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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,770 2,403 3,921
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.53% 10.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.90% 10.33% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 1,575 2,556
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £515 £550 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £723 £744
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 18 96
10th Percentile £49.40 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £85.50 £87.12
90th Percentile £97.50 £98.99 £90.00
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 40,088 23,260 34,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,631 15,261 22,669
10th Percentile £325 £293 £293
25th Percentile £418 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,061 2,606
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.85 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.86% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +6 2,330 £625 -3.85% 457
North of England +7 707 £600 - 172
South East +5 705 £625 +2.46% 178
Midlands +2 429 £613 +3.90% 79
North West +5 374 £612 +3.29% 95
West Midlands +2 309 £625 +4.17% 66
South West +3 279 £640 +4.49% 77
Yorkshire +10 272 £566 -5.75% 43
East of England +25 198 £600 - 46
East Midlands +7 114 £575 +15.00% 12
North East +11 68 £575 -8.00% 36
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 1,387 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,184 (24.82%) Azure
3 1,011 (21.19%) SC Cleared
4 966 (20.25%) AWS
5 693 (14.53%) Roadmaps
6 692 (14.51%) Migration
7 644 (13.50%) Microsoft
8 579 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 567 (11.89%) Agile
10 559 (11.72%) DevOps
11 523 (10.96%) AI
12 508 (10.65%) CI/CD
13 502 (10.52%) Enterprise Architecture
14 462 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 458 (9.60%) Data Modelling
16 452 (9.48%) Integration Patterns
17 444 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
18 421 (8.83%) Data Architecture
19 394 (8.26%) Analytics
19 394 (8.26%) Architectural Patterns
20 371 (7.78%) GCP
21 365 (7.65%) TOGAF
22 341 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
23 333 (6.98%) Microservices
24 324 (6.79%) Architectural Design
25 301 (6.31%) Security Architecture
26 297 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
27 293 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
28 278 (5.83%) Python
29 276 (5.79%) DV Cleared

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
1 102 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 69 (1.45%) Confluence
3 49 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (0.88%) SAS
5 28 (0.59%) Apache
5 28 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (0.38%) Appian
7 18 (0.38%) CMS
7 18 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 12 (0.25%) nginx
9 11 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.19%) Camunda
11 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.042%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.021%) Notion
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 123 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 22 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.13%) Maximo
13 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) Endur
14 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (24.82%) Azure
2 966 (20.25%) AWS
3 371 (7.78%) GCP
4 248 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 174 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 170 (3.56%) Serverless
7 169 (3.54%) SaaS
8 121 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (2.47%) GitHub
10 107 (2.24%) PaaS
11 104 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
12 99 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 89 (1.87%) Snowflake
14 80 (1.68%) IaaS
15 79 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
16 73 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.24%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
19 56 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 55 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 171 (3.58%) Firewall
2 164 (3.44%) Network Security
3 119 (2.49%) DNS
4 104 (2.18%) WAN
5 95 (1.99%) VPN
6 76 (1.59%) LAN
7 57 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 44 (0.92%) DHCP
9 43 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 42 (0.88%) BGP
11 35 (0.73%) VLAN
12 34 (0.71%) MPLS
12 34 (0.71%) OSPF
13 29 (0.61%) Wireless
14 26 (0.55%) SAN
15 25 (0.52%) NAS
16 23 (0.48%) BIG-IP
16 23 (0.48%) IPsec
17 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
18 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (3.71%) Power BI
2 135 (2.83%) Metadata
3 131 (2.75%) Data Lake
4 118 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 50 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (0.71%) Big Data
10 32 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.55%) Tableau
13 25 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 19 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.38%) GIS
17 17 (0.36%) MongoDB
17 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (2.01%) JIRA
2 75 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 60 (1.26%) Git
4 36 (0.75%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) JUnit
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 886 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 788 (16.52%) Finance
3 522 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 290 (6.08%) Banking
5 253 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 201 (4.21%) Retail
7 142 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 113 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 87 (1.82%) Legal
11 86 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 54 (1.13%) Law
13 50 (1.05%) Military
14 48 (1.01%) Billing
15 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.90%) Marketing
17 38 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.75%) Aerospace
