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 10 November 2025.

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

6 months to
10 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 2,633 3,018 3,717
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.93% 9.78% 9.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.79% 10.52% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,804 2,616
10th Percentile £462 £475 £506
25th Percentile £525 £530 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £734 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 42
10th Percentile £63.75 - £57.50
25th Percentile £69.06 £60.00 £65.31
Median hourly rate £83.82 £68.75 £75.34
Median % change year-on-year +21.92% -8.74% +7.62%
75th Percentile £94.83 £87.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £97.50 £85.51
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 26,886 28,684 37,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.99% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,258 17,524 25,976
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,601 1,072 1,433
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.19 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £51.90 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +53.98%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,261 £650 +1.72% 1,081
South East +1 409 £600 -4.00% 1,156
North of England -10 360 £600 +0.84% 291
Midlands -10 220 £575 -4.17% 183
North West -8 216 £598 -0.42% 189
South West -4 197 £675 +3.85% 199
West Midlands -15 153 £582 -6.36% 94
Yorkshire -21 129 £613 +6.15% 83
East of England -8 84 £555 -7.50% 150
East Midlands -2 66 £500 +2.04% 76
North East -12 16 £738 +22.99% 19
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 762 (28.94%) Azure
2 760 (28.86%) Security Cleared
3 621 (23.59%) AWS
4 522 (19.83%) SC Cleared
5 400 (15.19%) Microsoft
6 395 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 366 (13.90%) Agile
8 361 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 317 (12.04%) Data Modelling
10 315 (11.96%) Migration
11 296 (11.24%) DevOps
12 295 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
13 294 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
14 268 (10.18%) CI/CD
15 262 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 256 (9.72%) TOGAF
17 250 (9.49%) GCP
18 243 (9.23%) Microservices
19 237 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
20 219 (8.32%) Data Architecture
21 210 (7.98%) AI
22 209 (7.94%) Python
23 200 (7.60%) Analytics
24 187 (7.10%) Data Governance
25 181 (6.87%) Terraform
26 180 (6.84%) Firewall
27 179 (6.80%) Security Architecture
28 178 (6.76%) DV Cleared
29 176 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
30 175 (6.65%) Mentoring

