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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,576 2,373 3,853
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.89% 10.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.71% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,070 1,547 2,506
10th Percentile £463 £479 £498
25th Percentile £513 £539 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £747
90th Percentile £800 £798 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 27 95
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £82.25 £86.32
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £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 38,587 22,165 34,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.40% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,615 22,428
10th Percentile £325 £289 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,713 946 2,578
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.27 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.74% -22.97% -15.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.70 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +52.48% -25.33% -16.67%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +5 2,235 £625 -3.85% 968
North of England +3 678 £600 - 330
South East +4 672 £625 +1.63% 265
Midlands +1 435 £600 +0.17% 127
North West +6 371 £608 +4.11% 177
West Midlands 0 310 £620 +3.33% 93
Yorkshire +8 256 £555 -7.58% 95
South West -3 236 £650 +7.22% 164
East of England +19 203 £575 -4.17% 79
East Midlands 0 119 £573 +8.84% 34
North East +5 58 £575 -4.17% 59
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 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 1,346 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1,115 (24.37%) Azure
3 965 (21.09%) SC Cleared
4 915 (20.00%) AWS
5 654 (14.29%) Migration
6 635 (13.88%) Roadmaps
7 614 (13.42%) Microsoft
8 545 (11.91%) DevOps
9 544 (11.89%) Agile
10 517 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 483 (10.56%) CI/CD
12 453 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
13 437 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 436 (9.53%) AI
15 427 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 424 (9.27%) Integration Patterns
17 413 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
18 385 (8.41%) Data Architecture
19 371 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
20 363 (7.93%) Analytics
21 356 (7.78%) GCP
22 327 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
23 325 (7.10%) TOGAF
24 322 (7.04%) Architectural Design
24 322 (7.04%) Microservices
25 289 (6.32%) Python
26 277 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
27 275 (6.01%) DV Cleared
28 272 (5.94%) Security Architecture
29 268 (5.86%) Cybersecurity

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
1 102 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 68 (1.49%) Confluence
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.66%) SAS
5 27 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.55%) Apache
7 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.35%) Appian
8 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 14 (0.31%) CMS
11 13 (0.28%) nginx
12 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.20%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.044%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 18 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
11 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.11%) Maximo
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
12 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (24.37%) Azure
2 915 (20.00%) AWS
3 356 (7.78%) GCP
4 223 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 168 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 165 (3.61%) Serverless
7 157 (3.43%) SaaS
8 121 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (2.34%) PaaS
10 106 (2.32%) GitHub
11 99 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 94 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 79 (1.73%) IaaS
13 79 (1.73%) Snowflake
14 78 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
15 74 (1.62%) Amazon S3
16 62 (1.35%) OpenShift
17 56 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
18 54 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 158 (3.45%) Network Security
2 157 (3.43%) Firewall
3 110 (2.40%) DNS
4 105 (2.29%) WAN
5 95 (2.08%) VPN
6 79 (1.73%) LAN
7 52 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.85%) DHCP
9 37 (0.81%) BGP
10 31 (0.68%) OSPF
11 29 (0.63%) VLAN
12 28 (0.61%) MPLS
12 28 (0.61%) SAN
12 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 27 (0.59%) NAS
13 27 (0.59%) Wireless
14 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
15 20 (0.44%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.44%) VXLAN
16 19 (0.42%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (3.54%) Power BI
2 119 (2.60%) Metadata
3 112 (2.45%) Data Lake
4 104 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (0.76%) Tableau
9 33 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.66%) Big Data
11 27 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.55%) Delta Lake
13 25 (0.55%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.44%) GIS
16 19 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
17 18 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 18 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (1.86%) JIRA
2 77 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.14%) Git
4 42 (0.92%) GitLab
5 20 (0.44%) ERwin
6 13 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 7 (0.15%) Postman
10 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.11%) JMeter
11 5 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.11%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.11%) Selenium
12 4 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
12 4 (0.087%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.066%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 845 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 728 (15.91%) Finance
3 480 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.08%) Banking
5 226 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (3.61%) Retail
7 139 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 97 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
