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 9 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 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 2,636 3,395
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.03% 9.48% 10.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 10.34% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 1,752 2,248
10th Percentile £475 £475 £487
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 £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 18 75
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 42,336 25,493 30,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,525 20,338
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -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 3,158 1,323 1,795
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.66 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.26 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.35% -43.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.52
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 9 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 9 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 2,597 £625 -3.85% 1,565
South East 0 735 £625 +4.17% 353
North of England +3 694 £600 - 293
Midlands -1 424 £625 +8.70% 155
North West +5 394 £600 - 146
West Midlands -2 316 £631 +5.13% 104
South West -3 301 £625 -2.34% 177
Yorkshire +3 235 £600 - 114
East of England +18 162 £600 +8.11% 110
East Midlands +8 101 £600 +16.50% 51
North East -5 67 £600 -15.79% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,509 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,288 (25.51%) Azure
3 1,101 (21.81%) SC Cleared
4 1,043 (20.66%) AWS
5 748 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 718 (14.22%) Migration
7 701 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 655 (12.97%) Microsoft
9 643 (12.74%) AI
10 607 (12.02%) Enterprise Architecture
11 561 (11.11%) DevOps
12 560 (11.09%) Agile
13 534 (10.58%) Data Modelling
14 525 (10.40%) CI/CD
15 522 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
16 502 (9.94%) Data Architecture
17 500 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
17 500 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 466 (9.23%) Analytics
19 409 (8.10%) TOGAF
20 406 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
21 397 (7.86%) GCP
22 363 (7.19%) Security Architecture
23 328 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
24 326 (6.46%) Microservices
25 320 (6.34%) DV Cleared
26 315 (6.24%) Event-Driven
27 312 (6.18%) Cybersecurity
28 303 (6.00%) Architectural Design
28 303 (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 Excel
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.69%) 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%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
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 1,043 (20.66%) AWS
3 397 (7.86%) GCP
4 263 (5.21%) 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
10 105 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (2.08%) PaaS
11 104 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
12 100 (1.98%) Snowflake
13 73 (1.45%) IaaS
14 72 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 60 (1.19%) OCI
17 56 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
18 55 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 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
1 189 (3.74%) Power BI
2 170 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 150 (2.97%) Metadata
4 148 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.01%) 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
1 950 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 786 (15.57%) Finance
3 547 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 299 (5.92%) Banking
5 271 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 249 (4.93%) 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 39 (0.77%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
19 31 (0.61%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (4.79%) 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
3 134 (2.65%) 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
8 112 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 100 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 92 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 84 (1.66%) Operational Technology
12 73 (1.45%) CMDB
13 66 (1.31%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
15 61 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 57 (1.13%) Data Structures
17 49 (0.97%) Private Cloud
18 45 (0.89%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 112 (2.22%) Windows
2 86 (1.70%) Linux
3 35 (0.69%) 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 9 (0.18%) AIX
8 9 (0.18%) zOS
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.099%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.099%) Solaris
11 4 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.079%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) CentOS
12 2 (0.040%) HPUX
12 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (14.81%) Roadmaps
2 718 (14.22%) Migration
3 701 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 643 (12.74%) AI
5 607 (12.02%) Enterprise Architecture
6 561 (11.11%) DevOps
7 560 (11.09%) Agile
8 534 (10.58%) Data Modelling
9 525 (10.40%) CI/CD
10 522 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
11 502 (9.94%) Data Architecture
12 500 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
12 500 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 466 (9.23%) Analytics
14 409 (8.10%) TOGAF
15 406 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
16 363 (7.19%) Security Architecture
17 328 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
18 326 (6.46%) Microservices
19 315 (6.24%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 248 (4.91%) Python
2 233 (4.61%) SQL
3 205 (4.06%) Java
4 118 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.09%) 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 1,509 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 1,101 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 320 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 158 (3.13%) Degree
5 129 (2.55%) 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
11 66 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 58 (1.15%) CISM
13 42 (0.83%) CCNP
14 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 35 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.48%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
20 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.41%) NIST
3 150 (2.97%) GDPR
4 132 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.88%) NCSC
6 62 (1.23%) GRC
7 57 (1.13%) QA
8 37 (0.73%) 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%) ISO 20022
14 20 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.38%) IFRS
16 15 (0.30%) HL7
17 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.26%) SLA
19 12 (0.24%) COBIT
19 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 149 (2.95%) 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
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
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
9 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.14%) Istio
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.12%) SCCM
15 5 (0.099%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.099%) MOM
15 5 (0.099%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.099%) WMI
Vendors
1 655 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 284 (5.62%) SAP
3 273 (5.41%) Oracle
4 251 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 233 (4.61%) Databricks
6 161 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 137 (2.71%) Google
8 128 (2.54%) Cisco
9 126 (2.50%) 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 37 (0.73%) Sparx
17 36 (0.71%) Splunk
18 34 (0.67%) Ariba
18 34 (0.67%) OpenAI
19 33 (0.65%) F5