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 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,784 2,410 3,907
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.54% 10.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.91% 10.34% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,204 1,580 2,544
10th Percentile £463 £478 £489
25th Percentile £515 £550 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £744
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 18 96
10th Percentile £49.40 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.50 £87.12
90th Percentile £96.73 £98.99 £90.00
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 40,161 23,310 34,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.25% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,642 15,281 22,628
10th Percentile £325 £294 £293
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,860 1,068 2,586
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.96 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.65
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.21% -29.33% -14.29%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +6 2,342 £625 -3.85% 511
North of England +7 708 £600 - 186
South East +4 707 £625 +2.46% 199
Midlands +1 429 £613 +3.90% 91
North West +4 377 £612 +2.00% 103
West Midlands +2 309 £625 +4.17% 76
South West +2 279 £640 +5.57% 97
Yorkshire +10 270 £572 -4.75% 46
East of England +25 197 £600 - 49
East Midlands +6 114 £575 +15.00% 14
North East +9 68 £575 -8.00% 39
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 1,393 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,188 (24.83%) Azure
3 1,014 (21.20%) SC Cleared
4 970 (20.28%) AWS
5 698 (14.59%) Roadmaps
6 695 (14.53%) Migration
7 645 (13.48%) Microsoft
8 585 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 572 (11.96%) Agile
10 564 (11.79%) DevOps
11 527 (11.02%) AI
12 510 (10.66%) CI/CD
13 502 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
14 465 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 463 (9.68%) Data Modelling
16 454 (9.49%) Integration Patterns
17 446 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
18 426 (8.90%) Data Architecture
19 398 (8.32%) Analytics
20 397 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
21 371 (7.76%) GCP
22 365 (7.63%) TOGAF
23 342 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
24 334 (6.98%) Microservices
25 325 (6.79%) Architectural Design
26 305 (6.38%) Security Architecture
27 301 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
28 294 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
29 280 (5.85%) DV Cleared
30 278 (5.81%) Python

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
1 100 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 69 (1.44%) Confluence
3 48 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (0.88%) SAS
5 29 (0.61%) Apache
6 28 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.38%) Appian
8 18 (0.38%) CMS
8 18 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.25%) nginx
10 11 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.19%) Camunda
13 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 19 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
3 7 (0.15%) Revit
4 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.042%) Windchill
6 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
6 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.021%) Notion
6 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 123 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 23 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) Endur
14 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,188 (24.83%) Azure
2 970 (20.28%) AWS
3 371 (7.76%) GCP
4 247 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 178 (3.72%) Entra ID
6 172 (3.60%) SaaS
7 171 (3.57%) Serverless
8 120 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (2.47%) GitHub
10 109 (2.28%) PaaS
11 105 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
12 99 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
13 89 (1.86%) Snowflake
14 82 (1.71%) IaaS
15 79 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
16 75 (1.57%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.25%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
19 56 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 55 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 175 (3.66%) Firewall
2 169 (3.53%) Network Security
3 120 (2.51%) DNS
4 108 (2.26%) WAN
5 97 (2.03%) VPN
6 77 (1.61%) LAN
7 58 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 45 (0.94%) DHCP
8 45 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 44 (0.92%) BGP
10 37 (0.77%) VLAN
11 35 (0.73%) MPLS
12 34 (0.71%) OSPF
13 29 (0.61%) Wireless
14 26 (0.54%) SAN
15 25 (0.52%) NAS
16 23 (0.48%) BIG-IP
16 23 (0.48%) IPsec
17 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (3.68%) Power BI
2 139 (2.91%) Metadata
3 133 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 120 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 49 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (0.73%) Big Data
10 32 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.56%) Tableau
13 25 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (0.52%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 18 (0.38%) GIS
16 17 (0.36%) MongoDB
16 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (2.01%) JIRA
2 74 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 60 (1.25%) Git
4 35 (0.73%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.13%) 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 (0.084%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 892 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 793 (16.58%) Finance
3 523 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 291 (6.08%) Banking
5 257 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 204 (4.26%) Retail
7 145 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 114 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 87 (1.82%) Legal
