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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,770 3,015 3,544
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.03% 9.72% 9.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.90% 10.45% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 1,807 2,487
10th Percentile £462 £475 £500
25th Percentile £525 £539 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 40
10th Percentile £64.58 £59.13 £56.80
25th Percentile £77.55 £61.75 £67.81
Median hourly rate £86.25 £68.75 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year +25.45% -9.66% +8.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.07 £80.00
90th Percentile £98.25 £97.50 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year +21.43% -7.49% +8.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,982 28,841 36,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.94% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,906 17,651 25,030
10th Percentile £283 £300 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,697 1,075 1,403
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.23 £15.35
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -2 1,283 £643 +2.92% 371
South East +3 467 £600 -4.00% 379
North of England -9 369 £600 - 99
South West +1 245 £690 +6.15% 101
Midlands -8 228 £575 -4.17% 109
North West -9 218 £588 -1.96% 59
West Midlands -13 166 £588 -2.08% 78
Yorkshire -14 133 £613 +5.60% 30
East of England -6 83 £553 -7.92% 54
East Midlands -2 62 £500 -9.09% 30
North East -6 19 £700 +12.13% 10
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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.

1 864 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 792 (28.59%) Azure
3 598 (21.59%) AWS
4 591 (21.34%) SC Cleared
5 439 (15.85%) Roadmaps
6 425 (15.34%) Microsoft
7 411 (14.84%) Agile
8 384 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 328 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
10 324 (11.70%) Migration
11 319 (11.52%) Data Modelling
12 311 (11.23%) TOGAF
13 296 (10.69%) DevOps
14 295 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 284 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
16 273 (9.86%) CI/CD
17 264 (9.53%) Technical Leadership
18 250 (9.03%) Microservices
19 249 (8.99%) GCP
20 226 (8.16%) AI
21 223 (8.05%) Data Architecture
22 216 (7.80%) Analytics
23 210 (7.58%) DV Cleared
24 206 (7.44%) Python
25 195 (7.04%) Terraform
26 194 (7.00%) Data Governance
27 187 (6.75%) Mentoring
28 183 (6.61%) Security Architecture
29 182 (6.57%) Architectural Design
30 180 (6.50%) Firewall

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 89 (3.21%) Confluence
2 48 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.79%) SAS
5 20 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.54%) CMS
8 14 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 14 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 12 (0.43%) Apache
10 7 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 7 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.40%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.036%) Revit
9 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 74 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
5 19 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.61%) Maximo
7 14 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.47%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.43%) Teamcenter
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.32%) Endur
11 9 (0.32%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.22%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.22%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 792 (28.59%) Azure
2 598 (21.59%) AWS
3 249 (8.99%) GCP
4 134 (4.84%) SaaS
5 133 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 92 (3.32%) Serverless
7 87 (3.14%) Entra ID
8 83 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
9 76 (2.74%) GitHub
10 72 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
10 72 (2.60%) IaaS
11 60 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.06%) PaaS
13 55 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.91%) Snowflake
15 52 (1.88%) Amazon S3
16 47 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
18 37 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.50%) Firewall
2 98 (3.54%) WAN
3 89 (3.21%) LAN
4 87 (3.14%) Network Security
5 67 (2.42%) VPN
6 65 (2.35%) SD-WAN
7 62 (2.24%) DNS
8 42 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (1.16%) BGP
10 30 (1.08%) SAN
11 25 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 24 (0.87%) DHCP
12 24 (0.87%) MPLS
13 22 (0.79%) SSL
14 20 (0.72%) VSAN
15 16 (0.58%) VLAN
16 15 (0.54%) Internet
17 14 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
17 14 (0.51%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (3.18%) Power BI
3 76 (2.74%) Metadata
4 71 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.55%) SQL Server
7 42 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.05%) Big Data
10 28 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 26 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.87%) Relational Database
13 21 (0.76%) Tableau
14 20 (0.72%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (0.69%) GIS
16 18 (0.65%) Data Vault
17 17 (0.61%) RDBMS
18 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 116 (4.19%) JIRA
2 60 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.62%) Git
4 22 (0.79%) GitLab
5 18 (0.65%) ERwin
6 10 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.18%) Gradle
10 5 (0.18%) Maven
10 5 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.14%) MLflow
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.11%) MSI
12 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 771 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 499 (18.01%) Finance
3 329 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 239 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 189 (6.82%) Banking
6 87 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 80 (2.89%) Retail
8 70 (2.53%) Marketing
9 69 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (2.02%) Legal
12 55 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 50 (1.81%) Military
14 44 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.90%) Back Office
17 24 (0.87%) Billing
18 20 (0.72%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (4.98%) REST
2 86 (3.10%) Middleware
3 66 (2.38%) SOAP
4 65 (2.35%) .NET
5 59 (2.13%) Kafka
6 58 (2.09%) JSON
7 50 (1.81%) OAuth
8 45 (1.62%) RESTful
9 43 (1.55%) SAML
10 39 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
11 37 (1.34%) Web Services
12 35 (1.26%) AngularJS
13 30 (1.08%) React
14 28 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 28 (1.01%) OpenID
15 26 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (0.94%) Spring Boot
15 26 (0.94%) Visualforce
16 22 (0.79%) Node.js
16 22 (0.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 212 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 128 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 95 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 74 (2.67%) PKI
7 72 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 39 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 38 (1.37%) CMDB
13 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.08%) NHS
15 30 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 25 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.87%) SCADA
17 24 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 125 (4.51%) Windows
2 78 (2.82%) Linux
3 46 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.47%) Unix
7 12 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.29%) Android
9 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.29%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.072%) CentOS
12 2 (0.072%) zOS
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (15.85%) Roadmaps
2 411 (14.84%) Agile
3 384 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 328 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
5 324 (11.70%) Migration
6 319 (11.52%) Data Modelling
7 311 (11.23%) TOGAF
8 296 (10.69%) DevOps
9 295 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 284 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
11 273 (9.86%) CI/CD
12 264 (9.53%) Technical Leadership
13 250 (9.03%) Microservices
14 226 (8.16%) AI
15 223 (8.05%) Data Architecture
16 216 (7.80%) Analytics
17 194 (7.00%) Data Governance
18 187 (6.75%) Mentoring
19 183 (6.61%) Security Architecture
20 182 (6.57%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.44%) Python
2 147 (5.31%) Java
3 145 (5.23%) SQL
4 95 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 58 (2.09%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.73%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.37%) C#
8 33 (1.19%) Apex Code
9 31 (1.12%) Bash
10 26 (0.94%) Bicep
11 17 (0.61%) R
12 13 (0.47%) C++
13 11 (0.40%) C
13 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.29%) Korn
16 6 (0.22%) ABAP
16 6 (0.22%) PHP
16 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 864 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 591 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 210 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 155 (5.60%) Degree
5 97 (3.50%) CISSP
6 94 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.07%) AWS Certification
8 75 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 62 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 57 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.44%) CISM
13 39 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 35 (1.26%) Master's Degree
15 32 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.16%) CCNP
16 30 (1.08%) CCIE
17 23 (0.83%) ISEB
18 22 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 22 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (5.27%) GDPR
2 111 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.90%) NIST
4 89 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 49 (1.77%) NCSC
6 44 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.55%) QA
8 30 (1.08%) COBIT
9 29 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 23 (0.83%) GRC
11 22 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 20 (0.72%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.65%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.36%) SLA
17 9 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 107 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.83%) Docker
3 85 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.23%) vSphere
5 27 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 23 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.51%) NFS
8 13 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.072%) KVM
14 1 (0.036%) GPFS
14 1 (0.036%) HDFS
14 1 (0.036%) SRDF
14 1 (0.036%) Varnish
14 1 (0.036%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 195 (7.04%) Terraform
2 157 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 75 (2.71%) Ansible
4 47 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.83%) OPNET
7 20 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.54%) Grafana
9 15 (0.54%) SCCM
10 13 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.36%) WMI
12 9 (0.32%) Argo
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) SCOM
14 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
15 2 (0.072%) Istio
15 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (0.072%) vRealize
Vendors
1 425 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 165 (5.96%) SAP
3 150 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 146 (5.27%) Salesforce
5 129 (4.66%) Oracle
5 129 (4.66%) VMware
6 114 (4.12%) Cisco
7 89 (3.21%) Databricks
8 85 (3.07%) Google
9 58 (2.09%) Splunk
10 51 (1.84%) Fortinet
11 45 (1.62%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.52%) IBM
12 42 (1.52%) Workday
13 40 (1.44%) Remedy
14 37 (1.34%) F5
15 35 (1.26%) CyberArk
16 34 (1.23%) Juniper
17 30 (1.08%) Pega
18 29 (1.05%) Virgin Media