Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,934 2,634 3,672
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.00% 9.67% 10.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.90% 10.52% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,281 1,759 2,412
10th Percentile £475 £470 £488
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 21 87
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.96 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £73.25 £85.50 £85.65
90th Percentile £83.70 £100.00 £88.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 41,476 25,032 32,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.85% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,274 16,261 21,669
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £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 2,987 1,247 2,188
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.15 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.10 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% -37.13% -6.98%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +6 2,492 £620 -4.62% 919
North of England +7 720 £600 - 216
South East -1 714 £636 +6.04% 240
Midlands -1 413 £620 +7.83% 99
North West +3 385 £608 +1.33% 117
West Midlands -2 300 £625 +4.17% 72
South West -2 285 £625 - 101
Yorkshire +7 264 £600 - 62
East of England +16 180 £600 - 54
East Midlands +5 107 £600 +20.00% 26
North East +1 79 £600 -15.79% 37
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 1,438 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,240 (25.13%) Azure
3 1,045 (21.18%) SC Cleared
4 1,026 (20.79%) AWS
5 754 (15.28%) Roadmaps
6 689 (13.96%) Migration
7 647 (13.11%) Microsoft
8 627 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 590 (11.96%) AI
10 574 (11.63%) Agile
11 563 (11.41%) Enterprise Architecture
12 560 (11.35%) DevOps
13 513 (10.40%) Data Modelling
14 512 (10.38%) CI/CD
15 474 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 473 (9.59%) Data Architecture
17 469 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
18 463 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
19 432 (8.76%) Analytics
20 412 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
21 407 (8.25%) TOGAF
22 379 (7.68%) GCP
23 340 (6.89%) Microservices
24 335 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
25 333 (6.75%) Security Architecture
26 322 (6.53%) Architectural Design
27 310 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
28 304 (6.16%) DV Cleared
29 296 (6.00%) Event-Driven
29 296 (6.00%) 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 85 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 63 (1.28%) SAS
3 57 (1.16%) Confluence
4 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (0.73%) Apache
5 36 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 19 (0.39%) CMS
9 16 (0.32%) Appian
10 13 (0.26%) nginx
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.18%) Camunda
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
17 4 (0.081%) SAP EP
17 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.041%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 120 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) Maximo
9 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
10 6 (0.12%) Endur
10 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (25.13%) Azure
2 1,026 (20.79%) AWS
3 379 (7.68%) GCP
4 258 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 190 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 178 (3.61%) SaaS
7 160 (3.24%) Serverless
8 116 (2.35%) GitHub
9 112 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (2.25%) PaaS
11 107 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
12 97 (1.97%) Snowflake
13 95 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
14 82 (1.66%) IaaS
15 74 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 60 (1.22%) OpenShift
18 57 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 54 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
20 53 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.36%) Network Security
2 165 (3.34%) Firewall
3 104 (2.11%) DNS
4 95 (1.93%) WAN
5 83 (1.68%) VPN
6 69 (1.40%) LAN
7 48 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 48 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 44 (0.89%) BGP
9 41 (0.83%) DHCP
10 36 (0.73%) MPLS
11 34 (0.69%) VLAN
12 29 (0.59%) Wireless
13 28 (0.57%) OSPF
14 27 (0.55%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 24 (0.49%) IPsec
17 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
17 22 (0.45%) VXLAN
18 19 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (3.71%) Power BI
2 151 (3.06%) Data Lake
2 151 (3.06%) Metadata
3 138 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 57 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 42 (0.85%) Big Data
6 42 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.69%) BigQuery
9 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 29 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 26 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (0.53%) GIS
12 24 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (0.43%) Tableau
15 20 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 20 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 85 (1.72%) JIRA
2 65 (1.32%) Git
3 61 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.61%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (0.10%) Maven
11 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.10%) Storybook
12 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.081%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.081%) Snyk
13 3 (0.061%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 911 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 784 (15.89%) Finance
3 531 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 298 (6.04%) Banking
5 270 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 224 (4.54%) Retail
7 137 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 116 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 95 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.58%) Legal
