Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,942 2,651 3,782
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.98% 9.74% 10.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.88% 10.60% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,287 1,766 2,476
10th Percentile £475 £465 £488
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £738
90th Percentile £789 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 21 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.96 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.91 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £83.90 £100.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,608 25,011 33,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.87% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,417 16,274 22,046
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,980 1,235 2,309
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +5 2,483 £620 -4.62% 554
North of England +7 722 £600 - 151
South East 0 716 £630 +5.00% 182
Midlands -2 415 £620 +7.83% 82
North West +1 384 £610 +1.67% 82
West Midlands -3 299 £626 +4.25% 58
South West -1 288 £625 +0.24% 71
Yorkshire +9 267 £600 - 38
East of England +19 185 £600 - 44
East Midlands +6 109 £600 +20.00% 24
North East +4 79 £600 -15.79% 31
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 1,436 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 1,236 (25.01%) Azure
3 1,040 (21.04%) SC Cleared
4 1,025 (20.74%) AWS
5 758 (15.34%) Roadmaps
6 698 (14.12%) Migration
7 646 (13.07%) Microsoft
8 636 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 587 (11.88%) AI
10 582 (11.78%) Agile
11 564 (11.41%) DevOps
12 563 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
13 514 (10.40%) CI/CD
13 514 (10.40%) Data Modelling
14 478 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 469 (9.49%) Data Architecture
15 469 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
16 463 (9.37%) Integration Patterns
17 426 (8.62%) Analytics
18 415 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
19 411 (8.32%) TOGAF
20 373 (7.55%) GCP
21 346 (7.00%) Microservices
22 341 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
23 334 (6.76%) Security Architecture
24 331 (6.70%) Architectural Design
25 308 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
26 306 (6.19%) DV Cleared
27 301 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
28 292 (5.91%) Event-Driven

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 88 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.19%) Confluence
3 58 (1.17%) SAS
4 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (0.73%) Apache
5 36 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.42%) CMS
8 20 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 18 (0.36%) Appian
10 13 (0.26%) nginx
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.18%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) Maximo
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
10 6 (0.12%) Endur
10 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (25.01%) Azure
2 1,025 (20.74%) AWS
3 373 (7.55%) GCP
4 258 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 186 (3.76%) Entra ID
6 182 (3.68%) SaaS
7 163 (3.30%) Serverless
8 116 (2.35%) GitHub
9 113 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 112 (2.27%) PaaS
11 109 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
12 98 (1.98%) Snowflake
13 96 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
14 82 (1.66%) IaaS
15 75 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
16 73 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.27%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 55 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 53 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 173 (3.50%) Firewall
2 169 (3.42%) Network Security
3 108 (2.19%) DNS
4 101 (2.04%) WAN
5 88 (1.78%) VPN
6 73 (1.48%) LAN
7 52 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 49 (0.99%) BGP
8 49 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 42 (0.85%) DHCP
10 37 (0.75%) MPLS
11 35 (0.71%) VLAN
12 32 (0.65%) OSPF
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
14 27 (0.55%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 24 (0.49%) IPsec
17 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
17 22 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 20 (0.40%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (3.70%) Power BI
2 151 (3.06%) Metadata
3 149 (3.01%) Data Lake
4 134 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.85%) Big Data
8 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.57%) Delta Lake
13 26 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
14 25 (0.51%) GIS
15 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (0.42%) Tableau
17 20 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 85 (1.72%) JIRA
2 63 (1.27%) Git
3 61 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.61%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
11 4 (0.081%) Storybook
12 3 (0.061%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 923 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 797 (16.13%) Finance
3 536 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 305 (6.17%) Banking
5 277 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 224 (4.53%) Retail
7 143 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 125 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 113 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 95 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 79 (1.60%) Legal
12 55 (1.11%) Billing
13 53 (1.07%) Marketing
14 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 48 (0.97%) Military
15 45 (0.91%) Law
16 40 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 39 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (4.82%) REST
2 164 (3.32%) Middleware
3 119 (2.41%) .NET
4 108 (2.19%) SOAP
5 91 (1.84%) OAuth
6 87 (1.76%) Kafka
7 75 (1.52%) OpenID
8 71 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 63 (1.27%) SAML
10 50 (1.01%) OAuth2
10 50 (1.01%) React
11 46 (0.93%) LDAP
12 42 (0.85%) JSON
12 42 (0.85%) SailPoint
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 36 (0.73%) .NET Framework
15 32 (0.65%) PySpark
16 31 (0.63%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.63%) Node.js
17 30 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 415 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 146 (2.95%) Data Centre
3 136 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 131 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 110 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 106 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 90 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 89 (1.80%) AI Agents
11 86 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 86 (1.74%) Operational Technology
12 78 (1.58%) CMDB
13 66 (1.34%) Public Cloud
14 55 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
15 54 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 47 (0.95%) Data Structures
17 45 (0.91%) Private Cloud
18 43 (0.87%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 118 (2.39%) Windows
2 80 (1.62%) Linux
3 34 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.53%) Android
4 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.38%) Unix
6 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.081%) Solaris
11 4 (0.081%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) CentOS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) CatOS
13 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (15.34%) Roadmaps
2 698 (14.12%) Migration
3 636 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 587 (11.88%) AI
5 582 (11.78%) Agile
6 564 (11.41%) DevOps
7 563 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
8 514 (10.40%) CI/CD
8 514 (10.40%) Data Modelling
9 478 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 469 (9.49%) Data Architecture
10 469 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
11 463 (9.37%) Integration Patterns
12 426 (8.62%) Analytics
13 415 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
14 411 (8.32%) TOGAF
15 346 (7.00%) Microservices
16 341 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
17 334 (6.76%) Security Architecture
18 331 (6.70%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 264 (5.34%) Python
2 240 (4.86%) SQL
3 203 (4.11%) Java
4 106 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 86 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.21%) C#
7 45 (0.91%) Bicep
8 43 (0.87%) Bash
9 40 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.30%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Scala
12 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.18%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) Go
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,436 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 1,040 (21.04%) SC Cleared
3 306 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 173 (3.50%) Degree
5 126 (2.55%) CISSP
6 112 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 95 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 83 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 72 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.15%) CISM
13 46 (0.93%) CCNP
14 40 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.47%) CCSP
19 22 (0.45%) CCIE
20 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (3.52%) NIST
2 165 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 153 (3.10%) GDPR
4 127 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (2.12%) NCSC
6 57 (1.15%) QA
7 48 (0.97%) GRC
8 38 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 24 (0.49%) SEPA
13 18 (0.36%) COBIT
13 18 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.36%) IFRS
14 17 (0.34%) HL7
15 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.22%) SLA
16 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 152 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.02%) Docker
3 70 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.36%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.18%) Squid
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 5 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 241 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 228 (4.61%) Terraform
3 97 (1.96%) Ansible
4 51 (1.03%) Grafana
5 49 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.36%) Argo
10 17 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.16%) SCCM
14 7 (0.14%) Consul
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.10%) Istio
16 5 (0.10%) MOM
16 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 646 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 285 (5.77%) SAP
3 258 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 248 (5.02%) Oracle
5 219 (4.43%) Databricks
6 153 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 141 (2.85%) VMware
8 121 (2.45%) Cisco
9 115 (2.33%) Google
10 65 (1.32%) CyberArk
11 53 (1.07%) Splunk
12 52 (1.05%) IBM
13 50 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 48 (0.97%) Workday
15 43 (0.87%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.83%) Foundry
17 40 (0.81%) Red Hat
18 37 (0.75%) Ariba
18 37 (0.75%) Sparx
19 36 (0.73%) F5