Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,735 2,403 3,981
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.99% 9.66% 10.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 10.47% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,178 1,571 2,590
10th Percentile £463 £475 £488
25th Percentile £513 £538 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £738
90th Percentile £800 £790 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 27 97
10th Percentile £49.40 £47.08 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £78.50 £82.25 £87.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £91.92 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +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 39,807 22,960 35,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.31% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,488 15,102 22,819
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,027 2,691
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.19
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +6 2,304 £625 -3.85% 423
South East +5 699 £625 +4.17% 199
North of England +7 696 £600 - 174
Midlands +1 441 £613 +3.90% 79
North West +3 370 £610 +2.95% 90
West Midlands -2 312 £625 +4.17% 65
South West +2 270 £643 +4.90% 81
Yorkshire +8 267 £558 -7.00% 50
East of England +21 210 £575 -4.17% 39
East Midlands +6 123 £575 +15.00% 14
North East +8 66 £575 -8.00% 35
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 1,375 (29.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,152 (24.33%) Azure
3 1,001 (21.14%) SC Cleared
4 938 (19.81%) AWS
5 691 (14.59%) Migration
6 674 (14.23%) Roadmaps
7 626 (13.22%) Microsoft
8 564 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 563 (11.89%) DevOps
10 559 (11.81%) Agile
11 506 (10.69%) CI/CD
12 493 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
13 490 (10.35%) AI
14 457 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 453 (9.57%) Data Modelling
16 452 (9.55%) Integration Patterns
17 431 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
18 408 (8.62%) Data Architecture
19 388 (8.19%) Architectural Patterns
20 386 (8.15%) Analytics
21 354 (7.48%) GCP
22 351 (7.41%) TOGAF
23 331 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
24 330 (6.97%) Microservices
25 329 (6.95%) Architectural Design
26 296 (6.25%) Security Architecture
27 286 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
27 286 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
28 277 (5.85%) Python
28 277 (5.85%) 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
1 104 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.56%) Confluence
3 50 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.87%) SAS
5 29 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.55%) Apache
7 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 16 (0.34%) Appian
8 16 (0.34%) CMS
8 16 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 12 (0.25%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 9 (0.19%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 22 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 16 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.15%) Navisworks
5 7 (0.15%) Revit
6 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.042%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.042%) Windchill
8 1 (0.021%) ArchiCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 123 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 21 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 16 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 15 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 13 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 8 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
9 8 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
10 7 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 6 (0.13%) Maximo
11 6 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 4 (0.084%) Endur
13 4 (0.084%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,152 (24.33%) Azure
2 938 (19.81%) AWS
3 354 (7.48%) GCP
4 244 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 169 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 168 (3.55%) Serverless
7 163 (3.44%) SaaS
8 126 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (2.47%) GitHub
10 105 (2.22%) PaaS
11 104 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 97 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 85 (1.80%) Snowflake
14 80 (1.69%) IaaS
15 76 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 71 (1.50%) Amazon S3
17 59 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
17 59 (1.25%) OpenShift
18 54 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 54 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.32%) Network Security
2 155 (3.27%) Firewall
3 106 (2.24%) DNS
4 100 (2.11%) WAN
5 94 (1.99%) VPN
6 73 (1.54%) LAN
7 50 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 38 (0.80%) DHCP
9 37 (0.78%) BGP
10 30 (0.63%) TCP/IP
10 30 (0.63%) VLAN
11 29 (0.61%) MPLS
11 29 (0.61%) OSPF
11 29 (0.61%) Wireless
12 26 (0.55%) SAN
13 25 (0.53%) NAS
14 22 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
15 20 (0.42%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.42%) IPsec
16 19 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (3.70%) Power BI
2 129 (2.72%) Metadata
3 127 (2.68%) Data Lake
4 113 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 58 (1.22%) SQL Server
7 51 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.70%) Big Data
10 32 (0.68%) Tableau
11 28 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.59%) Delta Lake
12 26 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 20 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.42%) GIS
15 17 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
15 17 (0.36%) MongoDB
15 17 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 99 (2.09%) JIRA
2 77 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 57 (1.20%) Git
4 39 (0.82%) GitLab
5 25 (0.53%) ERwin
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.19%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.17%) MLflow
9 6 (0.13%) Postman
9 6 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.11%) JMeter
10 5 (0.11%) JUnit
10 5 (0.11%) Maven
10 5 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.11%) Selenium
11 4 (0.084%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.084%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.084%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.084%) Snyk
General
1 873 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 784 (16.56%) Finance
3 520 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 289 (6.10%) Banking
5 236 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 191 (4.03%) Retail
