Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,752 3,053 3,610
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.00% 9.76% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.87% 10.51% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 1,834 2,540
10th Percentile £462 £475 £500
25th Percentile £524 £538 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £733 £738
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 42
10th Percentile £64.58 £59.48 £57.50
25th Percentile £77.55 £61.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £86.25 £68.75 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year +25.45% -9.14% +8.10%
75th Percentile £95.00 £86.21 £80.00
90th Percentile £98.25 £97.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year +21.43% -7.49% +8.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,895 29,050 36,997
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,870 17,756 25,553
10th Percentile £283 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 1,106 1,431
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -2 1,276 £645 +2.30% 650
South East +2 460 £600 -4.00% 400
North of England -9 366 £600 - 174
South West -1 233 £680 +4.62% 124
Midlands -10 229 £575 -4.37% 127
North West -11 218 £588 -1.96% 117
West Midlands -15 165 £594 -4.23% 86
Yorkshire -19 131 £613 +5.60% 46
East of England -5 89 £553 -7.92% 77
East Midlands +3 63 £500 -9.09% 40
North East -4 18 £713 +14.13% 11
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 845 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 791 (28.74%) Azure
3 613 (22.27%) AWS
4 576 (20.93%) SC Cleared
5 432 (15.70%) Roadmaps
6 424 (15.41%) Microsoft
7 398 (14.46%) Agile
8 384 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 326 (11.85%) Migration
10 323 (11.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 321 (11.66%) Data Modelling
12 303 (11.01%) TOGAF
13 293 (10.65%) DevOps
13 293 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
13 293 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 271 (9.85%) CI/CD
15 259 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
16 252 (9.16%) GCP
17 249 (9.05%) Microservices
18 226 (8.21%) AI
19 224 (8.14%) Data Architecture
20 216 (7.85%) Analytics
21 214 (7.78%) Python
22 204 (7.41%) DV Cleared
23 195 (7.09%) Data Governance
24 194 (7.05%) Terraform
25 184 (6.69%) Mentoring
25 184 (6.69%) Security Architecture
26 182 (6.61%) Firewall
27 177 (6.43%) Architectural Design

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 81 (2.94%) Confluence
2 46 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.80%) SAS
5 20 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.55%) CMS
8 14 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 13 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.44%) Apache
11 7 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.22%) Smallworld
13 5 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.18%) Mule
14 4 (0.15%) Documentum
14 4 (0.15%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.15%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.40%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.036%) Revit
9 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 74 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
5 19 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.62%) Maximo
7 14 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 13 (0.47%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.44%) Teamcenter
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.33%) Endur
11 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.22%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.22%) SAP MDG
12 6 (0.22%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 791 (28.74%) Azure
2 613 (22.27%) AWS
3 252 (9.16%) GCP
4 132 (4.80%) SaaS
5 130 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 100 (3.63%) Serverless
7 87 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 82 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
9 73 (2.65%) GitHub
10 72 (2.62%) IaaS
11 69 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 61 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
14 57 (2.07%) PaaS
15 54 (1.96%) Snowflake
16 47 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
18 35 (1.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 182 (6.61%) Firewall
2 99 (3.60%) WAN
3 90 (3.27%) LAN
4 88 (3.20%) Network Security
5 67 (2.43%) VPN
6 65 (2.36%) SD-WAN
7 61 (2.22%) DNS
8 42 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (1.20%) BGP
10 30 (1.09%) SAN
11 25 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
11 25 (0.91%) DHCP
12 24 (0.87%) MPLS
13 22 (0.80%) SSL
14 20 (0.73%) VSAN
15 16 (0.58%) VLAN
16 15 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
16 15 (0.55%) Internet
16 15 (0.55%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (3.09%) Power BI
3 76 (2.76%) Metadata
4 71 (2.58%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 44 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 31 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.05%) Big Data
10 28 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 27 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 24 (0.87%) Relational Database
13 20 (0.73%) Tableau
14 19 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (0.65%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.65%) GIS
16 17 (0.62%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (3.92%) JIRA
2 59 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.45%) Git
4 21 (0.76%) GitLab
5 18 (0.65%) ERwin
6 10 (0.36%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.18%) Gradle
9 5 (0.18%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
10 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.15%) MLflow
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 765 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 498 (18.10%) Finance
3 327 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 238 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 188 (6.83%) Banking
