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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,599 2,368 3,809
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.04% 9.96% 10.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.96% 10.79% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 1,553 2,476
10th Percentile £463 £475 £500
25th Percentile £513 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £750
90th Percentile £800 £796 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 27 92
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 £78.75 £81.13 £85.65
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.30 £88.00
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 38,465 21,947 33,912
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,594 22,464
10th Percentile £322 £293 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,684 883 2,505
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 2,224 £625 -3.85% 806
South East +6 702 £625 +0.60% 241
North of England +4 666 £600 - 251
Midlands +2 436 £600 +0.08% 111
North West +5 372 £608 +4.29% 137
West Midlands -1 314 £620 +3.33% 75
South West 0 254 £650 +8.33% 136
Yorkshire +10 252 £557 -7.25% 69
East of England +20 202 £575 -4.17% 59
East Midlands +1 116 £560 +6.46% 36
North East +5 50 £575 -4.17% 47
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 1,363 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 1,098 (23.87%) Azure
3 964 (20.96%) SC Cleared
4 909 (19.77%) AWS
5 636 (13.83%) Migration
6 629 (13.68%) Roadmaps
7 615 (13.37%) Microsoft
8 530 (11.52%) Agile
9 526 (11.44%) DevOps
10 498 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 478 (10.39%) CI/CD
12 452 (9.83%) Enterprise Architecture
13 428 (9.31%) AI
14 425 (9.24%) Data Modelling
15 421 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 415 (9.02%) Integration Patterns
17 398 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
18 379 (8.24%) Data Architecture
19 365 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
20 356 (7.74%) GCP
21 353 (7.68%) Analytics
22 332 (7.22%) TOGAF
23 324 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
24 321 (6.98%) Microservices
25 313 (6.81%) Architectural Design
26 290 (6.31%) DV Cleared
27 286 (6.22%) Python
28 269 (5.85%) ServiceNow
29 267 (5.81%) Security Architecture
30 266 (5.78%) 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
1 102 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 77 (1.67%) Confluence
3 48 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.54%) Apache
6 22 (0.48%) SAS
7 16 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.35%) Appian
8 15 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 13 (0.28%) nginx
9 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.20%) Camunda
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.043%) Windchill
10 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
10 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 113 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 18 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 7 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
12 5 (0.11%) SAP EWM
12 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,098 (23.87%) Azure
2 909 (19.77%) AWS
3 356 (7.74%) GCP
4 216 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 173 (3.76%) Entra ID
6 159 (3.46%) Serverless
7 156 (3.39%) SaaS
8 118 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
9 104 (2.26%) PaaS
10 103 (2.24%) GitHub
11 98 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 89 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 77 (1.67%) IaaS
13 77 (1.67%) Snowflake
14 74 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 70 (1.52%) Amazon S3
16 65 (1.41%) OpenShift
17 58 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
18 57 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
19 56 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.41%) Firewall
2 152 (3.31%) Network Security
3 109 (2.37%) DNS
4 108 (2.35%) WAN
5 95 (2.07%) VPN
6 82 (1.78%) LAN
7 53 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 38 (0.83%) BGP
9 37 (0.80%) DHCP
10 32 (0.70%) OSPF
11 29 (0.63%) MPLS
11 29 (0.63%) VLAN
12 27 (0.59%) Wireless
13 26 (0.57%) SAN
13 26 (0.57%) TCP/IP
14 25 (0.54%) NAS
15 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
16 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.43%) VXLAN
17 19 (0.41%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (3.41%) Power BI
2 117 (2.54%) Metadata
3 109 (2.37%) Data Lake
4 99 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 60 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 53 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (0.83%) Tableau
9 36 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.65%) Big Data
11 27 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.54%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
15 19 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.41%) GIS
16 18 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (1.98%) JIRA
2 79 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.07%) Git
4 43 (0.93%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 13 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.22%) MLflow
8 9 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.15%) Postman
10 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.11%) JMeter
11 5 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.11%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.11%) Selenium
12 4 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) MSI
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
12 4 (0.087%) Terragrunt
General
1 839 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 728 (15.83%) Finance
3 479 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 275 (5.98%) Banking
5 228 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 161 (3.50%) Retail
7 133 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 98 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 85 (1.85%) Legal
11 81 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 63 (1.37%) Military
13 59 (1.28%) Law
14 49 (1.07%) Billing
14 49 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 44 (0.96%) Marketing
