Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,802 4,513 6,587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.31% 9.02% 9.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.12% 9.54% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 3,181 4,411
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £669 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.85% +11.59%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £835 £813
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £640
% change year-on-year - +1.56% +11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 61 19
10th Percentile £60.00 £36.54 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%
75th Percentile £87.46 £70.26 £72.03
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £81.96
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 1,780 £672 -3.96% 420
South East +7 669 £650 - 161
North of England +12 440 £650 +1.96% 154
South West +5 430 £650 -2.26% 85
North West +17 287 £650 +4.00% 91
Midlands +10 242 £625 -3.85% 81
West Midlands +12 176 £650 -2.77% 42
East of England +11 149 £650 -6.68% 53
Yorkshire +4 140 £650 - 47
East Midlands +4 65 £620 -5.09% 38
North East +19 17 £613 +2.08% 16
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,316 (34.61%) Security Cleared
2 810 (21.30%) Azure
3 728 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 674 (17.73%) Social Skills
5 670 (17.62%) Finance
6 604 (15.89%) Agile
7 582 (15.31%) AWS
8 514 (13.52%) DV Cleared
9 493 (12.97%) Microsoft
10 481 (12.65%) Public Sector
11 417 (10.97%) Migration
12 398 (10.47%) Roadmaps
13 379 (9.97%) DevOps
14 333 (8.76%) Data Modelling
15 322 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
16 319 (8.39%) Degree
17 303 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 285 (7.50%) Security Architecture
19 255 (6.71%) Enterprise Architecture
20 245 (6.44%) Data Architecture
21 241 (6.34%) TOGAF
22 235 (6.18%) Firewall
23 221 (5.81%) Windows
24 219 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
25 215 (5.65%) Banking
26 214 (5.63%) Analytics
26 214 (5.63%) Microservices
26 214 (5.63%) GCP
27 208 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
28 205 (5.39%) Python

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 94 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.13%) Confluence
3 36 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (0.87%) Apache
5 26 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 19 (0.50%) CMS
8 14 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.18%) IIS
10 7 (0.18%) SAS
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.079%) Drupal
13 2 (0.053%) GemFire
13 2 (0.053%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 37 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 19 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.45%) AutoCAD
4 8 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.053%) Revit
8 1 (0.026%) CATIA
8 1 (0.026%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 67 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (1.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 54 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
6 13 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.18%) SAP SD
12 6 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
12 6 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
12 6 (0.16%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.16%) Temenos T24
13 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
13 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.13%) SAP MM
14 4 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
14 4 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 810 (21.30%) Azure
2 582 (15.31%) AWS
3 214 (5.63%) GCP
4 175 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 174 (4.58%) SaaS
6 142 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
7 132 (3.47%) PaaS
8 118 (3.10%) IaaS
9 100 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (2.00%) Serverless
11 72 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 63 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (1.45%) Snowflake
14 38 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 36 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (0.89%) GitHub
17 33 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (0.87%) OCI
18 31 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 235 (6.18%) Firewall
2 202 (5.31%) WAN
3 163 (4.29%) LAN
4 97 (2.55%) VPN
5 88 (2.31%) SSL
6 87 (2.29%) Network Security
7 59 (1.55%) MPLS
8 48 (1.26%) DNS
9 47 (1.24%) SD-WAN
10 46 (1.21%) VoIP
11 45 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
12 41 (1.08%) BGP
12 41 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
13 35 (0.92%) PBX
14 33 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (0.79%) DHCP
16 26 (0.68%) SAN
17 22 (0.58%) Internet
18 18 (0.47%) WLAN
19 17 (0.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (2.71%) NoSQL
3 102 (2.68%) Data Lake
3 102 (2.68%) Power BI
4 96 (2.52%) Metadata
5 89 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 86 (2.26%) Big Data
7 54 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.21%) Data Vault
9 45 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
10 37 (0.97%) Tableau
11 34 (0.89%) RDBMS
12 33 (0.87%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (0.76%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (0.55%) Apache Arrow
16 21 (0.55%) Dremio
17 20 (0.53%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 62 (1.63%) JIRA
2 49 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.03%) ERwin
4 23 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (0.45%) Git
6 15 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 13 (0.34%) MSI
7 13 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 12 (0.32%) GitLab
9 8 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.18%) Selenium
10 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.16%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.11%) kappa
13 4 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 674 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 670 (17.62%) Finance
3 481 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 219 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 215 (5.65%) Banking
6 181 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 150 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 103 (2.71%) Marketing
