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 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,768 2,403 3,973
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.63% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.44% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,203 1,568 2,589
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £513 £545 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £740
90th Percentile £800 £793 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 27 96
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 £77.56 £82.25 £87.12
90th Percentile £97.50 £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 39,986 23,027 34,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.23% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,604 15,125 22,795
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.30% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,039 2,704
10th Percentile £15.95 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -10.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.42
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.36 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.36% -27.03% -14.77%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 2,319 £625 -3.85% 438
South East +6 707 £625 +4.08% 181
North of England +6 702 £600 - 160
Midlands +3 436 £613 +4.30% 73
North West +4 373 £610 +2.31% 87
West Midlands -1 309 £625 +4.17% 57
South West +2 276 £645 +5.31% 69
Yorkshire +7 268 £558 -7.00% 42
East of England +22 210 £600 - 42
East Midlands +6 121 £575 +15.00% 16
North East +8 68 £575 -8.00% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 1,389 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,167 (24.48%) Azure
3 1,006 (21.10%) SC Cleared
4 948 (19.88%) AWS
5 695 (14.58%) Migration
6 682 (14.30%) Roadmaps
7 642 (13.46%) Microsoft
8 572 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 571 (11.98%) DevOps
10 566 (11.87%) Agile
11 513 (10.76%) CI/CD
12 502 (10.53%) AI
13 500 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
14 458 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 457 (9.58%) Data Modelling
16 449 (9.42%) Integration Patterns
17 434 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
18 417 (8.75%) Data Architecture
19 392 (8.22%) Architectural Patterns
20 388 (8.14%) Analytics
21 359 (7.53%) TOGAF
22 356 (7.47%) GCP
23 333 (6.98%) Microservices
24 331 (6.94%) Architectural Design
24 331 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
25 302 (6.33%) Security Architecture
26 290 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
26 290 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
27 281 (5.89%) DV Cleared
28 278 (5.83%) Python

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
1 106 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.55%) Confluence
3 50 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.86%) SAS
5 29 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.55%) Apache
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 17 (0.36%) Appian
8 17 (0.36%) CMS
8 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 12 (0.25%) nginx
10 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.19%) Camunda
13 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 23 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.042%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 123 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.13%) Maximo
12 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) Endur
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 4 (0.084%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,167 (24.48%) Azure
2 948 (19.88%) AWS
3 356 (7.47%) GCP
4 244 (5.12%) Power Platform
5 170 (3.57%) Serverless
6 169 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 167 (3.50%) SaaS
8 126 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (2.47%) GitHub
10 107 (2.24%) PaaS
11 104 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
12 100 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
13 86 (1.80%) Snowflake
14 81 (1.70%) IaaS
15 78 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
16 74 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.26%) OpenShift
18 59 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
19 55 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
20 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 164 (3.44%) Firewall
2 162 (3.40%) Network Security
3 110 (2.31%) DNS
4 105 (2.20%) WAN
5 96 (2.01%) VPN
6 77 (1.61%) LAN
7 54 (1.13%) SD-WAN
8 40 (0.84%) DHCP
9 39 (0.82%) BGP
10 35 (0.73%) TCP/IP
11 33 (0.69%) VLAN
12 31 (0.65%) MPLS
12 31 (0.65%) OSPF
13 29 (0.61%) Wireless
14 26 (0.55%) SAN
15 25 (0.52%) NAS
16 22 (0.46%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.46%) IPsec
16 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
17 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (3.65%) Power BI
2 132 (2.77%) Metadata
3 127 (2.66%) Data Lake
4 115 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.69%) Big Data
10 32 (0.67%) Tableau
11 28 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.42%) GIS
16 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (2.12%) JIRA
2 78 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.22%) Git
4 39 (0.82%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) JUnit
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
11 4 (0.084%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 882 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 789 (16.55%) Finance
3 527 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 293 (6.15%) Banking
5 242 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 192 (4.03%) Retail
7 143 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 107 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 90 (1.89%) Legal
11 83 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 56 (1.17%) Law
13 52 (1.09%) Military
14 46 (0.96%) Billing
