Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 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 4,909 2,641 3,831
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.97% 9.72% 10.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.57% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,271 1,752 2,518
10th Percentile £473 £468 £488
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £738
90th Percentile £788 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 21 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.96 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £71.91 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,387 24,981 33,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,310 16,224 22,273
10th Percentile £325 £291 £300
25th Percentile £423 £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 £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,974 1,234 2,436
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £26.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +71.69% -34.48% -5.88%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 2,450 £618 -5.00% 580
South East +1 719 £626 +4.25% 188
North of England +6 718 £600 - 182
Midlands 0 419 £620 +7.83% 97
North West +4 384 £610 +1.67% 108
West Midlands -3 300 £626 +4.33% 75
South West -1 285 £625 - 92
Yorkshire +8 267 £600 - 40
East of England +16 188 £600 - 44
East Midlands +4 111 £600 +20.00% 22
North East 0 75 £588 -16.07% 34
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 1,429 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,222 (24.89%) Azure
3 1,035 (21.08%) SC Cleared
4 1,011 (20.59%) AWS
5 748 (15.24%) Roadmaps
6 698 (14.22%) Migration
7 646 (13.16%) Microsoft
8 622 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 582 (11.86%) Agile
10 578 (11.77%) AI
11 564 (11.49%) DevOps
12 548 (11.16%) Enterprise Architecture
13 510 (10.39%) CI/CD
14 506 (10.31%) Data Modelling
15 474 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 459 (9.35%) Integration Patterns
17 458 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.31%) Data Architecture
19 422 (8.60%) Analytics
20 411 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
21 405 (8.25%) TOGAF
22 363 (7.39%) GCP
23 347 (7.07%) Microservices
24 338 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
25 333 (6.78%) Security Architecture
26 332 (6.76%) Architectural Design
27 311 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
28 301 (6.13%) DV Cleared
29 297 (6.05%) Infrastructure as Code
30 289 (5.89%) Event-Driven

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 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 61 (1.24%) Confluence
3 56 (1.14%) SAS
4 40 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (0.67%) Apache
5 33 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.43%) Appian
7 21 (0.43%) CMS
8 20 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.24%) nginx
9 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.18%) Camunda
12 8 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.041%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) Maximo
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 5 (0.10%) Workday HCM
14 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,222 (24.89%) Azure
2 1,011 (20.59%) AWS
3 363 (7.39%) GCP
4 257 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 187 (3.81%) Entra ID
6 180 (3.67%) SaaS
7 161 (3.28%) Serverless
8 115 (2.34%) GitHub
9 113 (2.30%) PaaS
10 112 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
11 108 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
12 97 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
13 95 (1.94%) Snowflake
14 84 (1.71%) IaaS
15 73 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.30%) OpenShift
18 54 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 54 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 52 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 174 (3.54%) Firewall
2 167 (3.40%) Network Security
3 111 (2.26%) DNS
4 100 (2.04%) WAN
5 89 (1.81%) VPN
6 73 (1.49%) LAN
7 52 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 49 (1.00%) BGP
8 49 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 44 (0.90%) DHCP
10 37 (0.75%) MPLS
11 36 (0.73%) VLAN
12 32 (0.65%) OSPF
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
14 26 (0.53%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) IPsec
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 22 (0.45%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
16 22 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (3.71%) Power BI
2 148 (3.01%) Data Lake
3 145 (2.95%) Metadata
4 129 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.86%) Big Data
7 42 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 32 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 27 (0.55%) Delta Lake
11 25 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.49%) GIS
13 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.43%) Tableau
15 20 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.41%) Relational Database
15 20 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
16 19 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (1.79%) JIRA
2 64 (1.30%) Git
3 63 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.63%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) Selenium
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
12 3 (0.061%) JUnit
General
1 915 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 796 (16.22%) Finance
3 534 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 300 (6.11%) Banking
5 271 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 220 (4.48%) Retail
7 143 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 124 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 109 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 95 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.59%) Legal
