Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,939 2,663 3,833
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.76% 10.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.60% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 1,764 2,515
10th Percentile £469 £475 £485
25th Percentile £523 £540 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £738
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 22 93
10th Percentile £49.40 £40.31 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £84.00 £99.86 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,444 25,115 34,097
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.03% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,363 16,356 22,299
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,982 1,217 2,452
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.77 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.20 £17.98 £17.25
Median hourly rate £45.56 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.84% -28.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.88%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 2,441 £620 -4.62% 709
North of England +7 748 £600 - 195
South East +1 715 £628 +4.67% 187
Midlands +1 433 £620 +7.83% 84
North West +4 402 £608 +1.33% 107
West Midlands -2 310 £625 +4.17% 67
South West -3 282 £625 - 132
Yorkshire +10 280 £593 -1.21% 51
East of England +13 190 £600 - 50
East Midlands +7 115 £588 +17.50% 17
North East +2 74 £575 -13.21% 37
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 1,430 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 1,232 (24.94%) Azure
3 1,032 (20.89%) SC Cleared
4 1,007 (20.39%) AWS
5 745 (15.08%) Roadmaps
6 707 (14.31%) Migration
7 663 (13.42%) Microsoft
8 619 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 586 (11.86%) Agile
10 577 (11.68%) AI
11 576 (11.66%) DevOps
12 539 (10.91%) Enterprise Architecture
13 526 (10.65%) CI/CD
14 501 (10.14%) Data Modelling
15 476 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 460 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
17 456 (9.23%) Data Architecture
17 456 (9.23%) Integration Patterns
18 417 (8.44%) Analytics
19 412 (8.34%) Architectural Patterns
20 400 (8.10%) TOGAF
21 371 (7.51%) GCP
22 352 (7.13%) Microservices
23 340 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
24 332 (6.72%) Architectural Design
24 332 (6.72%) Security Architecture
25 312 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
26 305 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
27 303 (6.13%) DV Cleared
28 285 (5.77%) Event-Driven

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 95 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.32%) Confluence
3 52 (1.05%) SAS
4 48 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.63%) Apache
5 31 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.43%) Appian
7 21 (0.43%) CMS
8 20 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.24%) nginx
9 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 9 (0.18%) Camunda
11 9 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 16 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
6 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.14%) Revit
7 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 120 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) Maximo
10 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 6 (0.12%) Endur
11 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 5 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (24.94%) Azure
2 1,007 (20.39%) AWS
3 371 (7.51%) GCP
4 258 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 192 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 179 (3.62%) SaaS
7 169 (3.42%) Serverless
8 121 (2.45%) GitHub
9 117 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 114 (2.31%) PaaS
11 113 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 105 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 94 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 86 (1.74%) IaaS
15 73 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (1.40%) Amazon S3
17 64 (1.30%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
19 57 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 53 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.60%) Firewall
2 170 (3.44%) Network Security
3 116 (2.35%) DNS
4 106 (2.15%) WAN
5 94 (1.90%) VPN
6 76 (1.54%) LAN
7 55 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 49 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 48 (0.97%) BGP
10 46 (0.93%) DHCP
11 38 (0.77%) VLAN
12 37 (0.75%) MPLS
13 32 (0.65%) OSPF
14 29 (0.59%) Wireless
15 26 (0.53%) SAN
16 25 (0.51%) IPsec
16 25 (0.51%) NAS
17 22 (0.45%) BIG-IP
17 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
18 21 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (3.64%) Power BI
2 145 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 144 (2.92%) Metadata
4 129 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 43 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.81%) Big Data
9 39 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 31 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 27 (0.55%) Delta Lake
13 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.47%) GIS
15 22 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (0.45%) Tableau
16 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 19 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (0.38%) Relational Database
17 19 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 94 (1.90%) JIRA
2 68 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.32%) Git
4 32 (0.65%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 922 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 803 (16.26%) Finance
3 537 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 307 (6.22%) Banking
5 273 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (4.47%) Retail
7 150 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 124 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 101 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 97 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.68%) Legal
12 58 (1.17%) Billing
13 53 (1.07%) Marketing
14 49 (0.99%) Military
