Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 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 4,916 2,621 3,857
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.71% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.90% 10.55% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,281 1,733 2,529
10th Percentile £469 £480 £488
25th Percentile £519 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £790 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 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 £72.58 £86.00 £85.65
90th Percentile £85.15 £100.00 £88.00
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 41,323 24,840 34,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.06% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,186 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,956 1,184 2,511
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 2,417 £620 -4.62% 654
North of England +7 743 £600 - 191
South East +1 721 £628 +4.67% 204
Midlands 0 432 £620 +7.83% 96
North West +6 399 £608 +1.33% 113
West Midlands 0 311 £625 +4.17% 80
Yorkshire +11 278 £600 - 42
South West -2 278 £625 - 163
East of England +19 196 £600 - 53
East Midlands +6 114 £588 +17.50% 16
North East +2 74 £575 -13.21% 36
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,430 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,234 (25.10%) Azure
3 1,028 (20.91%) SC Cleared
4 1,000 (20.34%) AWS
5 737 (14.99%) Roadmaps
6 702 (14.28%) Migration
7 659 (13.41%) Microsoft
8 616 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 594 (12.08%) Agile
10 576 (11.72%) DevOps
11 575 (11.70%) AI
12 533 (10.84%) Enterprise Architecture
13 524 (10.66%) CI/CD
14 494 (10.05%) Data Modelling
15 476 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 459 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
17 455 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
18 449 (9.13%) Data Architecture
19 411 (8.36%) Analytics
20 409 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
21 397 (8.08%) TOGAF
22 370 (7.53%) GCP
23 348 (7.08%) Microservices
24 340 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
25 332 (6.75%) Security Architecture
26 326 (6.63%) Architectural Design
27 311 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
28 305 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
29 302 (6.14%) DV Cleared
30 284 (5.78%) Event-Driven

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 95 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 65 (1.32%) Confluence
3 48 (0.98%) SAS
4 47 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.63%) Apache
5 31 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (0.43%) Appian
7 21 (0.43%) CMS
8 19 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 11 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 9 (0.18%) Camunda
13 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.14%) Documentum
14 6 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 16 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.14%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.14%) Revit
6 6 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.041%) Windchill
8 1 (0.020%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.020%) Notion
Business Applications
1 121 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 15 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 14 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.14%) Maximo
11 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.12%) Endur
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,234 (25.10%) Azure
2 1,000 (20.34%) AWS
3 370 (7.53%) GCP
4 254 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 187 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 178 (3.62%) SaaS
7 170 (3.46%) Serverless
8 122 (2.48%) GitHub
9 118 (2.40%) PaaS
10 117 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 113 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 94 (1.91%) Snowflake
14 87 (1.77%) IaaS
15 74 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 70 (1.42%) Amazon S3
17 62 (1.26%) OpenShift
18 59 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
19 57 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 54 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.72%) Firewall
2 171 (3.48%) Network Security
3 118 (2.40%) DNS
4 107 (2.18%) WAN
5 98 (1.99%) VPN
6 78 (1.59%) LAN
7 57 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 48 (0.98%) TCP/IP
9 46 (0.94%) BGP
9 46 (0.94%) DHCP
10 38 (0.77%) VLAN
11 36 (0.73%) MPLS
12 33 (0.67%) OSPF
13 29 (0.59%) Wireless
14 26 (0.53%) 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
1 180 (3.66%) Power BI
2 144 (2.93%) Metadata
3 143 (2.91%) Data Lake
4 128 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 59 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 45 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.81%) Big Data
9 38 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 30 (0.61%) Oracle Database
12 26 (0.53%) Delta Lake
13 24 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (0.47%) Tableau
15 21 (0.43%) GIS
16 19 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (0.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 19 (0.39%) Relational Database
17 18 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 94 (1.91%) JIRA
2 69 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 65 (1.32%) Git
4 33 (0.67%) GitLab
5 24 (0.49%) ERwin
6 12 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.16%) MLflow
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.12%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.10%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.10%) JMeter
10 5 (0.10%) Maven
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.081%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.081%) Snyk
General
1 920 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 798 (16.23%) Finance
3 537 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 305 (6.20%) Banking
5 271 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (4.50%) Retail
7 149 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 123 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 97 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 93 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 83 (1.69%) Legal
12 57 (1.16%) Billing
13 51 (1.04%) Marketing
14 49 (1.00%) Military
