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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,049 2,622 3,434
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.03% 9.50% 10.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.36% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 1,740 2,265
10th Percentile £475 £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 £705 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £622 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.56% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 18 76
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 42,356 25,309 30,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.68% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,686 16,403 20,377
10th Percentile £326 £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 £630 £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 3,156 1,311 1,814
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +0.58%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 2,600 £625 -3.85% 1,549
South East 0 736 £625 +4.17% 340
North of England +3 695 £600 - 294
Midlands 0 421 £625 +8.70% 155
North West +4 393 £600 - 154
West Midlands -2 313 £635 +5.83% 105
South West -1 299 £625 -2.34% 177
Yorkshire +4 236 £600 - 108
East of England +16 162 £600 +8.11% 111
East Midlands +8 101 £600 +16.50% 50
North East -4 68 £600 -15.79% 32
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 1,511 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 1,288 (25.51%) Azure
3 1,099 (21.77%) SC Cleared
4 1,042 (20.64%) AWS
5 749 (14.83%) Roadmaps
6 719 (14.24%) Migration
7 701 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 656 (12.99%) Microsoft
9 643 (12.74%) AI
10 608 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
11 566 (11.21%) Agile
12 560 (11.09%) DevOps
13 534 (10.58%) Data Modelling
14 525 (10.40%) CI/CD
15 522 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
16 502 (9.94%) Data Architecture
17 501 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 500 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
19 465 (9.21%) Analytics
20 411 (8.14%) TOGAF
21 407 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
22 397 (7.86%) GCP
23 364 (7.21%) Security Architecture
24 329 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
25 326 (6.46%) Microservices
26 323 (6.40%) DV Cleared
27 315 (6.24%) Event-Driven
28 314 (6.22%) Cybersecurity
29 303 (6.00%) Architectural Design
29 303 (6.00%) 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 79 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.47%) SAS
3 54 (1.07%) Confluence
4 42 (0.83%) Apache
5 41 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
13 7 (0.14%) nginx
14 4 (0.079%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.079%) NetWeaver
15 3 (0.059%) Anypoint
15 3 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.079%) 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
1 122 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 31 (0.61%) 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
7 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.14%) Maximo
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 5 (0.099%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.099%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,288 (25.51%) Azure
2 1,042 (20.64%) AWS
3 397 (7.86%) GCP
4 264 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 191 (3.78%) Entra ID
6 179 (3.55%) SaaS
7 155 (3.07%) Serverless
8 124 (2.46%) GitHub
9 120 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 106 (2.10%) PaaS
11 105 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
13 100 (1.98%) Snowflake
14 74 (1.47%) IaaS
15 72 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.39%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.19%) OCI
18 56 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
19 55 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 54 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.17%) Network Security
2 154 (3.05%) Firewall
3 100 (1.98%) WAN
4 89 (1.76%) DNS
5 76 (1.51%) VPN
6 73 (1.45%) LAN
7 48 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.91%) BGP
9 40 (0.79%) DHCP
10 39 (0.77%) TCP/IP
11 37 (0.73%) MPLS
12 34 (0.67%) VLAN
13 29 (0.57%) SAN
14 28 (0.55%) Wireless
15 26 (0.51%) OSPF
15 26 (0.51%) VXLAN
16 25 (0.50%) NAS
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.40%) NX-OS
19 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (3.76%) Power BI
2 170 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 149 (2.95%) Metadata
4 148 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 52 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.87%) Big Data
8 38 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 36 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (0.71%) Delta Lake
11 33 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 29 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (0.51%) GIS
14 23 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 21 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
17 19 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (1.45%) JIRA
2 68 (1.35%) Git
3 51 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.57%) GitLab
5 21 (0.42%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
8 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.12%) Maven
10 6 (0.12%) Storybook
11 5 (0.099%) MSI
11 5 (0.099%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.079%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.079%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.079%) Snyk
13 3 (0.059%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 954 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 786 (15.57%) Finance
3 547 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 298 (5.90%) Banking
5 271 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 247 (4.89%) Retail
7 131 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 117 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
9 116 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 105 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 76 (1.51%) Legal
