Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,016 2,603 3,397
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 9.42% 10.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 10.28% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,368 1,729 2,245
10th Percentile £481 £475 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £703 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £622 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.56% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 18 77
10th Percentile £46.00 £36.30 -
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 £71.91 £87.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £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 42,171 25,321 30,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,536 16,398 20,303
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,172 1,321 1,795
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% -44.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +8 2,587 £625 -3.85% 1,576
South East 0 732 £626 +4.33% 375
North of England +3 687 £600 - 314
Midlands -1 416 £625 +8.70% 163
North West +6 390 £600 - 170
West Midlands -3 306 £627 +4.42% 112
South West -2 300 £625 -2.34% 193
Yorkshire +3 234 £600 0.00% 105
East of England +14 162 £600 +8.11% 106
East Midlands +8 103 £600 +18.23% 51
North East -4 65 £600 -15.79% 39
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 1,498 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 1,266 (25.24%) Azure
3 1,087 (21.67%) SC Cleared
4 1,022 (20.37%) AWS
5 738 (14.71%) Roadmaps
6 710 (14.15%) Migration
7 703 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 652 (13.00%) Microsoft
9 643 (12.82%) AI
10 605 (12.06%) Enterprise Architecture
11 552 (11.00%) Agile
11 552 (11.00%) DevOps
12 529 (10.55%) Data Modelling
13 519 (10.35%) Technical Leadership
14 514 (10.25%) CI/CD
15 504 (10.05%) Data Architecture
16 497 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 490 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
18 456 (9.09%) Analytics
19 403 (8.03%) TOGAF
20 396 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
21 389 (7.76%) GCP
22 359 (7.16%) Security Architecture
23 323 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
24 319 (6.36%) DV Cleared
24 319 (6.36%) Microservices
25 311 (6.20%) Event-Driven
26 308 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
27 302 (6.02%) Architectural Design
28 298 (5.94%) Data Governance

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 79 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.42%) SAS
3 51 (1.02%) Confluence
4 41 (0.82%) Apache
5 39 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.18%) Appian
11 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.14%) Camunda
12 7 (0.14%) Documentum
13 5 (0.100%) nginx
14 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
15 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 119 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
9 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
10 7 (0.14%) Maximo
10 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 5 (0.100%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (25.24%) Azure
2 1,022 (20.37%) AWS
3 389 (7.76%) GCP
4 265 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 184 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 179 (3.57%) SaaS
7 151 (3.01%) Serverless
8 121 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
9 120 (2.39%) GitHub
10 106 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 104 (2.07%) PaaS
12 103 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 99 (1.97%) Snowflake
14 72 (1.44%) IaaS
15 71 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 67 (1.34%) Amazon S3
17 61 (1.22%) OCI
18 54 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
20 52 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 155 (3.09%) Network Security
2 151 (3.01%) Firewall
3 98 (1.95%) WAN
4 87 (1.73%) DNS
5 73 (1.46%) VPN
6 72 (1.44%) LAN
7 47 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 45 (0.90%) BGP
9 40 (0.80%) DHCP
10 38 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 36 (0.72%) MPLS
12 34 (0.68%) VLAN
13 29 (0.58%) SAN
14 27 (0.54%) Wireless
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
15 25 (0.50%) OSPF
16 24 (0.48%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.40%) NX-OS
19 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (3.77%) Power BI
2 168 (3.35%) Data Lake
3 151 (3.01%) Metadata
4 145 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.84%) Big Data
8 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 36 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 29 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (0.58%) Oracle Database
12 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (0.50%) GIS
14 23 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
17 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
18 18 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 70 (1.40%) JIRA
2 66 (1.32%) Git
3 49 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.60%) GitLab
5 20 (0.40%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) Maven
9 6 (0.12%) Storybook
10 5 (0.100%) MLflow
10 5 (0.100%) MSI
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
11 4 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.060%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.060%) Postman
General
1 952 (18.98%) Social Skills
2 771 (15.37%) Finance
3 536 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 294 (5.86%) Banking
5 266 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 245 (4.88%) Retail
7 133 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 119 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 116 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.56%) Legal
12 59 (1.18%) Marketing
13 53 (1.06%) Billing
14 47 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.92%) Law
15 46 (0.92%) Military
16 45 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (4.80%) REST
2 160 (3.19%) Middleware
3 120 (2.39%) .NET
4 110 (2.19%) SOAP
5 105 (2.09%) Kafka
6 96 (1.91%) OAuth
7 73 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 54 (1.08%) OpenID
9 52 (1.04%) SAML
10 51 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 50 (1.00%) JSON
12 44 (0.88%) React
13 41 (0.82%) RESTful
14 37 (0.74%) .NET Framework
15 36 (0.72%) SailPoint
16 34 (0.68%) PySpark
17 31 (0.62%) XML
18 28 (0.56%) JWT
19 27 (0.54%) GraphQL
20 26 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 423 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 147 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 133 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 127 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 125 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 119 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 113 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 112 (2.23%) AI Agents
10 100 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 89 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 85 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 73 (1.46%) CMDB
14 65 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 62 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
16 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 56 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
18 45 (0.90%) Private Cloud
19 40 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.17%) Windows
2 85 (1.69%) Linux
3 35 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) Android
6 19 (0.38%) Unix
7 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
8 9 (0.18%) zOS
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.100%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.100%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.060%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (14.71%) Roadmaps
2 710 (14.15%) Migration
3 703 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 643 (12.82%) AI
5 605 (12.06%) Enterprise Architecture
6 552 (11.00%) Agile
6 552 (11.00%) DevOps
7 529 (10.55%) Data Modelling
8 519 (10.35%) Technical Leadership
9 514 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 504 (10.05%) Data Architecture
11 497 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 490 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
13 456 (9.09%) Analytics
14 403 (8.03%) TOGAF
15 396 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
16 359 (7.16%) Security Architecture
17 323 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
18 319 (6.36%) Microservices
19 311 (6.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 236 (4.70%) Python
2 230 (4.59%) SQL
3 206 (4.11%) Java
4 116 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 84 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.10%) C#
7 43 (0.86%) Bash
8 42 (0.84%) Bicep
8 42 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.28%) Ruby
13 13 (0.26%) C++
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) Groovy
14 10 (0.20%) Scala
15 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,498 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 1,087 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 319 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 153 (3.05%) Degree
5 126 (2.51%) CISSP
6 111 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 99 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 87 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 86 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 65 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 64 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.14%) CISM
13 39 (0.78%) CCNP
14 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.44%) Master's Degree
18 21 (0.42%) CCSP
19 19 (0.38%) CCIE
20 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.43%) NIST
3 151 (3.01%) GDPR
4 133 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.89%) NCSC
6 62 (1.24%) GRC
7 56 (1.12%) QA
8 36 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) SEPA
13 21 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 20 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.38%) IFRS
16 15 (0.30%) HL7
16 15 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 14 (0.28%) SLA
18 13 (0.26%) ISO 19650
19 12 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 144 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 99 (1.97%) Docker
3 61 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) vSphere
9 13 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.080%) IAG
13 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.060%) KVM
14 3 (0.060%) SRDF
15 2 (0.040%) Firmware
15 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 241 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 212 (4.23%) Terraform
3 88 (1.75%) Ansible
4 41 (0.82%) Grafana
5 37 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.32%) Argo
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.100%) CASB
14 5 (0.100%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.100%) MOM
14 5 (0.100%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.100%) WMI
Vendors
1 652 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 281 (5.60%) SAP
3 268 (5.34%) Oracle
4 251 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 227 (4.53%) Databricks
6 162 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 138 (2.75%) Google
8 125 (2.49%) Cisco
9 123 (2.45%) VMware
10 57 (1.14%) IBM
11 56 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 55 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 53 (1.06%) Workday
14 48 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.86%) Foundry
16 37 (0.74%) Sparx
17 35 (0.70%) Splunk
18 34 (0.68%) Ariba
19 33 (0.66%) F5
20 31 (0.62%) OpenAI