9 85 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 84 (1.84%) Legal
10 84 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 57 (1.25%) Law
12 49 (1.07%) Military
12 49 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (1.01%) Billing
14 45 (0.98%) Marketing
15 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
18 32 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (4.94%) REST
2 166 (3.63%) Middleware
3 121 (2.64%) SOAP
4 114 (2.49%) .NET
5 87 (1.90%) LDAP
6 84 (1.84%) OpenID
7 78 (1.70%) OAuth
8 65 (1.42%) Kafka
9 63 (1.38%) SAML
10 55 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
11 46 (1.01%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.96%) React
13 40 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 35 (0.76%) RESTful
15 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
15 34 (0.74%) JSON
16 29 (0.63%) Web Services
17 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
18 27 (0.59%) Node.js
18 27 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 391 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.84%) Data Centre
3 121 (2.64%) Onboarding
4 118 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 112 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 109 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 95 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 92 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 76 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 73 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 72 (1.57%) CMDB
14 69 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.92%) Mainframe
16 42 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 36 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
18 33 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (2.88%) Windows
2 81 (1.77%) Linux
3 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.46%) Unix
6 14 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.24%) zOS
8 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.087%) Solaris
12 4 (0.087%) VMS
13 3 (0.066%) AIX
13 3 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (14.29%) Migration
2 635 (13.88%) Roadmaps
3 545 (11.91%) DevOps
4 544 (11.89%) Agile
5 517 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 483 (10.56%) CI/CD
7 453 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
8 437 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 436 (9.53%) AI
10 427 (9.33%) Data Modelling
11 424 (9.27%) Integration Patterns
12 413 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
13 385 (8.41%) Data Architecture
14 371 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
15 363 (7.93%) Analytics
16 327 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
17 325 (7.10%) TOGAF
18 322 (7.04%) Architectural Design
18 322 (7.04%) Microservices
19 277 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 289 (6.32%) Python
2 231 (5.05%) SQL
3 181 (3.96%) Java
4 148 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 88 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.18%) C#
7 48 (1.05%) Bicep
8 38 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.72%) Bash
10 20 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.33%) Scala
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
16 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.13%) ABAP
17 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,346 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 965 (21.09%) SC Cleared
3 275 (6.01%) DV Cleared
4 164 (3.58%) Degree
5 103 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 99 (2.16%) CISSP
7 83 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 74 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 51 (1.11%) CISM
11 47 (1.03%) CCNP
12 42 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 35 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 26 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.42%) GIAC
17 18 (0.39%) CCIE
17 18 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (3.72%) NIST
2 149 (3.26%) GDPR
3 128 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 126 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 92 (2.01%) NCSC
6 66 (1.44%) QA
7 38 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.66%) GRC
9 26 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 23 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.42%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) COBIT
14 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) HL7
16 14 (0.31%) IFRS
17 13 (0.28%) FINRA
17 13 (0.28%) MiFID
18 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 175 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 94 (2.05%) Docker
3 88 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.59%) vSphere
6 19 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.20%) NFS
10 9 (0.20%) Squid
10 9 (0.20%) vCloud
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.066%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.066%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 217 (4.74%) Terraform
2 207 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 93 (2.03%) Ansible
4 47 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (0.85%) Grafana
5 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 27 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.39%) SCCM
10 15 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (0.33%) Argo
11 9 (0.20%) Istio
12 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.15%) Consul
13 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
13 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.15%) Puppet
14 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.11%) Endace
Vendors
1 614 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.79%) SAP
3 248 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 205 (4.48%) Oracle
5 195 (4.26%) Databricks
6 169 (3.69%) VMware
7 150 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.56%) Cisco
9 100 (2.19%) Google
10 86 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 68 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 61 (1.33%) Splunk
13 42 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.90%) Workday
15 40 (0.87%) Sparx
16 39 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
17 38 (0.83%) IBM
17 38 (0.83%) Red Hat
18 34 (0.74%) Centrify
19 33 (0.72%) OpenAI