Architect Contracts in Gloucestershire

Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Architect daily rate in Gloucestershire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 19 41 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.31% 9.74% 7.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.98% 10.70% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 23
10th Percentile £525 - £513
25th Percentile £535 £581 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £781 £755 £608
90th Percentile £900 £760 £774
South West median daily rate £600 £650 £668
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.69% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.75
90th Percentile - - £76.50
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +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 238 383 424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 90.97% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 222 280
10th Percentile £132 £300 £313
25th Percentile £300 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -2.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 39 38
10th Percentile £25.56 £15.20 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £15.82 £50.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £40.00 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.63% -44.06% +138.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £81.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +42.54%

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 19 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 19 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 +8 10 £548 -22.89% 12
Gloucester -4 6 £900 +53.19% 7
Architect
South West

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Firewall
3 8 (42.11%) DNS
4 7 (36.84%) .NET
4 7 (36.84%) Kerberos
4 7 (36.84%) Replication
4 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
5 6 (31.58%) RBAC
5 6 (31.58%) PKI
5 6 (31.58%) Azure
5 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
6 5 (26.32%) Aerospace
7 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
7 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (15.79%) PMO
8 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
8 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
8 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
9 2 (10.53%) Agile
9 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture

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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Aerospace
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
1 7 (36.84%) Replication
2 6 (31.58%) PKI
3 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) RBAC
2 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) Data Security
4 2 (10.53%) ETL
4 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) VB
1 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) MCP
4 1 (5.26%) MCSA
4 1 (5.26%) MCSE
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Symantec
3 1 (5.26%) Aruba
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) FireEye
3 1 (5.26%) Juniper
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) VMware