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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,738 3,029 3,574
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.96% 9.75% 9.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.83% 10.49% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 1,818 2,516
10th Percentile £462 £480 £500
25th Percentile £524 £540 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £736 £738
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 25 40
10th Percentile £64.58 £58.95 £56.80
25th Percentile £77.55 £62.50 £64.06
Median hourly rate £86.25 £70.00 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -7.49% +8.10%
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £98.25 £97.50 £85.92
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% +7.14%

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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -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 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -3 1,280 £645 +2.38% 656
South East +2 453 £600 -4.00% 391
North of England -9 365 £600 - 170
Midlands -11 227 £575 -4.92% 125
South West -1 226 £680 +4.58% 109
North West -9 216 £599 -0.21% 114
West Midlands -16 163 £585 -6.27% 87
Yorkshire -16 132 £613 +5.60% 46
East of England -4 89 £553 -7.92% 70
East Midlands +2 63 £500 -9.09% 37
North East -9 18 £713 +14.13% 10
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 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.

1 833 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 791 (28.89%) Azure
3 613 (22.39%) AWS
4 567 (20.71%) SC Cleared
5 423 (15.45%) Microsoft
6 417 (15.23%) Roadmaps
7 398 (14.54%) Agile
8 380 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 327 (11.94%) Migration
10 316 (11.54%) Data Modelling
11 309 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
12 294 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
13 293 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 290 (10.59%) DevOps
15 289 (10.56%) TOGAF
16 270 (9.86%) CI/CD
17 257 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
18 254 (9.28%) GCP
19 247 (9.02%) Microservices
20 224 (8.18%) AI
21 221 (8.07%) Data Architecture
22 215 (7.85%) Analytics
23 214 (7.82%) Python
24 205 (7.49%) DV Cleared
25 194 (7.09%) Terraform
26 191 (6.98%) Data Governance
27 187 (6.83%) Security Architecture
28 185 (6.76%) Mentoring
29 184 (6.72%) Firewall
30 175 (6.39%) Cybersecurity

