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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,015 2,732 3,437
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.53% 9.68% 9.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.43% 10.42% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,082 1,649 2,340
10th Percentile £461 £475 £500
25th Percentile £519 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £730 £731
90th Percentile £792 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 29 33
10th Percentile £64.25 £59.65 £58.05
25th Percentile £66.13 £62.50 £72.00
Median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% -8.53% +9.33%
75th Percentile £94.89 £80.59 £84.65
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.50 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +15.61% -5.27% +9.33%

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 28,914 26,211 34,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.89% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,459 16,281 23,302
10th Percentile £297 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.47% -4.09%
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 1,761 819 1,425
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.87 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.58% +37.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%

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 December 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 December 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 December 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 -1 1,359 £644 - 620
South East +8 556 £600 -4.00% 935
North of England -6 393 £579 -6.18% 817
Midlands -3 269 £574 -4.38% 674
South West 0 251 £703 +12.48% 400
North West -5 232 £577 -6.06% 413
West Midlands -7 201 £582 -3.44% 339
Yorkshire -14 143 £588 -3.29% 354
East of England +5 101 £553 -9.80% 593
East Midlands 0 68 £505 -12.17% 294
North East -7 19 £700 +16.74% 51
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 December 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.

1 978 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 816 (27.06%) Azure
3 676 (22.42%) SC Cleared
4 616 (20.43%) AWS
5 464 (15.39%) Roadmaps
6 438 (14.53%) Microsoft
7 433 (14.36%) Agile
8 389 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 340 (11.28%) Enterprise Architecture
10 339 (11.24%) Migration
11 327 (10.85%) Data Modelling
12 321 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 317 (10.51%) DevOps
14 314 (10.41%) TOGAF
15 294 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
16 293 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
17 271 (8.99%) CI/CD
18 256 (8.49%) GCP
19 237 (7.86%) AI
20 236 (7.83%) DV Cleared
21 235 (7.79%) Data Architecture
22 232 (7.69%) Analytics
22 232 (7.69%) Python
23 229 (7.60%) Microservices
24 213 (7.06%) Integration Patterns
25 199 (6.60%) Terraform
26 198 (6.57%) Architectural Design
27 196 (6.50%) ITIL
28 190 (6.30%) Mentoring
29 187 (6.20%) 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 91 (3.02%) Confluence
2 58 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.60%) OpenStack
4 18 (0.60%) SAS
5 16 (0.53%) CMS
6 15 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.50%) ArcGIS
7 14 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 9 (0.30%) Apache
10 8 (0.27%) Smallworld
11 5 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.13%) Documentum
12 4 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.13%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.100%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.100%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.033%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.033%) Revit
8 1 (0.033%) Trello
Business Applications
1 81 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 28 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.83%) Workday HCM
5 17 (0.56%) Maximo
5 17 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.53%) SAP PM
7 13 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
7 13 (0.43%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.43%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.27%) SAP PP
12 7 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
12 7 (0.23%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 816 (27.06%) Azure
2 616 (20.43%) AWS
3 256 (8.49%) GCP
4 127 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 116 (3.85%) SaaS
6 101 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 95 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 95 (3.15%) Serverless
8 71 (2.35%) GitHub
9 68 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (2.26%) IaaS
10 67 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 54 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 54 (1.79%) PaaS
13 50 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 48 (1.59%) OpenShift
15 46 (1.53%) Amazon S3
15 46 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 45 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 172 (5.70%) Firewall
2 111 (3.68%) WAN
3 90 (2.99%) LAN
4 84 (2.79%) Network Security
5 80 (2.65%) VPN
6 68 (2.26%) DNS
7 66 (2.19%) SD-WAN
8 40 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 32 (1.06%) BGP
10 27 (0.90%) MPLS
11 22 (0.73%) Internet
12 21 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 21 (0.70%) DHCP
12 21 (0.70%) SAN
12 21 (0.70%) VSAN
13 20 (0.66%) SSL
14 17 (0.56%) OSPF
15 13 (0.43%) IPsec
15 13 (0.43%) VLAN
16 12 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (2.89%) Power BI
3 74 (2.45%) Metadata
4 67 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 53 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 34 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 34 (1.13%) Tableau
8 26 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 21 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 21 (0.70%) GIS
12 20 (0.66%) MongoDB
13 19 (0.63%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.60%) Data Vault
15 17 (0.56%) Big Data
15 17 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (3.65%) JIRA
2 65 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.49%) Git
4 29 (0.96%) GitLab
5 13 (0.43%) ERwin
6 9 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.20%) MLflow
10 5 (0.17%) Gradle
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.17%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.13%) MSI
11 4 (0.13%) Postman
