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 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,883 2,822 3,442
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.27% 9.62% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.17% 10.36% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,995 1,709 2,397
10th Percentile £461 £480 £500
25th Percentile £524 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £720 £734 £730
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 22 33
10th Percentile £63.88 £60.15 £60.00
25th Percentile £66.25 £61.75 £72.00
Median hourly rate £83.82 £66.75 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% -12.78% +9.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £80.03 £83.11
90th Percentile - £87.50 £92.75
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £68.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +21.92% -10.17% +9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 0 1,318 £630 +0.80% 389
South East +6 530 £600 -4.00% 323
North of England -8 374 £600 -3.23% 196
South West +2 255 £700 +12.00% 96
Midlands -5 238 £575 -4.17% 138
North West -7 223 £579 -5.74% 111
West Midlands -8 183 £582 -3.04% 84
Yorkshire -19 133 £600 -1.23% 64
East of England -11 83 £553 -7.92% 100
East Midlands -5 55 £525 -4.55% 50
North East -11 19 £700 +12.13% 22
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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.

1 924 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 788 (27.33%) Azure
3 625 (21.68%) SC Cleared
4 591 (20.50%) AWS
5 455 (15.78%) Roadmaps
6 430 (14.92%) Agile
7 423 (14.67%) Microsoft
8 391 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 338 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
10 325 (11.27%) TOGAF
11 315 (10.93%) Migration
12 312 (10.82%) Data Modelling
13 304 (10.54%) DevOps
13 304 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 281 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
15 268 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
16 266 (9.23%) CI/CD
17 247 (8.57%) Microservices
18 245 (8.50%) GCP
19 235 (8.15%) AI
20 229 (7.94%) DV Cleared
21 222 (7.70%) Data Architecture
22 221 (7.67%) Analytics
23 214 (7.42%) Python
24 199 (6.90%) Terraform
25 191 (6.63%) ITIL
26 188 (6.52%) Mentoring
27 185 (6.42%) Architectural Design
28 184 (6.38%) Data Governance
28 184 (6.38%) ServiceNow

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 93 (3.23%) Confluence
2 52 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.69%) SAS
5 18 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.55%) CMS
6 16 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 14 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.35%) Apache
10 7 (0.24%) Smallworld
10 7 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.14%) Documentum
13 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
13 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (0.73%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.38%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.035%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.035%) Revit
8 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 78 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 28 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.97%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 17 (0.59%) Maximo
6 16 (0.55%) SAP PM
7 14 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.45%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.42%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.38%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.31%) Endur
12 8 (0.28%) SAP PP
13 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
13 7 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
14 6 (0.21%) SAP EWM
14 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 788 (27.33%) Azure
2 591 (20.50%) AWS
3 245 (8.50%) GCP
4 127 (4.41%) SaaS
5 124 (4.30%) Power Platform
6 105 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 90 (3.12%) Serverless
8 83 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
9 75 (2.60%) IaaS
10 69 (2.39%) GitHub
11 68 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
13 61 (2.12%) PaaS
14 55 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (1.77%) Snowflake
16 48 (1.66%) OpenShift
17 46 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 44 (1.53%) Amazon S3
19 43 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
20 41 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 174 (6.04%) Firewall
2 99 (3.43%) WAN
3 90 (3.12%) LAN
4 76 (2.64%) Network Security
5 72 (2.50%) VPN
6 67 (2.32%) DNS
7 65 (2.25%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (1.11%) BGP
10 26 (0.90%) SAN
11 25 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (0.87%) MPLS
12 23 (0.80%) DHCP
13 22 (0.76%) SSL
13 22 (0.76%) VSAN
14 15 (0.52%) Internet
14 15 (0.52%) OSPF
14 15 (0.52%) VLAN
15 12 (0.42%) IPsec
15 12 (0.42%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (2.81%) Power BI
3 71 (2.46%) Metadata
4 61 (2.12%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 37 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.01%) MongoDB
9 26 (0.90%) Tableau
10 25 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (0.87%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.69%) Big Data
13 20 (0.69%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.62%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.62%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.62%) GIS
14 18 (0.62%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 115 (3.99%) JIRA
2 67 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.70%) Git
4 28 (0.97%) GitLab
5 12 (0.42%) ERwin
6 9 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.21%) MLflow
10 5 (0.17%) Gradle
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.17%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.14%) MSI
12 3 (0.10%) Postman
12 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.10%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 777 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 485 (16.82%) Finance
3 354 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 247 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (6.14%) Banking
6 91 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 78 (2.71%) Retail
8 67 (2.32%) Military
9 66 (2.29%) Marketing
