Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,764 2,965 3,547
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.05% 9.62% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.92% 10.34% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,917 1,786 2,483
10th Percentile £460 £480 £500
25th Percentile £523 £547 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £734
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 35
10th Percentile £65.00 £60.15 £57.50
25th Percentile £77.55 £61.75 £65.63
Median hourly rate £85.00 £66.75 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +27.34% -12.78% +9.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £84.48 £81.56
90th Percentile £97.50 £89.75 £91.75
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £67.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +25.93% -11.80% +9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,864 28,662 36,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,852 17,623 25,021
10th Percentile £283 £300 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,683 1,043 1,402
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.23 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +46.67%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -3 1,260 £630 +0.40% 287
South East +4 484 £600 -4.00% 303
North of England -10 367 £600 -3.23% 69
South West +1 253 £693 +6.54% 71
Midlands -6 227 £581 -3.17% 81
North West -8 219 £598 -3.63% 37
West Midlands -11 167 £600 - 54
Yorkshire -17 129 £606 +3.19% 21
East of England 0 83 £553 -7.92% 45
East Midlands -1 60 £500 -9.09% 26
North East -5 20 £700 +12.13% 11
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, 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.

1 871 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 779 (28.18%) Azure
3 589 (21.31%) SC Cleared
4 580 (20.98%) AWS
5 429 (15.52%) Roadmaps
6 417 (15.09%) Agile
6 417 (15.09%) Microsoft
7 384 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 326 (11.79%) Enterprise Architecture
9 320 (11.58%) Migration
10 310 (11.22%) TOGAF
11 309 (11.18%) Data Modelling
12 299 (10.82%) DevOps
12 299 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 279 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
14 272 (9.84%) CI/CD
15 261 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
16 248 (8.97%) GCP
17 242 (8.76%) Microservices
18 226 (8.18%) AI
19 217 (7.85%) Data Architecture
19 217 (7.85%) DV Cleared
20 211 (7.63%) Analytics
21 206 (7.45%) Python
22 189 (6.84%) Data Governance
22 189 (6.84%) Terraform
23 186 (6.73%) Mentoring
24 181 (6.55%) Security Architecture
25 180 (6.51%) Architectural Design
26 177 (6.40%) ITIL

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 93 (3.36%) Confluence
2 48 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.76%) SAS
5 17 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.54%) CMS
8 14 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 14 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 12 (0.43%) Apache
10 7 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 7 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.14%) Documentum
11 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) Mule
11 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 39 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.40%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.036%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.036%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.036%) Revit
9 1 (0.036%) Trello
Business Applications
1 75 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 20 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 19 (0.69%) Workday HCM
6 18 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
7 17 (0.62%) Maximo
8 15 (0.54%) SAP PM
9 13 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
9 13 (0.47%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.47%) Teamcenter
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.36%) NetSuite
12 9 (0.33%) Endur
13 7 (0.25%) Aladdin
13 7 (0.25%) SAP PP
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle SCM
14 6 (0.22%) SAP HR
15 5 (0.18%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 779 (28.18%) Azure
2 580 (20.98%) AWS
3 248 (8.97%) GCP
4 125 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 124 (4.49%) SaaS
6 88 (3.18%) Serverless
7 87 (3.15%) Entra ID
8 78 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
9 70 (2.53%) IaaS
10 69 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 68 (2.46%) GitHub
12 58 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
13 56 (2.03%) PaaS
14 54 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (1.88%) Snowflake
16 46 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (1.59%) Amazon S3
17 44 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
18 43 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
19 40 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 173 (6.26%) Firewall
2 94 (3.40%) WAN
3 84 (3.04%) LAN
4 83 (3.00%) Network Security
5 65 (2.35%) VPN
6 64 (2.32%) SD-WAN
7 61 (2.21%) DNS
8 38 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (1.16%) BGP
10 26 (0.94%) SAN
11 25 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 24 (0.87%) MPLS
13 23 (0.83%) DHCP
14 21 (0.76%) SSL
15 20 (0.72%) VSAN
16 16 (0.58%) Internet
16 16 (0.58%) VLAN
17 15 (0.54%) iSCSI
18 14 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
18 14 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (2.97%) Power BI
3 74 (2.68%) Metadata
4 65 (2.35%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 40 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 30 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 27 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 26 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (0.87%) Big Data
11 24 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 22 (0.80%) Tableau
13 20 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.65%) Data Vault
14 18 (0.65%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.65%) GIS
15 17 (0.62%) RDBMS
16 16 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 116 (4.20%) JIRA
2 61 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.70%) Git
4 22 (0.80%) GitLab
5 15 (0.54%) ERwin
6 8 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.25%) MLflow
8 6 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.18%) Gradle
9 5 (0.18%) Maven
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.18%) SonarLint
9 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.14%) MSI
