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 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 23 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.37% 5.21% 12.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.49% 5.53% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 20
10th Percentile - £538 £233
25th Percentile £458 £588 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £675 £527
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +28.21% -10.38%
75th Percentile £473 - £631
90th Percentile - £705 £742
East of England median daily rate £625 £638 £676
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.70% +4.00%
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 86 199 242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.63% 94.31% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 100 140
10th Percentile £189 £250 £199
25th Percentile £315 £347 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -9.91% +0.91%
75th Percentile £476 £556 £557
90th Percentile £500 £600 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 18
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.86 £20.91
25th Percentile £14.05 £16.65 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £44.08
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +24.77% +76.32%
75th Percentile £46.60 £80.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £136.00 - £77.05
East of England median hourly rate £45.59 £43.00 £41.81
% change year-on-year +6.02% +2.85% +161.31%

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 20 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 +3 3 £465 -31.11% 11
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) StreamSets
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift

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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) dbt
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSR 170
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) OSGi
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) StreamSets
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI