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 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,235 2,446 3,801
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.87% 10.03% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.77% 10.80% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 1,624 2,507
10th Percentile £463 £480 £500
25th Percentile £513 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £745
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 34 48
10th Percentile £49.40 £53.40 £51.91
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £83.63
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -14.81% +19.48%
75th Percentile £89.00 £80.44 £87.53
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.70 £95.00
UK median hourly rate £71.27 £70.00 £82.38
% change year-on-year +1.81% -15.03% +17.69%

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 35,993 22,652 34,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,660 15,166 23,117
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 844 2,319
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +25.94% -6.59% -23.65%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -1 1,948 £625 -3.85% 476
South East +4 703 £625 - 256
North of England +4 607 £600 - 194
Midlands -5 400 £575 -4.17% 95
North West +8 348 £610 +1.67% 100
West Midlands -3 298 £600 - 69
South West +2 288 £694 +15.63% 98
Yorkshire +8 235 £563 -6.25% 70
East of England +18 183 £550 -8.33% 71
East Midlands -3 98 £519 -6.53% 26
North East +2 33 £575 -7.95% 28
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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 1,355 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 1,006 (23.75%) Azure
3 921 (21.75%) SC Cleared
4 838 (19.79%) AWS
5 614 (14.50%) Roadmaps
6 601 (14.19%) Microsoft
7 562 (13.27%) Agile
8 558 (13.18%) Migration
9 485 (11.45%) DevOps
10 462 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 436 (10.30%) CI/CD
12 430 (10.15%) Enterprise Architecture
13 403 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 400 (9.45%) Data Modelling
15 381 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
16 369 (8.71%) TOGAF
17 364 (8.60%) Integration Patterns
18 353 (8.34%) AI
19 348 (8.22%) Analytics
20 344 (8.12%) GCP
21 341 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
22 335 (7.91%) Data Architecture
23 323 (7.63%) DV Cleared
24 314 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
25 310 (7.32%) Architectural Design
26 303 (7.15%) Python
27 301 (7.11%) Microservices
28 260 (6.14%) Security Architecture
29 256 (6.04%) ServiceNow
30 247 (5.83%) 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
1 108 (2.55%) Confluence
2 105 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.59%) SAS
5 23 (0.54%) CMS
6 21 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.38%) Apache
7 16 (0.38%) Appian
8 15 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 14 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 12 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.26%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.17%) Camunda
13 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.17%) Skype for Business
14 6 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 6 (0.14%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 49 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 16 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.024%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.024%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.024%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.024%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.024%) Revit
7 1 (0.024%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 110 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 20 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 15 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.26%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.24%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.24%) SAP PM
11 9 (0.21%) Maximo
11 9 (0.21%) SAP EWM
12 8 (0.19%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.17%) SAP QM
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
14 6 (0.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,006 (23.75%) Azure
2 838 (19.79%) AWS
3 344 (8.12%) GCP
4 185 (4.37%) Power Platform
5 163 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 144 (3.40%) Serverless
7 141 (3.33%) SaaS
8 130 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (2.53%) IaaS
10 98 (2.31%) PaaS
11 97 (2.29%) GitHub
12 92 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
13 89 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
14 75 (1.77%) OpenShift
15 72 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 64 (1.51%) Snowflake
17 63 (1.49%) Amazon S3
18 61 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
19 58 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
20 57 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 187 (4.42%) Firewall
2 148 (3.49%) Network Security
3 126 (2.98%) DNS
3 126 (2.98%) WAN
4 114 (2.69%) VPN
5 84 (1.98%) LAN
6 65 (1.53%) SD-WAN
7 37 (0.87%) DHCP
8 35 (0.83%) BGP
9 31 (0.73%) OSPF
10 30 (0.71%) MPLS
10 30 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.66%) TCP/IP
12 25 (0.59%) SAN
12 25 (0.59%) VLAN
13 20 (0.47%) VXLAN
13 20 (0.47%) Wireless
14 18 (0.43%) BIG-IP
14 18 (0.43%) NAS
15 16 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.35%) Power BI
2 114 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (2.67%) Metadata
4 92 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 71 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 55 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 48 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (1.06%) Tableau
9 36 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (0.73%) Oracle Database
11 30 (0.71%) Big Data
12 27 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 23 (0.54%) Delta Lake
13 23 (0.54%) GIS
14 21 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
15 20 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
16 19 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (0.40%) Relational Database
18 16 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 125 (2.95%) JIRA
2 89 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 46 (1.09%) Git
4 41 (0.97%) GitLab
5 20 (0.47%) ERwin
6 11 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.24%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.21%) MLflow
9 6 (0.14%) Postman
10 5 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.094%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.094%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.094%) Selenium
11 4 (0.094%) Snyk
11 4 (0.094%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.094%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.071%) MSI
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle Forms
General
1 871 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 682 (16.10%) Finance
