Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £616, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,831 2,456 3,871
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.02% 9.58% 10.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.93% 10.40% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 1,616 2,528
10th Percentile £463 £475 £489
25th Percentile £515 £540 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £738
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 20 94
10th Percentile £49.40 £38.07 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £61.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £72.91 £86.00 £86.66
90th Percentile £90.53 £100.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -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 40,492 23,624 34,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,797 15,453 22,545
10th Percentile £325 £290 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 £735 £749 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,908 1,100 2,588
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.95 £16.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +5 2,363 £625 -3.85% 657
North of England +5 725 £600 - 242
South East +5 708 £625 +4.17% 239
Midlands +3 436 £613 +6.52% 112
North West +5 388 £610 +1.67% 147
West Midlands +1 312 £625 +4.17% 88
South West +2 279 £635 +3.67% 114
Yorkshire +10 274 £575 -4.17% 52
East of England +25 197 £600 - 50
East Midlands +6 118 £575 +15.00% 24
North East +10 70 £575 -8.00% 46
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 1,405 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,207 (24.98%) Azure
3 1,016 (21.03%) SC Cleared
4 983 (20.35%) AWS
5 702 (14.53%) Roadmaps
6 697 (14.43%) Migration
7 656 (13.58%) Microsoft
8 593 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 578 (11.96%) Agile
10 569 (11.78%) DevOps
11 536 (11.10%) AI
12 511 (10.58%) CI/CD
13 504 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
14 469 (9.71%) Data Modelling
15 462 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 450 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
17 442 (9.15%) Integration Patterns
18 434 (8.98%) Data Architecture
19 401 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
20 400 (8.28%) Analytics
21 370 (7.66%) TOGAF
22 368 (7.62%) GCP
23 342 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
24 332 (6.87%) Microservices
25 328 (6.79%) Architectural Design
26 311 (6.44%) Security Architecture
27 302 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
28 294 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
29 288 (5.96%) DV Cleared
30 278 (5.75%) SAP

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
1 103 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 70 (1.45%) Confluence
3 51 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (0.87%) SAS
5 29 (0.60%) Apache
6 28 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 20 (0.41%) Appian
9 18 (0.37%) CMS
9 18 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.21%) Anypoint
12 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.12%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
4 7 (0.14%) Revit
5 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.041%) Windchill
7 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.021%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 25 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
11 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
13 6 (0.12%) Maximo
13 6 (0.12%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
13 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
14 5 (0.10%) Endur
14 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (24.98%) Azure
2 983 (20.35%) AWS
3 368 (7.62%) GCP
4 250 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 182 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 174 (3.60%) SaaS
7 168 (3.48%) Serverless
8 123 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (2.42%) GitHub
10 112 (2.32%) PaaS
11 108 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
12 101 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
13 91 (1.88%) Snowflake
14 84 (1.74%) IaaS
15 75 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 72 (1.49%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.28%) OpenShift
18 56 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
19 55 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 54 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 179 (3.71%) Firewall
2 174 (3.60%) Network Security
3 118 (2.44%) DNS
4 110 (2.28%) WAN
5 98 (2.03%) VPN
6 79 (1.64%) LAN
7 59 (1.22%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.95%) DHCP
9 45 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 44 (0.91%) BGP
11 38 (0.79%) VLAN
12 35 (0.72%) MPLS
13 34 (0.70%) OSPF
14 29 (0.60%) Wireless
15 26 (0.54%) SAN
16 25 (0.52%) NAS
17 24 (0.50%) IPsec
18 23 (0.48%) BIG-IP
19 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
20 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (3.68%) Power BI
2 140 (2.90%) Metadata
3 135 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 121 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (1.26%) NoSQL
6 60 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (0.75%) Big Data
9 32 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 28 (0.58%) Delta Lake
11 27 (0.56%) Tableau
12 25 (0.52%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 18 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (0.35%) GIS
17 17 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (2.01%) JIRA
2 71 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 62 (1.28%) Git
4 33 (0.68%) GitLab
5 24 (0.50%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.083%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.083%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.083%) Snyk
General
1 896 (18.55%) Social Skills
2 801 (16.58%) Finance
3 530 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 291 (6.02%) Banking
5 264 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 208 (4.31%) Retail
7 146 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 115 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 88 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 86 (1.78%) Legal
12 53 (1.10%) Law
13 51 (1.06%) Billing
13 51 (1.06%) Military
14 48 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.95%) Marketing
16 38 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 33 (0.68%) Investment Banking
