Digital Architect Contracts in England

Digital Architect
UK > England

The median Digital Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 559 686
Rank change year-on-year +57 +127 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 41 89 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 64 72
10th Percentile £555 £579 £557
25th Percentile £563 £650 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £660
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.02% +25.76%
75th Percentile £750 £782 £750
90th Percentile £1,250 £800 £786
UK median daily rate £663 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -5.36% +12.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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 +93 22 £725 - 5
North of England +33 9 £575 -11.54% 1
North West +30 8 - - 1
South East +8 5 £568 -18.93%
South West -1 3 £590 +1.81% 1
West Midlands +28 2 - -
Midlands +28 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +21 1 £575 -17.86%
Digital Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 13 (31.71%) Microservices
2 12 (29.27%) Agile
3 11 (26.83%) Finance
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps
5 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
5 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
5 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
5 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
6 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.07%) Mobile App
6 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
6 7 (17.07%) Node.js
7 6 (14.63%) Apple iOS
7 6 (14.63%) Android
7 6 (14.63%) AWS
7 6 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (14.63%) Firewall
8 5 (12.20%) Windows
8 5 (12.20%) VPN
8 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 5 (12.20%) Banking
8 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
8 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 5 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (12.20%) Azure
8 5 (12.20%) Security Architecture
8 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
8 5 (12.20%) REST
8 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
8 5 (12.20%) Zero Trust

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 2 (4.88%) CMS
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.44%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (2.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) Firewall
2 5 (12.20%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Redis
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
5 2 (4.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) REST
3 3 (7.32%) .NET
3 3 (7.32%) DAO
3 3 (7.32%) React
4 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.44%) CSS
5 1 (2.44%) FHIR
5 1 (2.44%) HTML
5 1 (2.44%) HTML5
5 1 (2.44%) MACH
5 1 (2.44%) React Native
5 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.88%) Web3
5 1 (2.44%) CBDC
5 1 (2.44%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Android
1 6 (14.63%) Apple iOS
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Microservices
2 12 (29.27%) Agile
3 9 (21.95%) DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
4 8 (19.51%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 6 (14.63%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (12.20%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
7 5 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
7 5 (12.20%) Security Architecture
7 5 (12.20%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Zero Trust
8 4 (9.76%) Architecture Roadmap
8 4 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (9.76%) Digital Twin
8 4 (9.76%) Front End Development
8 4 (9.76%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
1 4 (9.76%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) C#
2 2 (4.88%) Java
3 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) DICOM
1 1 (2.44%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.88%) Sitecore
2 1 (2.44%) Optimizely
2 1 (2.44%) Roku
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.44%) Samsung
2 1 (2.44%) SAP
2 1 (2.44%) Sparx