Digital Architect Contracts in England

Digital Architect
UK > England

The median Digital Architect daily rate in England is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 501 564
Rank change year-on-year +27 +63 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 11 41 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 64
10th Percentile £393 £555 £579
25th Percentile £420 £563 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% -7.14% +6.02%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £782
90th Percentile £805 £1,250 £800
UK median daily rate £449 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -32.30% -5.36% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Architect in England

Digital Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Architect in England

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Architect in England

Digital Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Architect in England

Digital 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 Digital Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +25 9 £449 -38.14% 13
South West +45 2 - -
Digital Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Digital 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 Digital Architect in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Docker
4 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) User Research
5 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
5 1 (9.09%) UX Research
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Military
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Contingency Planning

Digital 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) B2B
5 1 (9.09%) Budget Control
5 1 (9.09%) Business Development
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Product Management
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Project Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP