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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,347 2,393 3,848
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.74% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.50% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,935 1,589 2,535
10th Percentile £463 £481 £500
25th Percentile £513 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £745
90th Percentile £800 £799 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 34 61
10th Percentile £49.40 £53.40 £60.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.64 £71.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -10.94% +14.29%
75th Percentile £84.25 £80.44 £87.46
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.70 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £69.72 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -0.40% -12.50% +14.29%

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 36,659 22,788 34,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.72% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,966 15,194 23,034
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 881 2,397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.79 £19.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.06% -8.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 2,019 £625 -3.85% 370
South East +4 704 £625 - 153
North of England +5 614 £600 - 147
Midlands +2 405 £581 -3.17% 120
North West +8 358 £607 +1.08% 93
West Midlands 0 300 £603 +0.42% 88
South West +1 298 £693 +15.42% 97
Yorkshire +8 229 £558 -7.00% 34
East of England +20 197 £563 -6.25% 60
East Midlands -3 99 £513 -6.82% 32
North East +1 36 £575 -7.95% 20
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 1,353 (31.12%) Security Cleared
2 1,006 (23.14%) Azure
3 929 (21.37%) SC Cleared
4 854 (19.65%) AWS
5 619 (14.24%) Roadmaps
6 608 (13.99%) Microsoft
7 583 (13.41%) Migration
8 573 (13.18%) Agile
9 489 (11.25%) DevOps
10 469 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 449 (10.33%) CI/CD
12 439 (10.10%) Enterprise Architecture
13 396 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 394 (9.06%) Data Modelling
15 386 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
16 383 (8.81%) AI
17 381 (8.76%) Integration Patterns
18 355 (8.17%) TOGAF
19 354 (8.14%) Analytics
20 344 (7.91%) GCP
21 342 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
22 341 (7.84%) Data Architecture
23 318 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
24 317 (7.29%) Architectural Design
25 311 (7.15%) DV Cleared
26 299 (6.88%) Microservices
26 299 (6.88%) Python
27 274 (6.30%) ServiceNow
28 256 (5.89%) SAP
29 251 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code

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
1 110 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 100 (2.30%) Confluence
3 62 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.51%) SAS
6 20 (0.46%) Apache
7 19 (0.44%) CMS
8 16 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.37%) Appian
9 14 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 13 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 13 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.25%) WebLogic
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
14 7 (0.16%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
15 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 48 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 22 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.092%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.092%) Revit
7 2 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.023%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.023%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.023%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.023%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 106 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 22 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 19 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 17 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 14 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 9 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.21%) SAP EWM
11 8 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.18%) SAP PM
11 8 (0.18%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.16%) Maximo
12 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.16%) SAP QM
13 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,006 (23.14%) Azure
2 854 (19.65%) AWS
3 344 (7.91%) GCP
4 196 (4.51%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 154 (3.54%) Serverless
7 148 (3.40%) SaaS
8 131 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 98 (2.25%) GitHub
10 98 (2.25%) IaaS
10 98 (2.25%) PaaS
11 85 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 76 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (1.70%) Amazon S3
14 72 (1.66%) OpenShift
15 69 (1.59%) Snowflake
16 62 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
18 57 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 167 (3.84%) Firewall
2 146 (3.36%) Network Security
3 118 (2.71%) WAN
4 112 (2.58%) DNS
5 103 (2.37%) VPN
6 82 (1.89%) LAN
7 61 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 34 (0.78%) BGP
9 32 (0.74%) DHCP
10 30 (0.69%) OSPF
11 27 (0.62%) MPLS
11 27 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 25 (0.58%) VLAN
13 20 (0.46%) SAN
14 19 (0.44%) BIG-IP
14 19 (0.44%) NAS
14 19 (0.44%) VXLAN
15 17 (0.39%) VSAN
15 17 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (3.31%) Power BI
2 112 (2.58%) Metadata
3 102 (2.35%) Data Lake
3 102 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (1.63%) SQL Server
5 59 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 47 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (1.01%) Tableau
8 40 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 34 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (0.69%) Big Data
11 26 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 26 (0.60%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 22 (0.51%) GIS
14 21 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
15 19 (0.44%) Relational Database
16 17 (0.39%) MongoDB
17 16 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (2.67%) JIRA
2 82 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.13%) Git
4 42 (0.97%) GitLab
5 18 (0.41%) ERwin
6 13 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.25%) MLflow
8 10 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.14%) Postman
10 5 (0.12%) JUnit
10 5 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.092%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.092%) Selenium
11 4 (0.092%) Snyk
11 4 (0.092%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.092%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.069%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.069%) Rational DOORS
General
1 854 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 697 (16.03%) Finance
