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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,995 2,594 3,394
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.96% 9.38% 10.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.85% 10.24% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 1,722 2,246
10th Percentile £481 £475 £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 £704 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 18 77
10th Percentile £46.00 £36.30 -
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 £71.91 £87.00 £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 42,146 25,333 30,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,503 16,397 20,301
10th Percentile £325 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,173 1,332 1,801
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.21% -41.51% +2.38%

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 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 13 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 13 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 2,570 £625 -3.85% 1,654
South East 0 726 £625 +4.17% 350
North of England +4 694 £600 - 305
Midlands -1 416 £625 +8.70% 148
North West +5 399 £600 - 164
West Midlands -1 303 £626 +4.38% 101
South West -3 298 £625 -2.34% 191
Yorkshire +2 232 £600 0.00% 104
East of England +12 155 £600 +8.11% 100
East Midlands +7 106 £600 +16.50% 47
North East -5 65 £600 -15.79% 37
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 1,483 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,268 (25.39%) Azure
3 1,076 (21.54%) SC Cleared
4 1,022 (20.46%) AWS
5 742 (14.85%) Roadmaps
6 714 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 708 (14.17%) Migration
8 654 (13.09%) Microsoft
9 636 (12.73%) AI
10 613 (12.27%) Enterprise Architecture
11 553 (11.07%) Agile
12 550 (11.01%) DevOps
13 524 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
14 522 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 520 (10.41%) CI/CD
16 500 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 497 (9.95%) Data Architecture
18 488 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
19 452 (9.05%) Analytics
20 397 (7.95%) TOGAF
21 394 (7.89%) GCP
22 393 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
23 361 (7.23%) Security Architecture
24 319 (6.39%) DV Cleared
24 319 (6.39%) Problem-Solving
25 313 (6.27%) Microservices
26 310 (6.21%) Event-Driven
27 309 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
28 298 (5.97%) Architectural Design
29 297 (5.95%) 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 77 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.42%) SAS
3 51 (1.02%) Confluence
4 41 (0.82%) Apache
5 38 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.32%) CMS
10 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.16%) Appian
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 5 (0.10%) nginx
15 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
16 3 (0.060%) Anypoint
16 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 119 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
9 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
10 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.12%) Endur
11 6 (0.12%) Maximo
12 5 (0.10%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,268 (25.39%) Azure
2 1,022 (20.46%) AWS
3 394 (7.89%) GCP
4 265 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 181 (3.62%) Entra ID
6 180 (3.60%) SaaS
7 153 (3.06%) Serverless
8 124 (2.48%) GitHub
9 120 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 105 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
10 105 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 104 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (2.04%) PaaS
13 72 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 72 (1.44%) IaaS
14 68 (1.36%) Amazon S3
15 58 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 58 (1.16%) OCI
16 54 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 53 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 152 (3.04%) Network Security
2 149 (2.98%) Firewall
3 98 (1.96%) WAN
4 86 (1.72%) DNS
5 73 (1.46%) VPN
6 72 (1.44%) LAN
7 47 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.92%) BGP
9 39 (0.78%) DHCP
10 38 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 36 (0.72%) MPLS
12 33 (0.66%) VLAN
13 28 (0.56%) SAN
14 26 (0.52%) Wireless
15 25 (0.50%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) VXLAN
16 24 (0.48%) NAS
17 21 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.40%) NX-OS
19 19 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (3.76%) Power BI
2 167 (3.34%) Data Lake
3 151 (3.02%) Metadata
4 148 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.84%) Big Data
8 37 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 30 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.50%) GIS
15 24 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
16 19 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
17 18 (0.36%) Star Schema
17 18 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (1.42%) JIRA
2 66 (1.32%) Git
3 50 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.62%) GitLab
5 20 (0.40%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) Maven
9 6 (0.12%) Storybook
10 5 (0.10%) MLflow
10 5 (0.10%) MSI
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) Postman
11 4 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
11 4 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 955 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 761 (15.24%) Finance
3 533 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 295 (5.91%) Banking
5 266 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 246 (4.92%) Retail
