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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 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 4,720 2,406 3,986
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.98% 9.70% 10.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 10.50% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,167 1,572 2,591
10th Percentile £463 £471 £488
25th Percentile £513 £538 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 27 97
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
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 £78.63 £82.25 £87.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £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 39,699 22,906 35,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.33% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,420 15,063 22,824
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,798 1,026 2,684
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.28 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.26% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +5 2,291 £625 -3.85% 401
South East +6 698 £625 +4.17% 190
North of England +7 695 £600 - 180
Midlands +3 442 £613 +3.07% 67
North West +4 368 £612 +2.64% 92
West Midlands -1 313 £625 +4.17% 52
South West +4 269 £640 +4.49% 77
Yorkshire +8 268 £558 -7.00% 50
East of England +21 211 £575 -4.17% 37
East Midlands +5 123 £575 +15.00% 15
North East +5 66 £575 -4.17% 39
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 1,372 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 1,145 (24.26%) Azure
3 998 (21.14%) SC Cleared
4 926 (19.62%) AWS
5 692 (14.66%) Migration
6 672 (14.24%) Roadmaps
7 630 (13.35%) Microsoft
8 561 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 560 (11.86%) DevOps
10 556 (11.78%) Agile
11 505 (10.70%) CI/CD
12 490 (10.38%) Enterprise Architecture
13 487 (10.32%) AI
14 455 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 451 (9.56%) Data Modelling
15 451 (9.56%) Integration Patterns
16 428 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
17 407 (8.62%) Data Architecture
18 387 (8.20%) Analytics
18 387 (8.20%) Architectural Patterns
19 350 (7.42%) TOGAF
20 349 (7.39%) GCP
21 330 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
22 328 (6.95%) Architectural Design
22 328 (6.95%) Microservices
23 289 (6.12%) Security Architecture
24 286 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
24 286 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
25 278 (5.89%) Python
26 274 (5.81%) 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
1 104 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.57%) Confluence
3 52 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (0.83%) SAS
5 29 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.55%) Apache
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.34%) Appian
8 16 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.19%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.21%) 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%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 121 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.13%) Maximo
11 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (0.085%) Endur
13 4 (0.085%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (24.26%) Azure
2 926 (19.62%) AWS
3 349 (7.39%) GCP
4 244 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 170 (3.60%) Entra ID
6 168 (3.56%) Serverless
7 161 (3.41%) SaaS
8 128 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 115 (2.44%) GitHub
10 105 (2.22%) PaaS
11 103 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
12 98 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (1.76%) Snowflake
14 79 (1.67%) IaaS
15 75 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (1.23%) OpenShift
18 57 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
18 57 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 156 (3.31%) Network Security
2 155 (3.28%) Firewall
3 107 (2.27%) DNS
4 102 (2.16%) WAN
5 96 (2.03%) VPN
6 73 (1.55%) LAN
7 52 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.83%) BGP
9 38 (0.81%) DHCP
10 31 (0.66%) MPLS
10 31 (0.66%) OSPF
11 30 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 30 (0.64%) VLAN
12 29 (0.61%) Wireless
13 26 (0.55%) SAN
14 25 (0.53%) NAS
15 22 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
16 20 (0.42%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.42%) IPsec
17 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (3.73%) Power BI
2 129 (2.73%) Data Lake
3 128 (2.71%) Metadata
4 112 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 61 (1.29%) SQL Server
7 52 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.68%) Big Data
9 32 (0.68%) Tableau
10 30 (0.64%) Delta Lake
11 28 (0.59%) BigQuery
12 26 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 23 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.42%) GIS
16 17 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
16 17 (0.36%) MongoDB
16 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (2.08%) JIRA
2 75 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.23%) Git
4 38 (0.81%) GitLab
5 23 (0.49%) 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%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.11%) JMeter
10 5 (0.11%) JUnit
10 5 (0.11%) Maven
10 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.11%) Selenium
11 4 (0.085%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.085%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.085%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.085%) Snyk
General
1 866 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 775 (16.42%) Finance
3 512 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 286 (6.06%) Banking
5 234 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 185 (3.92%) Retail
7 141 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 107 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 90 (1.91%) Legal
