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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,580 2,405 3,862
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.95% 9.92% 10.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.86% 10.74% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,087 1,571 2,513
10th Percentile £463 £475 £500
25th Percentile £513 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £715 £745
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 28 95
10th Percentile £49.40 £48.44 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.91 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +4.15% -
75th Percentile £78.75 £82.25 £86.32
90th Percentile £97.75 £90.82 £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 38,608 22,392 34,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.37% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,868 14,803 22,535
10th Percentile £322 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,710 937 2,560
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.80 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -20.80% -16.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £79.55 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 2,234 £625 -3.85% 966
South East +4 677 £625 +2.04% 302
North of England +4 672 £600 - 327
Midlands +1 436 £600 +0.17% 129
North West +6 371 £608 +5.74% 189
West Midlands +2 312 £620 +3.33% 97
Yorkshire +6 253 £552 -7.96% 87
South West +1 241 £650 +8.33% 175
East of England +19 202 £575 -4.17% 87
East Midlands +2 118 £571 +8.60% 32
North East +6 55 £575 -4.17% 52
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 1,345 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 1,112 (24.28%) Azure
3 964 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 914 (19.96%) AWS
5 647 (14.13%) Migration
6 634 (13.84%) Roadmaps
7 616 (13.45%) Microsoft
8 541 (11.81%) DevOps
9 534 (11.66%) Agile
10 516 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 481 (10.50%) CI/CD
12 460 (10.04%) Enterprise Architecture
13 433 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 431 (9.41%) AI
15 428 (9.34%) Data Modelling
16 424 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
17 408 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
18 384 (8.38%) Data Architecture
19 374 (8.17%) Architectural Patterns
20 360 (7.86%) GCP
21 357 (7.79%) Analytics
22 334 (7.29%) TOGAF
23 325 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
24 323 (7.05%) Architectural Design
24 323 (7.05%) Microservices
25 292 (6.38%) Python
26 276 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
27 274 (5.98%) DV Cleared
27 274 (5.98%) Security Architecture
28 267 (5.83%) Cybersecurity

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 71 (1.55%) Confluence
3 50 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.55%) Apache
6 23 (0.50%) SAS
7 17 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 16 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.35%) Appian
9 15 (0.33%) CMS
9 15 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.20%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.087%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.044%) Windchill
9 1 (0.022%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 114 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 19 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 16 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 14 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.31%) Teamcenter
8 10 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.13%) SAP MDG
12 5 (0.11%) Maximo
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
12 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 5 (0.11%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.087%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1,112 (24.28%) Azure
2 914 (19.96%) AWS
3 360 (7.86%) GCP
4 217 (4.74%) Power Platform
5 170 (3.71%) Entra ID
6 164 (3.58%) Serverless
7 158 (3.45%) SaaS
8 121 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
9 107 (2.34%) GitHub
10 103 (2.25%) PaaS
11 97 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 79 (1.72%) Snowflake
14 76 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
14 76 (1.66%) IaaS
15 72 (1.57%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.40%) OpenShift
17 58 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
18 56 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
19 55 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.49%) Firewall
2 158 (3.45%) Network Security
3 111 (2.42%) DNS
4 106 (2.31%) WAN
5 96 (2.10%) VPN
6 80 (1.75%) LAN
7 53 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 39 (0.85%) DHCP
9 38 (0.83%) BGP
10 32 (0.70%) OSPF
11 29 (0.63%) VLAN
12 28 (0.61%) MPLS
12 28 (0.61%) SAN
12 28 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 27 (0.59%) NAS
13 27 (0.59%) Wireless
14 22 (0.48%) Structured Cabling
15 21 (0.46%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 19 (0.41%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (3.43%) Power BI
2 119 (2.60%) Metadata
3 110 (2.40%) Data Lake
4 100 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 61 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 55 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.81%) Tableau
9 33 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (0.66%) Big Data
11 26 (0.57%) BigQuery
12 25 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.55%) Delta Lake
12 25 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
13 20 (0.44%) GIS
14 19 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
15 18 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (1.88%) JIRA
2 79 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 51 (1.11%) Git
4 43 (0.94%) GitLab
5 20 (0.44%) ERwin
6 13 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.20%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.20%) 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 (0.087%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.087%) Snyk
12 4 (0.087%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.066%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 843 (18.41%) Social Skills
2 735 (16.05%) Finance
3 475 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 278 (6.07%) Banking
5 228 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 161 (3.52%) Retail
7 138 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 97 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
9 84 (1.83%) Legal
10 83 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 82 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 58 (1.27%) Law