7 135 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 122 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 118 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.56%) Legal
12 62 (1.24%) Marketing
13 54 (1.08%) Billing
14 47 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.92%) Law
15 46 (0.92%) Military
16 45 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 36 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
19 29 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (4.90%) REST
2 159 (3.18%) Middleware
3 117 (2.34%) .NET
4 112 (2.24%) SOAP
5 105 (2.10%) Kafka
6 98 (1.96%) OAuth
7 70 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 55 (1.10%) OpenID
9 52 (1.04%) JSON
9 52 (1.04%) SAML
10 51 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 41 (0.82%) React
11 41 (0.82%) RESTful
12 36 (0.72%) .NET Framework
12 36 (0.72%) SailPoint
13 35 (0.70%) PySpark
14 31 (0.62%) XML
15 29 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
16 28 (0.56%) JWT
17 26 (0.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 419 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 150 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 124 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 118 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 112 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 111 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 98 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 97 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 85 (1.70%) Operational Technology
13 78 (1.56%) CMDB
14 65 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 62 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
16 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 55 (1.10%) Data Structures
18 46 (0.92%) Private Cloud
19 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
20 41 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 108 (2.16%) Windows
2 84 (1.68%) Linux
3 34 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) Android
6 19 (0.38%) Unix
7 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
8 9 (0.18%) zOS
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.10%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.060%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (14.85%) Roadmaps
2 714 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 708 (14.17%) Migration
4 636 (12.73%) AI
5 613 (12.27%) Enterprise Architecture
6 553 (11.07%) Agile
7 550 (11.01%) DevOps
8 524 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
9 522 (10.45%) Data Modelling
10 520 (10.41%) CI/CD
11 500 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 497 (9.95%) Data Architecture
13 488 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
14 452 (9.05%) Analytics
15 397 (7.95%) TOGAF
16 393 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
17 361 (7.23%) Security Architecture
18 319 (6.39%) Problem-Solving
19 313 (6.27%) Microservices
20 310 (6.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 236 (4.72%) Python
2 231 (4.62%) SQL
3 205 (4.10%) Java
4 116 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 86 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 51 (1.02%) C#
7 43 (0.86%) Bash
8 42 (0.84%) Bicep
9 41 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 30 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.28%) Ruby
14 13 (0.26%) C++
15 11 (0.22%) Groovy
16 10 (0.20%) ABAP
16 10 (0.20%) Scala
17 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,483 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,076 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 319 (6.39%) DV Cleared
4 154 (3.08%) Degree
5 128 (2.56%) CISSP
6 110 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 97 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 85 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 67 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 59 (1.18%) CISM
13 38 (0.76%) CCNP
13 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 20 (0.40%) CCSP
18 19 (0.38%) CCIE
19 18 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.58%) Data Quality
2 174 (3.48%) NIST
3 150 (3.00%) GDPR
4 133 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.86%) NCSC
6 62 (1.24%) GRC
7 55 (1.10%) QA
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.40%) SEPA
14 19 (0.38%) IFRS
14 19 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.30%) HL7
15 15 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.28%) SLA
17 13 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
17 13 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 141 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 98 (1.96%) Docker
3 62 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) vSphere
9 13 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.080%) IAG
13 4 (0.080%) KVM
13 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.060%) Ceph
14 3 (0.060%) SRDF
15 2 (0.040%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 241 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 213 (4.26%) Terraform
3 90 (1.80%) Ansible
4 41 (0.82%) Grafana
5 38 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.32%) Argo
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
14 5 (0.10%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 654 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 282 (5.65%) SAP
3 266 (5.33%) Oracle
4 253 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 228 (4.56%) Databricks
6 165 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 141 (2.82%) Google
8 126 (2.52%) Cisco
9 123 (2.46%) VMware
10 58 (1.16%) IBM
11 56 (1.12%) CyberArk
11 56 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 51 (1.02%) Workday
13 48 (0.96%) Palo Alto
14 43 (0.86%) Foundry
15 37 (0.74%) Sparx
16 35 (0.70%) Ariba
16 35 (0.70%) Splunk
17 33 (0.66%) F5
18 32 (0.64%) Adobe