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 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,577 2,381 3,767
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.01% 9.92% 10.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 10.75% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,103 1,559 2,449
10th Percentile £463 £470 £500
25th Percentile £513 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -3.13%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £750
90th Percentile £800 £792 £825
UK median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 28 89
10th Percentile £49.40 £48.44 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £80.56 £85.65
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.10 £88.40
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 38,362 22,147 33,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.31% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,778 14,732 22,409
10th Percentile £320 £290 £282
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 891 2,479
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.81% -23.30% -18.89%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 2,202 £625 -3.85% 483
South East +5 699 £625 - 164
North of England +3 664 £600 - 178
Midlands +1 435 £600 +0.08% 66
North West +6 371 £609 +4.46% 95
West Midlands -1 311 £620 +3.33% 46
South West 0 260 £652 +8.71% 82
Yorkshire +4 249 £557 -7.25% 49
East of England +20 202 £575 -4.17% 44
East Midlands 0 118 £550 +2.42% 20
North East +6 52 £575 -4.17% 35
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 1,362 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 1,073 (23.44%) Azure
3 962 (21.02%) SC Cleared
4 894 (19.53%) AWS
5 623 (13.61%) Migration
6 619 (13.52%) Roadmaps
7 606 (13.24%) Microsoft
8 530 (11.58%) Agile
9 528 (11.54%) DevOps
10 489 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 481 (10.51%) CI/CD
12 452 (9.88%) Enterprise Architecture
13 420 (9.18%) Data Modelling
14 419 (9.15%) AI
15 416 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
16 409 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 397 (8.67%) Technical Leadership
18 372 (8.13%) Data Architecture
19 360 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
20 352 (7.69%) Analytics
21 349 (7.63%) GCP
22 327 (7.14%) TOGAF
23 320 (6.99%) Microservices
24 317 (6.93%) Architectural Design
24 317 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
25 293 (6.40%) DV Cleared
26 285 (6.23%) Python
27 269 (5.88%) ServiceNow
28 267 (5.83%) SAP
29 264 (5.77%) Security Architecture

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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 81 (1.77%) Confluence
3 49 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.52%) Apache
6 22 (0.48%) SAS
7 16 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 16 (0.35%) Appian
8 15 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 13 (0.28%) nginx
9 13 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.20%) Camunda
12 8 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) NetWeaver
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.044%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 15 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
9 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.11%) SAP CRM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (23.44%) Azure
2 894 (19.53%) AWS
3 349 (7.63%) GCP
4 213 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 172 (3.76%) Entra ID
6 159 (3.47%) Serverless
7 154 (3.36%) SaaS
8 118 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
9 106 (2.32%) GitHub
10 102 (2.23%) PaaS
11 99 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 76 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (1.66%) Snowflake
14 75 (1.64%) IaaS
15 70 (1.53%) Amazon S3
16 66 (1.44%) OpenShift
17 59 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
18 57 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 153 (3.34%) Firewall
2 151 (3.30%) Network Security
3 108 (2.36%) DNS
4 106 (2.32%) WAN
5 93 (2.03%) VPN
6 79 (1.73%) LAN
7 53 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 37 (0.81%) BGP
9 35 (0.76%) DHCP
10 31 (0.68%) OSPF
11 28 (0.61%) VLAN
12 27 (0.59%) MPLS
13 26 (0.57%) Wireless
14 25 (0.55%) SAN
14 25 (0.55%) TCP/IP
15 24 (0.52%) NAS
16 21 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
17 20 (0.44%) BIG-IP
18 19 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
19 18 (0.39%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (3.41%) Power BI
2 114 (2.49%) Metadata
3 107 (2.34%) Data Lake
4 97 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 59 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 51 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (0.85%) Tableau
9 36 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.66%) Big Data
11 28 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.57%) BigQuery
13 25 (0.55%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
15 19 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.39%) GIS
17 17 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
19 15 (0.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (2.08%) JIRA
2 83 (1.81%) Jenkins
3 55 (1.20%) Git
4 45 (0.98%) GitLab
5 20 (0.44%) ERwin
6 15 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 11 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.24%) MLflow
8 10 (0.22%) Artifactory
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 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) MSI
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
12 4 (0.087%) Terragrunt
General
1 831 (18.16%) Social Skills
2 726 (15.86%) Finance
3 476 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 275 (6.01%) Banking
5 228 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 156 (3.41%) Retail
7 133 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 100 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 85 (1.86%) Legal
10 84 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 78 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 66 (1.44%) Military
13 58 (1.27%) Law
14 51 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.07%) Billing
16 45 (0.98%) Marketing
17 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.74%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
19 32 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (4.63%) REST
2 171 (3.74%) Middleware
3 114 (2.49%) SOAP
4 107 (2.34%) .NET
5 85 (1.86%) LDAP
6 81 (1.77%) OpenID
7 73 (1.59%) OAuth
8 62 (1.35%) Kafka
9 60 (1.31%) SAML
10 48 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
11 43 (0.94%) OAuth2
12 41 (0.90%) React
13 40 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 34 (0.74%) RESTful
15 33 (0.72%) JSON
16 31 (0.68%) AngularJS
17 29 (0.63%) Web Services
18 26 (0.57%) PySpark
19 25 (0.55%) .NET Framework
19 25 (0.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 373 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 129 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 124 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 121 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 106 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
6 100 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 100 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 91 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 84 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 74 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 74 (1.62%) Security Posture
10 72 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 69 (1.51%) Public Cloud
12 64 (1.40%) CMDB
13 55 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 43 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 41 (0.90%) Mainframe
15 41 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 35 (0.76%) PKI
17 33 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.82%) Windows
2 86 (1.88%) Linux
3 27 (0.59%) Android
3 27 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.48%) Unix
6 11 (0.24%) zOS
7 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.13%) VMS
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.066%) CentOS
12 3 (0.066%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.066%) Solaris
12 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.044%) AIX
13 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (13.61%) Migration
2 619 (13.52%) Roadmaps
3 530 (11.58%) Agile
4 528 (11.54%) DevOps
5 489 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 481 (10.51%) CI/CD
7 452 (9.88%) Enterprise Architecture
8 420 (9.18%) Data Modelling
9 419 (9.15%) AI
10 416 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
11 409 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 397 (8.67%) Technical Leadership
13 372 (8.13%) Data Architecture
14 360 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
15 352 (7.69%) Analytics
16 327 (7.14%) TOGAF
17 320 (6.99%) Microservices
18 317 (6.93%) Architectural Design
18 317 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
19 264 (5.77%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 285 (6.23%) Python
2 225 (4.92%) SQL
3 171 (3.74%) Java
4 146 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 79 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.09%) C#
7 44 (0.96%) Bicep
8 35 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.68%) Bash
10 18 (0.39%) Ruby
11 17 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 17 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.35%) Scala
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.15%) VBA
16 6 (0.13%) ABAP
16 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,362 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 962 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 293 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 169 (3.69%) Degree
5 98 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 93 (2.03%) CISSP
7 85 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 83 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 72 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 72 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 47 (1.03%) CISM
12 44 (0.96%) CCNP
13 41 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 36 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 33 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 25 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 19 (0.42%) GIAC
18 18 (0.39%) CCIE
19 16 (0.35%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (3.63%) NIST
2 143 (3.12%) GDPR
3 124 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 118 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 97 (2.12%) NCSC
6 63 (1.38%) QA
7 36 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.63%) GRC
9 26 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 24 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 19 (0.42%) SEPA
14 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.37%) COBIT
15 17 (0.37%) HL7
16 13 (0.28%) FINRA
16 13 (0.28%) MiFID
17 12 (0.26%) PSD2
18 10 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 175 (3.82%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.08%) Docker
3 83 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 26 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (0.57%) vSphere
6 18 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.22%) vCloud
10 9 (0.20%) NFS
10 9 (0.20%) Squid
11 8 (0.17%) Varnish
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 5 (0.11%) RACF
14 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.087%) Firmware
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 219 (4.78%) Terraform
2 207 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 93 (2.03%) Ansible
4 47 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.79%) Grafana
7 27 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 25 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.37%) SCCM
11 14 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (0.31%) Argo
12 13 (0.28%) OPNET
13 11 (0.24%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Puppet
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) WMI
16 6 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 606 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 269 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 267 (5.83%) SAP
4 196 (4.28%) Oracle
5 182 (3.98%) Databricks
6 168 (3.67%) VMware
7 158 (3.45%) Salesforce
8 110 (2.40%) Cisco
9 93 (2.03%) Google
10 89 (1.94%) CyberArk
11 68 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 54 (1.18%) Splunk
13 45 (0.98%) Workday
14 41 (0.90%) Sparx
15 40 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 39 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
16 39 (0.85%) Palo Alto
17 36 (0.79%) IBM
18 35 (0.76%) Centrify
18 35 (0.76%) Citrix