3 476 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 276 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (6.23%) Banking
6 140 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 109 (2.57%) Retail
8 103 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 88 (2.08%) Legal
10 87 (2.05%) Military
11 73 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 69 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.44%) Law
14 59 (1.39%) Marketing
15 52 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 46 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 33 (0.78%) Billing
18 32 (0.76%) Investment Banking
19 30 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 25 (0.59%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.15%) REST
2 167 (3.94%) Middleware
3 108 (2.55%) SOAP
4 87 (2.05%) .NET
5 78 (1.84%) OpenID
6 77 (1.82%) LDAP
7 68 (1.61%) OAuth
8 64 (1.51%) Kafka
9 59 (1.39%) SAML
10 56 (1.32%) JSON
11 44 (1.04%) OAuth2
12 37 (0.87%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.85%) React
14 34 (0.80%) RESTful
15 33 (0.78%) SailPoint
16 28 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 28 (0.66%) Web Services
17 27 (0.64%) Spring
18 22 (0.52%) PySpark
19 21 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 331 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 138 (3.26%) Product Ownership
3 121 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 108 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 107 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 104 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 92 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 82 (1.94%) PKI
9 70 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 70 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 67 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 60 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 59 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 58 (1.37%) CMDB
14 50 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 40 (0.94%) AI Agents
17 39 (0.92%) Private Cloud
18 31 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 162 (3.83%) Windows
2 98 (2.31%) Linux
3 37 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.59%) Android
4 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.38%) Unix
6 14 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.33%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.24%) zOS
8 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.21%) VMS
9 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.071%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.047%) CentOS
12 2 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.024%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.024%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (14.50%) Roadmaps
2 562 (13.27%) Agile
3 558 (13.18%) Migration
4 485 (11.45%) DevOps
5 462 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 436 (10.30%) CI/CD
7 430 (10.15%) Enterprise Architecture
8 403 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 400 (9.45%) Data Modelling
10 381 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
11 369 (8.71%) TOGAF
12 364 (8.60%) Integration Patterns
13 353 (8.34%) AI
14 348 (8.22%) Analytics
15 341 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
16 335 (7.91%) Data Architecture
17 314 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
18 310 (7.32%) Architectural Design
19 301 (7.11%) Microservices
20 260 (6.14%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 303 (7.15%) Python
2 217 (5.12%) SQL
3 179 (4.23%) PowerShell
4 158 (3.73%) Java
5 69 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.23%) C#
7 40 (0.94%) Bash
8 39 (0.92%) Bicep
9 30 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.40%) Ruby
11 14 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (0.31%) Scala
13 10 (0.24%) R
14 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.19%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.19%) VB
16 7 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,355 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 921 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 323 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 173 (4.09%) Degree
5 112 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 110 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 103 (2.43%) CISSP
8 98 (2.31%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 61 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 48 (1.13%) CCNP
14 47 (1.11%) CISM
15 42 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 34 (0.80%) Master's Degree
17 32 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
18 31 (0.73%) ISEB
19 29 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 29 (0.68%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (4.04%) GDPR
2 164 (3.87%) NIST
3 135 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 128 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 92 (2.17%) NCSC
6 64 (1.51%) QA
7 51 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.87%) COBIT
9 29 (0.68%) GRC
10 27 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 27 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 17 (0.40%) HL7
11 17 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.33%) MiFID
15 13 (0.31%) FINRA
15 13 (0.31%) PSD2
15 13 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 183 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 115 (2.72%) Docker
3 98 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 71 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 33 (0.78%) vSphere
6 22 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.24%) vCloud
11 9 (0.21%) Squid
12 7 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.17%) NFS
12 7 (0.17%) Varnish
13 5 (0.12%) Postfix
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.094%) Firmware
14 4 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.071%) IAG
15 3 (0.071%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 239 (5.64%) Terraform
2 220 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 103 (2.43%) Ansible
4 55 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.80%) Grafana
6 34 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 30 (0.71%) OPNET
8 22 (0.52%) SCCM
9 21 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 21 (0.50%) Prometheus
10 20 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (0.45%) Argo
12 13 (0.31%) WMI
13 9 (0.21%) Istio
14 7 (0.17%) Consul
14 7 (0.17%) Puppet
15 5 (0.12%) Endace
15 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 601 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 256 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 247 (5.83%) SAP
4 190 (4.49%) VMware
5 166 (3.92%) Oracle
6 165 (3.90%) Salesforce
7 152 (3.59%) Databricks
8 114 (2.69%) Cisco
9 87 (2.05%) Google
10 85 (2.01%) CyberArk
11 61 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.30%) Splunk
13 51 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 50 (1.18%) Remedy
15 49 (1.16%) Red Hat
16 47 (1.11%) IBM
17 46 (1.09%) Sparx
18 45 (1.06%) Workday
19 44 (1.04%) Atlassian
20 41 (0.97%) Centrify