lake
4 151 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 56 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 50 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 40 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 37 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 37 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (0.68%) Big Data
11 33 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 27 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 25 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
16 22 (0.43%) GIS
16 22 (0.43%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.43%) Tableau
17 21 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (1.40%) JIRA
2 62 (1.21%) Git
3 54 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.76%) GitLab
5 16 (0.31%) ERwin
6 12 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 9 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.18%) MSI
7 9 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.16%) RStudio
9 7 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.12%) Storybook
11 5 (0.097%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.097%) Maven
11 5 (0.097%) MLflow
11 5 (0.097%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.078%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.078%) Selenium
13 3 (0.058%) Hudson
General
1 1,059 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 762 (14.83%) Finance
3 551 (10.73%) Public Sector
4 288 (5.61%) Banking
5 267 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 258 (5.02%) Retail
7 151 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 123 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 118 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 117 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 75 (1.46%) Legal
12 67 (1.30%) Marketing
13 62 (1.21%) Billing
14 56 (1.09%) Military
15 49 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 49 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (0.86%) Law
17 33 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (0.53%) Aviation
19 26 (0.51%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (5.10%) REST
2 214 (4.17%) Terraform
3 134 (2.61%) Middleware
4 125 (2.43%) SOAP
5 123 (2.39%) Kafka
6 119 (2.32%) .NET
7 104 (2.02%) OAuth
8 67 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
9 61 (1.19%) JSON
10 57 (1.11%) OpenID
10 57 (1.11%) SAML
11 50 (0.97%) LDAP
12 49 (0.95%) OAuth2
13 44 (0.86%) PySpark
14 41 (0.80%) XML
15 40 (0.78%) .NET Framework
16 39 (0.76%) React
17 36 (0.70%) SailPoint
18 35 (0.68%) RESTful
19 32 (0.62%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 442 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 151 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 147 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 125 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 124 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 123 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 118 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 117 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 117 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 108 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 93 (1.81%) CMDB
11 84 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 79 (1.54%) Operational Technology
13 71 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 67 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 60 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 55 (1.07%) Private Cloud
17 53 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 41 (0.80%) Mainframe
19 40 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 104 (2.02%) Windows
2 88 (1.71%) Linux
3 40 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (0.41%) Unix
5 10 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.18%) AIX
6 9 (0.18%) Android
7 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.12%) zOS
9 5 (0.097%) Solaris
10 4 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.058%) CentOS
11 3 (0.058%) VMS
12 2 (0.039%) HPUX
12 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.039%) OpenWrt
12 2 (0.039%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.019%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 820 (15.96%) Roadmaps
3 741 (14.42%) Migration
4 681 (13.26%) Enterprise Architecture
5 677 (13.18%) AI
6 637 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
7 566 (11.02%) DevOps
8 558 (10.86%) Agile
9 542 (10.55%) Data Modelling
10 532 (10.36%) CI/CD
10 532 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 514 (10.01%) Data Architecture
12 480 (9.34%) Integration Patterns
13 452 (8.80%) Analytics
14 425 (8.27%) Security Architecture
15 417 (8.12%) TOGAF
16 407 (7.92%) Architectural Patterns
17 343 (6.68%) Architecture Governance
18 339 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
19 337 (6.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 232 (4.52%) Python
2 226 (4.40%) SQL
3 207 (4.03%) Java
4 114 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 90 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 49 (0.95%) C#
6 49 (0.95%) TypeScript
7 41 (0.80%) Bash
8 37 (0.72%) Bicep
9 30 (0.58%) Apex Code
10 21 (0.41%) ABAP
11 15 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.23%) Ruby
13 11 (0.21%) C++
13 11 (0.21%) Groovy
14 10 (0.19%) R
15 9 (0.18%) Scala
16 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.14%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 1,584 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,149 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 357 (6.95%) DV Cleared
4 157 (3.06%) Degree
5 141 (2.74%) CISSP
6 107 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 97 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 93 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 90 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 83 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 66 (1.28%) CISM
12 58 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 44 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.80%) CCNP
15 35 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.47%) Master's Degree
18 23 (0.45%) CCSP
19 20 (0.39%) CCIE
20 19 (0.37%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 205 (3.99%) NIST
3 159 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 139 (2.71%) GDPR
5 99 (1.93%) NCSC
6 69 (1.34%) GRC
7 56 (1.09%) QA
8 37 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 34 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (0.45%) SLA
13 20 (0.39%) SEPA
14 19 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.35%) IFRS
15 18 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 18 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 18 (0.35%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.27%) ISO 19650
17 13 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 164 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.79%) Docker
3 62 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 29 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.31%) vSphere
8 15 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.12%) NFS
10 4 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.078%) KVM
10 4 (0.078%) Postfix
10 4 (0.078%) Varnish
10 4 (0.078%) vCloud
11 3 (0.058%) Ceph
11 3 (0.058%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.058%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.058%) SRDF
12 2 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 242 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 88 (1.71%) Ansible
3 42 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
4 41 (0.80%) Grafana
5 32 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (0.27%) Argo
8 14 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.21%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.19%) WMI
11 9 (0.18%) CASB
12 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.12%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.12%) Puppet
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.097%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.097%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.078%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 727 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 294 (5.72%) SAP
3 270 (5.26%) Oracle
4 259 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 254 (4.94%) Databricks
6 170 (3.31%) Salesforce
7 162 (3.15%) Google
8 136 (2.65%) Cisco
9 119 (2.32%) VMware
10 79 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 64 (1.25%) MuleSoft
12 57 (1.11%) IBM
13 55 (1.07%) Workday
14 50 (0.97%) Foundry
14 50 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 35 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 35 (0.68%) Sparx
16 34 (0.66%) F5
16 34 (0.66%) Informatica
17 33 (0.64%) Adobe