15 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.91%) Law
17 38 (0.77%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
19 32 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 31 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (4.70%) REST
2 164 (3.32%) Middleware
3 120 (2.43%) .NET
4 105 (2.13%) SOAP
5 91 (1.84%) OAuth
6 81 (1.64%) OpenID
7 78 (1.58%) Kafka
8 67 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.34%) SAML
10 51 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 49 (0.99%) LDAP
11 49 (0.99%) React
12 45 (0.91%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.79%) JSON
13 39 (0.79%) RESTful
14 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
15 32 (0.65%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.63%) Node.js
16 31 (0.63%) Web Services
17 30 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 422 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.92%) Data Centre
3 138 (2.79%) Onboarding
4 130 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 127 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 114 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 108 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 104 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 87 (1.76%) Operational Technology
11 86 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 80 (1.62%) AI Agents
13 76 (1.54%) CMDB
14 70 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 52 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
17 46 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 44 (0.89%) Private Cloud
19 43 (0.87%) Mainframe
20 40 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.47%) Windows
2 76 (1.54%) Linux
3 35 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.43%) Unix
6 15 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) AIX
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) VMS
10 4 (0.081%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Solaris
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (15.08%) Roadmaps
2 707 (14.31%) Migration
3 619 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 586 (11.86%) Agile
5 577 (11.68%) AI
6 576 (11.66%) DevOps
7 539 (10.91%) Enterprise Architecture
8 526 (10.65%) CI/CD
9 501 (10.14%) Data Modelling
10 476 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 460 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
12 456 (9.23%) Data Architecture
12 456 (9.23%) Integration Patterns
13 417 (8.44%) Analytics
14 412 (8.34%) Architectural Patterns
15 400 (8.10%) TOGAF
16 352 (7.13%) Microservices
17 340 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
18 332 (6.72%) Architectural Design
18 332 (6.72%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 267 (5.41%) Python
2 240 (4.86%) SQL
3 205 (4.15%) Java
4 100 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 92 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.21%) C#
7 51 (1.03%) Bicep
8 42 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.83%) Bash
10 26 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.30%) Ruby
12 14 (0.28%) Scala
13 10 (0.20%) ABAP
13 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.18%) C++
15 8 (0.16%) R
15 8 (0.16%) VBA
16 7 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1,430 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 1,032 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.13%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.56%) Degree
5 120 (2.43%) CISSP
6 110 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 93 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 80 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 76 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 74 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.09%) CISM
13 46 (0.93%) CCNP
14 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 31 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.45%) CCIE
18 21 (0.43%) CCSP
19 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (3.58%) NIST
2 157 (3.18%) GDPR
3 150 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 130 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.15%) NCSC
6 58 (1.17%) QA
7 40 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.77%) GRC
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 31 (0.63%) NIST 800
10 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 23 (0.47%) SEPA
12 18 (0.36%) COBIT
12 18 (0.36%) IFRS
13 17 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.34%) HL7
14 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 10 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.09%) Docker
3 72 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.34%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.18%) Squid
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 8 (0.16%) Varnish
11 7 (0.14%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 4 (0.081%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.081%) IAG
13 4 (0.081%) RACF
13 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 240 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 233 (4.72%) Terraform
3 97 (1.96%) Ansible
4 50 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 49 (0.99%) Grafana
6 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 19 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.24%) SCCM
14 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.14%) Consul
15 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.14%) Istio
15 7 (0.14%) Puppet
16 6 (0.12%) CASB
16 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 663 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 282 (5.71%) SAP
3 256 (5.18%) ServiceNow
4 238 (4.82%) Oracle
5 214 (4.33%) Databricks
6 154 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 141 (2.85%) VMware
8 121 (2.45%) Cisco
9 120 (2.43%) Google
10 64 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.11%) Splunk
12 54 (1.09%) MuleSoft
13 48 (0.97%) IBM
14 45 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 42 (0.85%) Workday
16 41 (0.83%) Foundry
17 39 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 37 (0.75%) F5
18 37 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 37 (0.75%) Sparx