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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 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 4,855 2,556 3,875
As % of all contract jobs in England 11.04% 9.70% 10.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.95% 10.53% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,237 1,682 2,541
10th Percentile £463 £480 £488
25th Percentile £515 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -3.85% -2.69%
75th Percentile £725 £720 £738
90th Percentile £800 £798 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 20 93
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 £72.58 £86.00 £85.65
90th Percentile £87.45 £100.00 £89.60
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 40,631 24,276 34,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,859 15,839 22,711
10th Percentile £325 £292 £300
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 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,929 1,140 2,561
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.08 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.28% -29.81% -8.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 2,379 £621 -4.50% 665
North of England +7 729 £600 - 278
South East +1 709 £625 +4.17% 235
Midlands +1 432 £613 +6.52% 113
North West +5 389 £610 +1.67% 162
West Midlands -2 311 £625 +4.17% 90
South West +1 279 £625 +1.83% 126
Yorkshire +10 276 £575 -4.17% 65
East of England +21 200 £600 - 51
East Midlands +6 114 £581 +16.25% 22
North East +2 71 £575 -8.00% 54
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 1,413 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,217 (25.07%) Azure
3 1,018 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 980 (20.19%) AWS
5 713 (14.69%) Roadmaps
6 696 (14.34%) Migration
7 657 (13.53%) Microsoft
8 601 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 585 (12.05%) Agile
10 570 (11.74%) DevOps
11 552 (11.37%) AI
12 518 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
13 507 (10.44%) CI/CD
14 477 (9.82%) Data Modelling
15 463 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 451 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
17 447 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
18 436 (8.98%) Data Architecture
19 405 (8.34%) Analytics
20 402 (8.28%) Architectural Patterns
21 381 (7.85%) TOGAF
22 364 (7.50%) GCP
23 339 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
24 337 (6.94%) Microservices
25 325 (6.69%) Architectural Design
26 319 (6.57%) Security Architecture
27 304 (6.26%) Infrastructure as Code
28 301 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
29 294 (6.06%) DV Cleared
30 286 (5.89%) 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 98 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 64 (1.32%) Confluence
3 48 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 44 (0.91%) SAS
5 29 (0.60%) Apache
6 28 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.43%) Appian
9 20 (0.41%) CMS
10 19 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.21%) Anypoint
13 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.19%) Camunda
15 7 (0.14%) Documentum
16 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
16 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
16 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 15 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 123 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 20 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.14%) Workday HCM
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) Maximo
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (25.07%) Azure
2 980 (20.19%) AWS
3 364 (7.50%) GCP
4 252 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 184 (3.79%) Entra ID
6 176 (3.63%) SaaS
7 167 (3.44%) Serverless
8 120 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (2.43%) GitHub
10 113 (2.33%) PaaS
11 110 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
12 105 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 91 (1.87%) Snowflake
14 84 (1.73%) IaaS
15 74 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.44%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.28%) OpenShift
18 58 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
19 57 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 54 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 181 (3.73%) Firewall
2 172 (3.54%) Network Security
3 117 (2.41%) DNS
4 109 (2.25%) WAN
5 97 (2.00%) VPN
6 79 (1.63%) LAN
7 58 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 46 (0.95%) DHCP
8 46 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 44 (0.91%) BGP
10 38 (0.78%) VLAN
11 35 (0.72%) MPLS
12 34 (0.70%) OSPF
13 29 (0.60%) Wireless
14 26 (0.54%) SAN
15 25 (0.51%) IPsec
15 25 (0.51%) NAS
16 23 (0.47%) BIG-IP
17 22 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
18 20 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (3.69%) Power BI
2 140 (2.88%) Data Lake
2 140 (2.88%) Metadata
3 124 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 59 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 45 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (0.76%) Big Data
9 32 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 29 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 27 (0.56%) Delta Lake
12 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (0.47%) Tableau
14 19 (0.39%) GIS
15 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
15 18 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 18 (0.37%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 93 (1.92%) JIRA
2 70 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 64 (1.32%) Git
4 33 (0.68%) GitLab
5 25 (0.51%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) 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 (0.082%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.082%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.082%) Snyk
General
1 907 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 800 (16.48%) Finance
3 529 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 300 (6.18%) Banking
5 268 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 217 (4.47%) Retail
7 147 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 120 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 93 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 82 (1.69%) Legal
12 53 (1.09%) Billing
13 51 (1.05%) Military
14 48 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 48 (0.99%) Law
15 47 (0.97%) Marketing
