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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,762 3,026 3,522
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.98% 9.69% 9.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.84% 10.43% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,911 1,815 2,471
10th Percentile £462 £475 £500
25th Percentile £525 £540 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £732
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 40
10th Percentile £65.05 £58.95 £56.80
25th Percentile £77.55 £61.50 £67.81
Median hourly rate £85.00 £67.50 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -11.30% +8.71%
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £98.00 £97.50 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £68.75 £75.67
% change year-on-year +23.64% -9.14% +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 28,063 29,007 35,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 92.93% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,953 17,771 24,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -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 1,702 1,078 1,400
10th Percentile £14.26 £15.25 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.95 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -3 1,272 £641 +2.60% 406
South East +4 467 £600 -4.00% 524
North of England -10 370 £600 - 203
South West +1 247 £693 +6.54% 141
Midlands -8 228 £575 -4.17% 200
North West -10 219 £599 -0.21% 113
West Midlands -14 166 £588 -2.08% 126
Yorkshire -16 132 £613 +5.60% 74
East of England -3 83 £553 -7.92% 143
East Midlands 0 62 £500 -11.11% 66
North East -5 20 £700 +12.13% 16
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 784 (28.39%) Azure
3 593 (21.47%) AWS
4 589 (21.33%) SC Cleared
5 439 (15.89%) Roadmaps
6 421 (15.24%) Microsoft
7 412 (14.92%) Agile
8 384 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 329 (11.91%) Enterprise Architecture
10 323 (11.69%) Migration
11 317 (11.48%) Data Modelling
12 308 (11.15%) TOGAF
13 296 (10.72%) DevOps
14 295 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 283 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
16 275 (9.96%) CI/CD
17 266 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
18 253 (9.16%) Microservices
19 248 (8.98%) GCP
20 226 (8.18%) AI
21 222 (8.04%) Data Architecture
22 214 (7.75%) Analytics
23 213 (7.71%) DV Cleared
24 206 (7.46%) Python
25 197 (7.13%) Terraform
26 193 (6.99%) Data Governance
27 188 (6.81%) Mentoring
28 182 (6.59%) Architectural Design
28 182 (6.59%) Security Architecture
29 180 (6.52%) 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 (3.22%) Confluence
2 48 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.80%) SAS
5 17 (0.62%) 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 32 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (0.91%) 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 75 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
5 19 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.62%) 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 (0.33%) Endur
11 9 (0.33%) 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
1 784 (28.39%) Azure
2 593 (21.47%) AWS
3 248 (8.98%) GCP
4 132 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 128 (4.63%) SaaS
6 92 (3.33%) Serverless
7 85 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 82 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 75 (2.72%) GitHub
10 71 (2.57%) IaaS
11 70 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (2.03%) PaaS
14 55 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (1.85%) Snowflake
16 47 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 46 (1.67%) Amazon S3
18 42 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
19 38 (1.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.52%) Firewall
2 96 (3.48%) WAN
3 86 (3.11%) LAN
3 86 (3.11%) Network Security
4 67 (2.43%) VPN
5 65 (2.35%) SD-WAN
6 62 (2.24%) DNS
7 43 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (1.19%) BGP
9 30 (1.09%) SAN
10 25 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 24 (0.87%) DHCP
11 24 (0.87%) MPLS
12 21 (0.76%) SSL
13 20 (0.72%) VSAN
14 16 (0.58%) Internet
14 16 (0.58%) VLAN
15 14 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
15 14 (0.51%) iSCSI
15 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (3.19%) Power BI
3 75 (2.72%) Metadata
4 70 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 41 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 31 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.98%) Big Data
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 (0.62%) RDBMS
18 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 116 (4.20%) JIRA
2 61 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 46 (1.67%) Git
4 22 (0.80%) GitLab
5 18 (0.65%) ERwin
6 10 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.18%) Gradle
9 5 (0.18%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) MLflow
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
9 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
General
1 767 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 497 (17.99%) Finance
3 326 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 240 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 190 (6.88%) Banking
6 86 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 78 (2.82%) Retail
8 69 (2.50%) Marketing
