Architect Contracts in Essex

Architect
East of England > Essex

The median Architect daily rate in Essex is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +26
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.27% 5.91% 12.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 6.25% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 19
10th Percentile - £550 £230
25th Percentile £458 £613 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £650 £523
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +24.28% -10.98%
75th Percentile £473 £675 £638
90th Percentile - £690 £748
East of England median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £86.20 £39.63
25th Percentile - £86.50 £44.71
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £53.21
Median % change year-on-year - +64.44% -
75th Percentile - £88.00 £61.76
90th Percentile - - £66.86
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 76 208 224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 94.55% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 107 133
10th Percentile £227 £250 £161
25th Percentile £315 £344 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -8.91%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £610
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 53 16
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.86 £20.40
25th Percentile £14.44 £16.65 £24.09
Median hourly rate £26.25 £55.00 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.27% +26.98% +80.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.00 £63.31
90th Percentile £192.00 - £69.51
East of England median hourly rate £49.15 £43.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +26.47% +119.35%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Essex

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Essex

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Essex

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Essex region over the 6 months to 4 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
Basildon +2 1 £465 -31.11% 6
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Essex region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI