Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,901 2,578 3,854
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.05% 9.70% 10.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.95% 10.53% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 1,699 2,527
10th Percentile £467 £480 £488
25th Percentile £515 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 20 93
10th Percentile £48.04 £38.07 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £86.00 £85.65
90th Percentile £86.30 £100.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 41,004 24,478 34,552
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.12% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,091 15,951 22,619
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,951 1,158 2,526
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.83 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £16.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.69%
75th Percentile £67.70 £57.12 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +61.03% -29.47% -12.79%

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 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 7 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 7 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 +4 2,405 £620 -4.62% 598
North of England +9 740 £600 - 177
South East +1 716 £625 +4.17% 217
Midlands +1 433 £614 +6.74% 89
North West +5 395 £610 +1.67% 111
West Midlands -1 311 £625 +4.17% 66
Yorkshire +10 280 £586 -2.42% 42
South West +1 278 £625 - 117
East of England +19 201 £600 - 49
East Midlands +6 115 £581 +16.25% 23
North East 0 73 £575 -8.00% 25
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 1,427 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,228 (25.06%) Azure
3 1,028 (20.98%) SC Cleared
4 988 (20.16%) AWS
5 728 (14.85%) Roadmaps
6 698 (14.24%) Migration
7 658 (13.43%) Microsoft
8 608 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 593 (12.10%) Agile
10 574 (11.71%) DevOps
11 566 (11.55%) AI
12 526 (10.73%) Enterprise Architecture
13 516 (10.53%) CI/CD
14 483 (9.86%) Data Modelling
15 471 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 455 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
17 446 (9.10%) Integration Patterns
18 442 (9.02%) Data Architecture
19 412 (8.41%) Analytics
20 411 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
21 392 (8.00%) TOGAF
22 367 (7.49%) GCP
23 343 (7.00%) Microservices
24 339 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
25 326 (6.65%) Architectural Design
25 326 (6.65%) Security Architecture
26 309 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
27 304 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
28 300 (6.12%) DV Cleared
29 287 (5.86%) SAP

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 97 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.31%) Confluence
3 47 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (0.92%) SAS
5 30 (0.61%) Apache
6 29 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 23 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.43%) Appian
9 20 (0.41%) CMS
10 19 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Camunda
15 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.14%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 15 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.041%) Windchill
7 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 122 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) Maximo
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (25.06%) Azure
2 988 (20.16%) AWS
3 367 (7.49%) GCP
4 253 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 186 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 176 (3.59%) SaaS
7 169 (3.45%) Serverless
8 119 (2.43%) GitHub
8 119 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
9 115 (2.35%) PaaS
10 112 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 92 (1.88%) Snowflake
13 86 (1.75%) IaaS
14 74 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (1.43%) Amazon S3
16 62 (1.27%) OpenShift
17 58 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 58 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
18 54 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.73%) Firewall
2 171 (3.49%) Network Security
3 119 (2.43%) DNS
4 106 (2.16%) WAN
5 99 (2.02%) VPN
6 78 (1.59%) LAN
7 56 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 47 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 46 (0.94%) DHCP
10 45 (0.92%) BGP
11 38 (0.78%) VLAN
12 35 (0.71%) MPLS
13 33 (0.67%) OSPF
14 29 (0.59%) Wireless
15 26 (0.53%) SAN
16 25 (0.51%) IPsec
16 25 (0.51%) NAS
17 23 (0.47%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
19 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (3.67%) Power BI
2 143 (2.92%) Data Lake
3 141 (2.88%) Metadata
4 125 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.22%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 38 (0.78%) Big Data
9 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.55%) Delta Lake
12 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (0.47%) Tableau
14 21 (0.43%) GIS
15 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
15 18 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.37%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 93 (1.90%) JIRA
2 70 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.31%) Git
4 33 (0.67%) GitLab
5 25 (0.51%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.082%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.082%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.082%) Snyk
General
1 913 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 800 (16.32%) Finance
3 534 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 302 (6.16%) Banking
5 268 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 220 (4.49%) Retail
7 148 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 122 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 95 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 94 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 82 (1.67%) Legal
12 56 (1.14%) Billing
13 50 (1.02%) Military
14 49 (1.00%) Marketing
15 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 48 (0.98%) Law
