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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 4,656 2,393 3,949
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.93% 9.78% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.84% 10.59% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 1,567 2,566
10th Percentile £463 £475 £490
25th Percentile £513 £539 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £745
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 27 96
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
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 £78.75 £82.25 £87.12
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £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 39,333 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,258 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +4 2,259 £625 -3.85% 349
South East +6 694 £625 +0.40% 166
North of England +6 690 £600 - 181
Midlands +1 440 £600 +2.17% 63
North West +4 371 £608 +1.33% 88
West Midlands +2 312 £621 +3.54% 52
Yorkshire +8 264 £555 -7.54% 49
South West -1 253 £648 +5.71% 68
East of England +21 207 £575 -4.17% 43
East Midlands +2 122 £573 +12.91% 11
North East +7 62 £575 - 45
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 1,374 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 1,138 (24.44%) Azure
3 996 (21.39%) SC Cleared
4 933 (20.04%) AWS
5 666 (14.30%) Migration
6 646 (13.87%) Roadmaps
7 624 (13.40%) Microsoft
8 553 (11.88%) DevOps
9 547 (11.75%) Agile
10 529 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 495 (10.63%) CI/CD
12 467 (10.03%) Enterprise Architecture
13 459 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 457 (9.82%) AI
15 435 (9.34%) Integration Patterns
16 431 (9.26%) Data Modelling
17 424 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
18 394 (8.46%) Data Architecture
19 378 (8.12%) Architectural Patterns
20 370 (7.95%) Analytics
21 354 (7.60%) GCP
22 344 (7.39%) TOGAF
23 332 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
24 327 (7.02%) Architectural Design
25 324 (6.96%) Microservices
26 287 (6.16%) Python
27 285 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
27 285 (6.12%) Security Architecture
28 282 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
29 271 (5.82%) DV Cleared

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
1 103 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.55%) Confluence
3 51 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.67%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.54%) Apache
7 16 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.34%) Appian
7 16 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) CMS
9 14 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.043%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 114 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
13 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 4 (0.086%) Endur
15 4 (0.086%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,138 (24.44%) Azure
2 933 (20.04%) AWS
3 354 (7.60%) GCP
4 227 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 173 (3.72%) Entra ID
6 165 (3.54%) Serverless
7 160 (3.44%) SaaS
8 126 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 109 (2.34%) GitHub
10 107 (2.30%) PaaS
11 99 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
13 81 (1.74%) IaaS
13 81 (1.74%) Snowflake
14 76 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
15 71 (1.52%) Amazon S3
16 60 (1.29%) OpenShift
17 59 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
19 55 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.44%) Network Security
2 159 (3.41%) Firewall
3 111 (2.38%) DNS
4 108 (2.32%) WAN
5 96 (2.06%) VPN
6 77 (1.65%) LAN
7 55 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.84%) DHCP
9 38 (0.82%) BGP
10 31 (0.67%) OSPF
11 30 (0.64%) MPLS
11 30 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 30 (0.64%) VLAN
12 29 (0.62%) Wireless
13 28 (0.60%) SAN
14 27 (0.58%) NAS
15 22 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
16 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.43%) IPsec
16 20 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (3.54%) Power BI
2 121 (2.60%) Data Lake
2 121 (2.60%) Metadata
3 100 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 63 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 53 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.73%) Tableau
9 31 (0.67%) Big Data
10 27 (0.58%) Delta Lake
11 26 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 25 (0.54%) Oracle Database
13 21 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.45%) GIS
14 18 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 17 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (0.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 92 (1.98%) JIRA
2 75 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.20%) Git
4 40 (0.86%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 12 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 7 (0.15%) Postman
10 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.11%) JMeter
11 5 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.11%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.11%) Selenium
12 4 (0.086%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.086%) Snyk
13 3 (0.064%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.064%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 859 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 741 (15.91%) Finance
3 496 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 281 (6.04%) Banking
5 231 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 174 (3.74%) Retail
7 137 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.85%) Legal
9 86 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 86 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 58 (1.25%) Law
11 49 (1.05%) Military
12 46 (0.99%) Billing
13 44 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 44 (0.95%) Marketing
