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 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,664 3,021 3,623
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.92% 9.78% 9.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.77% 10.51% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 1,807 2,553
10th Percentile £463 £479 £500
25th Percentile £525 £542 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £799 £780
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 27 40
10th Percentile £61.23 £59.30 £56.80
25th Percentile £66.25 £60.00 £64.06
Median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £75.67
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% -7.49% +8.10%
75th Percentile £94.01 £86.64 £80.00
90th Percentile £95.50 £97.50 £85.92
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +19.74% -6.67% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,257 28,735 37,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.01% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 17,554 25,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,651 1,077 1,437
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.22 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +60.48%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -2 1,248 £650 +2.56% 742
South East +2 431 £600 -4.39% 491
North of England -10 361 £600 - 179
Midlands -8 225 £575 -4.17% 146
North West -9 216 £588 -5.50% 111
South West -1 213 £675 +3.85% 152
West Midlands -14 158 £582 -6.92% 96
Yorkshire -16 129 £613 +5.60% 56
East of England -2 88 £553 -7.92% 105
East Midlands -1 66 £500 -9.09% 48
North East -8 17 £725 +20.91% 12
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 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.

1 797 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 774 (29.05%) Azure
3 604 (22.67%) AWS
4 544 (20.42%) SC Cleared
5 408 (15.32%) Microsoft
6 402 (15.09%) Roadmaps
7 375 (14.08%) Agile
8 366 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 315 (11.82%) Migration
10 314 (11.79%) Data Modelling
11 302 (11.34%) Enterprise Architecture
12 291 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
13 289 (10.85%) DevOps
14 281 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 274 (10.29%) CI/CD
16 265 (9.95%) TOGAF
17 253 (9.50%) GCP
18 248 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
19 246 (9.23%) Microservices
20 219 (8.22%) Data Architecture
21 214 (8.03%) AI
22 210 (7.88%) Python
23 209 (7.85%) Analytics
24 193 (7.24%) DV Cleared
25 191 (7.17%) Terraform
26 189 (7.09%) Data Governance
27 186 (6.98%) Security Architecture
28 180 (6.76%) Firewall
29 179 (6.72%) Mentoring
30 170 (6.38%) Architectural Design

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 73 (2.74%) Confluence
2 43 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.75%) SAS
6 17 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 14 (0.53%) CMS
8 13 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.41%) Apache
10 6 (0.23%) Smallworld
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 4 (0.15%) Documentum
12 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 20 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.45%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.075%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.038%) Revit
9 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 75 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
5 18 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 18 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 17 (0.64%) Maximo
7 13 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.49%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 12 (0.45%) SAP PM
9 10 (0.38%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.34%) Endur
11 8 (0.30%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.23%) Aladdin
12 6 (0.23%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.23%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 774 (29.05%) Azure
2 604 (22.67%) AWS
3 253 (9.50%) GCP
4 135 (5.07%) SaaS
5 131 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 103 (3.87%) Serverless
7 86 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 81 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
9 74 (2.78%) IaaS
10 73 (2.74%) GitHub
11 67 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 61 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
14 60 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (2.25%) PaaS
15 55 (2.06%) Snowflake
16 46 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
18 35 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.76%) Firewall
2 95 (3.57%) WAN
3 87 (3.27%) LAN
3 87 (3.27%) Network Security
4 65 (2.44%) VPN
5 64 (2.40%) SD-WAN
6 60 (2.25%) DNS
7 39 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (1.24%) BGP
9 28 (1.05%) SAN
10 25 (0.94%) DHCP
11 24 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 24 (0.90%) SSL
12 23 (0.86%) MPLS
13 19 (0.71%) VSAN
14 17 (0.64%) Internet
15 16 (0.60%) VLAN
16 15 (0.56%) Fibre Channel
16 15 (0.56%) iSCSI
17 14 (0.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (3.23%) Power BI
3 72 (2.70%) Metadata
4 70 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 51 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 43 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 32 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.13%) Big Data
10 29 (1.09%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.98%) Relational Database
13 21 (0.79%) Tableau
14 19 (0.71%) GIS
15 18 (0.68%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.68%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (0.56%) Oracle Database
17 15 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (3.79%) JIRA
2 61 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.65%) Git
4 19 (0.71%) GitLab
5 18 (0.68%) ERwin
6 10 (0.38%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.26%) Gradle
8 7 (0.26%) Maven
8 7 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.19%) SonarLint
10 4 (0.15%) MLflow
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) MSI
11 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 735 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 495 (18.58%) Finance
3 313 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 228 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 184 (6.91%) Banking
