Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £622, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,981 2,595 3,394
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.92% 9.39% 10.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.81% 10.25% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,343 1,721 2,247
10th Percentile £481 £475 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £706 £738
90th Percentile £800 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 18 77
10th Percentile £46.00 £36.30 -
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 £71.91 £87.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £83.90 £100.00 £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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £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 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 2,546 £625 -3.85% 1,574
South East 0 728 £625 +4.17% 340
North of England +4 699 £600 - 304
Midlands -1 415 £625 +8.70% 149
North West +7 403 £600 - 170
West Midlands -2 302 £627 +4.42% 102
South West -6 300 £625 -2.34% 184
Yorkshire +3 233 £600 0.00% 99
East of England +13 155 £600 +8.11% 93
East Midlands +4 106 £600 +16.50% 47
North East -5 65 £600 -15.79% 35
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 1,479 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,270 (25.50%) Azure
3 1,068 (21.44%) SC Cleared
4 1,019 (20.46%) AWS
5 747 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 721 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 711 (14.27%) Migration
8 665 (13.35%) Microsoft
9 632 (12.69%) AI
10 623 (12.51%) Enterprise Architecture
11 555 (11.14%) Agile
12 545 (10.94%) DevOps
13 527 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
14 523 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 518 (10.40%) CI/CD
16 505 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 495 (9.94%) Data Architecture
18 483 (9.70%) Integration Patterns
19 450 (9.03%) Analytics
20 396 (7.95%) TOGAF
21 394 (7.91%) GCP
22 390 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
23 360 (7.23%) Security Architecture
24 321 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
25 317 (6.36%) DV Cleared
26 311 (6.24%) Cybersecurity
26 311 (6.24%) Microservices
27 310 (6.22%) Event-Driven
28 298 (5.98%) Architectural Design
29 297 (5.96%) 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 77 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.43%) SAS
3 52 (1.04%) Confluence
4 41 (0.82%) Apache
5 39 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 17 (0.34%) CMS
10 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.16%) Appian
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 5 (0.10%) nginx
15 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.080%) NetWeaver
16 3 (0.060%) Drupal
16 3 (0.060%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.040%) Windchill
9 1 (0.020%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
9 8 (0.16%) SAP IBP
10 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.12%) Endur
11 6 (0.12%) Maximo
12 5 (0.10%) SAP MM
12 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,270 (25.50%) Azure
2 1,019 (20.46%) AWS
3 394 (7.91%) GCP
4 267 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 183 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 182 (3.65%) SaaS
7 156 (3.13%) Serverless
8 124 (2.49%) GitHub
9 123 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 105 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
11 104 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 102 (2.05%) PaaS
13 73 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (1.45%) IaaS
15 69 (1.39%) Amazon S3
16 59 (1.18%) OCI
17 58 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
18 54 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.95%) Firewall
1 147 (2.95%) Network Security
2 98 (1.97%) WAN
3 87 (1.75%) DNS
4 72 (1.45%) LAN
4 72 (1.45%) VPN
5 47 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 46 (0.92%) BGP
7 40 (0.80%) DHCP
8 38 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 36 (0.72%) MPLS
10 33 (0.66%) VLAN
11 28 (0.56%) SAN
12 25 (0.50%) OSPF
12 25 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 25 (0.50%) Wireless
13 24 (0.48%) NAS
14 21 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
15 20 (0.40%) NX-OS
16 18 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (3.79%) Power BI
2 166 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 149 (2.99%) Metadata
4 147 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 51 (1.02%) SQL Server
7 42 (0.84%) Big Data
8 38 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 37 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
12 30 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 25 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 25 (0.50%) GIS
15 19 (0.38%) MongoDB
15 19 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
16 18 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.36%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 72 (1.45%) JIRA
2 67 (1.35%) Git
3 50 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.64%) GitLab
5 20 (0.40%) ERwin
6 10 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) Maven
9 6 (0.12%) MSI
9 6 (0.12%) Storybook
10 5 (0.10%) MLflow
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) Postman
11 4 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
11 4 (0.080%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 957 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 762 (15.30%) Finance
3 531 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 291 (5.84%) Banking
5 267 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 242 (4.86%) Retail
7 134 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
8 122 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 117 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 106 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 78 (1.57%) Legal
12 62 (1.24%) Marketing
13 55 (1.10%) Billing
14 46 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 46 (0.92%) Law
14 46 (0.92%) Military
