Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,786 2,400 3,934
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.58% 10.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 10.39% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 1,572 2,567
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £513 £545 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £744
90th Percentile £800 £798 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 25 95
10th Percentile £49.40 £44.38 -
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 £77.56 £80.00 £87.23
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.13 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 40,119 23,104 34,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.25% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,696 15,170 22,649
10th Percentile £325 £293 £291
25th Percentile £417 £405 £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 £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,847 1,049 2,652
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -12.79%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +5 2,329 £625 -3.85% 323
South East +6 710 £625 +4.08% 173
North of England +6 705 £600 - 163
Midlands +3 439 £613 +3.90% 64
North West +4 374 £610 +2.31% 94
West Midlands +1 313 £625 +4.17% 53
South West +1 278 £645 +5.31% 70
Yorkshire +9 270 £558 -7.00% 40
East of England +27 206 £600 - 41
East Midlands +8 120 £575 +15.00% 11
North East +10 68 £575 -8.00% 31
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 1,393 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,182 (24.70%) Azure
3 1,016 (21.23%) SC Cleared
4 969 (20.25%) AWS
5 693 (14.48%) Migration
6 686 (14.33%) Roadmaps
7 647 (13.52%) Microsoft
8 581 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 570 (11.91%) DevOps
10 564 (11.78%) Agile
11 514 (10.74%) CI/CD
12 509 (10.64%) AI
13 499 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
14 458 (9.57%) Data Modelling
14 458 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 452 (9.44%) Integration Patterns
16 438 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
17 421 (8.80%) Data Architecture
18 397 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
19 392 (8.19%) Analytics
20 367 (7.67%) GCP
21 361 (7.54%) TOGAF
22 338 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
23 334 (6.98%) Architectural Design
24 332 (6.94%) Microservices
25 299 (6.25%) Security Architecture
26 297 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
27 291 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
28 283 (5.91%) Python
29 273 (5.70%) DV Cleared

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
1 105 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.55%) Confluence
3 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.86%) SAS
5 28 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 27 (0.56%) Apache
7 19 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 18 (0.38%) Appian
9 17 (0.36%) CMS
9 17 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
13 9 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 23 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 17 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.15%) Revit
7 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.042%) Windchill
9 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 121 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 9 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.13%) Maximo
12 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) Endur
13 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (24.70%) Azure
2 969 (20.25%) AWS
3 367 (7.67%) GCP
4 247 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 171 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 168 (3.51%) Serverless
7 166 (3.47%) SaaS
8 125 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 119 (2.49%) GitHub
10 106 (2.21%) PaaS
11 103 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 100 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 88 (1.84%) Snowflake
14 79 (1.65%) IaaS
15 77 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 74 (1.55%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
17 58 (1.21%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 172 (3.59%) Firewall
2 163 (3.41%) Network Security
3 118 (2.47%) DNS
4 103 (2.15%) WAN
5 95 (1.98%) VPN
6 75 (1.57%) LAN
7 56 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 44 (0.92%) DHCP
9 42 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 41 (0.86%) BGP
11 34 (0.71%) VLAN
12 33 (0.69%) MPLS
12 33 (0.69%) OSPF
13 29 (0.61%) Wireless
14 26 (0.54%) SAN
15 25 (0.52%) NAS
16 22 (0.46%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.46%) IPsec
16 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
17 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (3.68%) Power BI
2 134 (2.80%) Metadata
3 129 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 115 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 50 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.67%) Big Data
10 31 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 31 (0.65%) Tableau
11 29 (0.61%) Delta Lake
12 25 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.40%) GIS
16 18 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.38%) MongoDB
17 17 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 101 (2.11%) JIRA
2 76 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.21%) Git
4 36 (0.75%) GitLab
5 25 (0.52%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) JUnit
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
11 4 (0.084%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 883 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 790 (16.51%) Finance
3 527 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 294 (6.14%) Banking
5 250 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 196 (4.10%) Retail
7 145 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 110 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 92 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 90 (1.88%) Legal
11 83 (1.73%) Telecoms
12 56 (1.17%) Law
13 52 (1.09%) Military
14 46 (0.96%) Billing
15 45 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.86%) Marketing
