Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,903 2,644 3,796
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.72% 10.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.84% 10.58% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,264 1,757 2,491
10th Percentile £475 £468 £488
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £738
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 21 93
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 £84.00 £100.00 £88.00
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 41,413 25,002 33,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,306 16,263 22,078
10th Percentile £325 £293 £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% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,966 1,234 2,327
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.26 £17.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.82% -36.73% -5.88%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 2,459 £618 -5.00% 564
North of England +7 716 £600 - 151
South East 0 713 £629 +4.83% 178
Midlands 0 412 £620 +7.83% 84
North West +3 382 £610 +1.67% 84
West Midlands -4 297 £626 +4.33% 60
South West -2 286 £625 +0.24% 74
Yorkshire +10 265 £600 - 37
East of England +20 185 £600 - 41
East Midlands +3 108 £600 +20.00% 24
North East +1 77 £600 -14.29% 30
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,428 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,224 (24.96%) Azure
3 1,035 (21.11%) SC Cleared
4 1,014 (20.68%) AWS
5 748 (15.26%) Roadmaps
6 695 (14.17%) Migration
7 643 (13.11%) Microsoft
8 626 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 580 (11.83%) Agile
10 578 (11.79%) AI
11 562 (11.46%) DevOps
12 551 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 513 (10.46%) CI/CD
14 508 (10.36%) Data Modelling
15 476 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 464 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
17 458 (9.34%) Data Architecture
18 456 (9.30%) Integration Patterns
19 422 (8.61%) Analytics
20 411 (8.38%) Architectural Patterns
21 407 (8.30%) TOGAF
22 366 (7.46%) GCP
23 345 (7.04%) Microservices
24 338 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
25 332 (6.77%) Architectural Design
25 332 (6.77%) Security Architecture
26 309 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
27 303 (6.18%) DV Cleared
28 298 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
29 286 (5.83%) Event-Driven

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 88 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 59 (1.20%) Confluence
3 57 (1.16%) SAS
4 39 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (0.69%) Apache
5 34 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.43%) CMS
8 20 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 19 (0.39%) Appian
10 13 (0.27%) nginx
10 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 10 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.18%) Camunda
13 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.041%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 119 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) Maximo
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 6 (0.12%) Endur
11 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
11 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (0.082%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (24.96%) Azure
2 1,014 (20.68%) AWS
3 366 (7.46%) GCP
4 257 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 185 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 179 (3.65%) SaaS
7 160 (3.26%) Serverless
8 116 (2.37%) GitHub
9 112 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (2.26%) PaaS
11 107 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
12 95 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
12 95 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 82 (1.67%) IaaS
14 73 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
15 71 (1.45%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.31%) OpenShift
17 55 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 54 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 52 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 173 (3.53%) Firewall
2 168 (3.43%) Network Security
3 108 (2.20%) DNS
4 100 (2.04%) WAN
5 88 (1.79%) VPN
6 73 (1.49%) LAN
7 51 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 49 (1.00%) BGP
8 49 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 42 (0.86%) DHCP
10 37 (0.75%) MPLS
11 35 (0.71%) VLAN
12 32 (0.65%) OSPF
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
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 20 (0.41%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (3.71%) Power BI
2 149 (3.04%) Data Lake
3 146 (2.98%) Metadata
4 128 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.86%) Big Data
8 41 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 29 (0.59%) Oracle Database
12 28 (0.57%) Delta Lake
13 25 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
13 25 (0.51%) GIS
14 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (0.43%) Tableau
16 20 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 20 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
17 19 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 85 (1.73%) JIRA
2 63 (1.28%) Git
3 62 (1.26%) 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 6 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.082%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.082%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.082%) Snyk
11 4 (0.082%) Storybook
12 3 (0.061%) Postman
General
1 913 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 792 (16.15%) Finance
3 531 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 300 (6.12%) Banking
5 272 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (4.51%) Retail
7 143 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 124 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 113 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 95 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.59%) Legal