16 34 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
17 32 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (4.78%) REST
2 168 (3.65%) Middleware
3 120 (2.61%) SOAP
4 112 (2.44%) .NET
5 86 (1.87%) LDAP
6 82 (1.78%) OpenID
7 74 (1.61%) OAuth
8 64 (1.39%) Kafka
9 61 (1.33%) SAML
10 51 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 44 (0.96%) OAuth2
12 43 (0.93%) React
13 40 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 36 (0.78%) RESTful
15 33 (0.72%) JSON
16 32 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 29 (0.63%) Web Services
18 27 (0.59%) Node.js
18 27 (0.59%) PySpark
19 26 (0.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 380 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 127 (2.76%) Data Centre
3 122 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 121 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 111 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
6 105 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 102 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 95 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 86 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 74 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 74 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 72 (1.57%) Operational Technology
12 70 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 66 (1.44%) CMDB
14 55 (1.20%) AI Agents
15 43 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 43 (0.93%) Private Cloud
16 41 (0.89%) Mainframe
17 36 (0.78%) PKI
18 33 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 130 (2.83%) Windows
2 82 (1.78%) Linux
3 27 (0.59%) Android
3 27 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 25 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.46%) Unix
6 11 (0.24%) zOS
7 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) VMS
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.087%) Solaris
13 3 (0.065%) AIX
13 3 (0.065%) CentOS
13 3 (0.065%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (13.83%) Migration
2 629 (13.68%) Roadmaps
3 530 (11.52%) Agile
4 526 (11.44%) DevOps
5 498 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 478 (10.39%) CI/CD
7 452 (9.83%) Enterprise Architecture
8 428 (9.31%) AI
9 425 (9.24%) Data Modelling
10 421 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 415 (9.02%) Integration Patterns
12 398 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
13 379 (8.24%) Data Architecture
14 365 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
15 353 (7.68%) Analytics
16 332 (7.22%) TOGAF
17 324 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
18 321 (6.98%) Microservices
19 313 (6.81%) Architectural Design
20 267 (5.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 286 (6.22%) Python
2 231 (5.02%) SQL
3 174 (3.78%) Java
4 145 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 85 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.13%) C#
7 44 (0.96%) Bicep
8 37 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 30 (0.65%) Bash
10 18 (0.39%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.35%) Scala
12 15 (0.33%) Ruby
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.15%) VBA
16 6 (0.13%) Perl
16 6 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 1,363 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 964 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 290 (6.31%) DV Cleared
4 171 (3.72%) Degree
5 99 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 94 (2.04%) CISSP
7 83 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 83 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 80 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 73 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 71 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (1.04%) CISM
12 47 (1.02%) CCNP
13 42 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 33 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 25 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 19 (0.41%) CCIE
17 19 (0.41%) GIAC
18 16 (0.35%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (3.63%) NIST
2 144 (3.13%) GDPR
3 124 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 121 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 97 (2.11%) NCSC
6 65 (1.41%) QA
7 37 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.63%) GRC
9 26 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 24 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 19 (0.41%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) COBIT
15 17 (0.37%) HL7
16 13 (0.28%) FINRA
16 13 (0.28%) IFRS
16 13 (0.28%) MiFID
17 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 177 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.11%) Docker
3 84 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (0.57%) vSphere
7 18 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.22%) vCloud
10 9 (0.20%) NFS
10 9 (0.20%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.087%) Firmware
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 216 (4.70%) Terraform
2 204 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 90 (1.96%) Ansible
4 47 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (0.85%) Grafana
6 38 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.37%) SCCM
11 15 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.30%) Argo
13 10 (0.22%) OPNET
14 9 (0.20%) Istio
15 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
16 7 (0.15%) Consul
16 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
16 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 7 (0.15%) WMI
17 6 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 615 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.85%) ServiceNow
3 266 (5.78%) SAP
4 204 (4.44%) Oracle
5 187 (4.07%) Databricks
6 169 (3.67%) VMware
7 159 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 114 (2.48%) Cisco
9 97 (2.11%) Google
10 90 (1.96%) CyberArk
11 68 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 55 (1.20%) Splunk
13 45 (0.98%) Sparx
13 45 (0.98%) Workday
14 40 (0.87%) Palo Alto
15 39 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
16 38 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 36 (0.78%) IBM
17 36 (0.78%) OpenAI
18 35 (0.76%) Centrify