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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,687 2,399 3,971
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.94% 9.71% 10.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.84% 10.52% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,146 1,568 2,576
10th Percentile £463 £469 £488
25th Percentile £513 £538 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £741
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 27 97
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
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 £78.63 £82.25 £87.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £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 39,592 22,802 34,769
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.33% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,389 14,983 22,663
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,786 1,008 2,673
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.28 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +4 2,276 £625 -3.85% 1,040
North of England +7 697 £600 - 306
South East +6 694 £625 +4.08% 276
Midlands +1 437 £600 +0.17% 123
North West +4 370 £609 +1.50% 158
West Midlands -2 310 £623 +3.75% 92
Yorkshire +9 268 £557 -7.25% 85
South West -2 257 £648 +5.71% 196
East of England +20 210 £588 -2.08% 83
East Midlands +3 121 £575 +13.30% 31
North East +8 66 £575 -4.17% 64
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 1,374 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 1,137 (24.26%) Azure
3 1,003 (21.40%) SC Cleared
4 926 (19.76%) AWS
5 678 (14.47%) Migration
6 658 (14.04%) Roadmaps
7 624 (13.31%) Microsoft
8 556 (11.86%) Agile
8 556 (11.86%) DevOps
9 550 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 502 (10.71%) CI/CD
11 474 (10.11%) AI
12 473 (10.09%) Enterprise Architecture
13 454 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 446 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 440 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
16 424 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
17 404 (8.62%) Data Architecture
18 380 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
19 377 (8.04%) Analytics
20 348 (7.42%) GCP
21 341 (7.28%) TOGAF
22 330 (7.04%) Architectural Design
22 330 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
23 325 (6.93%) Microservices
24 289 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
24 289 (6.17%) Security Architecture
25 286 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
26 282 (6.02%) Python
27 273 (5.82%) SAP

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
1 102 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.54%) Confluence
3 51 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (0.73%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.53%) Apache
7 17 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.34%) Appian
8 16 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.32%) CMS
10 13 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.043%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.043%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 120 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 20 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 14 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 6 (0.13%) Maximo
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
10 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
10 6 (0.13%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 4 (0.085%) SAP Convergent Charging
12 4 (0.085%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (24.26%) Azure
2 926 (19.76%) AWS
3 348 (7.42%) GCP
4 238 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.61%) Entra ID
5 169 (3.61%) Serverless
6 158 (3.37%) SaaS
7 124 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 112 (2.39%) GitHub
9 105 (2.24%) PaaS
10 102 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 85 (1.81%) Snowflake
13 78 (1.66%) IaaS
14 77 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 59 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 59 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
17 58 (1.24%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.41%) Network Security
2 155 (3.31%) Firewall
3 109 (2.33%) DNS
4 104 (2.22%) WAN
5 96 (2.05%) VPN
6 74 (1.58%) LAN
7 53 (1.13%) SD-WAN
8 38 (0.81%) BGP
8 38 (0.81%) DHCP
9 31 (0.66%) OSPF
10 30 (0.64%) MPLS
10 30 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 30 (0.64%) VLAN
11 29 (0.62%) Wireless
12 26 (0.55%) SAN
13 25 (0.53%) NAS
14 22 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
15 20 (0.43%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.43%) IPsec
16 19 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (3.65%) Power BI
2 127 (2.71%) Data Lake
3 124 (2.65%) Metadata
4 108 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 61 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.73%) Tableau
9 31 (0.66%) Big Data
10 28 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 27 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 24 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
13 22 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 20 (0.43%) GIS
15 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (2.05%) JIRA
2 76 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.22%) Git
4 39 (0.83%) GitLab
5 20 (0.43%) ERwin
6 12 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
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 (0.085%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.085%) Snyk
13 3 (0.064%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.064%) ER Studio
General
1 860 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 767 (16.36%) Finance
3 499 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 283 (6.04%) Banking
5 231 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 180 (3.84%) Retail
7 139 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 103 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 89 (1.90%) Legal
10 87 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 84 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 56 (1.19%) Law
13 46 (0.98%) Billing
14 44 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 44 (0.94%) Marketing