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 758 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 482 (17.44%) Finance
3 339 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 239 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 185 (6.69%) Banking
6 87 (3.15%) Telecoms
7 75 (2.71%) Retail
8 65 (2.35%) Marketing
9 64 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 60 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 59 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (2.06%) Legal
13 55 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 52 (1.88%) Military
15 41 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 39 (1.41%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.01%) Billing
18 25 (0.90%) Back Office
19 19 (0.69%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.03%) REST
2 86 (3.11%) Middleware
3 69 (2.50%) .NET
4 68 (2.46%) SOAP
5 60 (2.17%) JSON
6 53 (1.92%) Kafka
7 50 (1.81%) OAuth
8 47 (1.70%) RESTful
9 43 (1.56%) SAML
10 39 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (1.27%) AngularJS
11 35 (1.27%) Web Services
12 30 (1.09%) React
13 28 (1.01%) OAuth2
13 28 (1.01%) OpenID
14 26 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (0.94%) Visualforce
15 25 (0.90%) Spring Boot
16 22 (0.80%) SailPoint
17 21 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 130 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 112 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 97 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 78 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 75 (2.71%) PKI
7 70 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 47 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.45%) CMDB
12 39 (1.41%) Operational Technology
13 36 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.09%) NHS
16 28 (1.01%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 24 (0.87%) SCADA
19 23 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.34%) Windows
2 77 (2.79%) Linux
3 45 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.43%) Unix
6 12 (0.43%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.29%) VMS
9 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.22%) Android
10 6 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.11%) Solaris
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.072%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) zOS
14 1 (0.036%) AIX
14 1 (0.036%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (15.52%) Roadmaps
2 417 (15.09%) Agile
3 384 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 326 (11.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 320 (11.58%) Migration
6 310 (11.22%) TOGAF
7 309 (11.18%) Data Modelling
8 299 (10.82%) DevOps
8 299 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 279 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
10 272 (9.84%) CI/CD
11 261 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
12 242 (8.76%) Microservices
13 226 (8.18%) AI
14 217 (7.85%) Data Architecture
15 211 (7.63%) Analytics
16 189 (6.84%) Data Governance
17 186 (6.73%) Mentoring
18 181 (6.55%) Security Architecture
19 180 (6.51%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.45%) Python
2 144 (5.21%) SQL
3 138 (4.99%) Java
4 95 (3.44%) PowerShell
5 58 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.37%) C#
8 33 (1.19%) Apex Code
9 29 (1.05%) Bash
10 26 (0.94%) Bicep
11 17 (0.62%) R
12 13 (0.47%) C++
13 12 (0.43%) C
14 11 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.29%) Korn
16 6 (0.22%) ABAP
16 6 (0.22%) PHP
16 6 (0.22%) Scala
17 5 (0.18%) Perl
17 5 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 871 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 589 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 217 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 157 (5.68%) Degree
5 92 (3.33%) CISSP
6 86 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 78 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 59 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 57 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 37 (1.34%) CISM
13 35 (1.27%) Master's Degree
14 33 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.16%) CCNP
16 30 (1.09%) CCIE
17 23 (0.83%) ISEB
18 21 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (5.14%) GDPR
2 110 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (3.84%) NIST
4 86 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 47 (1.70%) NCSC
6 44 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 44 (1.59%) QA
7 30 (1.09%) COBIT
7 30 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 23 (0.83%) GRC
9 22 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 20 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 19 (0.69%) JSP 440
12 14 (0.51%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
14 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.33%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (3.91%) Docker
2 107 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 85 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.23%) vSphere
5 28 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 24 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.54%) NFS
8 14 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.36%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
11 4 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.072%) KVM
14 1 (0.036%) GPFS
14 1 (0.036%) HDFS
14 1 (0.036%) SRDF
14 1 (0.036%) Varnish
14 1 (0.036%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 189 (6.84%) Terraform
2 151 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 76 (2.75%) Ansible
4 47 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 27 (0.98%) OPNET
6 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.54%) SCCM
9 13 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.40%) WMI
11 9 (0.33%) Argo
12 7 (0.25%) Grafana
13 4 (0.14%) SCOM
14 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.11%) vRealize
15 2 (0.072%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 417 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.01%) ServiceNow
3 165 (5.97%) SAP
4 152 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 130 (4.70%) VMware
6 128 (4.63%) Oracle
7 108 (3.91%) Cisco
8 90 (3.26%) Databricks
9 84 (3.04%) Google
10 50 (1.81%) Fortinet
10 50 (1.81%) Splunk
11 46 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.59%) Remedy
13 43 (1.56%) Workday
14 41 (1.48%) IBM
15 36 (1.30%) CyberArk
15 36 (1.30%) F5
16 33 (1.19%) Juniper
17 31 (1.12%) Atlassian
18 30 (1.09%) Pega