IT Architect Contract Job Trends in England

IT Architect
UK > England

The median IT Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 483 500
Rank change year-on-year -44 +17 +182
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 15 21 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.072% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.078% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 41
10th Percentile £531 £496 £613
25th Percentile £572 £573 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £665
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% -1.48%
75th Percentile £775 £716 £719
90th Percentile £1,075 £796 £725
UK median daily rate £588 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -9.62% -2.26% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £74.92
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - -0.78%

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 28,510 26,921 34,873
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.92% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,200 16,785 23,966
10th Percentile £291 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 853 1,358
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'IT Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

IT Architect job vacancy trend in England

IT Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies in England

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies 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 18 December 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 -1 8 £750 +11.11% 9
South West -1 3 £600 -
North West -17 2 £538 - 3
North of England -50 2 £538 - 3
South East -22 1 £750 +18.81% 4
West Midlands -33 1 £1,250 +100.00%
Midlands -41 1 £1,250 +100.00%
IT Architect
UK

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, IT Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (20.00%) OSINT
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Azure
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (13.33%) NIST
5 2 (13.33%) QA
5 2 (13.33%) SABSA
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (6.67%) AI
6 1 (6.67%) Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
6 1 (6.67%) Architecture Governance
6 1 (6.67%) Backlog Management
6 1 (6.67%) Bill of Materials
6 1 (6.67%) CCNP
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco

IT Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.67%) Modbus
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Redis
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (6.67%) Next.js
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) OSINT
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (13.33%) SABSA
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 1 (6.67%) AI
6 1 (6.67%) Data Security
6 1 (6.67%) ITSM
6 1 (6.67%) Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.67%) Service Management
6 1 (6.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) GAMP
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco
1 1 (6.67%) VMware