Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 4,947 2,642 3,834
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.75% 10.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.88% 10.59% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 1,750 2,510
10th Percentile £468 £475 £485
25th Percentile £522 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -2.66%
75th Percentile £725 £717 £738
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.52% -3.85% -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 22 92
10th Percentile £49.40 £40.31 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £84.00 £99.86 £87.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -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 41,629 24,950 34,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.04% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,507 16,246 22,465
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,206 2,466
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.90 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.86 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £39.53
% change year-on-year +63.21% -32.95% -8.08%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +5 2,436 £622 -4.38% 588
North of England +8 752 £600 - 162
South East +1 718 £629 +4.83% 181
Midlands +1 438 £620 +7.83% 76
North West +6 407 £608 +1.33% 96
West Midlands 0 315 £625 +4.17% 60
South West -3 280 £625 - 91
Yorkshire +7 279 £586 -2.42% 37
East of England +15 193 £600 - 43
East Midlands +5 115 £588 +17.50% 16
North East +2 74 £575 -13.21% 29
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 1,239 (25.05%) Azure
3 1,030 (20.82%) SC Cleared
4 1,008 (20.38%) AWS
5 749 (15.14%) Roadmaps
6 714 (14.43%) Migration
7 662 (13.38%) Microsoft
8 621 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 589 (11.91%) Agile
10 578 (11.68%) AI
11 576 (11.64%) DevOps
12 543 (10.98%) Enterprise Architecture
13 527 (10.65%) CI/CD
14 503 (10.17%) Data Modelling
15 480 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 460 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
17 459 (9.28%) Integration Patterns
18 456 (9.22%) Data Architecture
19 417 (8.43%) Analytics
20 413 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
21 401 (8.11%) TOGAF
22 373 (7.54%) GCP
23 352 (7.12%) Microservices
24 340 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
25 333 (6.73%) Security Architecture
26 330 (6.67%) Architectural Design
27 313 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
28 305 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
29 299 (6.04%) DV Cleared
30 286 (5.78%) Event-Driven

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 94 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.31%) Confluence
3 50 (1.01%) SAS
4 48 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.67%) Apache
6 31 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 24 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.42%) Appian
8 21 (0.42%) CMS
9 19 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 9 (0.18%) Camunda
14 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 16 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.14%) Revit
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 122 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) Maximo
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 5 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,239 (25.05%) Azure
2 1,008 (20.38%) AWS
3 373 (7.54%) GCP
4 258 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 192 (3.88%) Entra ID
6 183 (3.70%) SaaS
7 169 (3.42%) Serverless
8 121 (2.45%) GitHub
9 117 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 116 (2.34%) PaaS
11 113 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
12 105 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
13 94 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 86 (1.74%) IaaS
15 73 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.41%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.29%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
19 57 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 53 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 179 (3.62%) Firewall
2 172 (3.48%) Network Security
3 117 (2.37%) DNS
4 107 (2.16%) WAN
5 95 (1.92%) VPN
6 76 (1.54%) LAN
7 56 (1.13%) SD-WAN
8 49 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 48 (0.97%) BGP
10 46 (0.93%) DHCP
11 38 (0.77%) VLAN
12 37 (0.75%) MPLS
13 32 (0.65%) OSPF
14 29 (0.59%) Wireless
15 26 (0.53%) SAN
16 25 (0.51%) IPsec
16 25 (0.51%) NAS
17 22 (0.44%) BIG-IP
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 21 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (3.66%) Power BI
2 146 (2.95%) Data Lake
3 144 (2.91%) Metadata
4 130 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.81%) Big Data
9 39 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 31 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.55%) Delta Lake
13 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (0.46%) Tableau
15 22 (0.44%) GIS
16 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 19 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (0.38%) Relational Database
17 19 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 94 (1.90%) JIRA
2 68 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.31%) Git
4 32 (0.65%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) 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%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) Selenium
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 923 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 806 (16.29%) Finance
3 539 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 309 (6.25%) Banking
5 273 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 222 (4.49%) Retail
7 150 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 100 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 97 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.68%) Legal