13 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 35 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 34 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (4.96%) REST
2 165 (3.54%) Middleware
3 122 (2.62%) SOAP
4 115 (2.47%) .NET
5 88 (1.89%) LDAP
6 87 (1.87%) OpenID
7 84 (1.80%) OAuth
8 70 (1.50%) SAML
9 66 (1.42%) Kafka
10 58 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 50 (1.07%) OAuth2
12 46 (0.99%) React
13 43 (0.92%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.82%) RESTful
15 37 (0.79%) JSON
16 35 (0.75%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.67%) Web Services
18 29 (0.62%) Node.js
19 28 (0.60%) .NET Framework
20 25 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 397 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 132 (2.84%) Data Centre
3 124 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 121 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 114 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 113 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 99 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 98 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 78 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 76 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 72 (1.55%) CMDB
14 71 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 64 (1.37%) AI Agents
16 43 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 42 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 41 (0.88%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
20 35 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 126 (2.71%) Windows
2 75 (1.61%) Linux
3 32 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.62%) Android
4 29 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.45%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 9 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.086%) Solaris
12 4 (0.086%) VMS
13 3 (0.064%) AIX
13 3 (0.064%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (14.30%) Migration
2 646 (13.87%) Roadmaps
3 553 (11.88%) DevOps
4 547 (11.75%) Agile
5 529 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 495 (10.63%) CI/CD
7 467 (10.03%) Enterprise Architecture
8 459 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 457 (9.82%) AI
10 435 (9.34%) Integration Patterns
11 431 (9.26%) Data Modelling
12 424 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
13 394 (8.46%) Data Architecture
14 378 (8.12%) Architectural Patterns
15 370 (7.95%) Analytics
16 344 (7.39%) TOGAF
17 332 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
18 327 (7.02%) Architectural Design
19 324 (6.96%) Microservices
20 285 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 287 (6.16%) Python
2 229 (4.92%) SQL
3 191 (4.10%) Java
4 141 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.18%) C#
7 46 (0.99%) Bicep
8 39 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.67%) Bash
10 20 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.34%) Ruby
12 15 (0.32%) Scala
13 11 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.13%) ABAP
18 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,374 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 996 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 271 (5.82%) DV Cleared
4 168 (3.61%) Degree
5 105 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 100 (2.15%) CISSP
7 85 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 85 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 74 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 74 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 51 (1.10%) CISM
11 45 (0.97%) CCNP
12 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 30 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.41%) GIAC
17 18 (0.39%) CCIE
17 18 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.82%) NIST
2 153 (3.29%) GDPR
3 134 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 125 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 97 (2.08%) NCSC
6 65 (1.40%) QA
7 39 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.64%) GRC
9 25 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 20 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (0.41%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) COBIT
15 16 (0.34%) HL7
16 15 (0.32%) IFRS
17 13 (0.28%) FINRA
17 13 (0.28%) MiFID
18 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 175 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.00%) Docker
3 85 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 26 (0.56%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.19%) NFS
10 9 (0.19%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 8 (0.17%) vCloud
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.086%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.086%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.064%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.064%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 214 (4.60%) Terraform
2 207 (4.45%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.04%) Ansible
4 47 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.86%) Grafana
6 39 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.37%) Argo
10 17 (0.37%) SCCM
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.19%) Istio
12 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
16 4 (0.086%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 624 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 267 (5.73%) SAP
3 247 (5.30%) ServiceNow
4 212 (4.55%) Oracle
5 200 (4.30%) Databricks
6 166 (3.57%) VMware
7 148 (3.18%) Salesforce
8 120 (2.58%) Cisco
9 102 (2.19%) Google
10 84 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 63 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 57 (1.22%) Splunk
13 43 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 42 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 42 (0.90%) Sparx
15 40 (0.86%) Workday
16 38 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
16 38 (0.82%) IBM
17 36 (0.77%) Foundry
18 35 (0.75%) OpenAI