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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,987 2,630 3,546
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.06% 9.59% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.95% 10.45% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 1,754 2,339
10th Percentile £475 £468 £485
25th Percentile £525 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.55%
75th Percentile £725 £713 £738
90th Percentile £789 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.12% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 19 81
10th Percentile £46.00 £37.19 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.88 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £72.24 £86.50 £85.25
90th Percentile £83.30 £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 41,736 25,175 31,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.76% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,423 16,354 21,069
10th Percentile £328 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,036 1,281 2,006
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.79 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 2,535 £625 -3.85% 1,008
South East 0 728 £638 +6.25% 249
North of England +5 722 £600 - 188
Midlands -3 411 £622 +8.17% 110
North West +4 396 £600 - 101
West Midlands -4 302 £626 +4.38% 84
South West -1 291 £625 - 103
Yorkshire +8 257 £600 - 54
East of England +14 172 £600 +5.49% 62
East Midlands +5 102 £600 +20.00% 26
North East +1 77 £600 -14.29% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 1,478 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 1,249 (25.05%) Azure
3 1,075 (21.56%) SC Cleared
4 1,037 (20.79%) AWS
5 756 (15.16%) Roadmaps
6 704 (14.12%) Migration
7 657 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 643 (12.89%) Microsoft
9 600 (12.03%) AI
10 584 (11.71%) Enterprise Architecture
11 579 (11.61%) Agile
12 551 (11.05%) DevOps
13 525 (10.53%) Data Modelling
14 516 (10.35%) CI/CD
15 492 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
16 491 (9.85%) Data Architecture
17 483 (9.69%) Integration Patterns
18 479 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 449 (9.00%) Analytics
20 414 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
21 406 (8.14%) TOGAF
22 383 (7.68%) GCP
23 347 (6.96%) Security Architecture
24 336 (6.74%) Microservices
25 334 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
26 317 (6.36%) DV Cleared
27 314 (6.30%) Architectural Design
28 301 (6.04%) Event-Driven
29 300 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
30 294 (5.90%) Data Governance

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 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.48%) SAS
3 53 (1.06%) Confluence
4 41 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.80%) Apache
6 35 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 18 (0.36%) CMS
10 14 (0.28%) Appian
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 7 (0.14%) Documentum
15 6 (0.12%) Camunda
16 5 (0.10%) NetWeaver
17 4 (0.080%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.080%) Jupyter
17 4 (0.080%) SAP EP
Applications
1 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.040%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.040%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 124 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 14 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 12 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
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 (0.080%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (25.05%) Azure
2 1,037 (20.79%) AWS
3 383 (7.68%) GCP
4 253 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 186 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 171 (3.43%) SaaS
7 156 (3.13%) Serverless
8 119 (2.39%) GitHub
9 116 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 111 (2.23%) PaaS
11 103 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
12 99 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
13 98 (1.97%) Snowflake
14 80 (1.60%) IaaS
15 73 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
16 72 (1.44%) Amazon S3
17 58 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 54 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
19 51 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 165 (3.31%) Network Security
2 158 (3.17%) Firewall
3 100 (2.01%) WAN
4 96 (1.93%) DNS
5 78 (1.56%) VPN
6 73 (1.46%) LAN
7 48 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 44 (0.88%) BGP
8 44 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 40 (0.80%) DHCP
10 36 (0.72%) MPLS
11 34 (0.68%) VLAN
12 29 (0.58%) Wireless
13 28 (0.56%) SAN
14 27 (0.54%) OSPF
15 25 (0.50%) NAS
16 23 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 22 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
18 21 (0.42%) IPsec
19 19 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (3.69%) Power BI
2 157 (3.15%) Metadata
3 156 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 145 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 56 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 44 (0.88%) Big Data
8 42 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 36 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 33 (0.66%) Delta Lake
11 28 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 26 (0.52%) GIS
13 25 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 20 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
14 20 (0.40%) Star Schema
15 19 (0.38%) Tableau
16 18 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 76 (1.52%) JIRA
2 65 (1.30%) Git
3 56 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.64%) GitLab
5 25 (0.50%) ERwin
6 9 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.16%) MLflow
8 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.14%) Maven
9 6 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.10%) Storybook
11 4 (0.080%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.080%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.080%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.080%) Snyk
12 3 (0.060%) Selenium
General
1 927 (18.59%) Social Skills
2 785 (15.74%) Finance
3 547 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 301 (6.04%) Banking
5 272 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (4.65%) Retail
7 128 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
