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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5,005 2,559 3,403
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.28% 10.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.84% 10.13% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 1,689 2,251
10th Percentile £481 £470 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £707 £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 162 18 73
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 £94.48 £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 42,268 25,250 30,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.54% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,556 16,282 20,186
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £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 3,197 1,355 1,747
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% +2.87%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +7 2,552 £625 -3.85% 778
South East +2 741 £625 +4.17% 234
North of England +4 692 £600 - 248
Midlands +1 412 £625 +8.70% 99
North West +7 400 £600 - 137
South West -3 312 £625 -2.34% 126
West Midlands -1 296 £627 +4.42% 77
Yorkshire +7 229 £600 0.00% 76
East of England +12 160 £602 +8.47% 46
East Midlands +6 109 £600 +18.23% 22
North East -6 65 £600 -14.29% 37
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 1,504 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,286 (25.69%) Azure
3 1,077 (21.52%) SC Cleared
4 1,025 (20.48%) AWS
5 760 (15.18%) Roadmaps
6 745 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 715 (14.29%) Migration
8 683 (13.65%) Microsoft
9 636 (12.71%) AI
10 632 (12.63%) Enterprise Architecture
11 555 (11.09%) Agile
12 549 (10.97%) DevOps
13 539 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
14 523 (10.45%) CI/CD
14 523 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 512 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 491 (9.81%) Data Architecture
17 480 (9.59%) Integration Patterns
18 456 (9.11%) Analytics
19 402 (8.03%) GCP
20 395 (7.89%) TOGAF
21 392 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
22 373 (7.45%) Security Architecture
23 335 (6.69%) DV Cleared
24 323 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
25 319 (6.37%) Event-Driven
26 315 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
27 311 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
28 307 (6.13%) Microservices
29 301 (6.01%) 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 74 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.42%) SAS
3 50 (1.00%) Confluence
4 42 (0.84%) Apache
5 40 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 17 (0.34%) CMS
9 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.14%) Appian
10 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.14%) Camunda
10 7 (0.14%) Documentum
11 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
11 4 (0.080%) nginx
12 3 (0.060%) Drupal
12 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
Applications
1 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 126 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Endur
13 6 (0.12%) Maximo
13 6 (0.12%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,286 (25.69%) Azure
2 1,025 (20.48%) AWS
3 402 (8.03%) GCP
4 275 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 185 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 183 (3.66%) SaaS
7 161 (3.22%) Serverless
8 127 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 126 (2.52%) GitHub
10 106 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 104 (2.08%) Snowflake
12 101 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (1.96%) PaaS
14 74 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (1.34%) Amazon S3
15 67 (1.34%) IaaS
16 61 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
17 59 (1.18%) OCI
18 58 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 57 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 145 (2.90%) Firewall
2 144 (2.88%) Network Security
3 99 (1.98%) WAN
4 87 (1.74%) DNS
5 72 (1.44%) VPN
6 71 (1.42%) LAN
7 48 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.92%) BGP
9 40 (0.80%) DHCP
10 38 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 37 (0.74%) MPLS
12 32 (0.64%) VLAN
13 28 (0.56%) SAN
13 28 (0.56%) VXLAN
14 25 (0.50%) Wireless
15 24 (0.48%) NAS
15 24 (0.48%) NX-OS
16 23 (0.46%) OSPF
17 21 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
17 21 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (3.88%) Power BI
2 169 (3.38%) Data Lake
3 153 (3.06%) Metadata
4 149 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 57 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 43 (0.86%) Big Data
8 41 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 38 (0.76%) Delta Lake
10 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 23 (0.46%) GIS
16 20 (0.40%) MongoDB
16 20 (0.40%) Tableau
17 19 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
18 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 70 (1.40%) JIRA
2 68 (1.36%) Git
3 48 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.66%) GitLab
5 19 (0.38%) 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%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.12%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) MSI
9 6 (0.12%) Storybook
10 5 (0.100%) Maven
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
11 4 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.060%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 964 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 759 (15.16%) Finance
3 533 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 282 (5.63%) Banking
5 269 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 248 (4.96%) Retail
7 135 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 126 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 118 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 108 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 76 (1.52%) Legal
12 62 (1.24%) Marketing
13 55 (1.10%) Billing
