Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 153 153 153
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.93% 13.75% 11.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.56% 14.83% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 108 80
10th Percentile £519 £575 £531
25th Percentile £525 £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £672 £648
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.78% -7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £719 £762 £738
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £84.50 - £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.82 £95.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year -11.77% +25.55% +8.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 983 1,032 1,248
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 92.72% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 683 703
10th Percentile £256 £343 £269
25th Percentile £418 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £636
90th Percentile £651 £700 £687
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £508
% change year-on-year -1.48% - +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 85
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £31.04 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £66.68 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.28% +33.35% +11.11%
75th Percentile £34.83 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.15 £75.00 £74.02
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £51.24
% change year-on-year -63.84% +12.22% +44.49%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Architect job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Hampshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Hampshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Hampshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Hampshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Basingstoke +1 83 £600 -13.67% 21
Portsmouth +17 31 £538 -14.00% 13
Southampton 0 9 £713 +2.52% 17
Farnborough -7 9 £638 -5.13% 15
Fleet - 5 £492 -
Fareham -3 4 £488 -22.00% 2
Andover - 3 £725 - 12
Havant -6 2 £720 +10.77% 1
Aldershot -2 1 £663 +20.45%
Hook - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 127 (83.01%) Security Cleared
2 84 (54.90%) DV Cleared
3 40 (26.14%) VMware
4 38 (24.84%) SC Cleared
5 37 (24.18%) ITIL
6 34 (22.22%) IT4IT
7 32 (20.92%) Microsoft
7 32 (20.92%) Windows
8 31 (20.26%) Agile
9 28 (18.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 28 (18.30%) Service Design
9 28 (18.30%) Service Management
10 26 (16.99%) Project Delivery
11 23 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
12 20 (13.07%) vSphere
13 18 (11.76%) Java
13 18 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (11.11%) Azure
14 17 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (10.46%) SQL
16 15 (9.80%) Cisco
16 15 (9.80%) LAN
16 15 (9.80%) NetApp
17 14 (9.15%) Fibre Channel
17 14 (9.15%) iSCSI
17 14 (9.15%) MCSE
17 14 (9.15%) NFS
17 14 (9.15%) Splunk
17 14 (9.15%) Veeam
17 14 (9.15%) Windows Server

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.96%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.11%) Azure
2 10 (6.54%) AWS
3 6 (3.92%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.27%) GCP
5 3 (1.96%) Algolia
5 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.96%) Commercetools
5 3 (1.96%) Contentful
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.96%) Serverless
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.65%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.80%) LAN
2 14 (9.15%) Fibre Channel
2 14 (9.15%) iSCSI
3 9 (5.88%) Firewall
4 8 (5.23%) VSAN
5 4 (2.61%) PCoIP
6 2 (1.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.31%) Junos
6 2 (1.31%) SAN
6 2 (1.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.65%) BGP
7 1 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.65%) NAS
7 1 (0.65%) VLAN
7 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.92%) Git
3 5 (3.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 20 (13.07%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.61%) Retail
4 3 (1.96%) Marketing
4 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.31%) Finance
5 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.65%) Advertising
6 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.65%) Aviation
6 1 (0.65%) Banking
6 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) Middleware
2 2 (1.31%) Kafka
2 2 (1.31%) REST
2 2 (1.31%) RESTful
3 1 (0.65%) SOAP
3 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.19%) PKI
2 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.92%) Fat Client
2 6 (3.92%) Thin Client
3 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.92%) Windows
2 14 (9.15%) Windows Server
2 14 (9.15%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (5.23%) Linux
4 6 (3.92%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.18%) ITIL
2 34 (22.22%) IT4IT
3 31 (20.26%) Agile
4 28 (18.30%) Service Design
4 28 (18.30%) Service Management
5 26 (16.99%) Project Delivery
6 13 (8.50%) Customer Requirements
7 10 (6.54%) Architectural Design
7 10 (6.54%) CI/CD
7 10 (6.54%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (5.88%) DevOps
8 9 (5.88%) Prototyping
9 8 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (5.23%) Edge Virtualization
9 8 (5.23%) Mentoring
9 8 (5.23%) Performance Analysis
9 8 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (4.58%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (4.58%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.76%) Java
2 16 (10.46%) SQL
3 10 (6.54%) Python
4 5 (3.27%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.31%) Bash
5 2 (1.31%) Scala
5 2 (1.31%) VB
6 1 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 127 (83.01%) Security Cleared
2 84 (54.90%) DV Cleared
3 38 (24.84%) SC Cleared
4 17 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (9.15%) MCSE
6 12 (7.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (5.23%) VCP5
7 8 (5.23%) VCP6
8 6 (3.92%) Degree
8 6 (3.92%) ISEB
9 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.96%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.96%) VCDX
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.65%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (4.58%) NIST
2 7 (4.58%) SLA
3 6 (3.92%) COBIT
4 5 (3.27%) GDPR
5 4 (2.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.61%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.61%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (13.07%) vSphere
3 18 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (9.15%) NFS
5 12 (7.84%) Active Directory
6 5 (3.27%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.96%) Docker
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (4.58%) WMI
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.61%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.96%) SCCM
4 2 (1.31%) Ansible
4 2 (1.31%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (26.14%) VMware
2 32 (20.92%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.80%) Cisco
3 15 (9.80%) NetApp
4 14 (9.15%) Splunk
4 14 (9.15%) Veeam
5 13 (8.50%) Juniper
6 5 (3.27%) Citrix
7 2 (1.31%) F5
7 2 (1.31%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.31%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Aruba
8 1 (0.65%) Criteo
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Zscaler