Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,478 2,375 3,819
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.05% 9.80% 10.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.98% 10.59% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,012 1,563 2,483
10th Percentile £463 £475 £500
25th Percentile £513 £546 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £750
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 33 86
10th Percentile £49.40 £53.10 £60.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £80.59 £87.46
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.72 £91.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -

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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +3 2,115 £625 -2.34% 455
South East +5 708 £625 - 166
North of England +4 629 £593 -1.25% 186
Midlands +1 431 £600 - 91
North West +3 359 £608 +1.33% 111
West Midlands +2 314 £613 +2.08% 66
South West +1 293 £695 +15.83% 88
Yorkshire +10 233 £550 -8.33% 48
East of England +20 199 £563 -6.25% 50
East Midlands -1 111 £538 -0.46% 25
North East +7 45 £575 -8.00% 27
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 1,359 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 1,027 (22.93%) Azure
3 939 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 865 (19.32%) AWS
5 627 (14.00%) Roadmaps
6 610 (13.62%) Microsoft
7 593 (13.24%) Migration
8 563 (12.57%) Agile
9 510 (11.39%) DevOps
10 478 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 469 (10.47%) CI/CD
12 443 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
13 411 (9.18%) AI
14 390 (8.71%) Integration Patterns
15 389 (8.69%) Data Modelling
16 387 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 383 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
18 361 (8.06%) TOGAF
19 356 (7.95%) Analytics
20 346 (7.73%) GCP
21 339 (7.57%) Data Architecture
22 338 (7.55%) Architectural Patterns
23 330 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
24 319 (7.12%) Microservices
25 314 (7.01%) DV Cleared
26 313 (6.99%) Architectural Design
27 297 (6.63%) Python
28 282 (6.30%) ServiceNow
29 264 (5.90%) SAP
30 259 (5.78%) Security Architecture

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
1 106 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 99 (2.21%) Confluence
3 55 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.51%) Apache
4 23 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.42%) SAS
6 16 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 16 (0.36%) Appian
6 16 (0.36%) CMS
7 14 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.29%) nginx
9 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.18%) Camunda
13 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) NetWeaver
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.16%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.16%) Revit
7 4 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.022%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 113 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 19 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 14 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 14 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 10 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.20%) SAP EWM
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.18%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.16%) SAP PP
10 7 (0.16%) SAP QM
11 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.13%) R3 Corda
12 5 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (22.93%) Azure
2 865 (19.32%) AWS
3 346 (7.73%) GCP
4 206 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 153 (3.42%) Serverless
7 149 (3.33%) SaaS
8 123 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 102 (2.28%) GitHub
10 100 (2.23%) PaaS
11 98 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
12 87 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 78 (1.74%) IaaS
14 73 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 72 (1.61%) Snowflake
16 70 (1.56%) OpenShift
17 59 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
18 55 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
18 55 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 158 (3.53%) Firewall
2 147 (3.28%) Network Security
3 109 (2.43%) WAN
4 103 (2.30%) DNS
5 94 (2.10%) VPN
6 80 (1.79%) LAN
7 54 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.78%) BGP
9 29 (0.65%) DHCP
9 29 (0.65%) OSPF
10 27 (0.60%) MPLS
11 26 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 23 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (0.47%) SAN
13 21 (0.47%) VLAN
14 20 (0.45%) BIG-IP
14 20 (0.45%) NAS
15 18 (0.40%) VXLAN
15 18 (0.40%) Wireless
16 16 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (3.39%) Power BI
2 108 (2.41%) Metadata
3 100 (2.23%) Data Lake
4 93 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 51 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (0.85%) Tableau
10 29 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (0.65%) Big Data
11 28 (0.63%) Delta Lake
12 25 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 24 (0.54%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
14 20 (0.45%) GIS
15 19 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 112 (2.50%) JIRA
2 82 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.25%) Git
4 47 (1.05%) GitLab
5 20 (0.45%) ERwin
6 15 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 13 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.25%) MLflow
9 7 (0.16%) Postman
10 6 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.11%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.089%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.089%) MSI
12 4 (0.089%) Selenium
12 4 (0.089%) Snyk
12 4 (0.089%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.089%) Terragrunt
General
1 847 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 702 (15.68%) Finance
3 461 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 269 (6.01%) Banking
5 247 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (2.99%) Retail
7 131 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 98 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.08%) Legal
10 83 (1.85%) Military
11 82 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 69 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 61 (1.36%) Law
15 54 (1.21%) Marketing
16 50 (1.12%) Billing
17 42 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 35 (0.78%) Investment Banking