15 45 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 40 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 35 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (4.92%) REST
2 156 (3.13%) Middleware
3 117 (2.35%) .NET
4 112 (2.25%) SOAP
5 105 (2.11%) Kafka
6 98 (1.97%) OAuth
7 69 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
8 53 (1.06%) OpenID
8 53 (1.06%) SAML
9 52 (1.04%) JSON
10 50 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 41 (0.82%) React
11 41 (0.82%) RESTful
12 36 (0.72%) .NET Framework
13 35 (0.70%) PySpark
13 35 (0.70%) SailPoint
14 31 (0.62%) XML
15 29 (0.58%) JWT
16 27 (0.54%) LDAP
17 26 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 420 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 152 (3.05%) Data Centre
3 127 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 125 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 124 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 124 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 118 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 111 (2.23%) AI Agents
8 109 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 99 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 97 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 83 (1.67%) Operational Technology
12 81 (1.63%) CMDB
13 65 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
15 61 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 55 (1.10%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.92%) Private Cloud
18 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
19 41 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 109 (2.19%) Windows
2 85 (1.71%) Linux
3 34 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.40%) Android
6 19 (0.38%) Unix
7 16 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.18%) AIX
8 9 (0.18%) zOS
9 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.10%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.060%) VMS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) HPUX
13 2 (0.040%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (15.00%) Roadmaps
2 721 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 711 (14.27%) Migration
4 632 (12.69%) AI
5 623 (12.51%) Enterprise Architecture
6 555 (11.14%) Agile
7 545 (10.94%) DevOps
8 527 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
9 523 (10.50%) Data Modelling
10 518 (10.40%) CI/CD
11 505 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 495 (9.94%) Data Architecture
13 483 (9.70%) Integration Patterns
14 450 (9.03%) Analytics
15 396 (7.95%) TOGAF
16 390 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
17 360 (7.23%) Security Architecture
18 321 (6.44%) Problem-Solving
19 311 (6.24%) Cybersecurity
19 311 (6.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 238 (4.78%) Python
2 231 (4.64%) SQL
3 206 (4.14%) Java
4 116 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 88 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 52 (1.04%) C#
7 44 (0.88%) Bash
8 42 (0.84%) Bicep
9 41 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.28%) Ruby
14 13 (0.26%) C++
15 11 (0.22%) Groovy
16 10 (0.20%) ABAP
16 10 (0.20%) Scala
17 9 (0.18%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,479 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,068 (21.44%) SC Cleared
3 317 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 155 (3.11%) Degree
5 126 (2.53%) CISSP
6 111 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 94 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 84 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 79 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 69 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 59 (1.18%) CISM
13 38 (0.76%) CCNP
13 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 31 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 19 (0.38%) CCIE
17 19 (0.38%) CCSP
18 18 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.59%) Data Quality
2 175 (3.51%) NIST
3 147 (2.95%) GDPR
4 134 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.87%) NCSC
6 63 (1.26%) GRC
7 55 (1.10%) QA
8 36 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 31 (0.62%) NIST 800
11 29 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.40%) SEPA
14 19 (0.38%) IFRS
14 19 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.30%) HL7
15 15 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.28%) SLA
17 13 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
17 13 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 144 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.89%) Docker
3 63 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.30%) vSphere
8 14 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 7 (0.14%) Varnish
11 6 (0.12%) Postfix
11 6 (0.12%) vCloud
12 4 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.080%) IAG
12 4 (0.080%) KVM
12 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
13 3 (0.060%) Ceph
13 3 (0.060%) SRDF
14 2 (0.040%) Squid
Systems Management
1 238 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 213 (4.28%) Terraform
3 91 (1.83%) Ansible
4 41 (0.82%) Grafana
5 38 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.32%) Argo
9 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
13 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.12%) SCCM
13 6 (0.12%) WMI
14 5 (0.10%) CASB
14 5 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
14 5 (0.10%) MOM
14 5 (0.10%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 665 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 285 (5.72%) SAP
3 268 (5.38%) Oracle
4 255 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 229 (4.60%) Databricks
6 163 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 146 (2.93%) Google
8 126 (2.53%) Cisco
9 125 (2.51%) VMware
10 57 (1.14%) IBM
11 56 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 53 (1.06%) MuleSoft
13 52 (1.04%) Workday
14 47 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 43 (0.86%) Foundry
16 37 (0.74%) Sparx
17 35 (0.70%) Ariba
17 35 (0.70%) Splunk
18 33 (0.66%) Adobe
18 33 (0.66%) F5