12 54 (1.09%) Billing
12 54 (1.09%) Marketing
13 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 47 (0.95%) Military
15 45 (0.91%) Law
16 40 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 29 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (4.76%) REST
2 163 (3.30%) Middleware
3 118 (2.39%) .NET
4 108 (2.19%) SOAP
5 91 (1.84%) OAuth
6 90 (1.82%) Kafka
7 72 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 70 (1.42%) OpenID
9 61 (1.24%) SAML
10 49 (0.99%) OAuth2
10 49 (0.99%) React
11 44 (0.89%) LDAP
12 43 (0.87%) JSON
12 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 37 (0.75%) .NET Framework
15 31 (0.63%) PySpark
16 30 (0.61%) Web Services
17 29 (0.59%) AngularJS
17 29 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 411 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 142 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 132 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 131 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 121 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 117 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 112 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 106 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.84%) AI Agents
10 90 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 87 (1.76%) Operational Technology
12 85 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 75 (1.52%) CMDB
14 64 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 55 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
16 54 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 48 (0.97%) Data Structures
18 46 (0.93%) Private Cloud
19 43 (0.87%) Mainframe
20 39 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 113 (2.29%) Windows
2 79 (1.60%) Linux
3 31 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.53%) Android
4 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.39%) Unix
6 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 8 (0.16%) AIX
9 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.081%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.081%) Solaris
11 4 (0.081%) VMS
12 2 (0.041%) CentOS
12 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (15.28%) Roadmaps
2 689 (13.96%) Migration
3 627 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 590 (11.96%) AI
5 574 (11.63%) Agile
6 563 (11.41%) Enterprise Architecture
7 560 (11.35%) DevOps
8 513 (10.40%) Data Modelling
9 512 (10.38%) CI/CD
10 474 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 473 (9.59%) Data Architecture
12 469 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
13 463 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
14 432 (8.76%) Analytics
15 412 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
16 407 (8.25%) TOGAF
17 340 (6.89%) Microservices
18 335 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
19 333 (6.75%) Security Architecture
20 322 (6.53%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 258 (5.23%) Python
2 239 (4.84%) SQL
3 204 (4.13%) Java
4 107 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.18%) C#
7 46 (0.93%) Bicep
8 43 (0.87%) Bash
9 41 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.30%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Scala
12 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.18%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) Go
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,438 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 1,045 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 304 (6.16%) DV Cleared
4 171 (3.47%) Degree
5 126 (2.55%) CISSP
6 112 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 93 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 71 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.16%) CISM
13 45 (0.91%) CCNP
14 40 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 31 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.63%) Master's Degree
17 23 (0.47%) CCSP
18 20 (0.41%) CCIE
19 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (3.53%) NIST
2 165 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.14%) GDPR
4 127 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 103 (2.09%) NCSC
6 57 (1.16%) QA
7 51 (1.03%) GRC
8 40 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 27 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 21 (0.43%) SEPA
13 19 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.36%) IFRS
15 17 (0.34%) COBIT
15 17 (0.34%) HL7
16 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 11 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.07%) Docker
3 68 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.36%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.18%) Squid
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 7 (0.14%) Varnish
12 6 (0.12%) Postfix
12 6 (0.12%) vCloud
13 5 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.081%) RACF
14 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 243 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 225 (4.56%) Terraform
3 93 (1.88%) Ansible
4 52 (1.05%) Grafana
5 49 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.36%) Argo
9 18 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.14%) Consul
12 7 (0.14%) SCCM
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.10%) Istio
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
14 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 647 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 281 (5.70%) SAP
3 254 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 252 (5.11%) Oracle
5 216 (4.38%) Databricks
6 154 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 139 (2.82%) VMware
8 121 (2.45%) Cisco
9 119 (2.41%) Google
10 63 (1.28%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.09%) IBM
12 52 (1.05%) Splunk
13 50 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 48 (0.97%) Workday
15 46 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 41 (0.83%) Foundry
17 38 (0.77%) Red Hat
18 37 (0.75%) Ariba
19 36 (0.73%) Sparx
20 34 (0.69%) OpenAI