12 58 (1.17%) Billing
13 53 (1.07%) Marketing
14 49 (0.99%) Military
15 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 47 (0.95%) Law
17 38 (0.77%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
19 32 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 32 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (4.69%) REST
2 166 (3.36%) Middleware
3 121 (2.45%) .NET
4 105 (2.12%) SOAP
5 91 (1.84%) OAuth
6 81 (1.64%) OpenID
7 79 (1.60%) Kafka
8 67 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.33%) SAML
10 51 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 49 (0.99%) LDAP
11 49 (0.99%) React
12 45 (0.91%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.79%) JSON
13 39 (0.79%) RESTful
14 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
15 32 (0.65%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.63%) Node.js
16 31 (0.63%) PySpark
16 31 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 423 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 145 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 141 (2.85%) Onboarding
4 131 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 127 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 116 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 108 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 105 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 87 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 87 (1.76%) Operational Technology
11 79 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 79 (1.60%) CMDB
12 72 (1.46%) Public Cloud
13 54 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 52 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
15 48 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 45 (0.91%) Private Cloud
17 43 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 39 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.53%) Windows
2 78 (1.58%) Linux
3 35 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.46%) Unix
6 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) 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 10
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) VMS
10 4 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (15.14%) Roadmaps
2 714 (14.43%) Migration
3 621 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 589 (11.91%) Agile
5 578 (11.68%) AI
6 576 (11.64%) DevOps
7 543 (10.98%) Enterprise Architecture
8 527 (10.65%) CI/CD
9 503 (10.17%) Data Modelling
10 480 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 460 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
12 459 (9.28%) Integration Patterns
13 456 (9.22%) Data Architecture
14 417 (8.43%) Analytics
15 413 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
16 401 (8.11%) TOGAF
17 352 (7.12%) Microservices
18 340 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
19 333 (6.73%) Security Architecture
20 330 (6.67%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 268 (5.42%) Python
2 243 (4.91%) SQL
3 205 (4.14%) Java
4 100 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 92 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.21%) C#
7 51 (1.03%) Bicep
8 42 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.83%) Bash
10 26 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.30%) Ruby
12 14 (0.28%) Scala
13 11 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.18%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,427 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 1,030 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 299 (6.04%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.56%) Degree
5 120 (2.43%) CISSP
6 110 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 94 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 81 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 75 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 74 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.09%) CISM
13 46 (0.93%) CCNP
14 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.46%) CCIE
18 21 (0.42%) CCSP
19 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.58%) NIST
2 157 (3.17%) GDPR
3 153 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.16%) NCSC
6 58 (1.17%) QA
7 40 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 36 (0.73%) GRC
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 31 (0.63%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 23 (0.46%) SEPA
13 18 (0.36%) COBIT
13 18 (0.36%) IFRS
14 17 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.34%) HL7
15 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.08%) Docker
3 74 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.34%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) 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
13 6 (0.12%) vCloud
14 4 (0.081%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 242 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 234 (4.73%) Terraform
3 97 (1.96%) Ansible
4 50 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 49 (0.99%) Grafana
6 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 19 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.28%) SCCM
14 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.14%) Consul
15 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.14%) Istio
15 7 (0.14%) Puppet
16 6 (0.12%) CASB
16 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 662 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 286 (5.78%) SAP
3 258 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 240 (4.85%) Oracle
5 216 (4.37%) Databricks
6 155 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 143 (2.89%) VMware
8 121 (2.45%) Cisco
9 120 (2.43%) Google
10 64 (1.29%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 55 (1.11%) Splunk
12 48 (0.97%) IBM
13 45 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 42 (0.85%) Workday
15 40 (0.81%) Foundry
16 39 (0.79%) Red Hat
17 38 (0.77%) OpenAI
18 37 (0.75%) F5
18 37 (0.75%) Sparx