17 39 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.75%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.71%) Investment Banking
20 33 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (4.74%) REST
2 167 (3.49%) Middleware
3 116 (2.42%) .NET
4 111 (2.32%) SOAP
5 84 (1.76%) OpenID
6 81 (1.69%) OAuth
7 70 (1.46%) Kafka
8 66 (1.38%) LDAP
8 66 (1.38%) SAML
9 64 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 49 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 45 (0.94%) React
12 43 (0.90%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.81%) RESTful
14 38 (0.79%) JSON
15 33 (0.69%) AngularJS
16 32 (0.67%) .NET Framework
17 30 (0.63%) Web Services
18 29 (0.61%) Node.js
19 27 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 415 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 136 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 133 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 127 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 118 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 111 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 108 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 104 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 101 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 79 (1.65%) Operational Technology
11 77 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 74 (1.55%) CMDB
13 71 (1.48%) Public Cloud
14 70 (1.46%) AI Agents
15 66 (1.38%) Security Posture
16 44 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 42 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 42 (0.88%) Private Cloud
18 41 (0.86%) Mainframe
19 35 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 134 (2.80%) Windows
2 77 (1.61%) Linux
3 33 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.084%) AIX
10 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.084%) Solaris
11 3 (0.063%) VMS
11 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (14.48%) Migration
2 686 (14.33%) Roadmaps
3 581 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 570 (11.91%) DevOps
5 564 (11.78%) Agile
6 514 (10.74%) CI/CD
7 509 (10.64%) AI
8 499 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 458 (9.57%) Data Modelling
9 458 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 452 (9.44%) Integration Patterns
11 438 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
12 421 (8.80%) Data Architecture
13 397 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
14 392 (8.19%) Analytics
15 361 (7.54%) TOGAF
16 338 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
17 334 (6.98%) Architectural Design
18 332 (6.94%) Microservices
19 299 (6.25%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 283 (5.91%) Python
2 233 (4.87%) SQL
3 196 (4.10%) Java
4 122 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 93 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.17%) C#
7 48 (1.00%) Bicep
8 39 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 37 (0.77%) Bash
10 22 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.33%) Ruby
12 14 (0.29%) Scala
13 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.17%) ABAP
16 8 (0.17%) C++
16 8 (0.17%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.17%) VBA
17 7 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,393 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 1,016 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 273 (5.70%) DV Cleared
4 170 (3.55%) Degree
5 103 (2.15%) Azure Certification
5 103 (2.15%) CISSP
6 88 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 88 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 75 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 72 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 49 (1.02%) CISM
11 47 (0.98%) CCNP
12 41 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 34 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.42%) CCIE
17 19 (0.40%) CCSP
18 18 (0.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (3.59%) NIST
2 157 (3.28%) GDPR
3 146 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 129 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 104 (2.17%) NCSC
6 63 (1.32%) QA
7 41 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 27 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.50%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 18 (0.38%) COBIT
13 18 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.38%) IFRS
14 17 (0.36%) HL7
15 13 (0.27%) FINRA
15 13 (0.27%) MiFID
16 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 157 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.96%) Docker
3 76 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.48%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.17%) NFS
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) vCloud
12 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.084%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.084%) IAG
12 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.084%) RACF
12 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 230 (4.81%) Terraform
2 217 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 99 (2.07%) Ansible
4 47 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.84%) Grafana
6 38 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 24 (0.50%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.36%) Argo
10 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.27%) SCCM
12 10 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.15%) Consul
14 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.15%) Istio
14 7 (0.15%) Puppet
15 6 (0.13%) EMC VPLEX
16 4 (0.084%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 647 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 272 (5.68%) SAP
3 252 (5.27%) ServiceNow
4 220 (4.60%) Oracle
5 205 (4.28%) Databricks
6 154 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 154 (3.22%) VMware
7 121 (2.53%) Cisco
8 111 (2.32%) Google
9 70 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 58 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 55 (1.15%) Splunk
12 48 (1.00%) Palo Alto
13 43 (0.90%) IBM
14 41 (0.86%) Workday
15 40 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 40 (0.84%) Sparx
16 39 (0.81%) OpenAI
17 38 (0.79%) Foundry
18 34 (0.71%) F5
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