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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,569 2,368 3,872
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.96% 9.89% 10.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.87% 10.71% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 1,547 2,519
10th Percentile £463 £477 £500
25th Percentile £513 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £745
90th Percentile £800 £793 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 27 95
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 £82.25 £86.32
90th Percentile £97.63 £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 38,507 22,115 34,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 14,615 22,560
10th Percentile £325 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,712 936 2,585
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 2,232 £625 -3.85% 933
North of England +4 678 £600 - 318
South East +4 669 £625 +1.63% 281
Midlands +1 434 £600 +0.17% 123
North West +6 373 £608 +5.74% 172
West Midlands 0 310 £620 +3.33% 95
Yorkshire +7 256 £555 -7.58% 92
South West -1 237 £650 +8.33% 156
East of England +20 201 £575 -4.17% 78
East Midlands +1 118 £571 +8.60% 28
North East +5 56 £575 -4.17% 55
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 1,346 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 1,112 (24.34%) Azure
3 965 (21.12%) SC Cleared
4 915 (20.03%) AWS
5 652 (14.27%) Migration
6 635 (13.90%) Roadmaps
7 613 (13.42%) Microsoft
8 540 (11.82%) DevOps
9 538 (11.78%) Agile
10 518 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 482 (10.55%) CI/CD
12 455 (9.96%) Enterprise Architecture
13 433 (9.48%) AI
13 433 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 427 (9.35%) Data Modelling
15 424 (9.28%) Integration Patterns
16 410 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
17 383 (8.38%) Data Architecture
18 372 (8.14%) Architectural Patterns
19 364 (7.97%) Analytics
20 357 (7.81%) GCP
21 328 (7.18%) TOGAF
22 326 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
23 322 (7.05%) Architectural Design
24 319 (6.98%) Microservices
25 289 (6.33%) Python
26 277 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
27 273 (5.98%) DV Cleared
27 273 (5.98%) Security Architecture
28 267 (5.84%) Cybersecurity

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
1 103 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 69 (1.51%) Confluence
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (0.63%) SAS
5 27 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.55%) Apache
7 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.35%) Appian
9 15 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 15 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.31%) CMS
11 13 (0.28%) nginx
12 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.20%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.088%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.044%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 113 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.11%) Maximo
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
13 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.088%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1,112 (24.34%) Azure
2 915 (20.03%) AWS
3 357 (7.81%) GCP
4 222 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 165 (3.61%) Serverless
7 159 (3.48%) SaaS
8 121 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 105 (2.30%) GitHub
9 105 (2.30%) PaaS
10 98 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 91 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (1.73%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 77 (1.69%) IaaS
15 74 (1.62%) Amazon S3
16 61 (1.34%) OpenShift
17 56 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
17 56 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
18 54 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.44%) Firewall
1 157 (3.44%) Network Security
2 109 (2.39%) DNS
3 105 (2.30%) WAN
4 95 (2.08%) VPN
5 79 (1.73%) LAN
6 52 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 39 (0.85%) DHCP
8 37 (0.81%) BGP
9 31 (0.68%) OSPF
10 29 (0.63%) VLAN
11 28 (0.61%) MPLS
11 28 (0.61%) SAN
11 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
12 27 (0.59%) NAS
12 27 (0.59%) Wireless
13 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
14 20 (0.44%) BIG-IP
14 20 (0.44%) VXLAN
15 19 (0.42%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (3.57%) Power BI
2 120 (2.63%) Metadata
3 112 (2.45%) Data Lake
4 104 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.81%) Tableau
9 33 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.66%) Big Data
11 27 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.55%) Delta Lake
13 25 (0.55%) Oracle Database
14 21 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.44%) GIS
16 19 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
17 18 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 18 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (1.88%) JIRA
2 77 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.09%) Git
4 42 (0.92%) GitLab
5 20 (0.44%) ERwin
6 13 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.18%) MLflow
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 (0.088%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.088%) Snyk
12 4 (0.088%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.066%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 844 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 732 (16.02%) Finance
3 482 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.08%) Banking
5 227 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 164 (3.59%) Retail
7 138 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 96 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 84 (1.84%) Legal
10 83 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 82 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 58 (1.27%) Law