14 44 (0.94%) Military
15 43 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.83%) Aerospace
17 36 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (4.84%) REST
2 166 (3.54%) Middleware
3 117 (2.50%) SOAP
4 112 (2.39%) .NET
5 84 (1.79%) OpenID
6 82 (1.75%) OAuth
7 78 (1.66%) LDAP
8 67 (1.43%) Kafka
8 67 (1.43%) SAML
9 61 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 50 (1.07%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.96%) React
12 41 (0.87%) SailPoint
13 38 (0.81%) RESTful
14 36 (0.77%) JSON
15 34 (0.73%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.64%) Web Services
17 29 (0.62%) Node.js
18 28 (0.60%) .NET Framework
19 27 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 399 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 127 (2.71%) Product Ownership
3 126 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 124 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 112 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
6 110 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 107 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 101 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 98 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 82 (1.75%) Operational Technology
11 77 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 76 (1.62%) CMDB
13 72 (1.54%) Security Posture
14 70 (1.49%) Public Cloud
15 67 (1.43%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 41 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 40 (0.85%) Private Cloud
19 35 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.65%) Windows
2 73 (1.56%) Linux
3 31 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.62%) Android
4 29 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.45%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.085%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.085%) Solaris
10 4 (0.085%) VMS
10 4 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.064%) AIX
11 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (14.47%) Migration
2 658 (14.04%) Roadmaps
3 556 (11.86%) Agile
3 556 (11.86%) DevOps
4 550 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 502 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 474 (10.11%) AI
7 473 (10.09%) Enterprise Architecture
8 454 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 446 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 440 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
11 424 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
12 404 (8.62%) Data Architecture
13 380 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 377 (8.04%) Analytics
15 341 (7.28%) TOGAF
16 330 (7.04%) Architectural Design
16 330 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
17 325 (6.93%) Microservices
18 289 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 282 (6.02%) Python
2 230 (4.91%) SQL
3 193 (4.12%) Java
4 132 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 91 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.15%) C#
7 47 (1.00%) Bicep
8 39 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.62%) Bash
10 22 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.34%) Ruby
12 15 (0.32%) Scala
13 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) C++
17 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,374 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 1,003 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 269 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 165 (3.52%) Degree
5 106 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 98 (2.09%) CISSP
7 86 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 83 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 74 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 71 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 49 (1.05%) CISM
13 45 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 43 (0.92%) CCNP
15 33 (0.70%) Master's Degree
16 30 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 26 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 18 (0.38%) CCIE
18 18 (0.38%) CCSP
18 18 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.80%) NIST
2 157 (3.35%) GDPR
3 132 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 130 (2.77%) Data Quality
5 96 (2.05%) NCSC
6 65 (1.39%) QA
7 40 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.64%) GRC
9 25 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 24 (0.51%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 23 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.41%) SEPA
14 18 (0.38%) COBIT
15 16 (0.34%) HL7
15 16 (0.34%) IFRS
16 13 (0.28%) FINRA
16 13 (0.28%) MiFID
17 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 166 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.96%) Docker
3 77 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.26%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.51%) vSphere
6 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.19%) NFS
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
10 8 (0.17%) vCloud
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
12 5 (0.11%) RACF
13 4 (0.085%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.085%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.064%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.064%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 217 (4.63%) Terraform
2 208 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.07%) Ansible
4 45 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.85%) Grafana
6 38 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.30%) SCCM
13 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
17 4 (0.085%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 624 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 273 (5.82%) SAP
3 254 (5.42%) ServiceNow
4 210 (4.48%) Oracle
5 203 (4.33%) Databricks
6 157 (3.35%) VMware
7 150 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 118 (2.52%) Cisco
9 99 (2.11%) Google
10 76 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 59 (1.26%) MuleSoft
12 56 (1.19%) Splunk
13 42 (0.90%) Palo Alto
14 41 (0.87%) Sparx
15 40 (0.85%) Red Hat
15 40 (0.85%) Workday
16 39 (0.83%) IBM
17 36 (0.77%) Foundry
18 35 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 32 (0.68%) F5