10 89 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 56 (1.19%) Law
13 47 (1.00%) Military
14 46 (0.97%) Billing
15 44 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.91%) Marketing
17 41 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 38 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 37 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 34 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (4.83%) REST
2 165 (3.50%) Middleware
3 114 (2.42%) SOAP
4 113 (2.39%) .NET
5 84 (1.78%) OpenID
6 82 (1.74%) OAuth
7 74 (1.57%) LDAP
8 68 (1.44%) Kafka
9 67 (1.42%) SAML
10 62 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
11 50 (1.06%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.93%) React
13 42 (0.89%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.83%) RESTful
15 37 (0.78%) JSON
16 33 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 30 (0.64%) Web Services
18 29 (0.61%) .NET Framework
18 29 (0.61%) Node.js
19 25 (0.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 403 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 127 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 120 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 115 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 108 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 106 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 102 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 101 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 81 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 76 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 75 (1.59%) CMDB
13 71 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 69 (1.46%) Security Posture
15 43 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (0.87%) Mainframe
17 41 (0.87%) Private Cloud
18 34 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.65%) Windows
2 73 (1.55%) Linux
3 32 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.47%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.085%) Solaris
10 4 (0.085%) VMS
10 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.064%) AIX
11 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (14.66%) Migration
2 672 (14.24%) Roadmaps
3 561 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 560 (11.86%) DevOps
5 556 (11.78%) Agile
6 505 (10.70%) CI/CD
7 490 (10.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 487 (10.32%) AI
9 455 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 451 (9.56%) Data Modelling
10 451 (9.56%) Integration Patterns
11 428 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
12 407 (8.62%) Data Architecture
13 387 (8.20%) Analytics
13 387 (8.20%) Architectural Patterns
14 350 (7.42%) TOGAF
15 330 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
16 328 (6.95%) Architectural Design
16 328 (6.95%) Microservices
17 289 (6.12%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (5.89%) Python
2 234 (4.96%) SQL
3 191 (4.05%) Java
4 129 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 92 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.17%) C#
7 48 (1.02%) Bicep
8 38 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.66%) Bash
10 22 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.32%) Ruby
11 15 (0.32%) Scala
12 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.17%) VBA
15 7 (0.15%) C++
16 6 (0.13%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,372 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 998 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 272 (5.76%) DV Cleared
4 164 (3.47%) Degree
5 105 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 99 (2.10%) CISSP
7 83 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 72 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 70 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 50 (1.06%) CISM
13 44 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (0.89%) CCNP
15 32 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 19 (0.40%) GIAC
19 18 (0.38%) CCIE
19 18 (0.38%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.67%) NIST
2 158 (3.35%) GDPR
3 137 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 98 (2.08%) NCSC
6 62 (1.31%) QA
7 40 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.66%) GRC
9 27 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 18 (0.38%) COBIT
14 16 (0.34%) HL7
14 16 (0.34%) IFRS
15 13 (0.28%) FINRA
15 13 (0.28%) MiFID
16 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.95%) Docker
3 77 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.51%) vSphere
6 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.19%) NFS
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
10 8 (0.17%) vCloud
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
12 5 (0.11%) RACF
13 4 (0.085%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.085%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.064%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.064%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 219 (4.64%) Terraform
2 211 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.06%) Ansible
4 45 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.85%) Grafana
6 38 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.30%) SCCM
13 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
17 4 (0.085%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 630 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 274 (5.81%) SAP
3 255 (5.40%) ServiceNow
4 214 (4.53%) Oracle
5 205 (4.34%) Databricks
6 156 (3.31%) VMware
7 154 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 118 (2.50%) Cisco
9 99 (2.10%) Google
10 72 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 61 (1.29%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.17%) Splunk
13 42 (0.89%) Sparx
14 41 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.87%) Workday
15 40 (0.85%) IBM
15 40 (0.85%) Red Hat
16 37 (0.78%) Foundry
16 37 (0.78%) OpenAI
17 32 (0.68%) F5