IT Architect Contracts in England

IT Architect
UK > England

The median IT Architect daily rate in England is £720, 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 464 498 598
Rank change year-on-year +34 +100 +106
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 21 44 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 36
10th Percentile £564 £468 £656
25th Percentile £616 £563 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £800 £715 £750
90th Percentile - £738 £836
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +12.00%

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%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Architect in England

IT 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 IT 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 +27 13 £750 +11.11% 4
North of England +21 4 £650 +87.95% 3
Midlands +22 3 £713 -5.63%
West Midlands +14 3 £713 -5.63%
North West +17 2 £650 +87.95% 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
South East +41 1 £690 +12.65% 4
IT Architect
UK

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

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

1 9 (42.86%) Finance
1 9 (42.86%) Banking
2 7 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (23.81%) Windows
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) SIEM
4 5 (23.81%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (19.05%) NIST
5 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
5 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (14.29%) AWS
6 3 (14.29%) Service Management
6 3 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) ITSM
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
6 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Service Design
6 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
7 2 (9.52%) Microservices
7 2 (9.52%) Virgin Media

IT 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Modbus
2 1 (4.76%) MQTT
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
General
1 9 (42.86%) Banking
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) MACH
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Blog
2 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.52%) SCADA
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (23.81%) SIEM
3 5 (23.81%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 3 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Service Design
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (9.52%) Microservices
6 2 (9.52%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CISSP
1 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Commvault
2 2 (9.52%) Veritas
2 2 (9.52%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) VMware