8 124 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 117 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 99 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 74 (1.48%) Legal
12 55 (1.10%) Marketing
13 52 (1.04%) Billing
14 50 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 48 (0.96%) Law
16 47 (0.94%) Military
17 41 (0.82%) Aerospace
18 40 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 37 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
20 27 (0.54%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (4.73%) REST
2 166 (3.33%) Middleware
3 114 (2.29%) .NET
4 107 (2.15%) SOAP
5 99 (1.99%) Kafka
6 92 (1.84%) OAuth
7 71 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 56 (1.12%) OpenID
9 51 (1.02%) SAML
10 50 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 47 (0.94%) React
12 45 (0.90%) JSON
13 43 (0.86%) SailPoint
14 39 (0.78%) RESTful
15 35 (0.70%) .NET Framework
16 34 (0.68%) PySpark
17 29 (0.58%) LDAP
18 28 (0.56%) Node.js
18 28 (0.56%) Web Services
19 27 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 415 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.89%) Data Centre
3 130 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 125 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 121 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 120 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 117 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 110 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 97 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 95 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 88 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 84 (1.68%) Operational Technology
13 74 (1.48%) CMDB
14 69 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 59 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 56 (1.12%) Security Posture
17 52 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 50 (1.00%) Private Cloud
19 45 (0.90%) Mainframe
20 40 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 110 (2.21%) Windows
2 78 (1.56%) Linux
3 32 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.50%) Android
4 25 (0.50%) 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 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.080%) Solaris
11 4 (0.080%) VMS
12 3 (0.060%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.040%) CentOS
13 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) CatOS
14 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (15.16%) Roadmaps
2 704 (14.12%) Migration
3 657 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 600 (12.03%) AI
5 584 (11.71%) Enterprise Architecture
6 579 (11.61%) Agile
7 551 (11.05%) DevOps
8 525 (10.53%) Data Modelling
9 516 (10.35%) CI/CD
10 492 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
11 491 (9.85%) Data Architecture
12 483 (9.69%) Integration Patterns
13 479 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 449 (9.00%) Analytics
15 414 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
16 406 (8.14%) TOGAF
17 347 (6.96%) Security Architecture
18 336 (6.74%) Microservices
19 334 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
20 314 (6.30%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 249 (4.99%) Python
2 232 (4.65%) SQL
3 207 (4.15%) Java
4 114 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 56 (1.12%) C#
7 47 (0.94%) Bash
8 43 (0.86%) Bicep
9 40 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 28 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.28%) Ruby
12 13 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.24%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.22%) Scala
15 10 (0.20%) ABAP
15 10 (0.20%) C++
16 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) Groovy
17 7 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1,478 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 1,075 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 317 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 168 (3.37%) Degree
5 126 (2.53%) CISSP
6 109 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 92 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 82 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 70 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 65 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.14%) CISM
13 45 (0.90%) CCNP
14 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.56%) Master's Degree
18 22 (0.44%) CCSP
19 20 (0.40%) CCIE
20 19 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 163 (3.27%) NIST
3 150 (3.01%) GDPR
4 117 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (1.90%) NCSC
6 57 (1.14%) GRC
7 56 (1.12%) QA
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 28 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (0.46%) SEPA
13 22 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 19 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.38%) IFRS
15 16 (0.32%) HL7
16 14 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.28%) SLA
17 13 (0.26%) COBIT
18 11 (0.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 145 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 99 (1.99%) Docker
3 65 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
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 (0.080%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.080%) Sendmail
14 4 (0.080%) Squid
15 3 (0.060%) KVM
15 3 (0.060%) RACF
15 3 (0.060%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 242 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 220 (4.41%) Terraform
3 93 (1.86%) Ansible
4 47 (0.94%) Grafana
5 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 34 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.44%) Argo
9 21 (0.42%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.14%) SCCM
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
14 6 (0.12%) HAProxy
14 6 (0.12%) Istio
15 5 (0.10%) MOM
16 4 (0.080%) NetBackup
16 4 (0.080%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 643 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 290 (5.82%) SAP
3 261 (5.23%) Oracle
4 252 (5.05%) ServiceNow
5 229 (4.59%) Databricks
6 152 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 136 (2.73%) VMware
8 126 (2.53%) Google
9 122 (2.45%) Cisco
10 58 (1.16%) IBM
11 56 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.00%) Workday
13 48 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 48 (0.96%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.88%) Foundry
15 39 (0.78%) Splunk
16 36 (0.72%) Ariba
16 36 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 36 (0.72%) Sparx
17 34 (0.68%) F5