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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,932 2,787 3,413
As % of all contract jobs in England 9.31% 9.65% 9.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.21% 10.38% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,024 1,688 2,355
10th Percentile £462 £484 £500
25th Percentile £520 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £720 £738 £731
90th Percentile £800 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 33
10th Percentile £64.25 £60.00 £57.80
25th Percentile £66.13 £61.50 £70.00
Median hourly rate £83.82 £66.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -13.76% +9.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £80.59 £83.11
90th Percentile - £87.50 £92.75
UK median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +19.74% -8.53% +9.33%

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 28,730 26,847 34,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.95% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,314 16,727 23,863
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,773 846 1,347
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.83 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +1 1,330 £630 +0.80% 288
South East +8 532 £600 -4.00% 210
North of England -8 388 £600 -2.77% 120
South West 0 255 £700 +12.00% 60
Midlands -5 248 £575 -4.17% 81
North West -6 233 £600 -3.23% 63
West Midlands -8 190 £582 -3.04% 56
Yorkshire -20 137 £600 +1.48% 43
East of England -10 89 £553 -7.92% 45
East Midlands -5 58 £525 -7.49% 25
North East -11 19 £700 +16.74% 15
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 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.

1 943 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 805 (27.46%) Azure
3 652 (22.24%) SC Cleared
4 601 (20.50%) AWS
5 463 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 436 (14.87%) Agile
7 428 (14.60%) Microsoft
8 398 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 337 (11.49%) Enterprise Architecture
10 324 (11.05%) Migration
11 323 (11.02%) Data Modelling
12 322 (10.98%) TOGAF
13 316 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 306 (10.44%) DevOps
15 288 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
16 280 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
17 265 (9.04%) CI/CD
18 251 (8.56%) GCP
19 237 (8.08%) AI
20 236 (8.05%) Microservices
21 228 (7.78%) Analytics
21 228 (7.78%) Data Architecture
22 225 (7.67%) DV Cleared
23 224 (7.64%) Python
24 201 (6.86%) Terraform
25 196 (6.68%) ITIL
26 194 (6.62%) Integration Patterns
27 192 (6.55%) Architectural Design
28 186 (6.34%) Data Governance
29 185 (6.31%) 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 87 (2.97%) Confluence
2 49 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.61%) SAS
5 16 (0.55%) CMS
5 16 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.31%) Apache
8 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.24%) Smallworld
8 7 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.14%) Documentum
10 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.38%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.10%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.034%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.034%) Revit
8 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 79 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 28 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.85%) Workday HCM
5 18 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 17 (0.58%) Maximo
7 16 (0.55%) SAP PM
8 13 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
8 13 (0.44%) SAP CO
8 13 (0.44%) Teamcenter
9 12 (0.41%) NetSuite
10 11 (0.38%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.31%) Endur
13 8 (0.27%) SAP PP
14 7 (0.24%) Aladdin
14 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
14 7 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
15 6 (0.20%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 805 (27.46%) Azure
2 601 (20.50%) AWS
3 251 (8.56%) GCP
4 127 (4.33%) Power Platform
5 123 (4.20%) SaaS
6 103 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 94 (3.21%) Serverless
8 83 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 73 (2.49%) IaaS
10 71 (2.42%) GitHub
11 70 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
12 67 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
13 58 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (1.98%) PaaS
14 51 (1.74%) Snowflake
15 50 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
16 48 (1.64%) OpenShift
17 46 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
18 45 (1.53%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 180 (6.14%) Firewall
2 103 (3.51%) WAN
3 90 (3.07%) LAN
4 82 (2.80%) Network Security
5 75 (2.56%) VPN
6 69 (2.35%) SD-WAN
7 68 (2.32%) DNS
8 42 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (1.13%) BGP
10 27 (0.92%) MPLS
11 26 (0.89%) SAN
12 25 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (0.72%) DHCP
13 21 (0.72%) VSAN
14 19 (0.65%) Internet
14 19 (0.65%) SSL
15 17 (0.58%) OSPF
16 14 (0.48%) VLAN
17 12 (0.41%) IPsec
17 12 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (2.90%) Power BI
3 72 (2.46%) Metadata
4 68 (2.32%) Data Lake
5 55 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 35 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 28 (0.95%) Tableau
9 26 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 24 (0.82%) MongoDB
12 23 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.68%) Delta Lake
13 20 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.65%) GIS
15 18 (0.61%) Big Data
15 18 (0.61%) Data Vault
15 18 (0.61%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 109 (3.72%) JIRA
2 65 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.60%) Git
4 28 (0.95%) GitLab
5 12 (0.41%) ERwin
6 9 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.20%) MLflow
10 5 (0.17%) Gradle
10 5 (0.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.17%) SonarLint
10 5 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.14%) MSI
11 4 (0.14%) Postman
11 4 (0.14%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 789 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 485 (16.54%) Finance
3 355 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 247 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 177 (6.04%) Banking
6 92 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 79 (2.69%) Retail
