Chief Architect Contracts in England

Chief Architect
UK > England

The median Chief Architect daily rate in England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 503 603
Rank change year-on-year +11 +100 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Architect 15 25 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.075% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.081% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 9
10th Percentile £581 £726 £650
25th Percentile £616 £761 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £875 £825
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £1,125 £925 £925
90th Percentile £1,300 £945 £1,075
UK median daily rate £775 £875 £813
% change year-on-year -11.43% +7.69% -1.52%

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 25,356 30,888 41,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 92.86% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,377 20,261 29,558
10th Percentile £285 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,342 1,792 1,303
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.25 £14.67
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Chief Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Chief Architect in England

Chief Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Chief Architect in England

Chief Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chief Architect in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chief Architect in England

Chief 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 Chief Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 +9 13 £750 -16.67% 5
South West +30 2 - - 1
Chief Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Chief 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 Chief Architect in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle
5 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (33.33%) Azure
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Technology Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
6 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Business Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (20.00%) Google
7 3 (20.00%) AWS
7 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
8 2 (13.33%) Public Speaking
8 2 (13.33%) Architecture Roadmap
8 2 (13.33%) NIST
8 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
8 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
8 2 (13.33%) Agile

Chief 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Public Speaking
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Blog
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
6 4 (26.67%) Business Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (26.67%) Technology Transformation
7 3 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
8 2 (13.33%) Agile
8 2 (13.33%) Architecture Roadmap
8 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 2 (13.33%) ETL
8 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 2 (13.33%) Master Data Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.67%) PSD2
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk