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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,423 2,371 3,819
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.72% 10.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.49% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 1,561 2,493
10th Percentile £463 £475 £500
25th Percentile £513 £547 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.27%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 32 79
10th Percentile £49.40 £52.80 £60.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £69.72 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £83.25 £81.00 £87.46
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.75 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.52% +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 37,309 22,595 34,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.59% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,342 15,022 22,866
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,525 898 2,434
10th Percentile £15.73 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.79 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -14.52% -19.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.31 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +51.72% -19.49% -19.95%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2,068 £625 -2.34% 473
South East +4 709 £625 - 171
North of England +5 619 £600 - 156
Midlands +2 419 £600 - 105
North West +5 357 £609 +1.50% 98
West Midlands -1 308 £613 +2.08% 69
South West +1 298 £694 +15.63% 95
Yorkshire +5 233 £555 -9.39% 35
East of England +18 201 £563 -6.25% 60
East Midlands -3 105 £525 -4.55% 36
North East +2 38 £575 -7.95% 23
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 1,349 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 1,018 (23.02%) Azure
3 927 (20.96%) SC Cleared
4 850 (19.22%) AWS
5 624 (14.11%) Roadmaps
6 617 (13.95%) Microsoft
7 590 (13.34%) Migration
8 561 (12.68%) Agile
9 497 (11.24%) DevOps
10 462 (10.45%) CI/CD
10 462 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 438 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
12 397 (8.98%) AI
13 391 (8.84%) Integration Patterns
14 386 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 385 (8.70%) Data Modelling
16 381 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
17 362 (8.18%) TOGAF
18 355 (8.03%) Analytics
19 344 (7.78%) Data Architecture
20 339 (7.66%) GCP
21 331 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
21 331 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
22 317 (7.17%) DV Cleared
23 311 (7.03%) Architectural Design
24 305 (6.90%) Microservices
25 298 (6.74%) Python
26 279 (6.31%) ServiceNow
27 264 (5.97%) SAP
28 253 (5.72%) Security Architecture

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
1 106 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 97 (2.19%) Confluence
3 58 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.52%) Apache
4 23 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.43%) SAS
6 17 (0.38%) CMS
7 16 (0.36%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.36%) Appian
8 14 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 13 (0.29%) nginx
10 12 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.25%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.18%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 6 (0.14%) Ethereum
Applications
1 48 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.16%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.16%) Revit
7 4 (0.090%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.023%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.023%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.023%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 108 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 20 (0.45%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 13 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.20%) SAP EWM
9 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.18%) SAP PP
10 7 (0.16%) Maximo
10 7 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.16%) SAP QM
11 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,018 (23.02%) Azure
2 850 (19.22%) AWS
3 339 (7.66%) GCP
4 202 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 168 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 153 (3.46%) Serverless
7 145 (3.28%) SaaS
8 128 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
9 102 (2.31%) GitHub
10 99 (2.24%) PaaS
11 97 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (1.99%) IaaS
13 84 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
14 73 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
15 71 (1.61%) Amazon S3
16 70 (1.58%) Snowflake
17 68 (1.54%) OpenShift
18 60 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
19 56 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
19 56 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 163 (3.69%) Firewall
2 146 (3.30%) Network Security
3 117 (2.65%) WAN
4 108 (2.44%) DNS
5 100 (2.26%) VPN
6 86 (1.94%) LAN
7 58 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 35 (0.79%) BGP
9 31 (0.70%) DHCP
10 29 (0.66%) OSPF
11 27 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (0.59%) MPLS
12 26 (0.59%) TCP/IP
13 24 (0.54%) VLAN
14 19 (0.43%) BIG-IP
15 18 (0.41%) SAN
15 18 (0.41%) VXLAN
16 17 (0.38%) NAS
17 16 (0.36%) VSAN
17 16 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (3.39%) Power BI
2 107 (2.42%) Metadata
3 104 (2.35%) Data Lake
4 96 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (1.51%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 50 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (0.86%) Tableau
10 29 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (0.66%) Big Data
11 27 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 25 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.50%) GIS
15 21 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (0.38%) MongoDB
18 16 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (2.49%) JIRA
2 81 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 54 (1.22%) Git
4 42 (0.95%) GitLab
5 18 (0.41%) ERwin
6 14 (0.32%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.25%) MLflow
8 10 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.14%) Postman
10 5 (0.11%) JUnit
10 5 (0.11%) MSI
10 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.11%) Selenium
11 4 (0.090%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.090%) Maven
11 4 (0.090%) Snyk
11 4 (0.090%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.090%) Terragrunt
General
1 836 (18.90%) Social Skills
2 696 (15.74%) Finance
3 456 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 264 (5.97%) Banking
5 260 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (3.01%) Retail
