Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,625 2,393 3,919
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.91% 9.82% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.81% 10.63% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,116 1,562 2,540
10th Percentile £463 £475 £490
25th Percentile £513 £538 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £720 £745
90th Percentile £800 £797 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 27 95
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
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 £78.75 £82.25 £86.32
90th Percentile £97.63 £91.92 £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 39,165 22,521 34,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.41% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 14,805 22,602
10th Percentile £325 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 973 2,623
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.33 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.32% -25.75% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.73% -25.33% -16.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +4 2,247 £625 -3.85% 362
North of England +5 687 £600 - 226
South East +4 687 £625 +0.40% 182
Midlands +2 436 £600 +2.17% 82
North West +5 372 £608 +1.97% 112
West Midlands -2 310 £620 +3.33% 68
Yorkshire +9 262 £552 -7.96% 62
South West -1 245 £650 +6.12% 66
East of England +18 207 £575 -4.17% 42
East Midlands +1 120 £573 +12.86% 14
North East +6 60 £575 -4.17% 53
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 1,365 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 1,126 (24.35%) Azure
3 985 (21.30%) SC Cleared
4 927 (20.04%) AWS
5 665 (14.38%) Migration
6 648 (14.01%) Roadmaps
7 621 (13.43%) Microsoft
8 552 (11.94%) DevOps
9 548 (11.85%) Agile
10 526 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 495 (10.70%) CI/CD
12 461 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
13 449 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 440 (9.51%) AI
15 430 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 428 (9.25%) Integration Patterns
17 422 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
18 387 (8.37%) Data Architecture
19 373 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
20 366 (7.91%) Analytics
21 361 (7.81%) GCP
22 334 (7.22%) TOGAF
23 333 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
24 327 (7.07%) Microservices
25 326 (7.05%) Architectural Design
26 289 (6.25%) Python
27 283 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
28 281 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
29 275 (5.95%) DV Cleared
29 275 (5.95%) Security Architecture

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
1 103 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 70 (1.51%) Confluence
3 50 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.67%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.54%) Apache
7 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.35%) Appian
8 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.086%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.043%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 115 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
9 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
13 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
13 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
14 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,126 (24.35%) Azure
2 927 (20.04%) AWS
3 361 (7.81%) GCP
4 225 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 173 (3.74%) Entra ID
6 166 (3.59%) Serverless
7 162 (3.50%) SaaS
8 124 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
9 110 (2.38%) PaaS
10 108 (2.34%) GitHub
11 99 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 94 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (1.79%) IaaS
14 80 (1.73%) Snowflake
15 79 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
16 74 (1.60%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.36%) OpenShift
18 57 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
18 57 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 159 (3.44%) Network Security
2 158 (3.42%) Firewall
3 110 (2.38%) DNS
4 105 (2.27%) WAN
5 97 (2.10%) VPN
6 78 (1.69%) LAN
7 53 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.84%) DHCP
9 37 (0.80%) BGP
10 31 (0.67%) OSPF
11 30 (0.65%) VLAN
12 29 (0.63%) MPLS
13 28 (0.61%) SAN
13 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
14 27 (0.58%) NAS
14 27 (0.58%) Wireless
15 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
16 21 (0.45%) VXLAN
17 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
17 20 (0.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (3.52%) Power BI
2 119 (2.57%) Metadata
3 114 (2.46%) Data Lake
4 103 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 53 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (0.76%) Tableau
9 33 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.65%) Big Data
11 27 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 26 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.52%) Delta Lake
14 21 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.43%) GIS
16 18 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
17 17 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 89 (1.92%) JIRA
2 78 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.17%) Git
4 42 (0.91%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 12 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 7 (0.15%) Postman
10 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.11%) JMeter
11 5 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.11%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.11%) Selenium
12 4 (0.086%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.086%) Snyk
12 4 (0.086%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.065%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 859 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 733 (15.85%) Finance
3 491 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.01%) Banking
5 230 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 171 (3.70%) Retail
