Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,970 2,613 3,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.46% 10.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.90% 10.32% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,334 1,733 2,275
10th Percentile £475 £470 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £703 £738
90th Percentile £800 £787 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 19 76
10th Percentile £46.00 £37.19 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £71.91 £86.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £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 41,773 25,317 31,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.70% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,362 16,429 20,502
10th Percentile £329 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,095 1,308 1,828
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +8 2,563 £625 -3.85% 1,605
South East 0 716 £630 +5.00% 368
North of England +3 693 £600 - 315
Midlands -1 412 £625 +8.70% 178
North West +7 392 £600 - 159
West Midlands -3 306 £627 +4.42% 126
South West -2 291 £625 -2.34% 192
Yorkshire +6 235 £600 - 123
East of England +17 160 £600 +8.11% 99
East Midlands +8 99 £600 +18.23% 52
North East -1 68 £600 -14.29% 34
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 1,485 (29.88%) Security Cleared
2 1,259 (25.33%) Azure
3 1,077 (21.67%) SC Cleared
4 1,020 (20.52%) AWS
5 743 (14.95%) Roadmaps
6 692 (13.92%) Migration
7 676 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 641 (12.90%) Microsoft
9 623 (12.54%) AI
10 585 (11.77%) Enterprise Architecture
11 557 (11.21%) Agile
12 544 (10.95%) DevOps
13 521 (10.48%) Data Modelling
14 507 (10.20%) CI/CD
15 506 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
16 490 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 488 (9.82%) Data Architecture
17 488 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
18 450 (9.05%) Analytics
19 400 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
20 397 (7.99%) TOGAF
21 385 (7.75%) GCP
22 355 (7.14%) Security Architecture
23 325 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
24 321 (6.46%) Microservices
25 319 (6.42%) DV Cleared
26 307 (6.18%) Event-Driven
27 305 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
28 301 (6.06%) Architectural Design
29 293 (5.90%) Data Governance

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 80 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.43%) SAS
3 52 (1.05%) Confluence
4 42 (0.85%) Apache
5 40 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 30 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) Appian
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.12%) Camunda
15 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
16 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
16 3 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 117 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) Maximo
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 4 (0.080%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,259 (25.33%) Azure
2 1,020 (20.52%) AWS
3 385 (7.75%) GCP
4 256 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 188 (3.78%) Entra ID
6 176 (3.54%) SaaS
7 153 (3.08%) Serverless
8 120 (2.41%) GitHub
9 118 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 105 (2.11%) PaaS
11 103 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 101 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (1.97%) Snowflake
14 73 (1.47%) IaaS
15 72 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
16 69 (1.39%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.19%) OCI
18 55 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (1.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.16%) Network Security
2 152 (3.06%) Firewall
3 99 (1.99%) WAN
4 89 (1.79%) DNS
5 76 (1.53%) VPN
6 72 (1.45%) LAN
7 48 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 43 (0.87%) BGP
9 41 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 38 (0.76%) DHCP
11 35 (0.70%) MPLS
12 34 (0.68%) VLAN
13 29 (0.58%) SAN
13 29 (0.58%) Wireless
14 26 (0.52%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 23 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
18 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (3.70%) Power BI
2 158 (3.18%) Data Lake
3 143 (2.88%) Metadata
4 141 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 50 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 43 (0.87%) Big Data
8 36 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 36 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 36 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (0.62%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.52%) GIS
13 21 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
15 19 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.38%) Star Schema
16 18 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (1.43%) JIRA
2 68 (1.37%) Git
3 49 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.54%) GitLab
5 21 (0.42%) ERwin
6 9 (0.18%) Claude Code
6 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.16%) MLflow
8 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.10%) Storybook
11 4 (0.080%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) MSI
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
12 3 (0.060%) VTune
General
1 927 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 777 (15.63%) Finance
3 538 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 296 (5.96%) Banking
5 266 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 239 (4.81%) Retail
7 127 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 117 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 115 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 100 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 74 (1.49%) Legal