14 51 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 47 (0.94%) Law
16 46 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 46 (0.92%) Military
17 43 (0.86%) Financial Institution
18 33 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
19 30 (0.60%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (4.96%) REST
2 153 (3.06%) Middleware
3 117 (2.34%) .NET
4 114 (2.28%) SOAP
5 107 (2.14%) Kafka
6 101 (2.02%) OAuth
7 69 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 56 (1.12%) SAML
9 54 (1.08%) JSON
9 54 (1.08%) OpenID
10 51 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 40 (0.80%) RESTful
12 39 (0.78%) React
13 37 (0.74%) PySpark
13 37 (0.74%) SailPoint
14 36 (0.72%) .NET Framework
15 33 (0.66%) LDAP
16 32 (0.64%) XML
17 31 (0.62%) JWT
18 26 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 433 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 154 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 129 (2.58%) Onboarding
4 126 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 125 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 122 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 121 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 108 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 108 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 106 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 93 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 81 (1.62%) CMDB
11 81 (1.62%) Operational Technology
12 66 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 64 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 56 (1.12%) Data Structures
16 47 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 44 (0.88%) Mainframe
18 42 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (2.22%) Windows
2 86 (1.72%) Linux
3 36 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.42%) Unix
5 19 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.36%) Android
7 17 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
9 8 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.16%) zOS
10 5 (0.100%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.100%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.060%) CentOS
12 3 (0.060%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (15.18%) Roadmaps
2 745 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 715 (14.29%) Migration
4 636 (12.71%) AI
5 632 (12.63%) Enterprise Architecture
6 555 (11.09%) Agile
7 549 (10.97%) DevOps
8 539 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
9 523 (10.45%) CI/CD
9 523 (10.45%) Data Modelling
10 512 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 491 (9.81%) Data Architecture
12 480 (9.59%) Integration Patterns
13 456 (9.11%) Analytics
14 395 (7.89%) TOGAF
15 392 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
16 373 (7.45%) Security Architecture
17 323 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
18 319 (6.37%) Event-Driven
19 315 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 238 (4.76%) Python
1 238 (4.76%) SQL
2 204 (4.08%) Java
3 112 (2.24%) JavaScript
4 92 (1.84%) PowerShell
5 48 (0.96%) C#
6 44 (0.88%) Bash
7 43 (0.86%) Bicep
8 40 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 15 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.28%) Ruby
13 13 (0.26%) C++
14 12 (0.24%) ABAP
15 11 (0.22%) Groovy
16 10 (0.20%) Scala
17 9 (0.18%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,504 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 1,077 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 335 (6.69%) DV Cleared
4 151 (3.02%) Degree
5 130 (2.60%) CISSP
6 110 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 95 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 85 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 70 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 63 (1.26%) CISM
12 59 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.78%) CCNP
15 34 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.46%) Master's Degree
18 21 (0.42%) CCSP
19 18 (0.36%) CCIE
19 18 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 183 (3.66%) NIST
3 145 (2.90%) GDPR
4 138 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 98 (1.96%) NCSC
6 63 (1.26%) GRC
7 51 (1.02%) QA
8 36 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.38%) IFRS
12 19 (0.38%) SEPA
13 16 (0.32%) ISO 20022
13 16 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 16 (0.32%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
15 13 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 154 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 95 (1.90%) Docker
3 62 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 29 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.32%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
12 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.080%) IAG
12 4 (0.080%) KVM
12 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.060%) Ceph
13 3 (0.060%) SRDF
14 2 (0.040%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 239 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 218 (4.36%) Terraform
3 93 (1.86%) Ansible
4 43 (0.86%) Grafana
5 39 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 31 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.32%) Argo
9 15 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
12 7 (0.14%) WMI
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
14 5 (0.100%) CASB
14 5 (0.100%) MOM
14 5 (0.100%) Puppet
Vendors
1 683 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 292 (5.83%) SAP
3 269 (5.37%) Oracle
4 251 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 234 (4.68%) Databricks
6 162 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 153 (3.06%) Google
8 132 (2.64%) Cisco
9 124 (2.48%) VMware
10 62 (1.24%) CyberArk
11 58 (1.16%) IBM
12 54 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 53 (1.06%) Workday
14 47 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.86%) Foundry
16 37 (0.74%) Sparx
17 36 (0.72%) Ariba
18 35 (0.70%) Adobe
19 34 (0.68%) Splunk
20 32 (0.64%) F5