Architect Contracts in Gloucestershire

Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Architect daily rate in Gloucestershire is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 28 44 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.22% 10.26% 6.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.02% 11.28% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 22
10th Percentile £525 £472 £550
25th Percentile £530 £581 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £740 £611
90th Percentile £894 £758 £686
South West median daily rate £600 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.26% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £74.13
90th Percentile - - £76.75
South West median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% - +2.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 254 390 442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 90.91% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 237 308
10th Percentile £133 £300 £320
25th Percentile £365 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 36
10th Percentile £24.99 £15.05 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £15.79 £49.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £79.33
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheltenham +6 16 £548 -22.34% 28
Gloucester -4 6 £900 +53.19% 26
Architect
South West

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (67.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (53.57%) DNS
4 14 (50.00%) Firewall
4 14 (50.00%) .NET
5 13 (46.43%) Kerberos
5 13 (46.43%) PKI
5 13 (46.43%) Replication
5 13 (46.43%) Data Centre
5 13 (46.43%) RBAC
6 10 (35.71%) Aerospace
7 8 (28.57%) Azure
8 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
9 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (17.86%) Data Architecture
9 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
9 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
10 4 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
10 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
10 4 (14.29%) Migration
10 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 3 (10.71%) ETL
11 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
11 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (10.71%) Zero Trust
11 3 (10.71%) PMO
11 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
11 3 (10.71%) Finance

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) DNS
2 14 (50.00%) Firewall
3 13 (46.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) Metadata
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 10 (35.71%) Aerospace
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Data Centre
1 13 (46.43%) PKI
1 13 (46.43%) Replication
2 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) RBAC
2 5 (17.86%) Data Architecture
2 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
4 3 (10.71%) ETL
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (10.71%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (10.71%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (10.71%) Zero Trust
5 2 (7.14%) Agile
5 2 (7.14%) Data Security
5 2 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (7.14%) Microservices
5 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (7.14%) TOGAF
5 2 (7.14%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
1 1 (3.57%) VB
1 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (67.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) MCP
4 1 (3.57%) MCSA
4 1 (3.57%) MCSE
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Symantec
3 1 (3.57%) Aruba
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) F5
3 1 (3.57%) FireEye
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Juniper
3 1 (3.57%) McAfee
3 1 (3.57%) Meraki
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) VMware