10 65 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 63 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 59 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (2.01%) Legal
13 58 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.01%) Billing
17 25 (0.87%) Back Office
18 19 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.59%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (4.68%) REST
2 88 (3.05%) Middleware
3 76 (2.64%) SOAP
4 69 (2.39%) .NET
5 62 (2.15%) JSON
6 51 (1.77%) OAuth
7 48 (1.66%) Kafka
8 47 (1.63%) RESTful
9 45 (1.56%) SAML
10 35 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
11 34 (1.18%) Web Services
12 31 (1.08%) AngularJS
13 30 (1.04%) OpenID
14 27 (0.94%) OAuth2
15 26 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (0.90%) React
16 25 (0.87%) LDAP
16 25 (0.87%) Spring Boot
17 23 (0.80%) PySpark
18 22 (0.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 218 (7.56%) Cloud Native
2 131 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 104 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 79 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 79 (2.74%) PKI
6 74 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 48 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 41 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (1.39%) CMDB
11 39 (1.35%) Operational Technology
12 35 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 34 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 27 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.94%) NHS
16 27 (0.94%) Replication
17 26 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 125 (4.34%) Windows
2 83 (2.88%) Linux
3 40 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.45%) Windows 7
8 12 (0.42%) Unix
9 10 (0.35%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.31%) VMS
11 5 (0.17%) Android
11 5 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.10%) Solaris
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.10%) zOS
13 2 (0.069%) CentOS
14 1 (0.035%) AIX
14 1 (0.035%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (15.78%) Roadmaps
2 430 (14.92%) Agile
3 391 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 338 (11.72%) Enterprise Architecture
5 325 (11.27%) TOGAF
6 315 (10.93%) Migration
7 312 (10.82%) Data Modelling
8 304 (10.54%) DevOps
8 304 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 281 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
11 266 (9.23%) CI/CD
12 247 (8.57%) Microservices
13 235 (8.15%) AI
14 222 (7.70%) Data Architecture
15 221 (7.67%) Analytics
16 191 (6.63%) ITIL
17 188 (6.52%) Mentoring
18 185 (6.42%) Architectural Design
19 184 (6.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 214 (7.42%) Python
2 147 (5.10%) SQL
3 131 (4.54%) Java
4 104 (3.61%) PowerShell
5 56 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 36 (1.25%) C#
7 35 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.14%) Bash
9 30 (1.04%) Bicep
10 29 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 19 (0.66%) R
12 13 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.38%) C
14 10 (0.35%) C++
15 7 (0.24%) Korn
16 6 (0.21%) ABAP
16 6 (0.21%) PHP
17 5 (0.17%) Scala
18 4 (0.14%) VB
18 4 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 924 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 625 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 229 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 166 (5.76%) Degree
5 91 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 90 (3.12%) CISSP
7 88 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 87 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 63 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
11 55 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 36 (1.25%) CISM
15 35 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 35 (1.21%) CCNP
16 31 (1.08%) CCIE
17 23 (0.80%) ISEB
18 20 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 20 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (4.89%) GDPR
2 110 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 102 (3.54%) NIST
4 90 (3.12%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.94%) NCSC
6 50 (1.73%) QA
7 44 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.04%) COBIT
8 30 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 21 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 19 (0.66%) GRC
10 19 (0.66%) JSP 440
11 18 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.52%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.42%) SLA
14 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.35%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 117 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 113 (3.92%) Docker
3 83 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.14%) vSphere
5 32 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.42%) NFS
8 12 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.35%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
12 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.10%) Lustre
13 2 (0.069%) Ceph
13 2 (0.069%) Firmware
13 2 (0.069%) KVM
13 2 (0.069%) vCloud
14 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 199 (6.90%) Terraform
2 160 (5.55%) Kubernetes
3 83 (2.88%) Ansible
4 49 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (1.14%) OPNET
6 22 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.62%) SCCM
7 18 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.45%) WMI
10 10 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.31%) Argo
11 9 (0.31%) Grafana
12 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.14%) Kibana
13 3 (0.10%) Istio
13 3 (0.10%) Puppet
13 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.10%) vRealize
14 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 423 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 184 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 175 (6.07%) SAP
4 163 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 138 (4.79%) Oracle
6 133 (4.61%) VMware
7 109 (3.78%) Cisco
8 87 (3.02%) Databricks
9 80 (2.77%) Google
10 52 (1.80%) Remedy
11 51 (1.77%) Workday
12 50 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 50 (1.73%) Splunk
13 48 (1.66%) CyberArk
14 47 (1.63%) Palo Alto
15 42 (1.46%) IBM
16 37 (1.28%) Atlassian
17 35 (1.21%) F5
17 35 (1.21%) Juniper
18 32 (1.11%) MuleSoft