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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 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 4,946 2,640 3,673
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.67% 10.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 10.53% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 1,765 2,414
10th Percentile £475 £472 £488
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 £713 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 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 £83.80 £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 41,504 25,074 32,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.85% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,322 16,297 21,665
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,247 2,185
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £45.57 £27.21 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.48% -35.98% -3.65%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -8.57%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +7 2,510 £620 -4.62% 1,041
North of England +7 716 £600 - 228
South East 0 715 £638 +6.25% 243
Midlands -3 414 £620 +7.83% 112
North West +6 384 £608 +1.33% 121
West Midlands -4 305 £626 +4.33% 81
South West -4 285 £625 - 117
Yorkshire +9 263 £600 - 69
East of England +17 176 £600 - 60
East Midlands +7 103 £600 +20.00% 30
North East +3 77 £600 -15.79% 38
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 1,439 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,243 (25.13%) Azure
3 1,045 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 1,027 (20.76%) AWS
5 763 (15.43%) Roadmaps
6 690 (13.95%) Migration
7 650 (13.14%) Microsoft
8 631 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 595 (12.03%) AI
10 579 (11.71%) Agile
11 571 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
12 558 (11.28%) DevOps
13 513 (10.37%) Data Modelling
14 507 (10.25%) CI/CD
15 479 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 477 (9.64%) Data Architecture
17 472 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
18 466 (9.42%) Integration Patterns
19 436 (8.82%) Analytics
20 412 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
21 409 (8.27%) TOGAF
22 380 (7.68%) GCP
23 339 (6.85%) Microservices
24 337 (6.81%) Security Architecture
25 333 (6.73%) Problem-Solving
26 323 (6.53%) Architectural Design
27 307 (6.21%) DV Cleared
28 305 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
29 302 (6.11%) Event-Driven
30 293 (5.92%) 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 64 (1.29%) SAS
3 57 (1.15%) Confluence
4 40 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 38 (0.77%) Apache
5 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.40%) CMS
7 20 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 16 (0.32%) Appian
9 13 (0.26%) nginx
9 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.16%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
16 4 (0.081%) SAP EP
16 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.040%) Windchill
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.51%) 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 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) Maximo
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 4 (0.081%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (25.13%) Azure
2 1,027 (20.76%) AWS
3 380 (7.68%) GCP
4 256 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 190 (3.84%) Entra ID
6 178 (3.60%) SaaS
7 160 (3.23%) Serverless
8 118 (2.39%) GitHub
9 112 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 110 (2.22%) PaaS
11 106 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 96 (1.94%) Snowflake
13 95 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
14 81 (1.64%) IaaS
15 74 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.44%) Amazon S3
17 57 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 57 (1.15%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 166 (3.36%) Network Security
2 165 (3.34%) Firewall
3 103 (2.08%) DNS
4 97 (1.96%) WAN
5 84 (1.70%) VPN
6 70 (1.42%) LAN
7 49 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 49 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 45 (0.91%) BGP
9 41 (0.83%) DHCP
10 37 (0.75%) MPLS
11 34 (0.69%) VLAN
12 29 (0.59%) Wireless
13 28 (0.57%) OSPF
13 28 (0.57%) SAN
14 25 (0.51%) NAS
15 24 (0.49%) IPsec
16 23 (0.47%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (3.68%) Power BI
2 152 (3.07%) Metadata
3 149 (3.01%) Data Lake
4 136 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 57 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 43 (0.87%) Big Data
8 42 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 29 (0.59%) Delta Lake
13 26 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (0.53%) GIS
14 24 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
16 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (0.40%) Tableau
17 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 85 (1.72%) JIRA
2 65 (1.31%) Git
3 60 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.63%) 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
1 918 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 786 (15.89%) Finance
3 528 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 303 (6.13%) Banking
5 267 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
6 228 (4.61%) Retail
7 135 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 126 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 118 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 97 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.58%) Legal
12 55 (1.11%) Marketing
13 53 (1.07%) Billing
14 49 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 47 (0.95%) Military
16 45 (0.91%) Law
17 41 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 38 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 29 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.77%) REST
2 164 (3.32%) Middleware
3 115 (2.33%) .NET
4 110 (2.22%) SOAP
5 92 (1.86%) Kafka
6 90 (1.82%) OAuth
7 72 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 66 (1.33%) OpenID
9 57 (1.15%) SAML
10 48 (0.97%) OAuth2
10 48 (0.97%) React
11 43 (0.87%) JSON
11 43 (0.87%) SailPoint
12 41 (0.83%) LDAP
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 37 (0.75%) .NET Framework
15 34 (0.69%) PySpark
16 30 (0.61%) Web Services
17 28 (0.57%) AngularJS
17 28 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 408 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 132 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 130 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 122 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 120 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 113 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 107 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 93 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 91 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 87 (1.76%) Operational Technology
12 85 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 76 (1.54%) CMDB
14 67 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
16 54 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 51 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 49 (0.99%) Private Cloud
19 44 (0.89%) Mainframe
20 39 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.30%) Windows
2 80 (1.62%) Linux
3 32 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.51%) Android
4 25 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) 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%) Solaris
11 4 (0.081%) VMS
12 3 (0.061%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (15.43%) Roadmaps
2 690 (13.95%) Migration
3 631 (12.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 595 (12.03%) AI
5 579 (11.71%) Agile
6 571 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
7 558 (11.28%) DevOps
8 513 (10.37%) Data Modelling
9 507 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 479 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 477 (9.64%) Data Architecture
12 472 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
13 466 (9.42%) Integration Patterns
14 436 (8.82%) Analytics
15 412 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
16 409 (8.27%) TOGAF
17 339 (6.85%) Microservices
18 337 (6.81%) Security Architecture
19 333 (6.73%) Problem-Solving
20 323 (6.53%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 257 (5.20%) Python
2 237 (4.79%) SQL
3 205 (4.14%) Java
4 110 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 84 (1.70%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.17%) C#
7 45 (0.91%) Bicep
8 44 (0.89%) Bash
9 41 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.28%) Ruby
12 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.22%) Scala
14 10 (0.20%) ABAP
14 10 (0.20%) C++
15 8 (0.16%) Go
15 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.16%) R
15 8 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,439 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,045 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 307 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 170 (3.44%) Degree
5 128 (2.59%) CISSP
6 112 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 98 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 93 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 70 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 64 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.17%) CISM
13 45 (0.91%) CCNP
14 41 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 30 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 23 (0.47%) CCSP
18 20 (0.40%) CCIE
19 18 (0.36%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (3.42%) NIST
2 168 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 153 (3.09%) GDPR
4 122 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 100 (2.02%) NCSC
6 57 (1.15%) QA
7 51 (1.03%) GRC
8 39 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 21 (0.42%) SEPA
13 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.38%) IFRS
14 17 (0.34%) COBIT
14 17 (0.34%) HL7
15 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 11 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.02%) Docker
3 68 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.38%) vSphere
7 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.22%) 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
1 242 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 222 (4.49%) Terraform
3 92 (1.86%) 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 (0.42%) 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
1 650 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 289 (5.84%) SAP
3 256 (5.18%) Oracle
4 254 (5.14%) ServiceNow
5 217 (4.39%) Databricks
6 157 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 139 (2.81%) VMware
8 123 (2.49%) Google
9 121 (2.45%) Cisco
10 60 (1.21%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.11%) IBM
12 50 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 49 (0.99%) Workday
14 48 (0.97%) Splunk
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