19 33 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 33 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (4.80%) REST
2 164 (3.44%) Middleware
3 117 (2.45%) .NET
4 111 (2.33%) SOAP
5 84 (1.76%) OpenID
6 83 (1.74%) OAuth
7 72 (1.51%) Kafka
8 67 (1.40%) SAML
9 65 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
10 63 (1.32%) LDAP
11 50 (1.05%) OAuth2
12 45 (0.94%) React
13 43 (0.90%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.82%) RESTful
15 38 (0.80%) JSON
16 33 (0.69%) .NET Framework
16 33 (0.69%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.65%) Node.js
18 30 (0.63%) Web Services
19 28 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 416 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 135 (2.83%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 128 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 119 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 108 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 108 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 104 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 97 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 80 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 79 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 75 (1.57%) CMDB
12 71 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 71 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 44 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 43 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 42 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (0.86%) Mainframe
18 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 128 (2.68%) Windows
2 74 (1.55%) Linux
3 33 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.084%) AIX
9 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.084%) Solaris
9 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.063%) VMS
10 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (14.53%) Roadmaps
2 692 (14.51%) Migration
3 579 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 567 (11.89%) Agile
5 559 (11.72%) DevOps
6 523 (10.96%) AI
7 508 (10.65%) CI/CD
8 502 (10.52%) Enterprise Architecture
9 462 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 458 (9.60%) Data Modelling
11 452 (9.48%) Integration Patterns
12 444 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
13 421 (8.83%) Data Architecture
14 394 (8.26%) Analytics
14 394 (8.26%) Architectural Patterns
15 365 (7.65%) TOGAF
16 341 (7.15%) Problem-Solving
17 333 (6.98%) Microservices
18 324 (6.79%) Architectural Design
19 301 (6.31%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (5.83%) Python
2 236 (4.95%) SQL
3 197 (4.13%) Java
4 113 (2.37%) PowerShell
5 94 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 58 (1.22%) C#
7 48 (1.01%) Bicep
8 39 (0.82%) Bash
8 39 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 23 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 15 (0.31%) Ruby
11 14 (0.29%) Scala
12 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.19%) ABAP
13 9 (0.19%) C++
13 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,387 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,011 (21.19%) SC Cleared
3 276 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 172 (3.61%) Degree
5 103 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 103 (2.16%) CISSP
6 90 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 88 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 76 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 71 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 70 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 50 (1.05%) CISM
12 47 (0.99%) CCNP
13 40 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.44%) CCIE
18 19 (0.40%) CCSP
19 18 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (3.58%) NIST
2 154 (3.23%) GDPR
3 144 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.22%) NCSC
6 64 (1.34%) QA
7 41 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 28 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 18 (0.38%) COBIT
13 18 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.38%) IFRS
14 17 (0.36%) HL7
15 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 10 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 156 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 95 (1.99%) Docker
3 76 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.26%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.46%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.17%) NFS
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) vCloud
12 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.084%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.084%) IAG
12 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.084%) RACF
12 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 232 (4.86%) Terraform
2 218 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 96 (2.01%) Ansible
4 48 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 41 (0.86%) Grafana
6 40 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 23 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.36%) Argo
10 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.29%) SCCM
12 11 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Istio
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 6 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
16 4 (0.084%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 644 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 275 (5.77%) SAP
3 252 (5.28%) ServiceNow
4 219 (4.59%) Oracle
5 208 (4.36%) Databricks
6 156 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 153 (3.21%) VMware
8 119 (2.49%) Cisco
9 114 (2.39%) Google
10 68 (1.43%) CyberArk
11 57 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.15%) Splunk
13 47 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.92%) IBM
15 42 (0.88%) Workday
16 41 (0.86%) Sparx
17 39 (0.82%) Foundry
18 38 (0.80%) OpenAI
19 37 (0.78%) Red Hat
20 35 (0.73%) F5