12 58 (1.17%) Marketing
13 53 (1.07%) Billing
14 47 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 47 (0.95%) Military
15 46 (0.93%) Law
16 41 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (0.54%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (4.67%) REST
2 162 (3.26%) Middleware
3 116 (2.33%) .NET
4 105 (2.11%) SOAP
5 97 (1.95%) Kafka
6 94 (1.89%) OAuth
7 72 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 57 (1.15%) OpenID
9 53 (1.07%) SAML
10 51 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 44 (0.89%) JSON
12 43 (0.87%) React
13 40 (0.80%) SailPoint
14 37 (0.74%) RESTful
15 35 (0.70%) .NET Framework
15 35 (0.70%) PySpark
16 27 (0.54%) LDAP
16 27 (0.54%) XML
17 26 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
17 26 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 420 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 139 (2.80%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 124 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 122 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 119 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 118 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 111 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 106 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 97 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 86 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 83 (1.67%) Operational Technology
13 72 (1.45%) CMDB
14 66 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
15 57 (1.15%) Security Posture
16 55 (1.11%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.95%) Private Cloud
18 45 (0.91%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (2.13%) Windows
2 81 (1.63%) Linux
3 33 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.42%) Android
4 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) Unix
6 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.20%) zOS
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.10%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.080%) VMS
12 2 (0.040%) CentOS
12 2 (0.040%) HPUX
12 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (14.95%) Roadmaps
2 692 (13.92%) Migration
3 676 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 623 (12.54%) AI
5 585 (11.77%) Enterprise Architecture
6 557 (11.21%) Agile
7 544 (10.95%) DevOps
8 521 (10.48%) Data Modelling
9 507 (10.20%) CI/CD
10 506 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
11 490 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 488 (9.82%) Data Architecture
12 488 (9.82%) Integration Patterns
13 450 (9.05%) Analytics
14 400 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
15 397 (7.99%) TOGAF
16 355 (7.14%) Security Architecture
17 325 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
18 321 (6.46%) Microservices
19 307 (6.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 238 (4.79%) Python
2 229 (4.61%) SQL
3 200 (4.02%) Java
4 114 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 82 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 54 (1.09%) C#
7 44 (0.89%) Bash
7 44 (0.89%) Bicep
8 39 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 14 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.28%) Ruby
10 14 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.24%) C++
12 11 (0.22%) Scala
13 9 (0.18%) ABAP
13 9 (0.18%) Groovy
14 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,485 (29.88%) Security Cleared
2 1,077 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 319 (6.42%) DV Cleared
4 163 (3.28%) Degree
5 128 (2.58%) CISSP
6 108 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 90 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 84 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 69 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.17%) CISM
13 42 (0.85%) CCNP
14 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.50%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 19 (0.38%) CCIE
19 19 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.46%) NIST
3 149 (3.00%) GDPR
4 131 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.91%) NCSC
6 59 (1.19%) GRC
7 55 (1.11%) QA
8 39 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.42%) SEPA
14 20 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 19 (0.38%) IFRS
16 15 (0.30%) HL7
17 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.26%) SLA
19 12 (0.24%) COBIT
19 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 148 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.01%) Docker
3 59 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) vSphere
8 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
12 5 (0.10%) IAG
13 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
13 4 (0.080%) Squid
14 3 (0.060%) KVM
14 3 (0.060%) SRDF
15 2 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 241 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 215 (4.33%) Terraform
3 86 (1.73%) Ansible
4 43 (0.87%) Grafana
5 39 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.34%) Argo
9 16 (0.32%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
14 5 (0.10%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.080%) WMI
Vendors
1 641 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 279 (5.61%) SAP
3 267 (5.37%) Oracle
4 249 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 227 (4.57%) Databricks
6 158 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 128 (2.58%) Google
8 123 (2.47%) Cisco
9 122 (2.45%) VMware
10 57 (1.15%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.09%) IBM
12 52 (1.05%) Workday
13 50 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 49 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.87%) Foundry
16 36 (0.72%) Sparx
16 36 (0.72%) Splunk
17 34 (0.68%) Ariba
18 33 (0.66%) OpenAI
19 30 (0.60%) Red Hat