Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 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 4,897 2,589 3,837
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.70% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.54% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 1,707 2,513
10th Percentile £468 £479 £488
25th Percentile £516 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 20 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.07 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £73.25 £86.00 £85.65
90th Percentile £86.30 £100.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 41,083 24,574 34,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.11% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,017 22,554
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £419 £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 £734 £747 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,941 1,164 2,498
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.85 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £16.83
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.87 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.11
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -12.79%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 2,400 £620 -4.62% 596
North of England +8 743 £600 - 167
South East +1 720 £627 +4.50% 216
Midlands 0 432 £615 +6.96% 90
North West +5 399 £608 +1.33% 101
West Midlands -2 310 £625 +4.17% 71
Yorkshire +11 279 £580 -3.29% 42
South West -1 277 £625 - 103
East of England +18 197 £600 - 56
East Midlands +6 115 £581 +16.25% 19
North East 0 73 £575 -8.00% 24
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 1,424 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,231 (25.14%) Azure
3 1,023 (20.89%) SC Cleared
4 993 (20.28%) AWS
5 731 (14.93%) Roadmaps
6 700 (14.29%) Migration
7 659 (13.46%) Microsoft
8 615 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 592 (12.09%) Agile
10 575 (11.74%) DevOps
11 572 (11.68%) AI
12 530 (10.82%) Enterprise Architecture
13 522 (10.66%) CI/CD
14 487 (9.94%) Data Modelling
15 474 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 457 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
17 451 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
18 445 (9.09%) Data Architecture
19 411 (8.39%) Analytics
20 409 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
21 395 (8.07%) TOGAF
22 369 (7.54%) GCP
23 346 (7.07%) Microservices
24 339 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
25 330 (6.74%) Security Architecture
26 326 (6.66%) Architectural Design
27 310 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
28 304 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
29 302 (6.17%) DV Cleared
30 284 (5.80%) 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 97 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.31%) Confluence
3 48 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 47 (0.96%) SAS
5 31 (0.63%) Apache
6 30 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 24 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.43%) Appian
9 20 (0.41%) CMS
10 19 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 9 (0.18%) Camunda
15 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.14%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 15 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.041%) Windchill
7 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 120 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) Maximo
11 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (25.14%) Azure
2 993 (20.28%) AWS
3 369 (7.54%) GCP
4 254 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 187 (3.82%) Entra ID
6 176 (3.59%) SaaS
7 169 (3.45%) Serverless
8 120 (2.45%) GitHub
9 119 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 115 (2.35%) PaaS
11 112 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 105 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
13 93 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 86 (1.76%) IaaS
15 74 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.27%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 58 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
19 54 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.74%) Firewall
2 171 (3.49%) Network Security
3 119 (2.43%) DNS
4 105 (2.14%) WAN
5 99 (2.02%) VPN
6 77 (1.57%) LAN
7 56 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 47 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 46 (0.94%) DHCP
10 45 (0.92%) BGP
11 38 (0.78%) VLAN
12 35 (0.71%) MPLS
13 33 (0.67%) OSPF
14 29 (0.59%) Wireless
15 26 (0.53%) SAN
16 25 (0.51%) IPsec
16 25 (0.51%) NAS
17 23 (0.47%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
19 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (3.70%) Power BI
2 143 (2.92%) Data Lake
3 141 (2.88%) Metadata
4 126 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.80%) Big Data
9 38 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.55%) Delta Lake
13 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (0.47%) Tableau
15 21 (0.43%) GIS
16 19 (0.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 19 (0.39%) Relational Database
17 18 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 93 (1.90%) JIRA
2 70 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.31%) Git
4 33 (0.67%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.082%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.082%) Snyk
General
1 917 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 798 (16.30%) Finance
3 534 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 302 (6.17%) Banking
5 268 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (4.51%) Retail
7 149 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 95 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 94 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.69%) Legal