16 38 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 32 (0.65%) Investment Banking
19 31 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (4.67%) REST
2 163 (3.33%) Middleware
3 121 (2.47%) .NET
4 105 (2.14%) SOAP
5 83 (1.69%) OAuth
6 82 (1.67%) OpenID
7 74 (1.51%) Kafka
8 67 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.35%) SAML
10 51 (1.04%) LDAP
11 50 (1.02%) OAuth2
12 49 (1.00%) React
13 46 (0.94%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.80%) RESTful
15 38 (0.78%) JSON
16 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
17 33 (0.67%) AngularJS
18 31 (0.63%) Node.js
18 31 (0.63%) Web Services
19 30 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 420 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 142 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 139 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 126 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 124 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 113 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 104 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 103 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 90 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 86 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 84 (1.71%) Operational Technology
12 77 (1.57%) CMDB
13 74 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 71 (1.45%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 51 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
17 46 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 43 (0.88%) Private Cloud
19 42 (0.86%) Mainframe
20 38 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 128 (2.61%) Windows
2 79 (1.61%) Linux
3 35 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.47%) Unix
6 14 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.22%) zOS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) AIX
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.082%) Solaris
10 4 (0.082%) VMS
10 4 (0.082%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (14.85%) Roadmaps
2 698 (14.24%) Migration
3 608 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 593 (12.10%) Agile
5 574 (11.71%) DevOps
6 566 (11.55%) AI
7 526 (10.73%) Enterprise Architecture
8 516 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 483 (9.86%) Data Modelling
10 471 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 455 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
12 446 (9.10%) Integration Patterns
13 442 (9.02%) Data Architecture
14 412 (8.41%) Analytics
15 411 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
16 392 (8.00%) TOGAF
17 343 (7.00%) Microservices
18 339 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
19 326 (6.65%) Architectural Design
19 326 (6.65%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 266 (5.43%) Python
2 241 (4.92%) SQL
3 200 (4.08%) Java
4 100 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 97 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.22%) C#
7 51 (1.04%) Bicep
8 41 (0.84%) Bash
8 41 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 25 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 14 (0.29%) Ruby
10 14 (0.29%) Scala
11 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.18%) ABAP
12 9 (0.18%) C++
12 9 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.16%) R
13 8 (0.16%) VBA
14 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,427 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,028 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 300 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.59%) Degree
5 116 (2.37%) CISSP
6 110 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 98 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 94 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 75 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 73 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (1.10%) CISM
12 48 (0.98%) CCNP
13 43 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 33 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 29 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.45%) CCIE
18 21 (0.43%) CCSP
19 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.65%) NIST
2 155 (3.16%) GDPR
3 148 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 133 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.20%) NCSC
6 62 (1.27%) QA
7 41 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.65%) GRC
9 30 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 22 (0.45%) SEPA
13 18 (0.37%) COBIT
13 18 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.37%) IFRS
14 17 (0.35%) HL7
15 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 153 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 96 (1.96%) Docker
3 75 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.18%) Squid
11 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 8 (0.16%) Varnish
12 7 (0.14%) Postfix
12 7 (0.14%) vCloud
13 4 (0.082%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.082%) IAG
13 4 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.082%) RACF
13 4 (0.082%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 236 (4.82%) Terraform
2 233 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 96 (1.96%) Ansible
4 50 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 48 (0.98%) Grafana
6 44 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (0.29%) SCCM
13 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.14%) Consul
14 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.14%) Istio
14 7 (0.14%) Puppet
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 658 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 287 (5.86%) SAP
3 257 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 235 (4.79%) Oracle
5 214 (4.37%) Databricks
6 156 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 149 (3.04%) VMware
8 122 (2.49%) Cisco
9 117 (2.39%) Google
10 63 (1.29%) CyberArk
11 56 (1.14%) Splunk
12 54 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 46 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 45 (0.92%) IBM
15 43 (0.88%) Workday
16 39 (0.80%) Red Hat
17 38 (0.78%) Foundry
17 38 (0.78%) Sparx
18 37 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 36 (0.73%) F5