Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,924 2,633 3,838
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.74% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 10.58% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 1,744 2,516
10th Percentile £468 £479 £488
25th Percentile £519 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £798 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 22 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £40.31 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £84.00 £99.86 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,428 24,879 34,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.04% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,397 16,215 22,554
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £522 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,961 1,195 2,501
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.10 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.50 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -14.05%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +5 2,423 £620 -4.62% 592
North of England +7 750 £600 - 163
South East +1 713 £628 +4.67% 192
Midlands 0 437 £620 +7.83% 83
North West +4 405 £607 +1.08% 99
West Midlands -4 314 £625 +4.17% 68
Yorkshire +12 279 £586 -2.42% 35
South West -2 277 £625 - 97
East of England +13 195 £600 - 46
East Midlands +6 115 £588 +17.50% 15
North East 0 74 £575 -13.21% 29
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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 1,420 (28.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,235 (25.08%) Azure
3 1,027 (20.86%) SC Cleared
4 1,003 (20.37%) AWS
5 742 (15.07%) Roadmaps
6 707 (14.36%) Migration
7 660 (13.40%) Microsoft
8 618 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 587 (11.92%) Agile
10 577 (11.72%) AI
11 573 (11.64%) DevOps
12 535 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
13 524 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 498 (10.11%) Data Modelling
15 475 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 456 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
16 456 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
17 454 (9.22%) Data Architecture
18 415 (8.43%) Analytics
19 413 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
20 399 (8.10%) TOGAF
21 371 (7.53%) GCP
22 350 (7.11%) Microservices
23 339 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
24 331 (6.72%) Security Architecture
25 329 (6.68%) Architectural Design
26 310 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
27 304 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
28 293 (5.95%) DV Cleared
29 284 (5.77%) SAP

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 94 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.32%) Confluence
3 49 (1.00%) SAS
4 47 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 32 (0.65%) Apache
6 31 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 24 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.43%) Appian
8 21 (0.43%) CMS
9 19 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 9 (0.18%) Camunda
14 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 16 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.14%) Revit
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.041%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Maximo
12 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 5 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,235 (25.08%) Azure
2 1,003 (20.37%) AWS
3 371 (7.53%) GCP
4 256 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 190 (3.86%) Entra ID
6 181 (3.68%) SaaS
7 169 (3.43%) Serverless
8 121 (2.46%) GitHub
9 116 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 116 (2.36%) PaaS
10 113 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
12 94 (1.91%) Snowflake
13 86 (1.75%) IaaS
14 73 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 63 (1.28%) OpenShift
17 58 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
18 57 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 53 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.66%) Firewall
2 170 (3.45%) Network Security
3 117 (2.38%) DNS
4 106 (2.15%) WAN
5 95 (1.93%) VPN
6 77 (1.56%) LAN
7 56 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 49 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 46 (0.93%) BGP
9 46 (0.93%) DHCP
10 38 (0.77%) VLAN
11 37 (0.75%) MPLS
12 32 (0.65%) OSPF
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
14 26 (0.53%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) IPsec
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 22 (0.45%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
17 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (3.66%) Power BI
2 144 (2.92%) Data Lake
2 144 (2.92%) Metadata
3 129 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 59 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 44 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (0.81%) Big Data
8 38 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
11 26 (0.53%) Delta Lake
12 23 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (0.47%) Tableau
13 21 (0.43%) GIS
14 19 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 19 (0.39%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 94 (1.91%) JIRA
2 68 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.32%) Git
4 31 (0.63%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) Selenium
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 919 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 804 (16.33%) Finance
3 538 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 308 (6.26%) Banking
5 272 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (4.49%) Retail
7 149 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 99 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 97 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.69%) Legal
12 58 (1.18%) Billing
13 52 (1.06%) Marketing
14 49 (1.00%) Military
15 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 47 (0.95%) Law
17 38 (0.77%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
19 32 (0.65%) Investment Banking
20 31 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (4.69%) REST
2 162 (3.29%) Middleware
3 121 (2.46%) .NET
4 104 (2.11%) SOAP
5 90 (1.83%) OAuth
6 81 (1.65%) OpenID
7 77 (1.56%) Kafka
8 67 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 65 (1.32%) SAML
10 51 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 49 (1.00%) LDAP
11 49 (1.00%) React
12 45 (0.91%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.79%) RESTful
14 38 (0.77%) JSON
15 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
16 32 (0.65%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.63%) Node.js
17 31 (0.63%) PySpark
17 31 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 423 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 140 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 129 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 127 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 116 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 106 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 104 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 87 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 86 (1.75%) Operational Technology
12 79 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 79 (1.60%) CMDB
13 72 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 52 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
16 46 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 45 (0.91%) Private Cloud
18 42 (0.85%) Mainframe
19 38 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.52%) Windows
2 78 (1.58%) Linux
3 35 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.47%) Unix
6 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.22%) zOS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) AIX
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) VMS
10 4 (0.081%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (15.07%) Roadmaps
2 707 (14.36%) Migration
3 618 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 587 (11.92%) Agile
5 577 (11.72%) AI
6 573 (11.64%) DevOps
7 535 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
8 524 (10.64%) CI/CD
9 498 (10.11%) Data Modelling
10 475 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 456 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
11 456 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
12 454 (9.22%) Data Architecture
13 415 (8.43%) Analytics
14 413 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
15 399 (8.10%) TOGAF
16 350 (7.11%) Microservices
17 339 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
18 331 (6.72%) Security Architecture
19 329 (6.68%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 268 (5.44%) Python
2 242 (4.91%) SQL
3 205 (4.16%) Java
4 100 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 92 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.22%) C#
7 51 (1.04%) Bicep
8 42 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.83%) Bash
10 25 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.30%) Ruby
12 14 (0.28%) Scala
13 11 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.18%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,420 (28.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,027 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 293 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.57%) Degree
5 119 (2.42%) CISSP
6 109 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 95 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 75 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 73 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.10%) CISM
13 47 (0.95%) CCNP
14 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.47%) CCIE
19 21 (0.43%) CCSP
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (3.55%) NIST
2 157 (3.19%) GDPR
3 152 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.15%) NCSC
6 58 (1.18%) QA
7 40 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.71%) GRC
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 23 (0.47%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) COBIT
14 18 (0.37%) IFRS
15 17 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (0.35%) HL7
16 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 154 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.07%) Docker
3 74 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.35%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.18%) Squid
11 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 8 (0.16%) Varnish
12 7 (0.14%) Postfix
13 6 (0.12%) vCloud
14 4 (0.081%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 240 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 233 (4.73%) Terraform
3 97 (1.97%) Ansible
4 50 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 49 (1.00%) Grafana
6 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.28%) SCCM
14 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.14%) Consul
15 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.14%) Istio
15 7 (0.14%) Puppet
16 6 (0.12%) CASB
16 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 660 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 284 (5.77%) SAP
3 256 (5.20%) ServiceNow
4 238 (4.83%) Oracle
5 215 (4.37%) Databricks
6 154 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 143 (2.90%) VMware
8 122 (2.48%) Cisco
9 118 (2.40%) Google
10 64 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.12%) Splunk
12 54 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 46 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 45 (0.91%) IBM
15 41 (0.83%) Workday
16 40 (0.81%) Foundry
17 39 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 38 (0.77%) OpenAI
19 37 (0.75%) F5
19 37 (0.75%) Sparx