10 87 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 53 (1.11%) Law
12 50 (1.05%) Military
13 48 (1.00%) Billing
14 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 44 (0.92%) Marketing
16 38 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 33 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 33 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (4.81%) REST
2 166 (3.47%) Middleware
3 117 (2.45%) .NET
4 111 (2.32%) SOAP
5 84 (1.76%) OpenID
6 83 (1.73%) OAuth
7 73 (1.53%) Kafka
8 67 (1.40%) SAML
9 66 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 62 (1.30%) LDAP
11 50 (1.05%) OAuth2
12 45 (0.94%) React
13 43 (0.90%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.82%) RESTful
15 38 (0.79%) JSON
16 33 (0.69%) .NET Framework
16 33 (0.69%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.65%) Node.js
18 30 (0.63%) Web Services
19 28 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 416 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 139 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 131 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 128 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 111 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 109 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 105 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 96 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 79 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 75 (1.57%) CMDB
13 71 (1.48%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.48%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 45 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
16 44 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 41 (0.86%) Mainframe
18 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.70%) Windows
2 74 (1.55%) Linux
3 33 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.59%) Android
4 28 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.084%) AIX
9 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.084%) Solaris
9 4 (0.084%) VMS
9 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (14.59%) Roadmaps
2 695 (14.53%) Migration
3 585 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 572 (11.96%) Agile
5 564 (11.79%) DevOps
6 527 (11.02%) AI
7 510 (10.66%) CI/CD
8 502 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
9 465 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 463 (9.68%) Data Modelling
11 454 (9.49%) Integration Patterns
12 446 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
13 426 (8.90%) Data Architecture
14 398 (8.32%) Analytics
15 397 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
16 365 (7.63%) TOGAF
17 342 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
18 334 (6.98%) Microservices
19 325 (6.79%) Architectural Design
20 305 (6.38%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (5.81%) Python
2 236 (4.93%) SQL
3 196 (4.10%) Java
4 113 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 93 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 58 (1.21%) C#
7 50 (1.05%) Bicep
8 40 (0.84%) Bash
9 38 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 13 (0.27%) Scala
13 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.19%) ABAP
14 9 (0.19%) C++
14 9 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,393 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,014 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 280 (5.85%) DV Cleared
4 173 (3.62%) Degree
5 105 (2.19%) CISSP
6 104 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 91 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 91 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 70 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 51 (1.07%) CISM
12 48 (1.00%) CCNP
13 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 32 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.46%) CCIE
18 20 (0.42%) CCSP
19 18 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.62%) NIST
2 155 (3.24%) GDPR
3 145 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 131 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (2.19%) NCSC
6 65 (1.36%) QA
7 42 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 29 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 20 (0.42%) SEPA
14 18 (0.38%) COBIT
14 18 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.38%) IFRS
15 17 (0.36%) HL7
16 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.21%) FINRA
17 10 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 156 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.96%) Docker
3 75 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.17%) NFS
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) vCloud
12 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.084%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.084%) IAG
12 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.084%) RACF
12 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 234 (4.89%) Terraform
2 220 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 96 (2.01%) Ansible
4 48 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 42 (0.88%) Grafana
6 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 23 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.36%) Argo
10 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.29%) SCCM
12 11 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Istio
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 6 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
16 5 (0.10%) CASB
Vendors
1 645 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 277 (5.79%) SAP
3 251 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 222 (4.64%) Oracle
5 209 (4.37%) Databricks
6 157 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 152 (3.18%) VMware
8 121 (2.53%) Cisco
9 115 (2.40%) Google
10 67 (1.40%) CyberArk
11 58 (1.21%) MuleSoft
12 56 (1.17%) Splunk
13 49 (1.02%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.92%) IBM
15 42 (0.88%) Workday
16 40 (0.84%) Sparx
17 38 (0.79%) Foundry
17 38 (0.79%) OpenAI
18 37 (0.77%) Red Hat
19 36 (0.75%) F5