6 87 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 81 (2.94%) Retail
8 69 (2.51%) Marketing
9 68 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.00%) Legal
13 54 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 43 (1.56%) Military
15 41 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.91%) Back Office
17 24 (0.87%) Billing
18 20 (0.73%) Aerospace
18 20 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.01%) REST
2 84 (3.05%) Middleware
3 66 (2.40%) SOAP
4 65 (2.36%) .NET
5 63 (2.29%) Kafka
6 58 (2.11%) JSON
7 50 (1.82%) OAuth
8 45 (1.64%) RESTful
9 44 (1.60%) SAML
10 39 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
11 37 (1.34%) Web Services
12 35 (1.27%) AngularJS
13 30 (1.09%) React
14 28 (1.02%) OAuth2
14 28 (1.02%) OpenID
15 27 (0.98%) Spring Boot
16 26 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (0.94%) Visualforce
17 22 (0.80%) LDAP
17 22 (0.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 215 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 95 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 85 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 71 (2.58%) PKI
8 49 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 39 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.34%) CMDB
13 35 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.09%) NHS
15 30 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 25 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.87%) SCADA
17 24 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 129 (4.69%) Windows
2 76 (2.76%) Linux
3 48 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.44%) Unix
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.40%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.29%) Android
8 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.25%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.073%) CentOS
12 2 (0.073%) zOS
13 1 (0.036%) MVS
13 1 (0.036%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (15.70%) Roadmaps
2 398 (14.46%) Agile
3 384 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 326 (11.85%) Migration
5 323 (11.74%) Enterprise Architecture
6 321 (11.66%) Data Modelling
7 303 (11.01%) TOGAF
8 293 (10.65%) DevOps
8 293 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 271 (9.85%) CI/CD
10 259 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
11 249 (9.05%) Microservices
12 226 (8.21%) AI
13 224 (8.14%) Data Architecture
14 216 (7.85%) Analytics
15 195 (7.09%) Data Governance
16 184 (6.69%) Mentoring
16 184 (6.69%) Security Architecture
17 177 (6.43%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 214 (7.78%) Python
2 150 (5.45%) Java
3 149 (5.41%) SQL
4 95 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 68 (2.47%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.38%) C#
8 33 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 30 (1.09%) Bash
10 26 (0.94%) Bicep
11 17 (0.62%) R
12 13 (0.47%) C++
13 11 (0.40%) C
13 11 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.29%) Korn
16 7 (0.25%) Scala
17 6 (0.22%) Go
17 6 (0.22%) PHP
17 6 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 845 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 576 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 204 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 149 (5.41%) Degree
5 97 (3.52%) CISSP
6 94 (3.42%) Azure Certification
7 87 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 69 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 62 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 61 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 57 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.45%) CISM
13 39 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 32 (1.16%) CCNP
16 30 (1.09%) CCIE
17 23 (0.84%) ISEB
18 22 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 22 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.41%) GDPR
2 111 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.92%) NIST
4 91 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 49 (1.78%) NCSC
6 44 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.56%) QA
8 30 (1.09%) COBIT
9 29 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 24 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 23 (0.84%) GRC
12 20 (0.73%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.65%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
14 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.36%) SLA
17 9 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 107 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.85%) Docker
3 86 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.27%) vSphere
5 27 (0.98%) VMware NSX
6 24 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.55%) NFS
8 10 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.073%) KVM
13 1 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
13 1 (0.036%) GPFS
13 1 (0.036%) HDFS
13 1 (0.036%) Varnish
13 1 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 194 (7.05%) Terraform
2 156 (5.67%) Kubernetes
3 73 (2.65%) Ansible
4 48 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.62%) OPNET
8 16 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.55%) Grafana
9 15 (0.55%) SCCM
10 13 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.33%) Argo
11 9 (0.33%) WMI
12 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.15%) SCOM
13 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.073%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.073%) Puppet
14 2 (0.073%) vRealize
Vendors
1 424 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.07%) SAP
3 144 (5.23%) Salesforce
4 142 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 131 (4.76%) Oracle
6 130 (4.72%) VMware
7 114 (4.14%) Cisco
8 89 (3.23%) Databricks
9 85 (3.09%) Google
10 59 (2.14%) Splunk
11 51 (1.85%) Fortinet
12 45 (1.64%) Palo Alto
13 42 (1.53%) IBM
13 42 (1.53%) Workday
14 37 (1.34%) F5
15 35 (1.27%) CyberArk
16 34 (1.24%) Juniper
16 34 (1.24%) Remedy
17 30 (1.09%) Virgin Media
18 29 (1.05%) MuleSoft