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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 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 4,614 2,393 3,949
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.92% 9.78% 10.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.83% 10.59% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,106 1,567 2,566
10th Percentile £463 £475 £490
25th Percentile £513 £539 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £745
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 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 £78.75 £82.25 £87.12
90th Percentile £97.75 £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 39,011 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £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 +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,743 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,237 £625 -3.85% 331
North of England +6 686 £600 - 189
South East +6 684 £625 +0.40% 161
Midlands +2 437 £600 +2.17% 64
North West +4 370 £608 +1.33% 91
West Midlands +2 310 £620 +3.33% 54
Yorkshire +8 263 £555 -7.54% 51
South West -1 251 £650 +6.12% 63
East of England +20 206 £575 -4.17% 36
East Midlands +2 121 £573 +12.91% 10
North East +8 60 £575 - 48
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 1,124 (24.36%) Azure
3 989 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 923 (20.00%) AWS
5 660 (14.30%) Migration
6 641 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 621 (13.46%) Microsoft
8 548 (11.88%) DevOps
9 540 (11.70%) Agile
10 521 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 489 (10.60%) CI/CD
12 458 (9.93%) Enterprise Architecture
13 452 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 450 (9.75%) AI
15 430 (9.32%) Integration Patterns
16 426 (9.23%) Data Modelling
17 416 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
18 390 (8.45%) Data Architecture
19 374 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
20 364 (7.89%) Analytics
21 354 (7.67%) GCP
22 340 (7.37%) TOGAF
23 328 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
24 323 (7.00%) Architectural Design
25 322 (6.98%) Microservices
26 285 (6.18%) Python
27 281 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
28 280 (6.07%) Security Architecture
29 278 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
30 271 (5.87%) DV Cleared

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 72 (1.56%) Confluence
3 51 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.67%) SAS
5 27 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.54%) Apache
7 16 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.35%) Appian
7 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 14 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.20%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) Mule
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%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.043%) Windchill
8 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 114 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.13%) Maximo
12 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
13 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
14 4 (0.087%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,124 (24.36%) Azure
2 923 (20.00%) AWS
3 354 (7.67%) GCP
4 226 (4.90%) Power Platform
5 170 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 164 (3.55%) Serverless
7 158 (3.42%) SaaS
8 125 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (2.32%) PaaS
10 105 (2.28%) GitHub
11 99 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 81 (1.76%) IaaS
14 80 (1.73%) Snowflake
15 76 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.28%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
19 57 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
20 54 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 158 (3.42%) Network Security
2 155 (3.36%) Firewall
3 110 (2.38%) DNS
4 107 (2.32%) WAN
5 94 (2.04%) VPN
6 77 (1.67%) LAN
7 55 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.85%) DHCP
9 38 (0.82%) BGP
10 31 (0.67%) OSPF
11 30 (0.65%) MPLS
11 30 (0.65%) VLAN
12 28 (0.61%) SAN
12 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 27 (0.59%) NAS
13 27 (0.59%) Wireless
14 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
15 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.43%) IPsec
15 20 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (3.55%) Power BI
2 120 (2.60%) Metadata
3 118 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 100 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 52 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.74%) Tableau
9 30 (0.65%) Big Data
10 26 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 26 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 25 (0.54%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
12 21 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.43%) GIS
14 18 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 17 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (1.97%) JIRA
2 74 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.19%) Git
4 40 (0.87%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 12 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.20%) 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 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
13 3 (0.065%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.065%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 846 (18.34%) Social Skills
2 734 (15.91%) Finance
3 490 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.03%) Banking
5 227 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 170 (3.68%) Retail
7 137 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 85 (1.84%) Legal
10 85 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 58 (1.26%) Law
12 48 (1.04%) Military
13 46 (1.00%) Billing
14 44 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 43 (0.93%) Marketing
15 43 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 34 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (4.98%) REST
2 163 (3.53%) Middleware
3 122 (2.64%) SOAP
4 114 (2.47%) .NET
5 88 (1.91%) LDAP
6 86 (1.86%) OpenID
7 83 (1.80%) OAuth
8 67 (1.45%) SAML
9 65 (1.41%) Kafka
10 58 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
11 49 (1.06%) OAuth2
12 45 (0.98%) React
13 42 (0.91%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.82%) RESTful
15 37 (0.80%) JSON
16 35 (0.76%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.67%) Web Services
18 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
18 28 (0.61%) Node.js
19 25 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 393 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 121 (2.62%) Onboarding
3 121 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 113 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
4 113 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 103 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
6 98 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 97 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 80 (1.73%) Operational Technology
9 78 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 75 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 72 (1.56%) CMDB
12 70 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 62 (1.34%) AI Agents
14 43 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 42 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 41 (0.89%) Mainframe
17 38 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
18 35 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.71%) Windows
2 75 (1.63%) Linux
3 32 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.46%) Unix
6 10 (0.22%) zOS
7 9 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.087%) Solaris
11 4 (0.087%) VMS
12 3 (0.065%) AIX
12 3 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (14.30%) Migration
2 641 (13.89%) Roadmaps
3 548 (11.88%) DevOps
4 540 (11.70%) Agile
5 521 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 489 (10.60%) CI/CD
7 458 (9.93%) Enterprise Architecture
8 452 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 450 (9.75%) AI
10 430 (9.32%) Integration Patterns
11 426 (9.23%) Data Modelling
12 416 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
13 390 (8.45%) Data Architecture
14 374 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
15 364 (7.89%) Analytics
16 340 (7.37%) TOGAF
17 328 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
18 323 (7.00%) Architectural Design
19 322 (6.98%) Microservices
20 281 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 285 (6.18%) Python
2 227 (4.92%) SQL
3 190 (4.12%) Java
4 140 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 89 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.19%) C#
7 46 (1.00%) Bicep
8 39 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 30 (0.65%) Bash
10 20 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.33%) Scala
13 11 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.13%) ABAP
18 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,365 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 989 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 271 (5.87%) DV Cleared
4 164 (3.55%) Degree
5 105 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 100 (2.17%) CISSP
7 85 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 83 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 73 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 72 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 51 (1.11%) CISM
13 45 (0.98%) CCNP
14 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 19 (0.41%) GIAC
19 18 (0.39%) CCIE
19 18 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.84%) NIST
2 148 (3.21%) GDPR
3 132 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 124 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 97 (2.10%) NCSC
6 64 (1.39%) 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 20 (0.43%) 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
1 173 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.02%) Docker
3 85 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 26 (0.56%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.20%) NFS
10 9 (0.20%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 8 (0.17%) vCloud
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.065%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.065%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 212 (4.59%) Terraform
2 207 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 92 (1.99%) Ansible
4 47 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.87%) Grafana
6 38 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.35%) SCCM
12 9 (0.20%) Istio
13 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
16 4 (0.087%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 621 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.72%) SAP
3 245 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 207 (4.49%) Oracle
5 197 (4.27%) Databricks
6 166 (3.60%) VMware
7 147 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.51%) Cisco
9 102 (2.21%) Google
10 83 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 63 (1.37%) MuleSoft
12 57 (1.24%) Splunk
13 42 (0.91%) Sparx
14 41 (0.89%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 40 (0.87%) Workday
16 38 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
17 37 (0.80%) IBM
18 36 (0.78%) Foundry
19 35 (0.76%) OpenAI