Product Architect Contracts in England

Product Architect
UK > England

The median Product Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 530 671
Rank change year-on-year +52 +141 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 8 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.030% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.032% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £455 £680 £471
25th Percentile £500 £688 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +41.46% -7.16%
75th Percentile £700 £763 £534
90th Percentile £745 £770 £544
UK median daily rate £600 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.36% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.26 - -
Median hourly rate £73.31 - -
75th Percentile £78.36 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.31 - -

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 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 £640 £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 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Architect in England

Product Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Architect in England

Product Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Architect in England

Product Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Architect in England

Product 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 Product Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +50 5 £450 - 1
London +34 2 £750 +3.45% 4
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 2
Product Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
3 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (37.50%) Network Design
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) SAP
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco
5 2 (25.00%) Product Management
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Meraki
6 1 (12.50%) IoT
6 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
6 1 (12.50%) GCP

Product 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Maximo
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Network Design
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security
4 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Product Management
4 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
5 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Workday