12 55 (1.12%) Billing
13 53 (1.08%) Marketing
14 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 48 (0.98%) Military
15 44 (0.90%) Law
16 40 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.81%) REST
2 163 (3.32%) Middleware
3 119 (2.43%) .NET
4 108 (2.20%) SOAP
5 91 (1.86%) OAuth
6 86 (1.75%) Kafka
7 76 (1.55%) OpenID
8 70 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 64 (1.31%) SAML
10 50 (1.02%) OAuth2
10 50 (1.02%) React
11 47 (0.96%) LDAP
12 42 (0.86%) SailPoint
13 41 (0.84%) JSON
14 40 (0.82%) RESTful
15 36 (0.73%) .NET Framework
16 31 (0.63%) AngularJS
16 31 (0.63%) Node.js
16 31 (0.63%) PySpark
17 30 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 414 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 145 (2.96%) Data Centre
3 137 (2.79%) Onboarding
4 128 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 122 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 114 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 110 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 102 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 91 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 86 (1.75%) Operational Technology
11 85 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 82 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 79 (1.61%) CMDB
14 65 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 54 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 47 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 44 (0.90%) Private Cloud
18 43 (0.88%) Mainframe
19 39 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 117 (2.39%) Windows
2 78 (1.59%) Linux
3 34 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.53%) Android
4 26 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 19 (0.39%) Unix
6 15 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.24%) zOS
8 7 (0.14%) AIX
9 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.082%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.082%) Solaris
11 4 (0.082%) VMS
12 2 (0.041%) CentOS
12 2 (0.041%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.020%) CatOS
13 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (15.26%) Roadmaps
2 695 (14.17%) Migration
3 626 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 580 (11.83%) Agile
5 578 (11.79%) AI
6 562 (11.46%) DevOps
7 551 (11.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 513 (10.46%) CI/CD
9 508 (10.36%) Data Modelling
10 476 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 464 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
12 458 (9.34%) Data Architecture
13 456 (9.30%) Integration Patterns
14 422 (8.61%) Analytics
15 411 (8.38%) Architectural Patterns
16 407 (8.30%) TOGAF
17 345 (7.04%) Microservices
18 338 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
19 332 (6.77%) Architectural Design
19 332 (6.77%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 262 (5.34%) Python
2 236 (4.81%) SQL
3 203 (4.14%) Java
4 106 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 86 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.22%) C#
7 45 (0.92%) Bicep
8 42 (0.86%) Bash
9 40 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Scala
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) Shell Script
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 1,428 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 1,035 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 303 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 172 (3.51%) Degree
5 124 (2.53%) CISSP
6 111 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 95 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 72 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (1.12%) CISM
13 46 (0.94%) CCNP
14 40 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 32 (0.65%) Master's Degree
17 29 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.47%) CCSP
19 22 (0.45%) CCIE
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (3.57%) NIST
2 159 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 152 (3.10%) GDPR
4 128 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.16%) NCSC
6 57 (1.16%) QA
7 47 (0.96%) GRC
8 38 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 24 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 24 (0.49%) SEPA
13 18 (0.37%) COBIT
13 18 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.37%) IFRS
14 17 (0.35%) HL7
15 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.22%) SLA
16 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 151 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.02%) Docker
3 70 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.37%) vSphere
7 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.29%) 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 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.082%) RACF
14 4 (0.082%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.061%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 238 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 225 (4.59%) Terraform
3 97 (1.98%) Ansible
4 51 (1.04%) Grafana
5 48 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.37%) Argo
10 17 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.16%) SCCM
14 7 (0.14%) Consul
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.10%) Istio
16 5 (0.10%) MOM
16 5 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 643 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 283 (5.77%) SAP
3 257 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 245 (5.00%) Oracle
5 215 (4.39%) Databricks
6 153 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 140 (2.86%) VMware
8 120 (2.45%) Cisco
9 113 (2.30%) Google
10 66 (1.35%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.10%) Splunk
12 51 (1.04%) IBM
12 51 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 47 (0.96%) Workday
14 43 (0.88%) Palo Alto
15 41 (0.84%) Foundry
16 40 (0.82%) Red Hat
17 37 (0.75%) Ariba
17 37 (0.75%) Sparx
18 36 (0.73%) F5