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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,819 2,915 3,523
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.10% 9.61% 9.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.98% 10.35% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 1,761 2,464
10th Percentile £462 £475 £500
25th Percentile £525 £540 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £730
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 23 34
10th Percentile £65.00 £60.30 £58.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £62.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £83.82 £67.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +24.18% -11.80% +9.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £83.18 £82.33
90th Percentile - £89.50 £92.25
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £68.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +21.92% -10.17% +9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 1,284 £634 +1.40% 392
South East +4 509 £600 -4.00% 545
North of England -7 368 £600 - 381
South West +2 259 £700 +12.00% 188
Midlands -8 228 £581 -3.17% 301
North West -7 218 £599 -0.21% 197
West Midlands -13 175 £588 -2.08% 176
Yorkshire -19 131 £600 +1.48% 150
East of England -8 83 £553 -7.92% 223
East Midlands -5 53 £515 -6.36% 110
North East -1 20 £700 +12.13% 35
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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.

1 896 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 774 (27.46%) Azure
3 609 (21.60%) SC Cleared
4 578 (20.50%) AWS
5 437 (15.50%) Roadmaps
6 423 (15.01%) Agile
7 410 (14.54%) Microsoft
8 381 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 329 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
10 323 (11.46%) TOGAF
11 319 (11.32%) Migration
12 310 (11.00%) Data Modelling
13 297 (10.54%) DevOps
13 297 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 275 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
15 269 (9.54%) CI/CD
16 260 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
17 245 (8.69%) GCP
18 240 (8.51%) Microservices
19 232 (8.23%) AI
20 225 (7.98%) DV Cleared
21 221 (7.84%) Data Architecture
22 217 (7.70%) Analytics
23 206 (7.31%) Python
24 192 (6.81%) Terraform
25 191 (6.78%) ITIL
26 186 (6.60%) Data Governance
26 186 (6.60%) Mentoring
27 183 (6.49%) Security Architecture
28 181 (6.42%) Architectural Design

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 95 (3.37%) Confluence
2 50 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.74%) SAS
5 17 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.57%) CMS
7 15 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.35%) Apache
10 7 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.21%) Smallworld
12 4 (0.14%) Documentum
12 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.35%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.035%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.035%) Revit
8 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 75 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.96%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.60%) Maximo
6 16 (0.57%) SAP PM
7 13 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.46%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.43%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.39%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.39%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.32%) Endur
11 8 (0.28%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
13 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.21%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 774 (27.46%) Azure
2 578 (20.50%) AWS
3 245 (8.69%) GCP
4 126 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 125 (4.43%) SaaS
6 92 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 88 (3.12%) Serverless
8 77 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 71 (2.52%) IaaS
10 68 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 66 (2.34%) GitHub
12 57 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (1.99%) PaaS
14 54 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (1.84%) Snowflake
16 46 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (1.56%) Amazon S3
18 43 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
19 42 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
20 41 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 171 (6.07%) Firewall
2 94 (3.33%) WAN
3 84 (2.98%) LAN
4 79 (2.80%) Network Security
5 67 (2.38%) VPN
6 65 (2.31%) SD-WAN
7 63 (2.23%) DNS
8 38 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (1.14%) BGP
10 26 (0.92%) SAN
11 25 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (0.89%) MPLS
12 23 (0.82%) DHCP
13 22 (0.78%) SSL
14 20 (0.71%) VSAN
15 16 (0.57%) Internet
15 16 (0.57%) VLAN
16 15 (0.53%) OSPF
17 14 (0.50%) iSCSI
18 13 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (2.94%) Power BI
3 76 (2.70%) Metadata
4 63 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 54 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.53%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 30 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 27 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (0.89%) Tableau
11 24 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 24 (0.85%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.82%) Big Data
13 20 (0.71%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.64%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.64%) Delta Lake
16 17 (0.60%) GIS
16 17 (0.60%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 117 (4.15%) JIRA
2 61 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.74%) Git
4 24 (0.85%) GitLab
5 13 (0.46%) ERwin
6 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.25%) MLflow
8 6 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.18%) Gradle
9 5 (0.18%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
9 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.14%) MSI
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.071%) CircleCI
General
1 759 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 493 (17.49%) Finance
3 349 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 243 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (6.42%) Banking