7 140 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 100 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 84 (1.82%) Legal
10 84 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 58 (1.25%) Law
12 49 (1.06%) Military
13 48 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.02%) Billing
15 44 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 44 (0.95%) Marketing
16 38 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
18 33 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (4.97%) REST
2 168 (3.63%) Middleware
3 125 (2.70%) SOAP
4 116 (2.51%) .NET
5 88 (1.90%) LDAP
6 85 (1.84%) OpenID
7 82 (1.77%) OAuth
8 66 (1.43%) SAML
9 65 (1.41%) Kafka
10 58 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 49 (1.06%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.95%) React
13 40 (0.86%) SailPoint
14 37 (0.80%) JSON
14 37 (0.80%) RESTful
15 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.65%) Web Services
17 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
17 28 (0.61%) Node.js
18 25 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 394 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 129 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 122 (2.64%) Onboarding
4 121 (2.62%) Product Ownership
5 113 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 111 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 98 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 94 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 79 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 76 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 72 (1.56%) CMDB
13 69 (1.49%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 43 (0.93%) Private Cloud
16 42 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 41 (0.89%) Mainframe
18 38 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
19 34 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (2.81%) Windows
2 79 (1.71%) Linux
3 31 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.45%) Unix
6 11 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) zOS
8 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.086%) Solaris
11 4 (0.086%) VMS
12 3 (0.065%) AIX
12 3 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (14.38%) Migration
2 648 (14.01%) Roadmaps
3 552 (11.94%) DevOps
4 548 (11.85%) Agile
5 526 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 495 (10.70%) CI/CD
7 461 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
8 449 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 440 (9.51%) AI
10 430 (9.30%) Data Modelling
11 428 (9.25%) Integration Patterns
12 422 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
13 387 (8.37%) Data Architecture
14 373 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
15 366 (7.91%) Analytics
16 334 (7.22%) TOGAF
17 333 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
18 327 (7.07%) Microservices
19 326 (7.05%) Architectural Design
20 283 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 289 (6.25%) Python
2 230 (4.97%) SQL
3 186 (4.02%) Java
4 147 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 89 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.19%) C#
7 48 (1.04%) Bicep
8 38 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.71%) Bash
10 20 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.32%) Scala
13 14 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.17%) VBA
18 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.13%) ABAP
19 6 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,365 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 985 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 275 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 165 (3.57%) Degree
5 105 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 99 (2.14%) CISSP
7 84 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 83 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 73 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 51 (1.10%) CISM
12 46 (0.99%) CCNP
13 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.41%) GIAC
18 18 (0.39%) CCSP
19 17 (0.37%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.83%) NIST
2 150 (3.24%) GDPR
3 134 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 125 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 95 (2.05%) NCSC
6 66 (1.43%) QA
7 38 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.65%) GRC
9 25 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.41%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) COBIT
14 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.35%) HL7
16 14 (0.30%) IFRS
17 13 (0.28%) FINRA
17 13 (0.28%) MiFID
18 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 178 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 96 (2.08%) Docker
3 87 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.19%) NFS
10 9 (0.19%) Squid
10 9 (0.19%) vCloud
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.086%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.086%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.065%) IAG
15 3 (0.065%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 220 (4.76%) Terraform
2 212 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.05%) Ansible
4 47 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (0.84%) Grafana
7 30 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.39%) SCCM
11 16 (0.35%) Argo
12 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.19%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
16 5 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 621 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 267 (5.77%) SAP
3 247 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 209 (4.52%) Oracle
5 195 (4.22%) Databricks
6 168 (3.63%) VMware
7 151 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.51%) Cisco
9 104 (2.25%) Google
10 85 (1.84%) CyberArk
11 67 (1.45%) MuleSoft
12 59 (1.28%) Splunk
13 42 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.89%) Sparx
15 40 (0.86%) Red Hat
15 40 (0.86%) Workday
16 39 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
17 38 (0.82%) IBM
18 34 (0.74%) Centrify
18 34 (0.74%) Juniper