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 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,053 2,570 3,393
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.27% 10.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.91% 10.12% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 1,702 2,230
10th Percentile £481 £470 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -0.76%
75th Percentile £724 £706 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £823
UK median daily rate £619 £625 £648
% change year-on-year -0.96% -3.55% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 18 73
10th Percentile £46.00 £36.30 -
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 £73.25 £87.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £100.00 £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 42,428 25,390 30,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.54% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,610 16,390 20,029
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,223 1,373 1,719
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.85% -43.73% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.20 £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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 2,595 £625 -3.29% 321
South East +1 743 £625 +4.17% 165
North of England +4 697 £600 - 142
Midlands 0 415 £625 +8.70% 52
North West +5 407 £600 - 75
South West -2 316 £643 +0.39% 79
West Midlands -1 299 £640 +6.58% 39
Yorkshire +6 226 £594 -5.00% 49
East of England +15 152 £604 +8.83% 17
East Midlands +6 109 £600 +16.50% 13
North East -6 66 £588 -16.07% 18
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 1,520 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,306 (25.85%) Azure
3 1,096 (21.69%) SC Cleared
4 1,041 (20.60%) AWS
5 775 (15.34%) Roadmaps
6 765 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 738 (14.61%) Migration
8 691 (13.68%) Microsoft
9 655 (12.96%) AI
10 639 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
11 561 (11.10%) Agile
11 561 (11.10%) DevOps
12 556 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
13 535 (10.59%) CI/CD
14 532 (10.53%) Data Modelling
15 519 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 497 (9.84%) Data Architecture
17 492 (9.74%) Integration Patterns
18 461 (9.12%) Analytics
19 410 (8.11%) GCP
20 401 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
21 391 (7.74%) TOGAF
22 381 (7.54%) Security Architecture
23 333 (6.59%) DV Cleared
24 327 (6.47%) Event-Driven
25 321 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
26 314 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
27 310 (6.13%) Microservices
28 309 (6.12%) Data Governance
28 309 (6.12%) Problem-Solving

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 73 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.42%) SAS
3 51 (1.01%) Confluence
4 42 (0.83%) Apache
5 40 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 18 (0.36%) CMS
10 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.14%) Camunda
11 7 (0.14%) Documentum
12 6 (0.12%) Appian
13 4 (0.079%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.079%) nginx
14 3 (0.059%) Drupal
14 3 (0.059%) NetWeaver
14 3 (0.059%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
8 1 (0.020%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 121 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 14 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Maximo
13 6 (0.12%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.099%) Endur
14 5 (0.099%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,306 (25.85%) Azure
2 1,041 (20.60%) AWS
3 410 (8.11%) GCP
4 280 (5.54%) Power Platform
5 187 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 186 (3.68%) SaaS
7 168 (3.32%) Serverless
8 133 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
9 124 (2.45%) GitHub
10 108 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (2.12%) Snowflake
12 102 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (1.94%) PaaS
14 75 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 66 (1.31%) IaaS
17 62 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 60 (1.19%) OCI
19 59 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 142 (2.81%) Firewall
1 142 (2.81%) Network Security
2 100 (1.98%) WAN
3 84 (1.66%) DNS
4 70 (1.39%) LAN
5 69 (1.37%) VPN
6 49 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 48 (0.95%) BGP
8 40 (0.79%) DHCP
9 38 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 35 (0.69%) MPLS
11 30 (0.59%) VLAN
12 29 (0.57%) VXLAN
13 28 (0.55%) SAN
14 24 (0.47%) NAS
14 24 (0.47%) NX-OS
15 23 (0.46%) OSPF
15 23 (0.46%) Wireless
16 21 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
16 21 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (3.90%) Power BI
2 172 (3.40%) Data Lake
3 162 (3.21%) Metadata
4 152 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 43 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 41 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (0.79%) Big Data
9 40 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 32 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (0.57%) Oracle Database
14 26 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 23 (0.46%) GIS
16 22 (0.44%) Tableau
17 21 (0.42%) MongoDB
18 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
19 19 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (1.41%) JIRA
2 69 (1.37%) Git
3 47 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.65%) GitLab
5 18 (0.36%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.14%) MLflow
8 7 (0.14%) MSI
9 6 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.12%) RStudio
9 6 (0.12%) Storybook
10 5 (0.099%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.099%) Maven
10 5 (0.099%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.079%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.079%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.059%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 983 (19.45%) Social Skills
2 762 (15.08%) Finance
3 547 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 284 (5.62%) Banking
5 276 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 254 (5.03%) Retail
7 137 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 126 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 119 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 79 (1.56%) Legal