6 89 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 75 (2.66%) Retail
8 66 (2.34%) Marketing
9 63 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 63 (2.23%) Military
10 61 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 56 (1.99%) Legal
13 55 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 38 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.06%) Billing
17 25 (0.89%) Back Office
18 18 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.60%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (4.72%) REST
2 86 (3.05%) Middleware
3 70 (2.48%) SOAP
4 64 (2.27%) .NET
5 60 (2.13%) JSON
6 51 (1.81%) Kafka
7 49 (1.74%) OAuth
8 47 (1.67%) RESTful
9 42 (1.49%) SAML
10 39 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (1.24%) Web Services
12 30 (1.06%) AngularJS
13 27 (0.96%) OAuth2
13 27 (0.96%) OpenID
14 26 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (0.92%) Visualforce
15 25 (0.89%) React
15 25 (0.89%) Spring Boot
16 20 (0.71%) SailPoint
16 20 (0.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
4 96 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 78 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 76 (2.70%) PKI
7 70 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 47 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.42%) CMDB
11 40 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 36 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 35 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 31 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (1.03%) NHS
16 28 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 27 (0.96%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.89%) SCADA
19 24 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (4.22%) Windows
2 78 (2.77%) Linux
3 45 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.43%) Unix
6 12 (0.43%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.32%) VMS
9 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Android
10 5 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.11%) zOS
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
13 1 (0.035%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (15.50%) Roadmaps
2 423 (15.01%) Agile
3 381 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 329 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 323 (11.46%) TOGAF
6 319 (11.32%) Migration
7 310 (11.00%) Data Modelling
8 297 (10.54%) DevOps
8 297 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 275 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (9.54%) CI/CD
11 260 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
12 240 (8.51%) Microservices
13 232 (8.23%) AI
14 221 (7.84%) Data Architecture
15 217 (7.70%) Analytics
16 191 (6.78%) ITIL
17 186 (6.60%) Data Governance
17 186 (6.60%) Mentoring
18 183 (6.49%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.31%) Python
2 145 (5.14%) SQL
3 133 (4.72%) Java
4 93 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 59 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.31%) C#
7 35 (1.24%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.17%) Apex Code
9 28 (0.99%) Bash
10 26 (0.92%) Bicep
11 19 (0.67%) R
12 13 (0.46%) C++
13 12 (0.43%) C
14 11 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.28%) Korn
16 6 (0.21%) ABAP
16 6 (0.21%) PHP
17 5 (0.18%) Perl
17 5 (0.18%) Scala
17 5 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 896 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 609 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 225 (7.98%) DV Cleared
4 167 (5.92%) Degree
5 93 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 91 (3.23%) CISSP
7 85 (3.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 83 (2.94%) Azure Certification
9 59 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 59 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 37 (1.31%) CISM
12 37 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 33 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 33 (1.17%) CCNP
14 31 (1.10%) CCIE
15 23 (0.82%) ISEB
16 21 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (5.07%) GDPR
2 108 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (3.76%) NIST
4 84 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 54 (1.92%) NCSC
6 46 (1.63%) QA
7 44 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.06%) COBIT
8 30 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 22 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 21 (0.74%) GRC
11 19 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 19 (0.67%) JSP 440
12 17 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.35%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.35%) SLA
16 9 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 109 (3.87%) Docker
2 104 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 79 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.17%) vSphere
5 28 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 23 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.50%) NFS
8 14 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.071%) KVM
13 2 (0.071%) Lustre
14 1 (0.035%) Ceph
14 1 (0.035%) GPFS
14 1 (0.035%) HDFS
14 1 (0.035%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 192 (6.81%) Terraform
2 152 (5.39%) Kubernetes
3 79 (2.80%) Ansible
4 46 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (1.17%) OPNET
6 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.53%) SCCM
9 14 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.43%) WMI
11 10 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.32%) Argo
12 9 (0.32%) Grafana
13 4 (0.14%) SCOM
14 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.11%) vRealize
15 2 (0.071%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 410 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 180 (6.39%) ServiceNow
3 166 (5.89%) SAP
4 160 (5.68%) Salesforce
5 134 (4.75%) Oracle
6 125 (4.43%) VMware
7 107 (3.80%) Cisco
8 87 (3.09%) Databricks
9 78 (2.77%) Google
10 51 (1.81%) Remedy
10 51 (1.81%) Workday
11 50 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 48 (1.70%) Splunk
13 46 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.49%) IBM
15 38 (1.35%) CyberArk
16 37 (1.31%) Atlassian
17 36 (1.28%) F5
18 34 (1.21%) Juniper
19 31 (1.10%) OpenAI