3 473 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 268 (6.17%) Banking
6 134 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 123 (2.83%) Retail
8 97 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (2.05%) Military
10 86 (1.98%) Legal
11 76 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 66 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (1.40%) Law
14 58 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 57 (1.31%) Marketing
16 43 (0.99%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.78%) Billing
17 34 (0.78%) Investment Banking
18 27 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 26 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (5.01%) REST
2 160 (3.68%) Middleware
3 114 (2.62%) SOAP
4 97 (2.23%) .NET
5 81 (1.86%) OpenID
6 80 (1.84%) LDAP
7 70 (1.61%) OAuth
8 64 (1.47%) Kafka
9 57 (1.31%) JSON
9 57 (1.31%) SAML
10 42 (0.97%) OAuth2
11 37 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
12 36 (0.83%) React
13 33 (0.76%) SailPoint
14 32 (0.74%) AngularJS
14 32 (0.74%) RESTful
15 29 (0.67%) Spring
15 29 (0.67%) Web Services
16 25 (0.58%) PySpark
17 22 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 353 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 129 (2.97%) Product Ownership
3 115 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 113 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 112 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 109 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 88 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 77 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.73%) PKI
11 70 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 63 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 62 (1.43%) CMDB
15 60 (1.38%) Operational Technology
16 47 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
17 41 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 40 (0.92%) AI Agents
19 38 (0.87%) Data Structures
20 31 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 155 (3.57%) Windows
2 92 (2.12%) Linux
3 33 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.58%) Android
4 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.37%) Unix
6 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.28%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.25%) zOS
10 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.18%) VMS
11 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.069%) CentOS
13 3 (0.069%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.069%) Solaris
13 3 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.046%) AIX
14 2 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (14.24%) Roadmaps
2 583 (13.41%) Migration
3 573 (13.18%) Agile
4 489 (11.25%) DevOps
5 469 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 449 (10.33%) CI/CD
7 439 (10.10%) Enterprise Architecture
8 396 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 394 (9.06%) Data Modelling
10 386 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
11 383 (8.81%) AI
12 381 (8.76%) Integration Patterns
13 355 (8.17%) TOGAF
14 354 (8.14%) Analytics
15 342 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
16 341 (7.84%) Data Architecture
17 318 (7.32%) Architectural Patterns
18 317 (7.29%) Architectural Design
19 299 (6.88%) Microservices
20 251 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 299 (6.88%) Python
2 225 (5.18%) SQL
3 176 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 169 (3.89%) Java
5 74 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.27%) C#
7 40 (0.92%) Bicep
8 34 (0.78%) Bash
9 32 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 17 (0.39%) Ruby
11 16 (0.37%) Scala
12 15 (0.35%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.23%) R
16 9 (0.21%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.18%) VB
18 7 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,353 (31.12%) Security Cleared
2 929 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 311 (7.15%) DV Cleared
4 177 (4.07%) Degree
5 116 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 113 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 96 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 94 (2.16%) CISSP
9 73 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 72 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
11 62 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (1.06%) CISM
14 42 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 42 (0.97%) CCNP
15 37 (0.85%) Master's Degree
16 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
17 31 (0.71%) ISEB
18 24 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 23 (0.53%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (3.70%) GDPR
2 159 (3.66%) NIST
3 129 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 89 (2.05%) NCSC
6 58 (1.33%) QA
7 42 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 38 (0.87%) COBIT
9 30 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 27 (0.62%) GRC
11 25 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.41%) SEPA
13 17 (0.39%) Accessibility
13 17 (0.39%) HL7
13 17 (0.39%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.32%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.30%) FINRA
15 13 (0.30%) MiFID
16 11 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 181 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.35%) Docker
3 92 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.47%) VMware NSX
5 28 (0.64%) vSphere
6 22 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.23%) vCloud
11 9 (0.21%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) NFS
13 7 (0.16%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.16%) Varnish
14 5 (0.12%) Postfix
14 5 (0.12%) RACF
15 4 (0.092%) Firmware
15 4 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.069%) IAG
16 3 (0.069%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 233 (5.36%) Terraform
2 206 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.23%) Ansible
4 48 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.85%) Grafana
7 30 (0.69%) OPNET
8 29 (0.67%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 22 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.51%) SCCM
11 16 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.32%) Argo
13 11 (0.25%) WMI
14 10 (0.23%) Istio
15 8 (0.18%) Puppet
16 7 (0.16%) Consul
17 5 (0.12%) Endace
17 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 608 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.30%) ServiceNow
3 256 (5.89%) SAP
4 182 (4.19%) VMware
5 175 (4.03%) Oracle
6 159 (3.66%) Databricks
6 159 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 106 (2.44%) Cisco
8 92 (2.12%) Google
9 83 (1.91%) CyberArk
10 61 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 54 (1.24%) Splunk
12 52 (1.20%) Workday
13 48 (1.10%) Remedy
14 47 (1.08%) Red Hat
15 45 (1.04%) Sparx
16 44 (1.01%) IBM
17 43 (0.99%) Atlassian
18 42 (0.97%) Palo Alto
19 39 (0.90%) BeyondTrust