11 4 (0.13%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.100%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.100%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 795 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 483 (16.02%) Finance
3 364 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 244 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 178 (5.90%) Banking
6 88 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 75 (2.49%) Retail
8 71 (2.35%) Marketing
9 70 (2.32%) Military
10 67 (2.22%) Legal
11 65 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 59 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 28 (0.93%) Billing
17 24 (0.80%) Back Office
18 19 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (5.27%) REST
2 98 (3.25%) SOAP
3 92 (3.05%) Middleware
4 64 (2.12%) .NET
5 57 (1.89%) JSON
6 47 (1.56%) OAuth
7 45 (1.49%) Kafka
8 44 (1.46%) LDAP
9 41 (1.36%) SAML
10 38 (1.26%) RESTful
11 33 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
12 28 (0.93%) Web Services
13 27 (0.90%) OpenID
14 26 (0.86%) AngularJS
15 25 (0.83%) OAuth2
15 25 (0.83%) PySpark
16 24 (0.80%) Spring Boot
17 22 (0.73%) Visualforce
18 21 (0.70%) React
19 20 (0.66%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 223 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 131 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 106 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 103 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 81 (2.69%) PKI
6 78 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 72 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 46 (1.53%) Operational Technology
11 43 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 42 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.36%) CMDB
14 37 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 37 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.93%) NHS
18 26 (0.86%) Private Cloud
18 26 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 127 (4.21%) Windows
2 79 (2.62%) Linux
3 38 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.27%) VMS
10 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.20%) Android
11 6 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.20%) Unix
12 3 (0.100%) CentOS
12 3 (0.100%) Solaris
12 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.100%) zOS
13 1 (0.033%) AIX
13 1 (0.033%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (15.39%) Roadmaps
2 433 (14.36%) Agile
3 389 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 340 (11.28%) Enterprise Architecture
5 339 (11.24%) Migration
6 327 (10.85%) Data Modelling
7 321 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 317 (10.51%) DevOps
9 314 (10.41%) TOGAF
10 294 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
11 293 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
12 271 (8.99%) CI/CD
13 237 (7.86%) AI
14 235 (7.79%) Data Architecture
15 232 (7.69%) Analytics
16 229 (7.60%) Microservices
17 213 (7.06%) Integration Patterns
18 198 (6.57%) Architectural Design
19 196 (6.50%) ITIL
20 190 (6.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 232 (7.69%) Python
2 145 (4.81%) SQL
3 139 (4.61%) PowerShell
4 123 (4.08%) Java
5 55 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 37 (1.23%) C#
7 32 (1.06%) Bash
7 32 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 29 (0.96%) Apex Code
9 26 (0.86%) Bicep
10 16 (0.53%) R
11 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.33%) C
13 9 (0.30%) C++
14 7 (0.23%) Korn
14 7 (0.23%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.20%) ABAP
15 6 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.20%) Ruby
16 5 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 978 (32.44%) Security Cleared
2 676 (22.42%) SC Cleared
3 236 (7.83%) DV Cleared
4 166 (5.51%) Degree
5 93 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 92 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 90 (2.99%) Azure Certification
8 88 (2.92%) CISSP
9 65 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 59 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 37 (1.23%) CISM
15 36 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
16 35 (1.16%) CCNP
17 30 (1.00%) CCIE
18 24 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (0.76%) ISEB
20 18 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (4.84%) GDPR
2 110 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 109 (3.62%) NIST
4 92 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 57 (1.89%) NCSC
5 57 (1.89%) QA
6 40 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 27 (0.90%) COBIT
9 21 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 20 (0.66%) GRC
11 18 (0.60%) JSP 440
12 15 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 15 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.36%) EU AI Act
14 11 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.36%) SLA
15 10 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 133 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.52%) Docker
3 87 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 31 (1.03%) vSphere
6 21 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.33%) NFS
10 4 (0.13%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.13%) Postfix
11 3 (0.100%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.100%) Lustre
11 3 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.100%) vCloud
12 2 (0.066%) Ceph
12 2 (0.066%) Firmware
12 2 (0.066%) KVM
13 1 (0.033%) RACF
Systems Management
1 199 (6.60%) Terraform
2 148 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 89 (2.95%) Ansible
4 43 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (1.09%) OPNET
6 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 20 (0.66%) SCCM
9 14 (0.46%) WMI
10 13 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.36%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.33%) Grafana
13 9 (0.30%) Argo
14 6 (0.20%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.17%) Kibana
16 4 (0.13%) Istio
16 4 (0.13%) vRealize
17 3 (0.100%) Karpenter
17 3 (0.100%) Puppet
17 3 (0.100%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 438 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.07%) SAP
3 181 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 167 (5.54%) Salesforce
5 137 (4.54%) VMware
6 132 (4.38%) Oracle
7 112 (3.71%) Cisco
8 96 (3.18%) Databricks
9 74 (2.45%) Google
10 70 (2.32%) CyberArk
11 49 (1.63%) Palo Alto
12 48 (1.59%) Remedy
12 48 (1.59%) Workday
13 46 (1.53%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.43%) Centrify
14 43 (1.43%) Splunk
15 40 (1.33%) MuleSoft
16 38 (1.26%) IBM
17 37 (1.23%) Atlassian
18 34 (1.13%) Sparx