7 130 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 96 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (2.10%) Legal
10 85 (1.92%) Military
11 79 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 66 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 61 (1.38%) Law
15 54 (1.22%) Marketing
16 48 (1.09%) Billing
17 42 (0.95%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.77%) Investment Banking
19 28 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 27 (0.61%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (4.82%) REST
2 165 (3.73%) Middleware
3 111 (2.51%) SOAP
4 98 (2.22%) .NET
5 80 (1.81%) LDAP
5 80 (1.81%) OpenID
6 68 (1.54%) OAuth
7 64 (1.45%) Kafka
8 57 (1.29%) SAML
9 47 (1.06%) JSON
10 40 (0.90%) OAuth2
10 40 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
11 37 (0.84%) SailPoint
12 36 (0.81%) React
13 33 (0.75%) RESTful
14 32 (0.72%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.63%) Web Services
16 26 (0.59%) Spring
17 25 (0.57%) PySpark
18 23 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 363 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 131 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 115 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 115 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 105 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 105 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 87 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 84 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 73 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 68 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 65 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 63 (1.42%) PKI
13 57 (1.29%) CMDB
14 45 (1.02%) AI Agents
15 40 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 39 (0.88%) Data Structures
17 35 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 153 (3.46%) Windows
2 91 (2.06%) Linux
3 31 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.59%) Android
4 26 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.36%) Unix
6 14 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.27%) Windows 7
8 11 (0.25%) zOS
9 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.18%) VMS
10 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.068%) CentOS
12 3 (0.068%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.068%) Solaris
12 3 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.045%) AIX
13 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (14.11%) Roadmaps
2 590 (13.34%) Migration
3 561 (12.68%) Agile
4 497 (11.24%) DevOps
5 462 (10.45%) CI/CD
5 462 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 438 (9.90%) Enterprise Architecture
7 397 (8.98%) AI
8 391 (8.84%) Integration Patterns
9 386 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 385 (8.70%) Data Modelling
11 381 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
12 362 (8.18%) TOGAF
13 355 (8.03%) Analytics
14 344 (7.78%) Data Architecture
15 331 (7.48%) Architectural Patterns
15 331 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
16 311 (7.03%) Architectural Design
17 305 (6.90%) Microservices
18 253 (5.72%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 298 (6.74%) Python
2 227 (5.13%) SQL
3 168 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 166 (3.75%) Java
5 71 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.18%) C#
7 42 (0.95%) Bicep
8 33 (0.75%) Bash
8 33 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 17 (0.38%) Ruby
9 17 (0.38%) Scala
10 14 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.20%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.18%) R
13 8 (0.18%) VB
14 7 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,349 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 927 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 317 (7.17%) DV Cleared
4 184 (4.16%) Degree
5 119 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 108 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 93 (2.10%) CISSP
8 89 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 64 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 47 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.04%) CISM
14 44 (0.99%) CCNP
15 38 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 37 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.54%) CCIE
19 23 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 23 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (3.57%) NIST
2 156 (3.53%) GDPR
3 120 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 120 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (2.06%) NCSC
5 59 (1.33%) QA
6 38 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 30 (0.68%) COBIT
8 27 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.54%) GRC
11 18 (0.41%) SEPA
12 17 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 17 (0.38%) HL7
12 17 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 17 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.29%) FINRA
13 13 (0.29%) MiFID
14 11 (0.25%) PSD2
15 9 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 180 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.24%) Docker
3 85 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 26 (0.59%) vSphere
6 23 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) vCloud
11 9 (0.20%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) NFS
13 7 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.16%) Varnish
14 5 (0.11%) Postfix
14 5 (0.11%) RACF
15 4 (0.090%) Firmware
15 4 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.068%) IAG
16 3 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 228 (5.15%) Terraform
2 206 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.15%) Ansible
4 47 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 41 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.84%) Grafana
7 30 (0.68%) OPNET
8 28 (0.63%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 24 (0.54%) SCCM
10 22 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.32%) Argo
12 11 (0.25%) WMI
13 10 (0.23%) Istio
14 8 (0.18%) Puppet
15 7 (0.16%) Consul
16 5 (0.11%) Endace
16 5 (0.11%) Kibana
16 5 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 617 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.31%) ServiceNow
3 264 (5.97%) SAP
4 178 (4.02%) Oracle
5 177 (4.00%) VMware
6 164 (3.71%) Databricks
7 163 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 104 (2.35%) Cisco
9 92 (2.08%) Google
10 84 (1.90%) CyberArk
11 62 (1.40%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.24%) Splunk
13 50 (1.13%) Workday
14 48 (1.09%) Remedy
14 48 (1.09%) Sparx
15 43 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 43 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 41 (0.93%) IBM
16 41 (0.93%) Palo Alto
17 39 (0.88%) BeyondTrust