12 63 (1.25%) Marketing
13 62 (1.23%) Billing
14 52 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 47 (0.93%) Law
15 47 (0.93%) Military
16 46 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 40 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.59%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (5.03%) REST
2 216 (4.27%) Terraform
3 146 (2.89%) Middleware
4 119 (2.36%) .NET
5 115 (2.28%) SOAP
6 108 (2.14%) Kafka
7 103 (2.04%) OAuth
8 69 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 58 (1.15%) SAML
10 56 (1.11%) OpenID
11 55 (1.09%) JSON
12 52 (1.03%) OAuth2
13 43 (0.85%) PySpark
14 40 (0.79%) RESTful
15 39 (0.77%) React
16 37 (0.73%) .NET Framework
17 35 (0.69%) SailPoint
18 34 (0.67%) XML
19 33 (0.65%) LDAP
20 32 (0.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 442 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 155 (3.07%) Data Centre
3 134 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 125 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 124 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 122 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 114 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 109 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 107 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 92 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
12 83 (1.64%) CMDB
13 75 (1.48%) Operational Technology
14 68 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
15 64 (1.27%) Public Cloud
16 60 (1.19%) Security Posture
17 56 (1.11%) Data Structures
18 47 (0.93%) Private Cloud
19 44 (0.87%) Mainframe
20 42 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (2.08%) Windows
2 85 (1.68%) Linux
3 36 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.40%) Unix
5 18 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.28%) Android
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
9 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.16%) zOS
10 5 (0.099%) Solaris
11 4 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.059%) CentOS
12 3 (0.059%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) CatOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (15.34%) Roadmaps
2 765 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 738 (14.61%) Migration
4 655 (12.96%) AI
5 639 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 561 (11.10%) Agile
6 561 (11.10%) DevOps
7 556 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
8 535 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 532 (10.53%) Data Modelling
10 519 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 497 (9.84%) Data Architecture
12 492 (9.74%) Integration Patterns
13 461 (9.12%) Analytics
14 401 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
15 391 (7.74%) TOGAF
16 381 (7.54%) Security Architecture
17 327 (6.47%) Event-Driven
18 321 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
19 314 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 245 (4.85%) SQL
2 243 (4.81%) Python
3 205 (4.06%) Java
4 114 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 91 (1.80%) PowerShell
6 48 (0.95%) C#
7 42 (0.83%) Bash
7 42 (0.83%) Bicep
7 42 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.53%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (0.32%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.28%) Ruby
11 12 (0.24%) ABAP
11 12 (0.24%) C++
12 11 (0.22%) Groovy
13 10 (0.20%) R
13 10 (0.20%) Scala
14 9 (0.18%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,520 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,096 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 333 (6.59%) DV Cleared
4 153 (3.03%) Degree
5 128 (2.53%) CISSP
6 111 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 96 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 86 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 73 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 60 (1.19%) CISM
11 60 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 41 (0.81%) CCNP
14 33 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 32 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.47%) Master's Degree
17 20 (0.40%) CCSP
18 18 (0.36%) CCIE
18 18 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 184 (3.64%) NIST
3 145 (2.87%) GDPR
4 139 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.88%) NCSC
6 65 (1.29%) GRC
7 51 (1.01%) QA
8 35 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 35 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 28 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.40%) SLA
12 19 (0.38%) IFRS
12 19 (0.38%) SEPA
13 17 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 16 (0.32%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 13 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 150 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.86%) Docker
3 60 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 29 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.26%) vSphere
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 4 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.079%) KVM
13 4 (0.079%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.059%) Ceph
14 3 (0.059%) IAG
14 3 (0.059%) SRDF
15 2 (0.040%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 239 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 91 (1.80%) Ansible
3 43 (0.85%) Grafana
4 39 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 15 (0.30%) Argo
8 14 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.16%) WMI
11 7 (0.14%) Istio
12 6 (0.12%) CASB
12 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
12 6 (0.12%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.12%) SCCM
13 5 (0.099%) EMC VPLEX
13 5 (0.099%) MOM
13 5 (0.099%) Puppet
Vendors
1 691 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 285 (5.64%) SAP
3 272 (5.38%) Oracle
4 249 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 248 (4.91%) Databricks
6 162 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 157 (3.11%) Google
8 134 (2.65%) Cisco
9 118 (2.34%) VMware
10 61 (1.21%) CyberArk
11 58 (1.15%) IBM
12 55 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 54 (1.07%) Workday
14 49 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 44 (0.87%) Foundry
16 37 (0.73%) Sparx
17 36 (0.71%) Adobe
18 33 (0.65%) OpenAI
19 32 (0.63%) Ariba
20 31 (0.61%) F5