13 52 (1.14%) Military
14 48 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.03%) Billing
16 45 (0.98%) Marketing
17 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 36 (0.79%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (4.86%) REST
2 167 (3.66%) Middleware
3 121 (2.65%) SOAP
4 113 (2.47%) .NET
5 87 (1.90%) LDAP
6 84 (1.84%) OpenID
7 78 (1.71%) OAuth
8 65 (1.42%) Kafka
9 63 (1.38%) SAML
10 54 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
11 46 (1.01%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.96%) React
13 40 (0.88%) SailPoint
14 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
14 34 (0.74%) JSON
14 34 (0.74%) RESTful
15 29 (0.63%) Web Services
16 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
17 27 (0.59%) Node.js
17 27 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 390 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.85%) Data Centre
3 123 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 121 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 112 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 108 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 95 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 92 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 76 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 73 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 71 (1.55%) CMDB
14 69 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.92%) Mainframe
17 41 (0.90%) Private Cloud
18 36 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
19 33 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 130 (2.85%) Windows
2 81 (1.77%) Linux
3 29 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.46%) Unix
6 14 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.24%) zOS
8 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.088%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.088%) Solaris
12 4 (0.088%) VMS
13 3 (0.066%) AIX
13 3 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (14.27%) Migration
2 635 (13.90%) Roadmaps
3 540 (11.82%) DevOps
4 538 (11.78%) Agile
5 518 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 482 (10.55%) CI/CD
7 455 (9.96%) Enterprise Architecture
8 433 (9.48%) AI
8 433 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 427 (9.35%) Data Modelling
10 424 (9.28%) Integration Patterns
11 410 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
12 383 (8.38%) Data Architecture
13 372 (8.14%) Architectural Patterns
14 364 (7.97%) Analytics
15 328 (7.18%) TOGAF
16 326 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
17 322 (7.05%) Architectural Design
18 319 (6.98%) Microservices
19 277 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 289 (6.33%) Python
2 230 (5.03%) SQL
3 178 (3.90%) Java
4 148 (3.24%) PowerShell
5 87 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 53 (1.16%) C#
7 48 (1.05%) Bicep
8 38 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.72%) Bash
10 20 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.33%) Scala
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.18%) VBA
16 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.13%) Perl
18 5 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,346 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 965 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 273 (5.98%) DV Cleared
4 166 (3.63%) Degree
5 103 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 98 (2.14%) CISSP
7 82 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 75 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 74 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 74 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.09%) CISM
12 47 (1.03%) CCNP
13 42 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.42%) GIAC
18 18 (0.39%) CCIE
19 17 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (3.70%) NIST
2 149 (3.26%) GDPR
3 129 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 127 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 93 (2.04%) NCSC
6 66 (1.44%) QA
7 36 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.66%) GRC
9 26 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 23 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.42%) 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
1 175 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 94 (2.06%) Docker
3 87 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.59%) vSphere
6 19 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.20%) NFS
10 9 (0.20%) Squid
10 9 (0.20%) vCloud
11 8 (0.18%) Varnish
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.088%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.088%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.066%) IAG
15 3 (0.066%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 217 (4.75%) Terraform
2 205 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 93 (2.04%) Ansible
4 47 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.88%) Grafana
6 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.39%) SCCM
11 15 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.33%) Argo
12 9 (0.20%) Istio
13 8 (0.18%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.11%) Endace
Vendors
1 613 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.78%) SAP
3 251 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 205 (4.49%) Oracle
5 194 (4.25%) Databricks
6 168 (3.68%) VMware
7 150 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 116 (2.54%) Cisco
9 100 (2.19%) Google
10 86 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 68 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 60 (1.31%) Splunk
13 42 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 42 (0.92%) Workday
14 41 (0.90%) Sparx
15 39 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
16 38 (0.83%) IBM
17 37 (0.81%) Red Hat
18 34 (0.74%) Centrify
19 33 (0.72%) OpenAI