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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,956 2,631 3,582
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.98% 9.60% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.87% 10.46% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 1,759 2,360
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 166 19 84
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 £72.91 £86.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £83.50 £100.00 £89.40
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 41,767 25,148 32,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.78% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,470 16,339 21,305
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,263 2,075
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 2,513 £623 -4.23% 1,016
South East 0 722 £638 +6.25% 257
North of England +7 721 £600 - 211
Midlands -3 412 £621 +8.00% 123
North West +3 396 £600 - 107
West Midlands -4 302 £626 +4.33% 89
South West -2 286 £618 -1.20% 106
Yorkshire +6 257 £600 - 62
East of England +17 171 £600 +5.49% 58
East Midlands +7 104 £600 +20.00% 33
North East +1 76 £600 -14.29% 42
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 1,459 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 1,248 (25.18%) Azure
3 1,063 (21.45%) SC Cleared
4 1,035 (20.88%) AWS
5 761 (15.36%) Roadmaps
6 704 (14.21%) Migration
7 650 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 649 (13.10%) Microsoft
9 601 (12.13%) AI
10 579 (11.68%) Agile
11 576 (11.62%) Enterprise Architecture
12 556 (11.22%) DevOps
13 523 (10.55%) Data Modelling
14 514 (10.37%) CI/CD
15 490 (9.89%) Data Architecture
16 488 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
17 481 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 475 (9.58%) Integration Patterns
19 448 (9.04%) Analytics
20 413 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
21 406 (8.19%) TOGAF
22 384 (7.75%) GCP
23 346 (6.98%) Security Architecture
24 336 (6.78%) Microservices
25 335 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
26 319 (6.44%) Architectural Design
27 314 (6.34%) DV Cleared
28 306 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
29 297 (5.99%) Event-Driven
30 294 (5.93%) Data Governance

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 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 70 (1.41%) SAS
3 52 (1.05%) Confluence
4 43 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 41 (0.83%) Apache
6 37 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (0.40%) 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 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 14 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) Maximo
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,248 (25.18%) Azure
2 1,035 (20.88%) AWS
3 384 (7.75%) GCP
4 258 (5.21%) Power Platform
5 191 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 173 (3.49%) SaaS
7 157 (3.17%) Serverless
8 118 (2.38%) GitHub
9 116 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 110 (2.22%) PaaS
11 107 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
12 98 (1.98%) Snowflake
13 97 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
14 80 (1.61%) 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 53 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 52 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.35%) Network Security
2 161 (3.25%) Firewall
3 100 (2.02%) WAN
4 97 (1.96%) DNS
5 79 (1.59%) VPN
6 73 (1.47%) LAN
7 48 (0.97%) 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 (0.56%) OSPF
14 28 (0.56%) SAN
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 23 (0.46%) IPsec
16 23 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (3.73%) Power BI
2 158 (3.19%) Metadata
3 156 (3.15%) Data Lake
4 144 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 55 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.91%) Big Data
8 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 35 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 29 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.59%) 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 54 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.63%) GitLab
5 24 (0.48%) 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
1 926 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 785 (15.84%) Finance
3 540 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 301 (6.07%) Banking
5 270 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (4.64%) Retail
7 124 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 123 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 116 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 98 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 74 (1.49%) Legal
12 55 (1.11%) Marketing
13 51 (1.03%) Billing
14 50 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 48 (0.97%) Law
16 46 (0.93%) Military
17 41 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 39 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
20 29 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.76%) REST
2 167 (3.37%) Middleware
3 116 (2.34%) .NET
4 107 (2.16%) SOAP
5 96 (1.94%) Kafka
6 88 (1.78%) OAuth
7 70 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 54 (1.09%) OpenID
9 49 (0.99%) OAuth2
9 49 (0.99%) SAML
10 48 (0.97%) React
11 44 (0.89%) JSON
12 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 37 (0.75%) .NET Framework
15 34 (0.69%) PySpark
16 31 (0.63%) LDAP
17 29 (0.59%) Web Services
18 28 (0.56%) Node.js
19 27 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 410 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 145 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 131 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 115 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 109 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 96 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 94 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 88 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 86 (1.74%) 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
1 111 (2.24%) Windows
2 79 (1.59%) Linux
3 32 (0.65%) 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 (0.061%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (15.36%) Roadmaps
2 704 (14.21%) Migration
3 650 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 601 (12.13%) AI
5 579 (11.68%) Agile
6 576 (11.62%) Enterprise Architecture
7 556 (11.22%) DevOps
8 523 (10.55%) Data Modelling
9 514 (10.37%) CI/CD
10 490 (9.89%) Data Architecture
11 488 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
12 481 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 475 (9.58%) Integration Patterns
14 448 (9.04%) Analytics
15 413 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
16 406 (8.19%) TOGAF
17 346 (6.98%) Security Architecture
18 336 (6.78%) Microservices
19 335 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
20 319 (6.44%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 253 (5.10%) Python
2 234 (4.72%) SQL
3 206 (4.16%) Java
4 112 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 86 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.17%) C#
7 47 (0.95%) Bash
8 45 (0.91%) 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 9 (0.18%) R
17 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.16%) VBA
18 7 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,459 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 1,063 (21.45%) SC Cleared
3 314 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 170 (3.43%) Degree
5 127 (2.56%) CISSP
6 111 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 92 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 71 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.17%) CISM
13 45 (0.91%) CCNP
14 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.59%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
19 20 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 164 (3.31%) NIST
3 155 (3.13%) GDPR
4 118 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.92%) NCSC
6 57 (1.15%) QA
7 54 (1.09%) GRC
8 39 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.40%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.40%) SEPA
13 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.38%) IFRS
14 17 (0.34%) HL7
15 14 (0.28%) COBIT
16 12 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 12 (0.24%) SLA
17 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 150 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 98 (1.98%) 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%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.081%) Squid
15 3 (0.061%) KVM
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 237 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 219 (4.42%) Terraform
3 94 (1.90%) Ansible
4 47 (0.95%) Grafana
5 44 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 20 (0.40%) 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
14 6 (0.12%) Istio
15 5 (0.10%) MOM
15 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.081%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 649 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 288 (5.81%) SAP
3 254 (5.13%) Oracle
4 251 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 225 (4.54%) Databricks
6 152 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 138 (2.78%) VMware
8 127 (2.56%) Google
9 121 (2.44%) Cisco
10 57 (1.15%) IBM
11 56 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.01%) Workday
13 47 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 47 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.87%) Foundry
14 43 (0.87%) Splunk
15 37 (0.75%) Sparx
16 36 (0.73%) Ariba
16 36 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 34 (0.69%) F5