15 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 48 (0.98%) Law
16 38 (0.77%) Aerospace
17 37 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (0.65%) Investment Banking
19 31 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.74%) REST
2 161 (3.28%) Middleware
3 121 (2.46%) .NET
4 105 (2.14%) SOAP
5 88 (1.79%) OAuth
6 82 (1.67%) OpenID
7 77 (1.57%) Kafka
8 67 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 65 (1.32%) SAML
10 52 (1.06%) OAuth2
11 49 (1.00%) LDAP
11 49 (1.00%) React
12 46 (0.94%) SailPoint
13 40 (0.81%) RESTful
14 38 (0.77%) JSON
15 35 (0.71%) .NET Framework
16 32 (0.65%) AngularJS
17 31 (0.63%) Node.js
17 31 (0.63%) Web Services
18 30 (0.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 424 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 143 (2.91%) Data Centre
3 140 (2.85%) Onboarding
4 127 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 125 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 116 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 104 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 104 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 90 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 86 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 83 (1.69%) Operational Technology
11 78 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 78 (1.59%) CMDB
12 71 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 54 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 51 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
15 46 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.90%) Private Cloud
17 42 (0.85%) Mainframe
18 38 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (2.62%) Windows
2 79 (1.61%) Linux
3 36 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.55%) Android
4 27 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.47%) Unix
6 14 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.22%) zOS
8 6 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.10%) AIX
9 5 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.10%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.081%) Solaris
10 4 (0.081%) VMS
10 4 (0.081%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.061%) CentOS
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (14.99%) Roadmaps
2 702 (14.28%) Migration
3 616 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 594 (12.08%) Agile
5 576 (11.72%) DevOps
6 575 (11.70%) AI
7 533 (10.84%) Enterprise Architecture
8 524 (10.66%) CI/CD
9 494 (10.05%) Data Modelling
10 476 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 459 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
12 455 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
13 449 (9.13%) Data Architecture
14 411 (8.36%) Analytics
15 409 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
16 397 (8.08%) TOGAF
17 348 (7.08%) Microservices
18 340 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
19 332 (6.75%) Security Architecture
20 326 (6.63%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 269 (5.47%) Python
2 244 (4.96%) SQL
3 204 (4.15%) Java
4 100 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 96 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.22%) C#
7 51 (1.04%) Bicep
8 42 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 41 (0.83%) Bash
10 25 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.31%) Ruby
12 14 (0.28%) Scala
13 11 (0.22%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.18%) ABAP
15 9 (0.18%) C++
15 9 (0.18%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.16%) R
16 8 (0.16%) VBA
17 7 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,430 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 1,028 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 302 (6.14%) DV Cleared
4 175 (3.56%) Degree
5 119 (2.42%) CISSP
6 109 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 95 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 75 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 73 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.10%) CISM
13 48 (0.98%) CCNP
14 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 33 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 30 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.47%) CCIE
19 21 (0.43%) CCSP
20 18 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (3.62%) NIST
2 156 (3.17%) GDPR
3 152 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 132 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (2.16%) NCSC
6 60 (1.22%) QA
7 41 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 34 (0.69%) GRC
9 31 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 30 (0.61%) 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%) IFRS
15 17 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (0.35%) HL7
16 12 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.22%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 154 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.01%) Docker
3 74 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.16%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.39%) vSphere
7 15 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.18%) Squid
11 8 (0.16%) NFS
11 8 (0.16%) Varnish
12 7 (0.14%) Postfix
12 7 (0.14%) vCloud
13 4 (0.081%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.081%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.081%) IAG
13 4 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.081%) RACF
13 4 (0.081%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 236 (4.80%) Kubernetes
1 236 (4.80%) Terraform
2 97 (1.97%) Ansible
3 50 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (1.00%) Grafana
5 45 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 18 (0.37%) Argo
10 16 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (0.28%) 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
1 659 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 284 (5.78%) SAP
3 258 (5.25%) ServiceNow
4 239 (4.86%) Oracle
5 214 (4.35%) Databricks
6 155 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 147 (2.99%) VMware
8 123 (2.50%) Cisco
9 120 (2.44%) Google
10 63 (1.28%) CyberArk
11 55 (1.12%) Splunk
12 54 (1.10%) MuleSoft
13 46 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 45 (0.92%) IBM
15 42 (0.85%) Workday
16 40 (0.81%) Foundry
17 39 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 38 (0.77%) OpenAI
18 38 (0.77%) Sparx
19 37 (0.75%) F5