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 64 (2.43%) Confluence
2 39 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 23 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.68%) SAS
5 15 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 14 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.49%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Apache
9 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.46%) Siemens NX
5 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.076%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.038%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.038%) Revit
10 1 (0.038%) Trello
Business Applications
1 79 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
4 18 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 16 (0.61%) Maximo
6 15 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 15 (0.57%) Workday HCM
7 13 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 13 (0.49%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.42%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.38%) SAP PM
10 9 (0.34%) Endur
10 9 (0.34%) SAP FI
10 9 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
11 8 (0.30%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.27%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.23%) Aladdin
13 6 (0.23%) SAP HR
14 5 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
14 5 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 762 (28.94%) Azure
2 621 (23.59%) AWS
3 250 (9.49%) GCP
4 143 (5.43%) SaaS
5 127 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 104 (3.95%) Serverless
7 86 (3.27%) Entra ID
8 78 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
9 75 (2.85%) GitHub
10 73 (2.77%) IaaS
11 71 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 69 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
13 63 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
14 61 (2.32%) PaaS
15 60 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (2.13%) Snowflake
17 45 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 44 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
19 41 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
20 38 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.84%) Firewall
2 95 (3.61%) WAN
3 87 (3.30%) LAN
4 84 (3.19%) Network Security
5 65 (2.47%) VPN
6 64 (2.43%) SD-WAN
7 60 (2.28%) DNS
8 37 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (1.29%) BGP
10 28 (1.06%) SAN
11 26 (0.99%) DHCP
11 26 (0.99%) MPLS
12 25 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (0.87%) SSL
14 19 (0.72%) VSAN
15 17 (0.65%) Internet
16 16 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
16 16 (0.61%) iSCSI
16 16 (0.61%) VLAN
17 15 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (3.08%) Power BI
3 68 (2.58%) Data Lake
3 68 (2.58%) Metadata
4 51 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 44 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 33 (1.25%) Big Data
8 31 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 31 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (1.03%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.76%) GIS
10 20 (0.76%) RDBMS
10 20 (0.76%) Tableau
11 18 (0.68%) Data Vault
12 16 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 95 (3.61%) JIRA
2 60 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 43 (1.63%) Git
4 20 (0.76%) GitLab
5 18 (0.68%) ERwin
6 11 (0.42%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.27%) Gradle
8 7 (0.27%) Maven
8 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.19%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.15%) MLflow
11 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.11%) MSI
12 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 713 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 485 (18.42%) Finance
3 312 (11.85%) Public Sector
4 215 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 192 (7.29%) Banking
6 82 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 80 (3.04%) Retail
8 68 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 61 (2.32%) Marketing
10 53 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.75%) Legal
13 43 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.18%) Military
16 25 (0.95%) Back Office
17 21 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 21 (0.80%) Billing
18 18 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (5.05%) REST
2 78 (2.96%) Middleware
3 66 (2.51%) .NET
3 66 (2.51%) Kafka
4 60 (2.28%) SOAP
5 59 (2.24%) JSON
6 50 (1.90%) Web Services
7 49 (1.86%) OAuth
8 45 (1.71%) RESTful
9 42 (1.60%) SAML
10 36 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
11 34 (1.29%) AngularJS
12 31 (1.18%) React
13 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
14 25 (0.95%) OpenID
14 25 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (0.91%) Spring Boot
16 23 (0.87%) Visualforce
17 22 (0.84%) LDAP
17 22 (0.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 112 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
3 106 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 96 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 90 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 59 (2.24%) PKI
8 50 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 45 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 37 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 37 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.29%) CMDB
12 34 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 31 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (1.14%) NHS
15 28 (1.06%) CSOC
15 28 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 25 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 125 (4.75%) Windows
2 77 (2.92%) Linux
3 47 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (0.61%) Unix
6 14 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.46%) Android
7 12 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.38%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.15%) VMS
13 3 (0.11%) Solaris
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.076%) CentOS
14 2 (0.076%) zOS
15 1 (0.038%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (15.00%) Roadmaps
2 366 (13.90%) Agile
3 361 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (12.04%) Data Modelling
5 315 (11.96%) Migration
6 296 (11.24%) DevOps
7 295 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
8 294 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (10.18%) CI/CD
10 262 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 256 (9.72%) TOGAF
12 243 (9.23%) Microservices
13 237 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
14 219 (8.32%) Data Architecture
15 210 (7.98%) AI
16 200 (7.60%) Analytics
17 187 (7.10%) Data Governance
18 179 (6.80%) Security Architecture
19 176 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
20 175 (6.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 209 (7.94%) Python
2 152 (5.77%) Java
3 151 (5.73%) SQL
4 91 (3.46%) PowerShell
5 66 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 46 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 33 (1.25%) C#
8 30 (1.14%) Apex Code
9 29 (1.10%) Bash
10 26 (0.99%) Bicep
11 15 (0.57%) R
12 13 (0.49%) C++
13 12 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.42%) C
15 9 (0.34%) Scala
16 8 (0.30%) Korn
16 8 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.27%) Go
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 760 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 522 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 178 (6.76%) DV Cleared
4 130 (4.94%) Degree
5 90 (3.42%) CISSP
6 87 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 71 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 60 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 57 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 35 (1.33%) CISM
14 34 (1.29%) Master's Degree
15 30 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 30 (1.14%) CCNP
16 29 (1.10%) CCIE
17 21 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 17 (0.65%) CCSP
19 16 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (5.24%) GDPR
2 109 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (4.03%) NIST
4 86 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.82%) NCSC
6 42 (1.60%) QA
7 40 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (0.87%) GRC
9 23 (0.87%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 18 (0.68%) COBIT
11 18 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 16 (0.61%) Accessibility
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 11 (0.42%) SLA
16 10 (0.38%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 104 (3.95%) Docker
3 83 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.33%) vSphere
5 24 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 23 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.61%) NFS
8 9 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.076%) KVM
13 1 (0.038%) GPFS
13 1 (0.038%) HDFS
13 1 (0.038%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.038%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.038%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 181 (6.87%) Terraform
2 152 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 73 (2.77%) Ansible
4 48 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.53%) Grafana
8 14 (0.53%) SCCM
9 12 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.30%) Argo
10 8 (0.30%) WMI
11 5 (0.19%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.15%) SCOM
13 3 (0.11%) OPNET
13 3 (0.11%) Puppet
13 3 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.076%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.076%) vRealize
Vendors
1 400 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.23%) SAP
3 129 (4.90%) Oracle
4 125 (4.75%) Salesforce
5 121 (4.60%) VMware
6 116 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 106 (4.03%) Cisco
8 85 (3.23%) Google
9 77 (2.92%) Databricks
10 71 (2.70%) Splunk
11 51 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 42 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 38 (1.44%) IBM
14 37 (1.41%) F5
15 36 (1.37%) Workday
16 34 (1.29%) CyberArk
16 34 (1.29%) Juniper
17 29 (1.10%) MuleSoft
18 28 (1.06%) NetApp
19 27 (1.03%) Virgin Media