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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,957 2,631 3,516
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.06% 9.57% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.94% 10.43% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 1,755 2,320
10th Percentile £475 £468 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £707 £738
90th Percentile £796 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 19 80
10th Percentile £46.00 £37.19 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £73.25 £86.50 £85.35
90th Percentile £83.20 £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 41,522 25,227 31,663
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.72% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,267 16,394 20,893
10th Percentile £329 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 3,038 1,280 1,957
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.74 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.13 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.02 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.38% -40.82% -1.88%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +7 2,531 £625 -3.85% 1,043
South East 0 718 £630 +5.00% 256
North of England +6 716 £600 - 179
Midlands -2 403 £625 +8.70% 108
North West +3 391 £600 - 103
West Midlands -2 296 £635 +5.83% 82
South West -2 290 £625 - 103
Yorkshire +10 256 £600 - 48
East of England +13 167 £600 +5.49% 59
East Midlands +7 100 £600 +20.00% 26
North East -3 77 £600 -14.29% 30
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 1,462 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,247 (25.16%) Azure
3 1,061 (21.40%) SC Cleared
4 1,029 (20.76%) AWS
5 749 (15.11%) Roadmaps
6 692 (13.96%) Migration
7 658 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 636 (12.83%) Microsoft
9 599 (12.08%) AI
10 576 (11.62%) Enterprise Architecture
11 571 (11.52%) Agile
12 544 (10.97%) DevOps
13 514 (10.37%) CI/CD
14 513 (10.35%) Data Modelling
15 493 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
16 485 (9.78%) Integration Patterns
17 481 (9.70%) Data Architecture
18 478 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 446 (9.00%) Analytics
20 405 (8.17%) Architectural Patterns
21 399 (8.05%) TOGAF
22 381 (7.69%) GCP
23 348 (7.02%) Security Architecture
24 330 (6.66%) Microservices
25 328 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
26 313 (6.31%) DV Cleared
27 306 (6.17%) Architectural Design
28 299 (6.03%) Event-Driven
29 298 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
30 288 (5.81%) 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 83 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 70 (1.41%) SAS
3 52 (1.05%) Confluence
4 41 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.81%) Apache
6 33 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.24%) Appian
12 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.12%) Camunda
16 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
17 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
17 4 (0.081%) SAP EP
18 3 (0.061%) Anypoint
Applications
1 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) Maximo
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,247 (25.16%) Azure
2 1,029 (20.76%) AWS
3 381 (7.69%) GCP
4 249 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 186 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 172 (3.47%) SaaS
7 158 (3.19%) Serverless
8 118 (2.38%) GitHub
9 116 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 109 (2.20%) PaaS
11 100 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
12 99 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 95 (1.92%) Snowflake
14 79 (1.59%) IaaS
15 73 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
19 51 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 162 (3.27%) Network Security
2 157 (3.17%) Firewall
3 101 (2.04%) WAN
4 94 (1.90%) DNS
5 78 (1.57%) VPN
6 74 (1.49%) LAN
7 48 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 44 (0.89%) BGP
8 44 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 40 (0.81%) DHCP
10 36 (0.73%) MPLS
11 34 (0.69%) VLAN
12 29 (0.59%) Wireless
13 28 (0.56%) SAN
14 27 (0.54%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 24 (0.48%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 21 (0.42%) IPsec
19 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (3.67%) Power BI
2 158 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 145 (2.93%) Metadata
4 138 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 53 (1.07%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.89%) Big Data
8 41 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 33 (0.67%) Delta Lake
12 27 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (0.52%) GIS
13 26 (0.52%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
17 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 75 (1.51%) JIRA
2 65 (1.31%) Git
3 56 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.65%) GitLab
5 22 (0.44%) ERwin
6 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.16%) MLflow
8 7 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.14%) Maven
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.10%) Storybook
11 4 (0.081%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
12 3 (0.061%) VTune
General
1 922 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 780 (15.74%) Finance
3 541 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 297 (5.99%) Banking
5 265 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (4.68%) Retail
7 129 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 121 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 115 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 99 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 73 (1.47%) Legal
12 53 (1.07%) Billing
12 53 (1.07%) Marketing
13 49 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 49 (0.99%) Military
14 47 (0.95%) Law
15 41 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 40 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 36 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (4.74%) REST
2 165 (3.33%) Middleware
3 113 (2.28%) .NET
4 107 (2.16%) SOAP
5 99 (2.00%) Kafka
6 94 (1.90%) OAuth
7 71 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 57 (1.15%) OpenID
9 52 (1.05%) SAML
10 51 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 46 (0.93%) JSON
11 46 (0.93%) React
12 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
13 37 (0.75%) RESTful
14 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
15 34 (0.69%) PySpark
16 29 (0.59%) Web Services
17 28 (0.56%) LDAP
18 27 (0.54%) Node.js
18 27 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 416 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 122 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 118 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 110 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 98 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 93 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 84 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 73 (1.47%) CMDB
14 66 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
16 56 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 53 (1.07%) Data Structures
18 48 (0.97%) Private Cloud
19 47 (0.95%) Mainframe
20 40 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.14%) Windows
2 78 (1.57%) Linux
3 32 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.44%) Android
4 22 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) Unix
6 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.081%) Solaris
11 4 (0.081%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) CentOS
12 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) CatOS
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (15.11%) Roadmaps
2 692 (13.96%) Migration
3 658 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 599 (12.08%) AI
5 576 (11.62%) Enterprise Architecture
6 571 (11.52%) Agile
7 544 (10.97%) DevOps
8 514 (10.37%) CI/CD
9 513 (10.35%) Data Modelling
10 493 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
11 485 (9.78%) Integration Patterns
12 481 (9.70%) Data Architecture
13 478 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 446 (9.00%) Analytics
15 405 (8.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 399 (8.05%) TOGAF
17 348 (7.02%) Security Architecture
18 330 (6.66%) Microservices
19 328 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
20 306 (6.17%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 249 (5.02%) Python
2 232 (4.68%) SQL
3 205 (4.14%) Java
4 115 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 56 (1.13%) C#
7 47 (0.95%) Bash
8 43 (0.87%) Bicep
9 40 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.28%) Ruby
12 13 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.22%) C++
13 11 (0.22%) Scala
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
15 9 (0.18%) Groovy
16 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1,462 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,061 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 313 (6.31%) DV Cleared
4 165 (3.33%) Degree
5 127 (2.56%) CISSP
6 108 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 92 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 68 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 66 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.15%) CISM
13 44 (0.89%) CCNP
14 40 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.54%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
20 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 163 (3.29%) NIST
3 148 (2.99%) GDPR
4 118 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.88%) NCSC
6 56 (1.13%) GRC
7 55 (1.11%) QA
8 37 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.56%) 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
17 14 (0.28%) SLA
18 12 (0.24%) COBIT
19 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 144 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 98 (1.98%) Docker
3 64 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.36%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 5 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.081%) Squid
15 3 (0.061%) KVM
15 3 (0.061%) RACF
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 242 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 217 (4.38%) Terraform
3 92 (1.86%) Ansible
4 47 (0.95%) Grafana
5 41 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.42%) Argo
9 20 (0.40%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) SCCM
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) Istio
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
15 4 (0.081%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.081%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 636 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 288 (5.81%) SAP
3 262 (5.29%) Oracle
4 251 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 225 (4.54%) Databricks
6 156 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 130 (2.62%) VMware
8 124 (2.50%) Cisco
9 123 (2.48%) Google
10 57 (1.15%) IBM
11 56 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 51 (1.03%) Workday
13 49 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 48 (0.97%) MuleSoft
15 42 (0.85%) Foundry
16 38 (0.77%) Splunk
17 36 (0.73%) Ariba
17 36 (0.73%) Sparx
18 34 (0.69%) OpenAI
19 33 (0.67%) Red Hat