9 65 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 61 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 57 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 56 (2.03%) Legal
13 55 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 50 (1.81%) Military
15 43 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 41 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 25 (0.91%) Back Office
17 25 (0.91%) Billing
18 20 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (0.69%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (4.92%) REST
2 83 (3.01%) Middleware
3 66 (2.39%) SOAP
4 65 (2.35%) .NET
5 58 (2.10%) JSON
6 56 (2.03%) Kafka
7 50 (1.81%) OAuth
8 45 (1.63%) RESTful
9 43 (1.56%) SAML
10 39 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
11 36 (1.30%) Web Services
12 35 (1.27%) AngularJS
13 30 (1.09%) 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 (0.80%) Node.js
16 22 (0.80%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 128 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
4 98 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 79 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 73 (2.64%) PKI
7 72 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 48 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 39 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 38 (1.38%) CMDB
14 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 33 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 30 (1.09%) NHS
17 28 (1.01%) Security Posture
18 25 (0.91%) Data Structures
19 24 (0.87%) SCADA
20 23 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 119 (4.31%) Windows
2 76 (2.75%) Linux
3 45 (1.63%) 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%) VMS
10 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.22%) Android
11 6 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.11%) Solaris
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) zOS
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (15.89%) Roadmaps
2 412 (14.92%) Agile
3 384 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 329 (11.91%) Enterprise Architecture
5 323 (11.69%) Migration
6 317 (11.48%) Data Modelling
7 308 (11.15%) TOGAF
8 296 (10.72%) DevOps
9 295 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 283 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
11 275 (9.96%) CI/CD
12 266 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
13 253 (9.16%) Microservices
14 226 (8.18%) AI
15 222 (8.04%) Data Architecture
16 214 (7.75%) Analytics
17 193 (6.99%) Data Governance
18 188 (6.81%) Mentoring
19 182 (6.59%) Architectural Design
19 182 (6.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.46%) Python
2 147 (5.32%) Java
3 146 (5.29%) SQL
4 93 (3.37%) PowerShell
5 58 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.38%) C#
8 33 (1.19%) Apex Code
9 30 (1.09%) Bash
10 26 (0.94%) Bicep
11 17 (0.62%) R
12 13 (0.47%) C++
13 11 (0.40%) C
13 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.36%) 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 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 589 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 213 (7.71%) DV Cleared
4 156 (5.65%) Degree
5 94 (3.40%) CISSP
6 93 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 75 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 62 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 57 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 39 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (1.38%) CISM
14 35 (1.27%) Master's Degree
15 32 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.16%) CCNP
16 30 (1.09%) CCIE
17 23 (0.83%) ISEB
18 22 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 22 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (5.25%) GDPR
2 111 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.91%) NIST
4 89 (3.22%) Data Quality
5 49 (1.77%) NCSC
6 43 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 43 (1.56%) QA
7 30 (1.09%) COBIT
8 29 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (0.83%) GRC
10 22 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 20 (0.72%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.65%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
14 13 (0.47%) 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 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 106 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 105 (3.80%) Docker
3 85 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.23%) vSphere
5 27 (0.98%) 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 (0.33%) 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
1 197 (7.13%) Terraform
2 158 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 75 (2.72%) Ansible
4 47 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (0.87%) OPNET
6 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
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 (0.33%) 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
1 421 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.01%) SAP
3 152 (5.50%) ServiceNow
4 146 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 130 (4.71%) Oracle
6 129 (4.67%) VMware
7 115 (4.16%) Cisco
8 89 (3.22%) Databricks
9 85 (3.08%) Google
10 52 (1.88%) Splunk
11 50 (1.81%) Fortinet
12 46 (1.67%) Palo Alto
13 43 (1.56%) Workday
14 42 (1.52%) IBM
15 41 (1.48%) Remedy
16 37 (1.34%) F5
17 35 (1.27%) CyberArk
18 34 (1.23%) Juniper
19 30 (1.09%) Pega
20 29 (1.05%) Virgin Media