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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 4,616 2,379 3,882
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.94% 9.84% 10.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.85% 10.65% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 1,555 2,519
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% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £750
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 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 £78.69 £82.25 £86.32
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 38,958 22,345 34,300
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.42% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,051 14,722 22,516
10th Percentile £325 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,739 957 2,592
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.30 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.33 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.09% -22.82% -15.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 2,249 £625 -3.85% 943
North of England +5 684 £600 - 347
South East +5 681 £625 +1.01% 277
Midlands +2 440 £600 +2.17% 123
North West +6 372 £608 +1.97% 182
West Midlands -1 314 £620 +3.33% 94
Yorkshire +8 259 £555 -7.58% 98
South West -1 239 £650 +6.12% 158
East of England +18 206 £575 -4.17% 85
East Midlands +1 120 £573 +12.86% 29
North East +7 60 £575 -4.17% 68
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 1,360 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 1,122 (24.31%) Azure
3 976 (21.14%) SC Cleared
4 924 (20.02%) AWS
5 661 (14.32%) Migration
6 645 (13.97%) Roadmaps
7 620 (13.43%) Microsoft
8 548 (11.87%) Agile
8 548 (11.87%) DevOps
9 524 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 489 (10.59%) CI/CD
11 459 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
12 446 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 438 (9.49%) AI
14 431 (9.34%) Data Modelling
15 428 (9.27%) Integration Patterns
16 418 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
17 385 (8.34%) Data Architecture
18 372 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
19 364 (7.89%) Analytics
20 360 (7.80%) GCP
21 332 (7.19%) Problem-Solving
22 330 (7.15%) TOGAF
23 325 (7.04%) Architectural Design
23 325 (7.04%) Microservices
24 290 (6.28%) Python
25 280 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
26 277 (6.00%) DV Cleared
27 276 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
28 275 (5.96%) Security Architecture

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 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 68 (1.47%) Confluence
3 50 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (0.69%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.54%) Apache
7 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.35%) Appian
8 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.043%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 116 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.11%) Maximo
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
13 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,122 (24.31%) Azure
2 924 (20.02%) AWS
3 360 (7.80%) GCP
4 224 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 170 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 165 (3.57%) Serverless
7 160 (3.47%) SaaS
8 123 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
9 110 (2.38%) PaaS
10 107 (2.32%) GitHub
11 99 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
13 82 (1.78%) IaaS
14 80 (1.73%) Snowflake
15 78 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
16 73 (1.58%) Amazon S3
17 63 (1.36%) OpenShift
18 57 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
19 56 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
20 55 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 158 (3.42%) Firewall
1 158 (3.42%) Network Security
2 110 (2.38%) DNS
3 105 (2.27%) WAN
4 95 (2.06%) VPN
5 79 (1.71%) LAN
6 52 (1.13%) SD-WAN
7 39 (0.84%) DHCP
8 37 (0.80%) BGP
9 31 (0.67%) OSPF
10 29 (0.63%) VLAN
11 28 (0.61%) MPLS
11 28 (0.61%) SAN
11 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
12 27 (0.58%) NAS
12 27 (0.58%) Wireless
13 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
14 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
14 20 (0.43%) VXLAN
15 19 (0.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (3.51%) Power BI
2 119 (2.58%) Metadata
3 112 (2.43%) Data Lake
4 105 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 54 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (0.76%) Tableau
9 33 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.65%) Big Data
11 26 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 26 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 25 (0.54%) Delta Lake
13 20 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (0.43%) GIS
14 19 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 17 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 87 (1.88%) JIRA
2 78 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 52 (1.13%) Git
4 42 (0.91%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 13 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) 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 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
12 4 (0.087%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.065%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 857 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 732 (15.86%) Finance
3 488 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.02%) Banking
5 229 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 171 (3.70%) Retail
7 139 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 85 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 84 (1.82%) Legal
12 58 (1.26%) Law
13 49 (1.06%) Military
14 48 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.02%) Billing
16 44 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.95%) Marketing
