Computer Architecture Contracts in England

Computer Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Computer Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 526 613
Rank change year-on-year +24 +87 +170
Contract jobs citing Computer Architecture 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.018% 0.006% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.007% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £400 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Computer Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,147 28,565 39,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 85.88% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,019 18,593 27,682
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £629 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 1,644 1,361
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.35 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

Computer Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Architecture in England

Computer Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Architecture in England

Computer Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Architecture in England

Computer Architecture
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 Computer Architecture 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
South East - 3 - - 1
East of England - 1 £400 - 20
London - 1 - - 15
Computer Architecture
UK

Computer Architecture
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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Trainee
1 3 (60.00%) Trainee Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat