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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,657 2,387 3,944
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.92% 9.74% 10.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.82% 10.54% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,136 1,562 2,562
10th Percentile £463 £475 £490
25th Percentile £513 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.77%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £745
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 27 96
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 £87.12
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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +3 2,260 £625 -3.85% 424
South East +6 689 £625 +2.46% 182
North of England +7 688 £600 - 199
Midlands +2 439 £600 +2.17% 75
North West +3 369 £608 +1.33% 99
West Midlands 0 311 £623 +3.75% 63
Yorkshire +11 264 £555 -7.58% 54
South West 0 256 £650 +6.12% 100
East of England +20 208 £575 -4.17% 34
East Midlands +2 122 £574 +13.10% 12
North East +3 62 £575 -4.17% 47
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,376 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 1,135 (24.37%) Azure
3 1,000 (21.47%) SC Cleared
4 927 (19.91%) AWS
5 665 (14.28%) Migration
6 646 (13.87%) Roadmaps
7 622 (13.36%) Microsoft
8 554 (11.90%) DevOps
9 552 (11.85%) Agile
10 536 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 498 (10.69%) CI/CD
12 466 (10.01%) AI
12 466 (10.01%) Enterprise Architecture
13 457 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 439 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
15 437 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 423 (9.08%) Technical Leadership
17 399 (8.57%) Data Architecture
18 380 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
19 371 (7.97%) Analytics
20 354 (7.60%) GCP
21 342 (7.34%) TOGAF
22 332 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
23 325 (6.98%) Architectural Design
23 325 (6.98%) Microservices
24 287 (6.16%) Python
25 284 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
25 284 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
25 284 (6.10%) Security Architecture
26 273 (5.86%) DV Cleared

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
1 104 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.55%) Confluence
3 51 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.67%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.54%) Apache
7 16 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.34%) Appian
7 16 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) CMS
9 14 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.043%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 114 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 14 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.13%) Maximo
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
11 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (0.086%) Endur
13 4 (0.086%) Integrated Workplace Management System
13 4 (0.086%) NetSuite
13 4 (0.086%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,135 (24.37%) Azure
2 927 (19.91%) AWS
3 354 (7.60%) GCP
4 232 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 167 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 165 (3.54%) Serverless
7 156 (3.35%) SaaS
8 122 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
9 112 (2.40%) GitHub
10 104 (2.23%) PaaS
11 101 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 95 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (1.78%) Snowflake
14 78 (1.67%) IaaS
15 76 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.52%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 59 (1.27%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
19 55 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.44%) Network Security
2 159 (3.41%) Firewall
3 111 (2.38%) DNS
4 107 (2.30%) WAN
5 96 (2.06%) VPN
6 76 (1.63%) LAN
7 54 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.84%) DHCP
9 38 (0.82%) BGP
10 31 (0.67%) OSPF
11 30 (0.64%) MPLS
11 30 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 30 (0.64%) VLAN
12 29 (0.62%) Wireless
13 28 (0.60%) SAN
14 27 (0.58%) NAS
15 22 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
16 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.43%) VXLAN
17 19 (0.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (3.61%) Power BI
2 124 (2.66%) Data Lake
3 122 (2.62%) Metadata
4 104 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 63 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.73%) Tableau
9 31 (0.67%) Big Data
10 27 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.58%) Delta Lake
11 24 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 22 (0.47%) GIS
13 21 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 17 (0.37%) MongoDB
16 16 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (2.04%) JIRA
2 77 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 56 (1.20%) Git
4 39 (0.84%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 12 (0.26%) 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 (0.086%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.086%) Snyk
13 3 (0.064%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.064%) ER Studio
General
1 858 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 746 (16.02%) Finance
3 498 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 279 (5.99%) Banking
5 230 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 175 (3.76%) Retail
7 139 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 85 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 84 (1.80%) Legal
12 56 (1.20%) Law
13 48 (1.03%) Military
14 45 (0.97%) Billing
14 45 (0.97%) Marketing
15 44 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 39 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 35 (0.75%) Investment Banking
19 34 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (4.98%) REST
2 164 (3.52%) Middleware
3 123 (2.64%) SOAP
4 115 (2.47%) .NET
5 85 (1.83%) LDAP
5 85 (1.83%) OpenID
6 82 (1.76%) OAuth
7 68 (1.46%) SAML
8 67 (1.44%) Kafka
9 58 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
10 50 (1.07%) OAuth2
11 46 (0.99%) React
12 41 (0.88%) SailPoint
13 38 (0.82%) RESTful
14 36 (0.77%) JSON
15 35 (0.75%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.64%) Web Services
17 29 (0.62%) Node.js
18 28 (0.60%) .NET Framework
19 26 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 395 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 126 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 122 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 113 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 112 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 100 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 97 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 80 (1.72%) Operational Technology
11 77 (1.65%) Security Posture
12 76 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 72 (1.55%) CMDB
14 71 (1.52%) Public Cloud
15 67 (1.44%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.90%) Private Cloud
17 41 (0.88%) Mainframe
18 40 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
19 35 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.66%) Windows
2 75 (1.61%) Linux
3 32 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.62%) Android
4 29 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.45%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 9 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.086%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.086%) Solaris
11 4 (0.086%) VMS
12 3 (0.064%) AIX
12 3 (0.064%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (14.28%) Migration
2 646 (13.87%) Roadmaps
3 554 (11.90%) DevOps
4 552 (11.85%) Agile
5 536 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 498 (10.69%) CI/CD
7 466 (10.01%) AI
7 466 (10.01%) Enterprise Architecture
8 457 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 439 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
10 437 (9.38%) Data Modelling
11 423 (9.08%) Technical Leadership
12 399 (8.57%) Data Architecture
13 380 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
14 371 (7.97%) Analytics
15 342 (7.34%) TOGAF
16 332 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
17 325 (6.98%) Architectural Design
17 325 (6.98%) Microservices
18 284 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 287 (6.16%) Python
2 228 (4.90%) SQL
3 191 (4.10%) Java
4 137 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 90 (1.93%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.18%) C#
7 45 (0.97%) Bicep
8 39 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.62%) Bash
10 21 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.34%) Ruby
12 15 (0.32%) Scala
13 11 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) C++
17 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,376 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 1,000 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 273 (5.86%) DV Cleared
4 165 (3.54%) Degree
5 103 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 99 (2.13%) CISSP
7 85 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 84 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 76 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 73 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 73 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 51 (1.10%) CISM
12 44 (0.94%) CCNP
13 43 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 30 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.41%) GIAC
18 18 (0.39%) CCIE
18 18 (0.39%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.82%) NIST
2 153 (3.29%) GDPR
3 131 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 126 (2.71%) Data Quality
5 99 (2.13%) NCSC
6 64 (1.37%) QA
7 39 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.64%) GRC
9 25 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.41%) SEPA
15 18 (0.39%) COBIT
16 16 (0.34%) HL7
16 16 (0.34%) IFRS
17 13 (0.28%) FINRA
17 13 (0.28%) MiFID
18 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 170 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.98%) Docker
3 82 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.54%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.19%) NFS
10 9 (0.19%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 8 (0.17%) vCloud
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.086%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.086%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.064%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.064%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 215 (4.62%) Terraform
2 207 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.04%) Ansible
4 45 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.86%) Grafana
6 38 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.32%) SCCM
13 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
17 4 (0.086%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 622 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.69%) SAP
3 250 (5.37%) ServiceNow
4 209 (4.49%) Oracle
5 201 (4.32%) Databricks
6 163 (3.50%) VMware
7 151 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 119 (2.56%) Cisco
9 98 (2.10%) Google
10 81 (1.74%) CyberArk
11 62 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 57 (1.22%) Splunk
13 43 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 41 (0.88%) Sparx
15 40 (0.86%) Workday
16 38 (0.82%) IBM
17 37 (0.79%) BeyondTrust
18 36 (0.77%) Foundry
19 35 (0.75%) OpenAI