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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,010 2,636 3,385
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 9.47% 10.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 10.33% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 1,752 2,245
10th Percentile £476 £475 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £705 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £621 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.68% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 18 76
10th Percentile £46.00 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £87.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 42,140 25,508 30,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,526 16,531 20,304
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,165 1,327 1,793
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.53 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +8 2,584 £625 -3.85% 1,617
South East 0 729 £625 +4.17% 372
North of England +5 687 £600 - 299
Midlands 0 415 £625 +8.70% 160
North West +6 391 £600 - 155
West Midlands -2 308 £631 +5.13% 109
South West -4 300 £625 -2.34% 185
Yorkshire +2 232 £600 0.00% 108
East of England +18 161 £600 +8.11% 112
East Midlands +8 100 £600 +16.50% 51
North East -4 66 £600 -15.79% 36
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 1,495 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,268 (25.31%) Azure
3 1,091 (21.78%) SC Cleared
4 1,028 (20.52%) AWS
5 740 (14.77%) Roadmaps
6 714 (14.25%) Migration
7 695 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 651 (12.99%) Microsoft
9 638 (12.73%) AI
10 605 (12.08%) Enterprise Architecture
11 556 (11.10%) DevOps
12 552 (11.02%) Agile
13 528 (10.54%) Data Modelling
14 519 (10.36%) CI/CD
15 514 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
16 500 (9.98%) Data Architecture
17 495 (9.88%) Integration Patterns
17 495 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 459 (9.16%) Analytics
19 402 (8.02%) TOGAF
20 400 (7.98%) Architectural Patterns
21 392 (7.82%) GCP
22 358 (7.15%) Security Architecture
23 323 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
24 322 (6.43%) Microservices
25 315 (6.29%) DV Cleared
26 314 (6.27%) Event-Driven
27 303 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
28 300 (5.99%) Data Governance
29 299 (5.97%) Architectural Design

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 79 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.42%) SAS
3 52 (1.04%) Confluence
4 42 (0.84%) Apache
5 41 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 24 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.18%) Appian
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) nginx
15 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
16 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
16 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 119 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.14%) Maximo
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
14 5 (0.100%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,268 (25.31%) Azure
2 1,028 (20.52%) AWS
3 392 (7.82%) GCP
4 262 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 188 (3.75%) Entra ID
6 179 (3.57%) SaaS
7 153 (3.05%) Serverless
8 121 (2.42%) GitHub
9 120 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 105 (2.10%) PaaS
11 104 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 103 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
13 99 (1.98%) Snowflake
14 73 (1.46%) IaaS
15 72 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (1.38%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.20%) OCI
18 55 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
19 52 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 156 (3.11%) Network Security
2 151 (3.01%) Firewall
3 99 (1.98%) WAN
4 88 (1.76%) DNS
5 75 (1.50%) VPN
6 72 (1.44%) LAN
7 48 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.92%) BGP
9 40 (0.80%) DHCP
10 39 (0.78%) TCP/IP
11 37 (0.74%) MPLS
12 34 (0.68%) VLAN
13 29 (0.58%) SAN
14 28 (0.56%) Wireless
15 26 (0.52%) OSPF
16 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 25 (0.50%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.40%) NX-OS
19 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (3.75%) Power BI
2 168 (3.35%) Data Lake
3 149 (2.97%) Metadata
4 144 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.88%) Big Data
8 37 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 36 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 30 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 29 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.52%) GIS
13 23 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 21 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
15 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
16 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 18 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (1.42%) JIRA
2 68 (1.36%) Git
3 49 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.58%) GitLab
5 20 (0.40%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
10 6 (0.12%) Maven
10 6 (0.12%) Storybook
11 5 (0.100%) MLflow
11 5 (0.100%) MSI
11 5 (0.100%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.080%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.080%) Snyk
13 3 (0.060%) Postman
General
1 945 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 773 (15.43%) Finance
3 538 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 294 (5.87%) Banking
5 265 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 249 (4.97%) Retail
7 131 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 116 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