12 57 (1.16%) Billing
13 50 (1.02%) Marketing
14 49 (1.00%) Military
15 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 48 (0.98%) Law
16 37 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 37 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (0.65%) Investment Banking
18 31 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (4.72%) REST
2 161 (3.29%) Middleware
3 120 (2.45%) .NET
4 105 (2.14%) SOAP
5 86 (1.76%) OAuth
6 83 (1.69%) OpenID
7 76 (1.55%) Kafka
8 67 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.35%) SAML
10 51 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 50 (1.02%) LDAP
12 49 (1.00%) React
13 46 (0.94%) SailPoint
14 40 (0.82%) RESTful
15 38 (0.78%) JSON
16 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
17 32 (0.65%) AngularJS
18 31 (0.63%) Node.js
18 31 (0.63%) Web Services
19 30 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 424 (8.66%) Cloud Native
2 142 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 140 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 126 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 124 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 113 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 104 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 103 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 90 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 86 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 83 (1.69%) Operational Technology
12 78 (1.59%) CMDB
13 75 (1.53%) AI Agents
14 71 (1.45%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 51 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.92%) Data Structures
18 43 (0.88%) Private Cloud
19 42 (0.86%) Mainframe
20 38 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.63%) Windows
2 79 (1.61%) Linux
3 36 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.47%) Unix
6 14 (0.29%) 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
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.082%) Solaris
10 4 (0.082%) VMS
10 4 (0.082%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (14.93%) Roadmaps
2 700 (14.29%) Migration
3 615 (12.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 592 (12.09%) Agile
5 575 (11.74%) DevOps
6 572 (11.68%) AI
7 530 (10.82%) Enterprise Architecture
8 522 (10.66%) CI/CD
9 487 (9.94%) Data Modelling
10 474 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 457 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
12 451 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
13 445 (9.09%) Data Architecture
14 411 (8.39%) Analytics
15 409 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
16 395 (8.07%) TOGAF
17 346 (7.07%) Microservices
18 339 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
19 330 (6.74%) Security Architecture
20 326 (6.66%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 267 (5.45%) Python
2 243 (4.96%) SQL
3 200 (4.08%) Java
4 100 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 97 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.23%) C#
7 51 (1.04%) Bicep
8 42 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.84%) Bash
10 25 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.29%) Ruby
11 14 (0.29%) Scala
12 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.18%) ABAP
13 9 (0.18%) C++
13 9 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.16%) R
14 8 (0.16%) VBA
15 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,424 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,023 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.17%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.59%) Degree
5 118 (2.41%) CISSP
6 109 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 98 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 94 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 75 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 73 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.10%) CISM
13 48 (0.98%) CCNP
14 43 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.45%) CCIE
19 21 (0.43%) CCSP
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.66%) NIST
2 155 (3.17%) GDPR
3 151 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 133 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.19%) NCSC
6 61 (1.25%) QA
7 41 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.67%) GRC
9 30 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 22 (0.45%) SEPA
13 18 (0.37%) COBIT
13 18 (0.37%) IFRS
14 17 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.35%) HL7
15 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 154 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.00%) Docker
3 75 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.29%) 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
12 7 (0.14%) vCloud
13 4 (0.082%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.082%) IAG
13 4 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.082%) RACF
13 4 (0.082%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 236 (4.82%) Terraform
2 235 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 96 (1.96%) Ansible
4 50 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 49 (1.00%) Grafana
6 45 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.29%) 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
1 659 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 284 (5.80%) SAP
3 257 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 236 (4.82%) Oracle
5 215 (4.39%) Databricks
6 154 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 148 (3.02%) VMware
8 122 (2.49%) Cisco
9 120 (2.45%) Google
10 64 (1.31%) CyberArk
11 56 (1.14%) Splunk
12 54 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 46 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 45 (0.92%) IBM
15 42 (0.86%) Workday
16 39 (0.80%) Foundry
16 39 (0.80%) Red Hat
17 38 (0.78%) OpenAI
17 38 (0.78%) Sparx
18 36 (0.74%) F5