19 30 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 29 (0.65%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (4.71%) REST
2 170 (3.80%) Middleware
3 114 (2.55%) SOAP
4 102 (2.28%) .NET
5 81 (1.81%) LDAP
6 79 (1.76%) OpenID
7 67 (1.50%) Kafka
7 67 (1.50%) OAuth
8 56 (1.25%) SAML
9 45 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
10 41 (0.92%) OAuth2
11 39 (0.87%) SailPoint
12 38 (0.85%) JSON
13 37 (0.83%) React
14 33 (0.74%) AngularJS
15 32 (0.71%) RESTful
16 30 (0.67%) Web Services
17 26 (0.58%) Spring
18 25 (0.56%) PySpark
19 23 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 369 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 136 (3.04%) Product Ownership
3 120 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 118 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 106 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 103 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 94 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 93 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 82 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 73 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 72 (1.61%) Security Posture
12 70 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 67 (1.50%) Operational Technology
14 60 (1.34%) CMDB
15 52 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 51 (1.14%) PKI
17 40 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 40 (0.89%) Private Cloud
18 33 (0.74%) Mainframe
19 31 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 144 (3.22%) Windows
2 91 (2.03%) Linux
3 28 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.58%) Android
4 26 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.47%) Unix
6 14 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.25%) zOS
8 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.20%) VMS
9 9 (0.20%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.067%) CentOS
12 3 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.067%) Solaris
12 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.045%) AIX
13 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (14.00%) Roadmaps
2 593 (13.24%) Migration
3 563 (12.57%) Agile
4 510 (11.39%) DevOps
5 478 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 469 (10.47%) CI/CD
7 443 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
8 411 (9.18%) AI
9 390 (8.71%) Integration Patterns
10 389 (8.69%) Data Modelling
11 387 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 383 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
13 361 (8.06%) TOGAF
14 356 (7.95%) Analytics
15 339 (7.57%) Data Architecture
16 338 (7.55%) Architectural Patterns
17 330 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
18 319 (7.12%) Microservices
19 313 (6.99%) Architectural Design
20 259 (5.78%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 297 (6.63%) Python
2 231 (5.16%) SQL
3 168 (3.75%) Java
4 153 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 76 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 53 (1.18%) C#
7 43 (0.96%) Bicep
8 33 (0.74%) Bash
8 33 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 18 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 18 (0.40%) Ruby
10 17 (0.38%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.36%) Scala
12 13 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.18%) R
16 7 (0.16%) VBA
17 6 (0.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,359 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 939 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 314 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 183 (4.09%) Degree
5 116 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 106 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 92 (2.05%) CISSP
8 91 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 68 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 46 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (0.98%) CISM
14 41 (0.92%) CCNP
15 39 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 36 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 23 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
19 20 (0.45%) CCIE
19 20 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (3.64%) NIST
2 152 (3.39%) GDPR
3 123 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 122 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 91 (2.03%) NCSC
6 60 (1.34%) QA
7 40 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.60%) COBIT
8 27 (0.60%) GRC
9 26 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.42%) SEPA
12 18 (0.40%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 17 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.36%) HL7
15 13 (0.29%) FINRA
15 13 (0.29%) MiFID
16 12 (0.27%) PSD2
17 9 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 180 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.23%) Docker
3 86 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 26 (0.58%) vSphere
6 24 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.22%) vCloud
11 9 (0.20%) NFS
11 9 (0.20%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) Varnish
13 6 (0.13%) Postfix
14 5 (0.11%) RACF
15 4 (0.089%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.089%) Firmware
15 4 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.089%) Sendmail
16 3 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 227 (5.07%) Terraform
2 208 (4.64%) Kubernetes
3 93 (2.08%) Ansible
4 46 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.80%) Grafana
7 30 (0.67%) OPNET
8 28 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.40%) SCCM
12 14 (0.31%) Argo
13 13 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.22%) Istio
14 10 (0.22%) WMI
15 8 (0.18%) Puppet
16 7 (0.16%) Consul
17 6 (0.13%) HAProxy
17 6 (0.13%) Progress Chef
18 5 (0.11%) Endace
Vendors
1 610 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 282 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 264 (5.90%) SAP
4 188 (4.20%) Oracle
5 179 (4.00%) VMware
6 166 (3.71%) Databricks
7 165 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 104 (2.32%) Cisco
9 93 (2.08%) Google
10 85 (1.90%) CyberArk
11 67 (1.50%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.23%) Splunk
13 48 (1.07%) Sparx
14 47 (1.05%) Remedy
14 47 (1.05%) Workday
15 43 (0.96%) Atlassian
16 42 (0.94%) Red Hat
17 40 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 39 (0.87%) BeyondTrust
18 39 (0.87%) IBM