13 56 (1.22%) Military
14 49 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.05%) Billing
16 45 (0.98%) Marketing
17 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 36 (0.79%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 34 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (4.85%) REST
2 164 (3.58%) Middleware
3 122 (2.66%) SOAP
4 113 (2.47%) .NET
5 87 (1.90%) LDAP
6 85 (1.86%) OpenID
7 78 (1.70%) OAuth
8 65 (1.42%) Kafka
9 64 (1.40%) SAML
10 52 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
11 47 (1.03%) OAuth2
12 44 (0.96%) React
13 40 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 34 (0.74%) JSON
14 34 (0.74%) RESTful
15 33 (0.72%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.63%) Web Services
17 27 (0.59%) .NET Framework
17 27 (0.59%) Node.js
18 25 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 389 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 130 (2.84%) Data Centre
3 123 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 120 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 112 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 108 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 104 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 96 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 91 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 78 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 75 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 73 (1.59%) Operational Technology
13 70 (1.53%) CMDB
14 69 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 56 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 42 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.92%) Mainframe
16 42 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 35 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
18 33 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 132 (2.88%) Windows
2 84 (1.83%) Linux
3 30 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.61%) Android
4 28 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.46%) Unix
6 14 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.24%) zOS
8 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.11%) VMS
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.087%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.087%) Solaris
13 3 (0.066%) AIX
13 3 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (14.13%) Migration
2 634 (13.84%) Roadmaps
3 541 (11.81%) DevOps
4 534 (11.66%) Agile
5 516 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 481 (10.50%) CI/CD
7 460 (10.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 433 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 431 (9.41%) AI
10 428 (9.34%) Data Modelling
11 424 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
12 408 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
13 384 (8.38%) Data Architecture
14 374 (8.17%) Architectural Patterns
15 357 (7.79%) Analytics
16 334 (7.29%) TOGAF
17 325 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
18 323 (7.05%) Architectural Design
18 323 (7.05%) Microservices
19 276 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 292 (6.38%) Python
2 229 (5.00%) SQL
3 177 (3.86%) Java
4 150 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 89 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.14%) C#
7 48 (1.05%) Bicep
8 37 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 34 (0.74%) Bash
10 20 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.35%) Ruby
12 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.33%) Scala
13 13 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.17%) VBA
16 7 (0.15%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.13%) Perl
18 5 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,345 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 964 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 274 (5.98%) DV Cleared
4 167 (3.65%) Degree
5 104 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 97 (2.12%) CISSP
7 82 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 76 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 75 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 73 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.07%) CISM
13 48 (1.05%) CCNP
14 44 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 27 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 19 (0.41%) CCIE
18 19 (0.41%) GIAC
19 17 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (3.73%) NIST
2 149 (3.25%) GDPR
3 127 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 123 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 95 (2.07%) NCSC
6 66 (1.44%) QA
7 35 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.66%) GRC
9 26 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 23 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 22 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.41%) 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%) IFRS
16 13 (0.28%) MiFID
17 12 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 176 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.07%) Docker
3 87 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.59%) vSphere
6 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.20%) NFS
9 9 (0.20%) Squid
9 9 (0.20%) vCloud
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
12 5 (0.11%) RACF
13 4 (0.087%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.087%) Firmware
13 4 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.087%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 218 (4.76%) Terraform
2 206 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 96 (2.10%) Ansible
4 48 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.87%) Grafana
6 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 22 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.39%) SCCM
11 16 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.33%) Argo
13 9 (0.20%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
16 5 (0.11%) Endace
Vendors
1 616 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.79%) SAP
3 257 (5.61%) ServiceNow
4 204 (4.45%) Oracle
5 193 (4.21%) Databricks
6 168 (3.67%) VMware
7 152 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.55%) Cisco
9 100 (2.18%) Google
10 86 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 68 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 59 (1.29%) Splunk
13 45 (0.98%) Workday
14 43 (0.94%) Sparx
15 42 (0.92%) Palo Alto
16 39 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
17 38 (0.83%) Red Hat
18 36 (0.79%) IBM
19 34 (0.74%) Centrify
19 34 (0.74%) Juniper