Architect Contracts in Gloucester

Architect
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Architect daily rate in Gloucester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -11
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Architect 6 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 6.90% 8.00% 8.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.57% 8.57% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £481 £481 £510
25th Percentile £506 £541 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £745 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +35.45% -29.03%
75th Percentile £716 £758 £588
90th Percentile £756 £764 £614
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -26.67% +30.43% -12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Gloucester with a recognized job title 70 70 147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.46% 93.33% 98.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 53 101
10th Percentile £179 £353 £413
25th Percentile £225 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £675
90th Percentile £735 £688 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £28.26 £18.00 £66.10
25th Percentile £32.93 £18.75 -
Median hourly rate £41.33 £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.79% -73.08% -
75th Percentile £50.35 £22.75 -
90th Percentile £55.39 £23.20 £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.17 £67.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year -47.90% -11.76% +135.38%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Gloucester

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucester

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Gloucester over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Gloucester

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucester.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucester

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 Gloucester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
4 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (16.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) VMware