7 142 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 106 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 93 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 89 (1.88%) Legal
11 83 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 56 (1.18%) Law
13 48 (1.01%) Military
14 46 (0.97%) Billing
15 44 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.91%) Marketing
17 41 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 37 (0.78%) Aerospace
19 36 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 34 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (4.82%) REST
2 166 (3.51%) Middleware
3 114 (2.41%) .NET
3 114 (2.41%) SOAP
4 84 (1.77%) OpenID
5 82 (1.73%) OAuth
6 73 (1.54%) LDAP
7 70 (1.48%) Kafka
8 67 (1.41%) SAML
9 63 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 50 (1.06%) OAuth2
11 44 (0.93%) React
12 42 (0.89%) SailPoint
13 39 (0.82%) RESTful
14 37 (0.78%) JSON
15 33 (0.70%) AngularJS
16 30 (0.63%) .NET Framework
16 30 (0.63%) Web Services
17 29 (0.61%) Node.js
18 25 (0.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 406 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 132 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 128 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 120 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 115 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 108 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 107 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 104 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 103 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 81 (1.71%) Operational Technology
11 76 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 73 (1.54%) CMDB
13 71 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 70 (1.48%) Security Posture
15 43 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 42 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
17 41 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 40 (0.84%) Private Cloud
19 34 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 125 (2.64%) Windows
2 73 (1.54%) Linux
3 32 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.61%) Android
4 29 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.46%) Unix
6 10 (0.21%) zOS
7 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.084%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.084%) Solaris
10 4 (0.084%) VMS
10 4 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.063%) AIX
11 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (14.59%) Migration
2 674 (14.23%) Roadmaps
3 564 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 563 (11.89%) DevOps
5 559 (11.81%) Agile
6 506 (10.69%) CI/CD
7 493 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 490 (10.35%) AI
9 457 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 453 (9.57%) Data Modelling
11 452 (9.55%) Integration Patterns
12 431 (9.10%) Technical Leadership
13 408 (8.62%) Data Architecture
14 388 (8.19%) Architectural Patterns
15 386 (8.15%) Analytics
16 351 (7.41%) TOGAF
17 331 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
18 330 (6.97%) Microservices
19 329 (6.95%) Architectural Design
20 296 (6.25%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 277 (5.85%) Python
2 231 (4.88%) SQL
3 192 (4.05%) Java
4 124 (2.62%) PowerShell
5 92 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.18%) C#
7 48 (1.01%) Bicep
8 38 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 31 (0.65%) Bash
10 22 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.32%) Ruby
11 15 (0.32%) Scala
12 11 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.17%) ABAP
14 8 (0.17%) C++
14 8 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.17%) VBA
15 6 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,375 (29.04%) Security Cleared
2 1,001 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 271 (5.72%) DV Cleared
4 169 (3.57%) Degree
5 102 (2.15%) Azure Certification
6 101 (2.13%) CISSP
7 84 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 84 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 73 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 70 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 50 (1.06%) CISM
12 43 (0.91%) CCNP
13 40 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 31 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 26 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.40%) CCSP
17 19 (0.40%) GIAC
18 18 (0.38%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (3.65%) NIST
2 157 (3.32%) GDPR
3 138 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 131 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (2.09%) NCSC
6 62 (1.31%) QA
7 40 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 30 (0.63%) GRC
9 27 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 24 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 24 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.42%) SEPA
13 19 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.38%) COBIT
15 16 (0.34%) HL7
15 16 (0.34%) IFRS
16 13 (0.27%) FINRA
16 13 (0.27%) MiFID
17 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 164 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.94%) Docker
3 77 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.51%) vSphere
6 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.19%) NFS
9 9 (0.19%) Squid
10 8 (0.17%) Varnish
10 8 (0.17%) vCloud
11 7 (0.15%) Postfix
12 5 (0.11%) RACF
13 4 (0.084%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.084%) Sendmail
14 3 (0.063%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.063%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 220 (4.65%) Terraform
2 211 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.05%) Ansible
4 45 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.84%) Grafana
6 38 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 23 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.36%) Argo
11 16 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.30%) SCCM
13 9 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.17%) Istio
14 8 (0.17%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.15%) Consul
15 7 (0.15%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.15%) Puppet
16 5 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
17 4 (0.084%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 626 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 277 (5.85%) SAP
3 253 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 215 (4.54%) Oracle
5 201 (4.24%) Databricks
6 155 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 155 (3.27%) VMware
7 116 (2.45%) Cisco
8 99 (2.09%) Google
9 72 (1.52%) CyberArk
10 61 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 55 (1.16%) Splunk
12 42 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 42 (0.89%) Sparx
13 41 (0.87%) IBM
13 41 (0.87%) Red Hat
13 41 (0.87%) Workday
14 37 (0.78%) Foundry
14 37 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 32 (0.68%) F5