12 56 (1.14%) Billing
13 52 (1.06%) Marketing
14 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 47 (0.96%) Military
16 45 (0.92%) Law
17 39 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 30 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (4.83%) REST
2 165 (3.36%) Middleware
3 121 (2.46%) .NET
4 108 (2.20%) SOAP
5 88 (1.79%) OAuth
6 84 (1.71%) Kafka
7 76 (1.55%) OpenID
8 68 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 63 (1.28%) SAML
10 49 (1.00%) React
11 48 (0.98%) OAuth2
12 47 (0.96%) LDAP
13 43 (0.88%) SailPoint
14 40 (0.81%) JSON
15 39 (0.79%) RESTful
16 36 (0.73%) .NET Framework
17 31 (0.63%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.63%) Node.js
17 31 (0.63%) PySpark
17 31 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 415 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.93%) Data Centre
3 138 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 126 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 112 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 111 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 101 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 92 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 87 (1.77%) Operational Technology
11 86 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 82 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 78 (1.59%) CMDB
14 68 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 53 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
17 46 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 44 (0.90%) Private Cloud
19 42 (0.86%) Mainframe
20 39 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 119 (2.42%) Windows
2 77 (1.57%) Linux
3 35 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.53%) Android
4 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.41%) Unix
6 16 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.22%) zOS
8 6 (0.12%) AIX
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.081%) VMS
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
11 3 (0.061%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (15.24%) Roadmaps
2 698 (14.22%) Migration
3 622 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 582 (11.86%) Agile
5 578 (11.77%) AI
6 564 (11.49%) DevOps
7 548 (11.16%) Enterprise Architecture
8 510 (10.39%) CI/CD
9 506 (10.31%) Data Modelling
10 474 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 459 (9.35%) Integration Patterns
12 458 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
13 457 (9.31%) Data Architecture
14 422 (8.60%) Analytics
15 411 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
16 405 (8.25%) TOGAF
17 347 (7.07%) Microservices
18 338 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
19 333 (6.78%) Security Architecture
20 332 (6.76%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 265 (5.40%) Python
2 238 (4.85%) SQL
3 205 (4.18%) Java
4 104 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 87 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.22%) C#
7 45 (0.92%) Bicep
8 42 (0.86%) Bash
9 39 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Scala
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.18%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) Go
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,429 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,035 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 301 (6.13%) DV Cleared
4 172 (3.50%) Degree
5 124 (2.53%) CISSP
6 111 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 95 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 72 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 71 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (1.12%) CISM
13 46 (0.94%) CCNP
14 40 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.47%) CCSP
19 22 (0.45%) CCIE
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (3.56%) NIST
2 158 (3.22%) Data Quality
3 151 (3.08%) GDPR
4 127 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 107 (2.18%) NCSC
6 57 (1.16%) QA
7 45 (0.92%) GRC
8 37 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 31 (0.63%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 24 (0.49%) SEPA
12 18 (0.37%) COBIT
12 18 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.37%) IFRS
13 17 (0.35%) HL7
14 11 (0.22%) SLA
15 10 (0.20%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 152 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.00%) Docker
3 71 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.35%) vSphere
7 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.18%) Squid
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 8 (0.16%) Varnish
11 7 (0.14%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 5 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 236 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 226 (4.60%) Terraform
3 96 (1.96%) Ansible
4 50 (1.02%) Grafana
5 49 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 46 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.37%) Argo
10 17 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.20%) SCCM
14 7 (0.14%) Consul
14 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
16 5 (0.10%) Istio
16 5 (0.10%) MOM
16 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 646 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 288 (5.87%) SAP
3 256 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 245 (4.99%) Oracle
5 214 (4.36%) Databricks
6 154 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 140 (2.85%) VMware
8 120 (2.44%) Cisco
9 113 (2.30%) Google
10 65 (1.32%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.10%) Splunk
12 53 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 49 (1.00%) IBM
14 44 (0.90%) Workday
15 43 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.84%) Foundry
17 39 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 37 (0.75%) Ariba
18 37 (0.75%) F5
18 37 (0.75%) Sparx