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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,002 2,597 3,397
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.97% 9.38% 10.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.24% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 1,722 2,245
10th Percentile £480 £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 £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -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 42,165 25,369 30,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,544 16,436 20,307
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 £626 £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 3,170 1,324 1,794
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.47 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.45% -43.94% +8.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.63 £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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,577 £625 -3.85% 2,009
South East 0 729 £630 +5.00% 404
North of England +4 687 £600 - 392
Midlands -1 415 £625 +8.70% 180
North West +5 392 £600 - 222
West Midlands -3 305 £627 +4.42% 126
South West -2 299 £625 -2.34% 220
Yorkshire +3 232 £600 0.00% 124
East of England +13 160 £600 +8.11% 122
East Midlands +8 103 £600 +16.50% 54
North East -4 65 £600 -15.79% 48
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,488 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 1,260 (25.19%) Azure
3 1,079 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 1,014 (20.27%) AWS
5 737 (14.73%) Roadmaps
6 709 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 708 (14.15%) Migration
8 652 (13.03%) Microsoft
9 640 (12.79%) AI
10 606 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
11 553 (11.06%) Agile
12 549 (10.98%) DevOps
13 527 (10.54%) Data Modelling
14 520 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
15 516 (10.32%) CI/CD
16 501 (10.02%) Data Architecture
17 499 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 490 (9.80%) Integration Patterns
19 453 (9.06%) Analytics
20 399 (7.98%) TOGAF
21 395 (7.90%) Architectural Patterns
22 386 (7.72%) GCP
23 360 (7.20%) Security Architecture
24 320 (6.40%) DV Cleared
24 320 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
25 316 (6.32%) Microservices
26 310 (6.20%) Event-Driven
27 307 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
28 302 (6.04%) Architectural Design
29 296 (5.92%) 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 77 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.42%) SAS
3 51 (1.02%) Confluence
4 41 (0.82%) Apache
5 38 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.32%) 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
1 118 (2.36%) 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 13 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
10 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) Maximo
13 5 (0.100%) SAP MM
13 5 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (25.19%) Azure
2 1,014 (20.27%) AWS
3 386 (7.72%) GCP
4 264 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 183 (3.66%) Entra ID
6 178 (3.56%) SaaS
7 151 (3.02%) Serverless
8 122 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
8 122 (2.44%) GitHub
9 105 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
10 104 (2.08%) PaaS
11 103 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 101 (2.02%) Snowflake
13 72 (1.44%) IaaS
14 71 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (1.34%) Amazon S3
16 61 (1.22%) OCI
17 55 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
18 53 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
19 51 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 154 (3.08%) Network Security
2 151 (3.02%) Firewall
3 98 (1.96%) WAN
4 87 (1.74%) DNS
5 73 (1.46%) VPN
6 72 (1.44%) LAN
7 47 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.92%) 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
15 25 (0.50%) VXLAN
16 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
17 21 (0.42%) NX-OS
18 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (3.74%) Power BI
2 165 (3.30%) Data Lake
3 152 (3.04%) Metadata
4 146 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 49 (0.98%) 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
12 28 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (0.50%) GIS
15 24 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 21 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 19 (0.38%) Star Schema
18 18 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 70 (1.40%) JIRA
2 67 (1.34%) Git
3 50 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.62%) 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%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
11 4 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.060%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 951 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 767 (15.33%) Finance
3 533 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 296 (5.92%) Banking
5 266 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 244 (4.88%) Retail
7 133 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
8 119 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 117 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.12%) 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 36 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (4.84%) REST
2 158 (3.16%) Middleware
3 117 (2.34%) .NET
4 111 (2.22%) SOAP
5 105 (2.10%) Kafka
6 98 (1.96%) OAuth
7 73 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 55 (1.10%) OpenID
9 52 (1.04%) SAML
10 51 (1.02%) JSON
10 51 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 41 (0.82%) React
11 41 (0.82%) RESTful
12 36 (0.72%) .NET Framework
12 36 (0.72%) SailPoint
13 34 (0.68%) PySpark
14 31 (0.62%) XML
15 28 (0.56%) JWT
15 28 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
16 26 (0.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 420 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 148 (2.96%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 126 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 125 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 122 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 119 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 112 (2.24%) AI Agents
8 112 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 99 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 89 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 85 (1.70%) Operational Technology
12 73 (1.46%) CMDB
13 65 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
15 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 57 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
17 45 (0.90%) Private Cloud
18 40 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.20%) Windows
2 85 (1.70%) 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
1 737 (14.73%) Roadmaps
2 709 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 708 (14.15%) Migration
4 640 (12.79%) AI
5 606 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
6 553 (11.06%) Agile
7 549 (10.98%) DevOps
8 527 (10.54%) Data Modelling
9 520 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
10 516 (10.32%) CI/CD
11 501 (10.02%) Data Architecture
12 499 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 490 (9.80%) Integration Patterns
14 453 (9.06%) Analytics
15 399 (7.98%) TOGAF
16 395 (7.90%) Architectural Patterns
17 360 (7.20%) Security Architecture
18 320 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
19 316 (6.32%) Microservices
20 310 (6.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 236 (4.72%) Python
2 228 (4.56%) SQL
3 205 (4.10%) Java
4 116 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 84 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.04%) C#
7 43 (0.86%) Bash
8 42 (0.84%) Bicep
9 41 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 29 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.28%) Ruby
13 13 (0.26%) C++
14 11 (0.22%) Groovy
15 10 (0.20%) ABAP
15 10 (0.20%) Scala
16 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,488 (29.75%) Security Cleared
2 1,079 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 320 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 153 (3.06%) Degree
5 125 (2.50%) CISSP
6 109 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 97 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 86 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 83 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 64 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 64 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (1.14%) CISM
12 39 (0.78%) CCNP
13 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 30 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.44%) Master's Degree
17 20 (0.40%) CCSP
18 19 (0.38%) CCIE
19 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.58%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.44%) NIST
3 148 (2.96%) GDPR
4 133 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.86%) NCSC
6 62 (1.24%) GRC
7 55 (1.10%) 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
14 20 (0.40%) IFRS
15 15 (0.30%) HL7
15 15 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.28%) SLA
17 13 (0.26%) ISO 19650
18 12 (0.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 143 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 99 (1.98%) Docker
3 62 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.86%) 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
1 240 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 212 (4.24%) Terraform
3 89 (1.78%) Ansible
4 41 (0.82%) Grafana
5 38 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (0.70%) 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 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 280 (5.60%) SAP
3 267 (5.34%) Oracle
4 250 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 225 (4.50%) Databricks
6 163 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 138 (2.76%) Google
8 126 (2.52%) Cisco
9 124 (2.48%) VMware
10 56 (1.12%) CyberArk
10 56 (1.12%) IBM
11 55 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 52 (1.04%) Workday
13 48 (0.96%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.86%) Foundry
15 37 (0.74%) Sparx
16 35 (0.70%) Ariba
16 35 (0.70%) Splunk
17 33 (0.66%) F5
18 31 (0.62%) OpenAI