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 80 (2.92%) Confluence
2 45 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.73%) SAS
6 17 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.55%) CMS
8 14 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.44%) Apache
11 7 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.22%) Smallworld
13 5 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.18%) Mule
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.40%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.037%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.037%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.037%) Revit
9 1 (0.037%) Trello
Business Applications
1 76 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
5 19 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.62%) Maximo
7 14 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
9 12 (0.44%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.44%) Teamcenter
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.33%) Endur
11 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.22%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.22%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 791 (28.89%) Azure
2 613 (22.39%) AWS
3 254 (9.28%) GCP
4 131 (4.78%) SaaS
5 130 (4.75%) Power Platform
6 101 (3.69%) Serverless
7 88 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 81 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
9 73 (2.67%) IaaS
10 72 (2.63%) GitHub
11 68 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
13 60 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 58 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
15 57 (2.08%) PaaS
16 55 (2.01%) Snowflake
17 47 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
19 35 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 184 (6.72%) Firewall
2 99 (3.62%) WAN
3 90 (3.29%) LAN
4 88 (3.21%) Network Security
5 67 (2.45%) VPN
6 65 (2.37%) SD-WAN
7 61 (2.23%) DNS
8 42 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (1.21%) BGP
10 30 (1.10%) SAN
11 25 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (0.91%) DHCP
12 24 (0.88%) MPLS
13 22 (0.80%) SSL
14 20 (0.73%) VSAN
15 16 (0.58%) Internet
15 16 (0.58%) VLAN
16 15 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
16 15 (0.55%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (3.14%) Power BI
3 73 (2.67%) Metadata
4 71 (2.59%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 44 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 31 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.10%) Big Data
10 29 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 27 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.95%) Relational Database
13 21 (0.77%) Tableau
14 19 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.66%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.66%) GIS
15 18 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.55%) Delta Lake
16 15 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (3.94%) JIRA
2 59 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 41 (1.50%) Git
4 21 (0.77%) GitLab
5 18 (0.66%) ERwin
6 10 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.18%) Gradle
9 5 (0.18%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
10 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.15%) MLflow
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 761 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 500 (18.26%) Finance
3 322 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 234 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (6.87%) Banking
6 88 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 81 (2.96%) Retail
8 69 (2.52%) Marketing
9 68 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 57 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 54 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.75%) Legal
14 43 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 41 (1.50%) Military
16 25 (0.91%) Back Office
17 24 (0.88%) Billing
18 22 (0.80%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (4.97%) REST
2 84 (3.07%) Middleware
3 66 (2.41%) .NET
4 64 (2.34%) Kafka
4 64 (2.34%) SOAP
5 58 (2.12%) JSON
6 50 (1.83%) OAuth
7 45 (1.64%) RESTful
8 44 (1.61%) SAML
9 39 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 37 (1.35%) Web Services
11 35 (1.28%) AngularJS
12 30 (1.10%) React
13 28 (1.02%) OAuth2
13 28 (1.02%) OpenID
14 27 (0.99%) Spring Boot
15 26 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (0.95%) Visualforce
16 22 (0.80%) Node.js
16 22 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 213 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 95 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 85 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 71 (2.59%) PKI
8 49 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 39 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.35%) CMDB
13 34 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.10%) NHS
15 30 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 24 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 24 (0.88%) SCADA
16 24 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 130 (4.75%) Windows
2 76 (2.78%) Linux
3 49 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.47%) Unix
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.29%) Android
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.073%) CentOS
12 2 (0.073%) zOS
13 1 (0.037%) AIX
13 1 (0.037%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (15.23%) Roadmaps
2 398 (14.54%) Agile
3 380 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 327 (11.94%) Migration
5 316 (11.54%) Data Modelling
6 309 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 294 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 290 (10.59%) DevOps
10 289 (10.56%) TOGAF
11 270 (9.86%) CI/CD
12 257 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
13 247 (9.02%) Microservices
14 224 (8.18%) AI
15 221 (8.07%) Data Architecture
16 215 (7.85%) Analytics
17 191 (6.98%) Data Governance
18 187 (6.83%) Security Architecture
19 185 (6.76%) Mentoring
20 175 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 214 (7.82%) Python
2 153 (5.59%) Java
3 152 (5.55%) SQL
4 95 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 68 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.39%) C#
8 33 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 30 (1.10%) Bash
10 26 (0.95%) Bicep
11 17 (0.62%) R
12 13 (0.47%) C++
13 11 (0.40%) C
13 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.29%) Korn
15 8 (0.29%) Scala
16 6 (0.22%) Go
16 6 (0.22%) PHP
16 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 833 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 567 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 205 (7.49%) DV Cleared
4 148 (5.41%) Degree
5 97 (3.54%) CISSP
6 94 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 86 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 66 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 62 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 61 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 57 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.46%) CISM
13 38 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 32 (1.17%) CCNP
16 30 (1.10%) CCIE
17 22 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 17 (0.62%) CCSP
19 15 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.41%) GDPR
2 111 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.94%) NIST
4 90 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 49 (1.79%) NCSC
6 44 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.57%) QA
8 29 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 23 (0.84%) GRC
10 20 (0.73%) COBIT
10 20 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.66%) JSP 440
12 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 104 (3.80%) Docker
3 86 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.28%) vSphere
5 27 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 24 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.55%) NFS
8 10 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.073%) KVM
13 1 (0.037%) GPFS
13 1 (0.037%) HDFS
13 1 (0.037%) SRDF
13 1 (0.037%) Varnish
13 1 (0.037%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 194 (7.09%) Terraform
2 154 (5.62%) Kubernetes
3 73 (2.67%) Ansible
4 49 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.58%) OPNET
7 16 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.55%) Grafana
8 15 (0.55%) SCCM
9 13 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.33%) Argo
10 9 (0.33%) WMI
11 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.15%) SCOM
12 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.073%) vRealize
Vendors
1 423 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.06%) SAP
3 144 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 140 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 131 (4.78%) Oracle
6 130 (4.75%) VMware
7 115 (4.20%) Cisco
8 89 (3.25%) Databricks
9 86 (3.14%) Google
10 59 (2.15%) Splunk
11 51 (1.86%) Fortinet
12 45 (1.64%) Palo Alto
13 43 (1.57%) IBM
14 41 (1.50%) Workday
15 37 (1.35%) F5
16 35 (1.28%) CyberArk
17 34 (1.24%) Juniper
18 33 (1.21%) Remedy
19 30 (1.10%) Virgin Media
20 29 (1.06%) MuleSoft