15 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.86%) Marketing
16 41 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 34 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (4.74%) REST
2 166 (3.48%) Middleware
3 115 (2.41%) .NET
4 110 (2.31%) SOAP
5 85 (1.78%) OpenID
6 82 (1.72%) OAuth
7 71 (1.49%) Kafka
8 68 (1.43%) LDAP
8 68 (1.43%) SAML
9 64 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 50 (1.05%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.94%) React
12 43 (0.90%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.82%) RESTful
14 37 (0.78%) JSON
15 33 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.65%) .NET Framework
16 31 (0.65%) Web Services
17 29 (0.61%) Node.js
18 26 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 412 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 136 (2.85%) Product Ownership
3 132 (2.77%) Data Centre
4 123 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 117 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 108 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 107 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 104 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 104 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 81 (1.70%) Operational Technology
10 77 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 75 (1.57%) CMDB
12 71 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 70 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 67 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 43 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 43 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 42 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (0.86%) Mainframe
18 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (2.73%) Windows
2 75 (1.57%) Linux
3 33 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.084%) Solaris
10 4 (0.084%) VMS
10 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.063%) AIX
11 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (14.58%) Migration
2 682 (14.30%) Roadmaps
3 572 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 571 (11.98%) DevOps
5 566 (11.87%) Agile
6 513 (10.76%) CI/CD
7 502 (10.53%) AI
8 500 (10.49%) Enterprise Architecture
9 458 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 457 (9.58%) Data Modelling
11 449 (9.42%) Integration Patterns
12 434 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
13 417 (8.75%) Data Architecture
14 392 (8.22%) Architectural Patterns
15 388 (8.14%) Analytics
16 359 (7.53%) TOGAF
17 333 (6.98%) Microservices
18 331 (6.94%) Architectural Design
18 331 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
19 302 (6.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (5.83%) Python
2 233 (4.89%) SQL
3 195 (4.09%) Java
4 121 (2.54%) PowerShell
5 92 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.17%) C#
7 48 (1.01%) Bicep
8 39 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.69%) Bash
10 22 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
11 15 (0.31%) Scala
12 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.17%) ABAP
15 8 (0.17%) C++
15 8 (0.17%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
16 6 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 1,389 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,006 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 281 (5.89%) DV Cleared
4 170 (3.57%) Degree
5 104 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 103 (2.16%) CISSP
7 87 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 87 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 72 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 72 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 50 (1.05%) CISM
11 46 (0.96%) CCNP
12 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 34 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.40%) CCIE
16 19 (0.40%) CCSP
16 19 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (3.69%) NIST
2 157 (3.29%) GDPR
3 142 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 131 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (2.16%) NCSC
6 63 (1.32%) QA
7 40 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 27 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 19 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.38%) COBIT
15 17 (0.36%) HL7
15 17 (0.36%) IFRS
16 13 (0.27%) FINRA
16 13 (0.27%) MiFID
17 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 159 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.95%) Docker
3 78 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.50%) vSphere
6 19 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.19%) NFS
10 9 (0.19%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 8 (0.17%) vCloud
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.10%) RACF
14 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.084%) IAG
14 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.063%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 222 (4.66%) Terraform
2 218 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.06%) Ansible
4 46 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 41 (0.86%) Grafana
6 38 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.52%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.29%) SCCM
13 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
17 4 (0.084%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 642 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 275 (5.77%) SAP
3 253 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 217 (4.55%) Oracle
5 203 (4.26%) Databricks
6 158 (3.31%) VMware
7 153 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 122 (2.56%) Cisco
9 103 (2.16%) Google
10 68 (1.43%) CyberArk
11 58 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.15%) Splunk
13 47 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 42 (0.88%) Sparx
15 41 (0.86%) IBM
15 41 (0.86%) Red Hat
15 41 (0.86%) Workday
16 39 (0.82%) OpenAI
17 38 (0.80%) Foundry
18 34 (0.71%) F5