16 37 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 37 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 31 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (4.70%) REST
2 163 (3.36%) Middleware
3 118 (2.43%) .NET
4 106 (2.18%) SOAP
5 81 (1.67%) OAuth
5 81 (1.67%) OpenID
6 73 (1.50%) Kafka
7 67 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 66 (1.36%) SAML
9 52 (1.07%) LDAP
10 49 (1.01%) OAuth2
11 47 (0.97%) React
12 46 (0.95%) SailPoint
13 38 (0.78%) JSON
13 38 (0.78%) RESTful
14 33 (0.68%) .NET Framework
14 33 (0.68%) AngularJS
15 31 (0.64%) Node.js
15 31 (0.64%) Web Services
16 30 (0.62%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 419 (8.63%) Cloud Native
2 144 (2.97%) Data Centre
3 133 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 125 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 124 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 113 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 104 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 102 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 89 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 83 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 82 (1.69%) Operational Technology
12 77 (1.59%) CMDB
13 73 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 69 (1.42%) Public Cloud
15 55 (1.13%) Security Posture
16 49 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
17 46 (0.95%) Data Structures
18 43 (0.89%) Private Cloud
19 42 (0.87%) Mainframe
20 38 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.66%) Windows
2 76 (1.57%) Linux
3 35 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.56%) Android
4 27 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.47%) Unix
6 11 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.23%) zOS
7 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.10%) AIX
8 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.082%) Solaris
9 4 (0.082%) VMS
9 4 (0.082%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.062%) CentOS
10 3 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (14.69%) Roadmaps
2 696 (14.34%) Migration
3 601 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 585 (12.05%) Agile
5 570 (11.74%) DevOps
6 552 (11.37%) AI
7 518 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 507 (10.44%) CI/CD
9 477 (9.82%) Data Modelling
10 463 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 451 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
12 447 (9.21%) Integration Patterns
13 436 (8.98%) Data Architecture
14 405 (8.34%) Analytics
15 402 (8.28%) Architectural Patterns
16 381 (7.85%) TOGAF
17 339 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
18 337 (6.94%) Microservices
19 325 (6.69%) Architectural Design
20 319 (6.57%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 267 (5.50%) Python
2 239 (4.92%) SQL
3 198 (4.08%) Java
4 98 (2.02%) PowerShell
5 97 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 59 (1.22%) C#
7 51 (1.05%) Bicep
8 41 (0.84%) Bash
9 39 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.29%) Ruby
11 14 (0.29%) Scala
12 10 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.21%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.19%) ABAP
13 9 (0.19%) C++
13 9 (0.19%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.16%) R
14 8 (0.16%) VBA
15 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,413 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,018 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 294 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 176 (3.63%) Degree
5 111 (2.29%) CISSP
6 110 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 97 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 94 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 73 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 70 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 54 (1.11%) CISM
13 48 (0.99%) CCNP
14 43 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 28 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.45%) CCIE
19 21 (0.43%) CCSP
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.67%) NIST
2 155 (3.19%) GDPR
3 148 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 133 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.22%) NCSC
6 62 (1.28%) QA
7 41 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.64%) GRC
9 30 (0.62%) Accessibility
10 29 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 25 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 22 (0.45%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) COBIT
14 18 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.37%) IFRS
15 17 (0.35%) HL7
16 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.23%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 153 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 95 (1.96%) Docker
3 73 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 16 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
9 9 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.16%) NFS
10 8 (0.16%) Varnish
11 7 (0.14%) Postfix
11 7 (0.14%) vCloud
12 4 (0.082%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.082%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.082%) IAG
12 4 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.082%) RACF
12 4 (0.082%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 236 (4.86%) Terraform
2 226 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 96 (1.98%) Ansible
4 49 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.93%) Grafana
6 44 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.45%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.37%) Argo
11 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (0.29%) SCCM
13 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.14%) Consul
14 7 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 7 (0.14%) Istio
14 7 (0.14%) Puppet
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 657 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 286 (5.89%) SAP
3 256 (5.27%) ServiceNow
4 231 (4.76%) Oracle
5 210 (4.33%) Databricks
6 157 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 147 (3.03%) VMware
8 123 (2.53%) Cisco
9 117 (2.41%) Google
10 63 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 56 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 56 (1.15%) Splunk
12 48 (0.99%) Palo Alto
13 45 (0.93%) IBM
14 43 (0.89%) Workday
15 38 (0.78%) Foundry
15 38 (0.78%) Sparx
16 37 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 37 (0.76%) Red Hat
17 36 (0.74%) F5