12 58 (1.15%) Marketing
13 53 (1.05%) Billing
14 47 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.91%) Law
15 46 (0.91%) Military
16 43 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 36 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.61%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (4.81%) REST
2 165 (3.27%) Middleware
3 120 (2.38%) .NET
4 109 (2.16%) SOAP
5 105 (2.08%) Kafka
6 98 (1.94%) OAuth
7 73 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 57 (1.13%) OpenID
9 55 (1.09%) SAML
10 53 (1.05%) OAuth2
11 50 (0.99%) JSON
12 44 (0.87%) React
13 41 (0.81%) RESTful
14 39 (0.77%) SailPoint
15 37 (0.73%) .NET Framework
16 36 (0.71%) PySpark
17 31 (0.61%) XML
18 28 (0.55%) JWT
19 27 (0.53%) GraphQL
20 26 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 431 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 146 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 133 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 126 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 125 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 123 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 121 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 112 (2.22%) AI Agents
9 111 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 101 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 92 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
12 85 (1.68%) Operational Technology
13 73 (1.45%) CMDB
14 66 (1.31%) Public Cloud
15 62 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
16 61 (1.21%) Security Posture
17 57 (1.13%) Data Structures
18 49 (0.97%) Private Cloud
19 46 (0.91%) Mainframe
20 39 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.24%) Windows
2 86 (1.70%) Linux
3 36 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.42%) Android
6 20 (0.40%) Unix
7 17 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.20%) zOS
9 9 (0.18%) AIX
10 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.099%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.099%) Solaris
12 4 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.079%) 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
1 749 (14.83%) Roadmaps
2 719 (14.24%) Migration
3 701 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 643 (12.74%) AI
5 608 (12.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 566 (11.21%) Agile
7 560 (11.09%) DevOps
8 534 (10.58%) Data Modelling
9 525 (10.40%) CI/CD
10 522 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
11 502 (9.94%) Data Architecture
12 501 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 500 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
14 465 (9.21%) Analytics
15 411 (8.14%) TOGAF
16 407 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
17 364 (7.21%) Security Architecture
18 329 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
19 326 (6.46%) Microservices
20 315 (6.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 248 (4.91%) Python
2 234 (4.63%) SQL
3 205 (4.06%) Java
4 119 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 84 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 56 (1.11%) C#
7 44 (0.87%) Bash
8 42 (0.83%) Bicep
8 42 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.28%) Ruby
13 13 (0.26%) C++
14 11 (0.22%) Scala
15 10 (0.20%) Groovy
16 9 (0.18%) ABAP
17 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,511 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 1,099 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 323 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 159 (3.15%) Degree
5 130 (2.57%) CISSP
6 112 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 103 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 92 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 87 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 67 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 59 (1.17%) CISM
12 42 (0.83%) CCNP
13 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 35 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.48%) Master's Degree
17 22 (0.44%) CCSP
18 20 (0.40%) CCIE
19 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 174 (3.45%) NIST
3 151 (2.99%) GDPR
4 133 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 96 (1.90%) NCSC
6 62 (1.23%) GRC
7 57 (1.13%) QA
8 38 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) SEPA
13 21 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 19 (0.38%) IFRS
15 15 (0.30%) HL7
16 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.26%) SLA
18 12 (0.24%) COBIT
18 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 150 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 105 (2.08%) Docker
3 62 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.28%) vSphere
8 12 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
10 7 (0.14%) vCloud
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 4 (0.079%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.079%) IAG
12 4 (0.079%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.059%) KVM
13 3 (0.059%) Squid
13 3 (0.059%) SRDF
14 2 (0.040%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 248 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 218 (4.32%) Terraform
3 89 (1.76%) Ansible
4 43 (0.85%) Grafana
5 39 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.34%) Argo
8 17 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.099%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.099%) MOM
14 5 (0.099%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.099%) WMI
Vendors
1 656 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 283 (5.61%) SAP
3 273 (5.41%) Oracle
4 253 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 233 (4.61%) Databricks
6 160 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 136 (2.69%) Google
8 128 (2.54%) Cisco
9 127 (2.52%) VMware
10 57 (1.13%) IBM
11 56 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 55 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 53 (1.05%) Workday
14 50 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 44 (0.87%) Foundry
16 38 (0.75%) Sparx
17 36 (0.71%) Splunk
18 34 (0.67%) Ariba
18 34 (0.67%) OpenAI
19 33 (0.65%) F5