17 38 (0.82%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
19 33 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (4.96%) REST
2 168 (3.64%) Middleware
3 123 (2.66%) SOAP
4 116 (2.51%) .NET
5 87 (1.88%) LDAP
6 84 (1.82%) OpenID
7 80 (1.73%) OAuth
8 65 (1.41%) Kafka
9 64 (1.39%) SAML
10 57 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
11 48 (1.04%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.95%) React
13 40 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 36 (0.78%) JSON
14 36 (0.78%) RESTful
15 34 (0.74%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.63%) Web Services
17 28 (0.61%) .NET Framework
18 27 (0.58%) Node.js
18 27 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 394 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 121 (2.62%) Onboarding
3 121 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 114 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 111 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 105 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 97 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 92 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 80 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 77 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 76 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 72 (1.56%) CMDB
13 69 (1.49%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 42 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 42 (0.91%) Private Cloud
16 41 (0.89%) Mainframe
17 37 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
18 34 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (2.86%) Windows
2 82 (1.78%) Linux
3 30 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.45%) Unix
6 14 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.22%) zOS
8 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.087%) Solaris
11 4 (0.087%) VMS
12 3 (0.065%) AIX
12 3 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (14.32%) Migration
2 645 (13.97%) Roadmaps
3 548 (11.87%) Agile
3 548 (11.87%) DevOps
4 524 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 489 (10.59%) CI/CD
6 459 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
7 446 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 438 (9.49%) AI
9 431 (9.34%) Data Modelling
10 428 (9.27%) Integration Patterns
11 418 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
12 385 (8.34%) Data Architecture
13 372 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
14 364 (7.89%) Analytics
15 332 (7.19%) Problem-Solving
16 330 (7.15%) TOGAF
17 325 (7.04%) Architectural Design
17 325 (7.04%) Microservices
18 280 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 290 (6.28%) Python
2 232 (5.03%) SQL
3 184 (3.99%) Java
4 149 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 89 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.19%) C#
7 48 (1.04%) Bicep
8 38 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 33 (0.71%) Bash
10 20 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.32%) Scala
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.19%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
16 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.13%) ABAP
17 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,360 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 976 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 277 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 165 (3.57%) Degree
5 104 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 100 (2.17%) CISSP
7 85 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 75 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 74 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 74 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 51 (1.10%) CISM
12 47 (1.02%) CCNP
13 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 29 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.41%) GIAC
18 18 (0.39%) CCIE
18 18 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.75%) NIST
2 149 (3.23%) GDPR
3 129 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 127 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 92 (1.99%) NCSC
6 65 (1.41%) QA
7 38 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.65%) GRC
9 26 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 23 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.41%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) COBIT
14 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) HL7
16 14 (0.30%) IFRS
17 13 (0.28%) FINRA
17 13 (0.28%) MiFID
18 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 178 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 96 (2.08%) Docker
3 88 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.19%) NFS
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) vCloud
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
12 5 (0.11%) RACF
13 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.065%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.065%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 220 (4.77%) Terraform
2 210 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 94 (2.04%) Ansible
4 47 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (0.84%) Grafana
7 30 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.39%) SCCM
11 15 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.32%) Argo
12 9 (0.19%) Istio
13 8 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
15 5 (0.11%) Endace
Vendors
1 620 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.83%) SAP
3 248 (5.37%) ServiceNow
4 207 (4.48%) Oracle
5 196 (4.25%) Databricks
6 169 (3.66%) VMware
7 152 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.53%) Cisco
9 103 (2.23%) Google
10 86 (1.86%) CyberArk
11 67 (1.45%) MuleSoft
12 61 (1.32%) Splunk
13 42 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 40 (0.87%) Sparx
15 39 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
15 39 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 39 (0.84%) Workday
16 37 (0.80%) IBM
17 34 (0.74%) Centrify
18 33 (0.71%) OpenAI