19 30 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (4.68%) REST
2 166 (3.44%) Middleware
3 117 (2.42%) .NET
4 108 (2.24%) SOAP
5 81 (1.68%) OpenID
6 80 (1.66%) OAuth
7 71 (1.47%) Kafka
8 67 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 66 (1.37%) SAML
10 56 (1.16%) LDAP
11 48 (0.99%) OAuth2
12 46 (0.95%) React
13 44 (0.91%) SailPoint
14 38 (0.79%) JSON
15 37 (0.77%) RESTful
16 33 (0.68%) .NET Framework
16 33 (0.68%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.64%) Node.js
18 30 (0.62%) Web Services
19 29 (0.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 416 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 142 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 131 (2.71%) Onboarding
3 131 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 122 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 113 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 105 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 93 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 82 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 79 (1.64%) Operational Technology
10 76 (1.57%) CMDB
11 72 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 71 (1.47%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 46 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
15 45 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.91%) Private Cloud
17 41 (0.85%) Mainframe
18 37 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 133 (2.75%) Windows
2 75 (1.55%) Linux
3 35 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.58%) Android
4 28 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.48%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 9 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.10%) AIX
8 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.083%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.083%) Solaris
9 4 (0.083%) VMS
9 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (14.53%) Roadmaps
2 697 (14.43%) Migration
3 593 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 578 (11.96%) Agile
5 569 (11.78%) DevOps
6 536 (11.10%) AI
7 511 (10.58%) CI/CD
8 504 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 469 (9.71%) Data Modelling
10 462 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 450 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
12 442 (9.15%) Integration Patterns
13 434 (8.98%) Data Architecture
14 401 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
15 400 (8.28%) Analytics
16 370 (7.66%) TOGAF
17 342 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
18 332 (6.87%) Microservices
19 328 (6.79%) Architectural Design
20 311 (6.44%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 277 (5.73%) Python
2 236 (4.89%) SQL
3 195 (4.04%) Java
4 109 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 94 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 58 (1.20%) C#
7 50 (1.03%) Bicep
8 41 (0.85%) Bash
9 40 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 13 (0.27%) Scala
13 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.19%) ABAP
14 9 (0.19%) C++
14 9 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 1,405 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 1,016 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 288 (5.96%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.64%) Degree
5 108 (2.24%) CISSP
6 105 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 94 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 93 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 75 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 74 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 69 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 51 (1.06%) CISM
13 49 (1.01%) CCNP
14 43 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.70%) Master's Degree
16 33 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 28 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.46%) CCIE
19 21 (0.43%) CCSP
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (3.62%) NIST
2 157 (3.25%) GDPR
3 148 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 129 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.19%) NCSC
6 62 (1.28%) QA
7 40 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.64%) GRC
9 29 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 24 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 21 (0.43%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) COBIT
14 18 (0.37%) IFRS
15 17 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (0.35%) HL7
16 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.21%) FINRA
17 10 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 155 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.93%) Docker
3 75 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.41%) vSphere
7 17 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.31%) 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 (0.14%) Postfix
11 7 (0.14%) vCloud
12 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.083%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.083%) IAG
12 4 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.083%) RACF
12 4 (0.083%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 234 (4.84%) Terraform
2 222 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.01%) Ansible
4 49 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.91%) Grafana
5 44 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.48%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.37%) Argo
9 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.29%) SCCM
11 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.14%) Consul
12 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
12 7 (0.14%) Istio
12 7 (0.14%) Puppet
13 6 (0.12%) CASB
13 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 656 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 278 (5.75%) SAP
3 252 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 226 (4.68%) Oracle
5 210 (4.35%) Databricks
6 156 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 150 (3.10%) VMware
8 124 (2.57%) Cisco
9 116 (2.40%) Google
10 67 (1.39%) CyberArk
11 57 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 56 (1.16%) Splunk
13 50 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 44 (0.91%) IBM
15 42 (0.87%) Workday
16 39 (0.81%) Red Hat
16 39 (0.81%) Sparx
17 38 (0.79%) Foundry
17 38 (0.79%) OpenAI
18 36 (0.75%) F5