9 115 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 76 (1.52%) Legal
12 58 (1.16%) Marketing
13 53 (1.06%) Billing
14 47 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.92%) Law
15 46 (0.92%) Military
16 43 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (4.81%) REST
2 162 (3.23%) Middleware
3 120 (2.40%) .NET
4 108 (2.16%) SOAP
5 105 (2.10%) Kafka
6 97 (1.94%) OAuth
7 73 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 56 (1.12%) OpenID
9 54 (1.08%) SAML
10 52 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 50 (1.00%) JSON
12 44 (0.88%) React
13 41 (0.82%) RESTful
14 37 (0.74%) .NET Framework
15 36 (0.72%) SailPoint
16 35 (0.70%) PySpark
17 31 (0.62%) XML
18 28 (0.56%) JWT
19 27 (0.54%) GraphQL
20 26 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 422 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 146 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 132 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 124 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 121 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 120 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 112 (2.24%) AI Agents
8 112 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 99 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 91 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 84 (1.68%) Operational Technology
12 73 (1.46%) CMDB
13 65 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
15 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 56 (1.12%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.92%) Private Cloud
18 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.22%) Windows
2 85 (1.70%) Linux
3 35 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.42%) Android
6 19 (0.38%) Unix
7 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
8 9 (0.18%) zOS
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.100%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.100%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.080%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) CentOS
12 2 (0.040%) HPUX
12 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (14.77%) Roadmaps
2 714 (14.25%) Migration
3 695 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 638 (12.73%) AI
5 605 (12.08%) Enterprise Architecture
6 556 (11.10%) DevOps
7 552 (11.02%) Agile
8 528 (10.54%) Data Modelling
9 519 (10.36%) CI/CD
10 514 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
11 500 (9.98%) Data Architecture
12 495 (9.88%) Integration Patterns
12 495 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 459 (9.16%) Analytics
14 402 (8.02%) TOGAF
15 400 (7.98%) Architectural Patterns
16 358 (7.15%) Security Architecture
17 323 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
18 322 (6.43%) Microservices
19 314 (6.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 240 (4.79%) Python
2 230 (4.59%) SQL
3 205 (4.09%) Java
4 117 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 55 (1.10%) C#
7 43 (0.86%) Bash
8 42 (0.84%) Bicep
8 42 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.28%) Ruby
13 13 (0.26%) C++
14 11 (0.22%) Scala
15 10 (0.20%) Groovy
16 9 (0.18%) ABAP
17 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,495 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 1,091 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 315 (6.29%) DV Cleared
4 155 (3.09%) Degree
5 124 (2.48%) CISSP
6 111 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 88 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 85 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 66 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (0.80%) CCNP
14 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.48%) Master's Degree
18 21 (0.42%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
20 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.33%) NIST
3 148 (2.95%) GDPR
4 130 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.90%) NCSC
6 62 (1.24%) GRC
7 57 (1.14%) QA
8 36 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) SEPA
13 21 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 20 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.38%) IFRS
16 15 (0.30%) HL7
17 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.26%) SLA
19 12 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
19 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 146 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.02%) Docker
3 62 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) vSphere
8 12 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
12 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.080%) IAG
12 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) Squid
13 3 (0.060%) SRDF
14 2 (0.040%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 244 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 213 (4.25%) Terraform
3 88 (1.76%) Ansible
4 42 (0.84%) Grafana
5 38 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.32%) Argo
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.100%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.100%) MOM
14 5 (0.100%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.100%) WMI
Vendors
1 651 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 282 (5.63%) SAP
3 269 (5.37%) Oracle
4 250 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 228 (4.55%) Databricks
6 161 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 137 (2.73%) Google
8 126 (2.51%) Cisco
9 124 (2.48%) VMware
10 57 (1.14%) IBM
11 55 (1.10%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 52 (1.04%) Workday
13 49 (0.98%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.86%) Foundry
15 37 (0.74%) Sparx
16 35 (0.70%) Splunk
17 34 (0.68%) Ariba
18 33 (0.66%) F5
19 32 (0.64%) OpenAI