6 82 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 79 (2.97%) Retail
8 65 (2.44%) Marketing
9 62 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 54 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 52 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.76%) Legal
14 43 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (1.54%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.31%) Military
17 26 (0.98%) Back Office
18 21 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.79%) Billing
19 20 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (5.18%) REST
2 82 (3.08%) Middleware
3 65 (2.44%) .NET
4 64 (2.40%) SOAP
5 63 (2.36%) Kafka
6 57 (2.14%) JSON
7 49 (1.84%) OAuth
8 45 (1.69%) RESTful
9 43 (1.61%) SAML
10 39 (1.46%) Web Services
11 38 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
12 34 (1.28%) AngularJS
13 29 (1.09%) React
14 27 (1.01%) OAuth2
14 27 (1.01%) OpenID
14 27 (1.01%) Spring Boot
15 26 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
16 25 (0.94%) Visualforce
17 22 (0.83%) LDAP
17 22 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 201 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 113 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
4 96 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 86 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 69 (2.59%) PKI
7 67 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 48 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (1.43%) Operational Technology
11 38 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.35%) CMDB
13 34 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.13%) NHS
15 30 (1.13%) Security Posture
16 26 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
17 25 (0.94%) SCADA
18 24 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 126 (4.73%) Windows
2 76 (2.85%) Linux
3 46 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.49%) Unix
7 11 (0.41%) Android
7 11 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.41%) Windows 7
8 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.11%) Solaris
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.075%) CentOS
12 2 (0.075%) zOS
13 1 (0.038%) AIX
13 1 (0.038%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (15.09%) Roadmaps
2 375 (14.08%) Agile
3 366 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 315 (11.82%) Migration
5 314 (11.79%) Data Modelling
6 302 (11.34%) Enterprise Architecture
7 291 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (10.85%) DevOps
9 281 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 274 (10.29%) CI/CD
11 265 (9.95%) TOGAF
12 248 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
13 246 (9.23%) Microservices
14 219 (8.22%) Data Architecture
15 214 (8.03%) AI
16 209 (7.85%) Analytics
17 189 (7.09%) Data Governance
18 186 (6.98%) Security Architecture
19 179 (6.72%) Mentoring
20 170 (6.38%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 210 (7.88%) Python
2 151 (5.67%) Java
3 147 (5.52%) SQL
4 96 (3.60%) PowerShell
5 64 (2.40%) JavaScript
6 48 (1.80%) TypeScript
7 35 (1.31%) C#
8 32 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 30 (1.13%) Bash
10 26 (0.98%) Bicep
11 17 (0.64%) R
12 13 (0.49%) C++
13 11 (0.41%) C
13 11 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.30%) Korn
15 8 (0.30%) Scala
16 7 (0.26%) Go
17 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 797 (29.92%) Security Cleared
2 544 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 193 (7.24%) DV Cleared
4 141 (5.29%) Degree
5 95 (3.57%) CISSP
6 86 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 73 (2.74%) AWS Certification
8 60 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 59 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 56 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 40 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 39 (1.46%) CISM
14 34 (1.28%) Master's Degree
15 30 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (1.09%) CCNP
17 27 (1.01%) CCIE
18 23 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 18 (0.68%) CCSP
20 15 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (5.48%) GDPR
2 112 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (4.05%) NIST
4 88 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 50 (1.88%) NCSC
6 43 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 42 (1.58%) QA
8 29 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 23 (0.86%) GRC
10 21 (0.79%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.75%) COBIT
12 18 (0.68%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.53%) Accessibility
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 11 (0.41%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.41%) SLA
16 10 (0.38%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 106 (3.98%) Active Directory
1 106 (3.98%) Docker
2 83 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.31%) vSphere
4 25 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.56%) NFS
7 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 4 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.075%) KVM
13 1 (0.038%) GPFS
13 1 (0.038%) HDFS
13 1 (0.038%) SRDF
13 1 (0.038%) Varnish
13 1 (0.038%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 191 (7.17%) Terraform
2 152 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 72 (2.70%) Ansible
4 48 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.60%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.56%) Grafana
8 15 (0.56%) SCCM
9 12 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.38%) OPNET
11 9 (0.34%) Argo
11 9 (0.34%) WMI
12 5 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.15%) SCOM
14 3 (0.11%) Puppet
14 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
15 2 (0.075%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (0.075%) vRealize
Vendors
1 408 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.12%) SAP
3 139 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 128 (4.80%) Oracle
6 122 (4.58%) VMware
7 108 (4.05%) Cisco
8 85 (3.19%) Google
9 84 (3.15%) Databricks
10 60 (2.25%) Splunk
11 51 (1.91%) Fortinet
12 42 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 41 (1.54%) IBM
14 40 (1.50%) Workday
15 38 (1.43%) F5
16 35 (1.31%) CyberArk
16 35 (1.31%) Juniper
17 29 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 29 (1.09%) Virgin Media
18 27 (1.01%) NetApp