9 98 (2.58%) Electronics
10 91 (2.39%) Retail
11 80 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 47 (1.24%) Aerospace
14 47 (1.24%) Legal
15 41 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.00%) Local Government
17 37 (0.97%) Investment Banking
18 24 (0.63%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (2.39%) Web Services
2 84 (2.21%) .NET
3 71 (1.87%) REST
4 67 (1.76%) SAML
5 66 (1.74%) Node.js
6 61 (1.60%) XML
7 60 (1.58%) JSON
8 56 (1.47%) Middleware
9 45 (1.18%) React
10 44 (1.16%) OAuth
10 44 (1.16%) OpenID
11 40 (1.05%) Kafka
12 36 (0.95%) LDAP
12 36 (0.95%) SOAP
13 33 (0.87%) HTML
13 33 (0.87%) SailPoint
14 29 (0.76%) RESTful
15 24 (0.63%) gRPC
15 24 (0.63%) Spring Boot
16 22 (0.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 140 (3.68%) Data Centre
2 103 (2.71%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.60%) PKI
4 88 (2.31%) Public Cloud
5 82 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 72 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 67 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 57 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 48 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 46 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 32 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
14 32 (0.84%) IoT
15 31 (0.82%) Mainframe
16 29 (0.76%) Security Posture
17 28 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 221 (5.81%) Windows
2 113 (2.97%) Linux
3 87 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 62 (1.63%) Android
6 26 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 21 (0.55%) Unix
8 20 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.45%) VMS
10 14 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.32%) CentOS
11 12 (0.32%) Solaris
12 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.079%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) AIX
16 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (15.89%) Agile
2 417 (10.97%) Migration
3 398 (10.47%) Roadmaps
4 379 (9.97%) DevOps
5 333 (8.76%) Data Modelling
6 322 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 303 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 285 (7.50%) Security Architecture
9 255 (6.71%) Enterprise Architecture
10 245 (6.44%) Data Architecture
11 241 (6.34%) TOGAF
12 214 (5.63%) Analytics
12 214 (5.63%) Microservices
13 208 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
14 199 (5.23%) Business Intelligence
15 192 (5.05%) CI/CD
16 190 (5.00%) Business Strategy
17 183 (4.81%) Data Governance
18 182 (4.79%) ITIL
19 180 (4.73%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 205 (5.39%) Python
2 203 (5.34%) SQL
3 185 (4.87%) Java
4 111 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 102 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 57 (1.50%) C#
7 41 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.63%) C
8 24 (0.63%) Scala
9 19 (0.50%) C++
10 18 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.39%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.34%) Bash
15 9 (0.24%) ABAP
15 9 (0.24%) Go
16 7 (0.18%) Bicep
17 5 (0.13%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,316 (34.61%) Security Cleared
2 728 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 514 (13.52%) DV Cleared
4 319 (8.39%) Degree
5 99 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (2.42%) CISSP
7 62 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (1.53%) CISM
9 56 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 54 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 48 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 41 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 41 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 37 (0.97%) CCNP
13 37 (0.97%) CISA
14 28 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.47%) SANS
16 17 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.45%) CCIE
17 16 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.26%) NIST
2 103 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 87 (2.29%) GDPR
4 85 (2.24%) QA
5 79 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.13%) NCSC
7 37 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.71%) SLA
9 26 (0.68%) JSP 440
10 24 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 22 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 20 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.39%) COBIT
14 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.32%) GRC
16 9 (0.24%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.18%) RMADS
19 4 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 165 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 74 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (1.50%) Docker
4 38 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.39%) vSphere
6 13 (0.34%) RACF
7 12 (0.32%) KVM
8 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.21%) ACF2
9 8 (0.21%) IAG
10 7 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.13%) vCloud
13 4 (0.11%) XenApp
13 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.079%) HDFS
14 3 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.053%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 129 (3.39%) Terraform
2 90 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 77 (2.03%) Ansible
4 44 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.66%) Endace
7 18 (0.47%) Grafana
7 18 (0.47%) Puppet
8 14 (0.37%) Kibana
8 14 (0.37%) SCCM
9 13 (0.34%) WMI
10 12 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.29%) logstash
12 10 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.18%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.16%) Packer
14 6 (0.16%) PingFederate
14 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.13%) VxRail
15 5 (0.13%) zSecure
Vendors
1 493 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 188 (4.94%) SAP
3 171 (4.50%) Cisco
4 155 (4.08%) Oracle
5 127 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 115 (3.02%) VMware
7 113 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 111 (2.92%) Google
9 109 (2.87%) Juniper
10 87 (2.29%) Sparx
11 71 (1.87%) Databricks
12 67 (1.76%) IBM
13 50 (1.32%) F5
14 47 (1.24%) Informatica
15 44 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 34 (0.89%) Dell
17 33 (0.87%) CyberArk
18 29 (0.76%) Adobe
19 26 (0.68%) Citrix
20 25 (0.66%) Okta