8 71 (2.42%) Marketing
9 70 (2.39%) Military
10 64 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 60 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (2.01%) Legal
13 59 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 35 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 28 (0.95%) Billing
17 26 (0.89%) Back Office
18 19 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.95%) REST
2 91 (3.10%) Middleware
3 84 (2.86%) SOAP
4 68 (2.32%) .NET
5 58 (1.98%) JSON
6 46 (1.57%) Kafka
6 46 (1.57%) OAuth
7 40 (1.36%) SAML
8 39 (1.33%) RESTful
9 32 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
10 31 (1.06%) LDAP
11 27 (0.92%) AngularJS
11 27 (0.92%) OpenID
11 27 (0.92%) Web Services
12 26 (0.89%) PySpark
12 26 (0.89%) React
13 24 (0.82%) OAuth2
13 24 (0.82%) Spring Boot
14 22 (0.75%) Visualforce
15 21 (0.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 218 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 127 (4.33%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 105 (3.58%) Data Centre
5 79 (2.69%) PKI
6 78 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 75 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 55 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 43 (1.47%) Operational Technology
10 42 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.36%) CMDB
11 40 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 35 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 33 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (0.99%) Private Cloud
16 28 (0.95%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.95%) NHS
17 26 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.20%) Windows
2 81 (2.76%) Linux
3 41 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.44%) Windows 7
8 12 (0.41%) Unix
9 10 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.24%) VMS
11 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.17%) Android
12 5 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.10%) CentOS
13 3 (0.10%) Solaris
13 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.034%) AIX
14 1 (0.034%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (15.79%) Roadmaps
2 436 (14.87%) Agile
3 398 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 337 (11.49%) Enterprise Architecture
5 324 (11.05%) Migration
6 323 (11.02%) Data Modelling
7 322 (10.98%) TOGAF
8 316 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 306 (10.44%) DevOps
10 288 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
11 280 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
12 265 (9.04%) CI/CD
13 237 (8.08%) AI
14 236 (8.05%) Microservices
15 228 (7.78%) Analytics
15 228 (7.78%) Data Architecture
16 196 (6.68%) ITIL
17 194 (6.62%) Integration Patterns
18 192 (6.55%) Architectural Design
19 186 (6.34%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 224 (7.64%) Python
2 151 (5.15%) SQL
3 129 (4.40%) Java
4 121 (4.13%) PowerShell
5 55 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 39 (1.33%) C#
7 35 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.13%) Bash
9 29 (0.99%) Apex Code
10 28 (0.95%) Bicep
11 16 (0.55%) R
12 14 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.34%) C
14 9 (0.31%) C++
15 7 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.20%) ABAP
16 6 (0.20%) Korn
16 6 (0.20%) PHP
17 5 (0.17%) Ruby
18 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 943 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 652 (22.24%) SC Cleared
3 225 (7.67%) DV Cleared
4 169 (5.76%) Degree
5 94 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 91 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 91 (3.10%) CISSP
6 91 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
7 66 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 37 (1.26%) CISM
12 35 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.19%) CCNP
13 31 (1.06%) CCIE
14 24 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 23 (0.78%) ISEB
16 20 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (4.84%) GDPR
2 112 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 108 (3.68%) NIST
4 92 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.91%) NCSC
5 56 (1.91%) QA
6 43 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 30 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 27 (0.92%) COBIT
9 20 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 20 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (0.68%) GRC
10 19 (0.65%) JSP 440
11 18 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.51%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.41%) SLA
14 11 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.34%) EU AI Act
15 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 124 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 108 (3.68%) Docker
3 85 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.09%) vSphere
5 31 (1.06%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.38%) NFS
10 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Postfix
12 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.10%) Lustre
12 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.068%) Ceph
13 2 (0.068%) Firmware
13 2 (0.068%) KVM
13 2 (0.068%) vCloud
14 1 (0.034%) Xen
Systems Management
1 201 (6.86%) Terraform
2 155 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 85 (2.90%) Ansible
4 41 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 33 (1.13%) OPNET
6 22 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.65%) SCCM
7 19 (0.65%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.44%) WMI
10 10 (0.34%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.31%) Argo
11 9 (0.31%) Grafana
12 5 (0.17%) Kibana
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.10%) Istio
14 3 (0.10%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.10%) Puppet
14 3 (0.10%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 428 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 179 (6.11%) SAP
2 179 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 163 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 141 (4.81%) Oracle
5 134 (4.57%) VMware
6 112 (3.82%) Cisco
7 92 (3.14%) Databricks
8 76 (2.59%) Google
9 59 (2.01%) CyberArk
10 52 (1.77%) Fortinet
11 49 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 48 (1.64%) Remedy
12 48 (1.64%) Workday
13 46 (1.57%) Splunk
14 42 (1.43%) IBM
15 37 (1.26%) Atlassian
16 36 (1.23%) Juniper
17 35 (1.19%) F5
17 35 (1.19%) MuleSoft