Architect Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 115 368 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.04% 20.99% 10.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.66% 22.97% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 213 90
10th Percentile £537 £575 £536
25th Percentile £563 £613 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -0.76%
75th Percentile £669 £725 £723
90th Percentile £738 £785 £776
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £90.60 -
25th Percentile - £91.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £92.19 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.82% -18.75%
75th Percentile - £92.37 £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £87.46 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.24% +16.61% +7.91%

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 842 1,602 1,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 91.39% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 955 781
10th Percentile £256 £363 £236
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £612
90th Percentile £660 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 178 103
10th Percentile £19.88 £14.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £32.10 £26.25 £21.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +9.24% +110.00%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.75
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.00% - +138.10%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Hampshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Hampshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Hampshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect 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 6 July 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 70 £600 -7.69% 52
Portsmouth +18 8 £575 -8.73% 19
Southampton +9 5 £675 +3.85% 16
Fleet - 5 £492 - 1
Andover -1 4 £700 +3.70% 3
Farnborough -4 4 £515 -23.36% 8
Havant -1 3 £772 +13.04%
Fareham -2 2 - - 3
Winchester +6 1 £750 - 1
Hook - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 Hampshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 88 (76.52%) Security Cleared
2 68 (59.13%) DV Cleared
3 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
4 30 (26.09%) Agile
5 29 (25.22%) Windows
6 25 (21.74%) VMware
7 23 (20.00%) SC Cleared
8 21 (18.26%) VMware Infrastructure
9 20 (17.39%) Microsoft
9 20 (17.39%) Active Directory
10 18 (15.65%) SQL
10 18 (15.65%) Cisco
11 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.91%) Azure
12 16 (13.91%) Juniper
13 15 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (13.04%) AWS
14 14 (12.17%) vSphere
15 13 (11.30%) PowerShell
15 13 (11.30%) LAN
16 12 (10.43%) NFS
16 12 (10.43%) Java
16 12 (10.43%) MCSE
16 12 (10.43%) NetApp
16 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (10.43%) Veeam
16 12 (10.43%) iSCSI
16 12 (10.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (10.43%) VMware ESXi
16 12 (10.43%) Fibre Channel

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.91%) Azure
2 15 (13.04%) AWS
3 8 (6.96%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.48%) GCP
5 3 (2.61%) AWS KMS
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.61%) Serverless
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) LAN
2 12 (10.43%) Fibre Channel
2 12 (10.43%) iSCSI
3 5 (4.35%) WAN
4 4 (3.48%) Firewall
5 3 (2.61%) Network Security
5 3 (2.61%) SSL
5 3 (2.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.74%) Junos
6 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.87%) ATM
7 1 (0.87%) Frame Relay
7 1 (0.87%) SDH
7 1 (0.87%) VoIP
7 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.61%) Git
2 3 (2.61%) GitLab
2 3 (2.61%) MSI
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.09%) Finance
5 3 (2.61%) Marketing
6 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.74%) Aviation
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Electronics
6 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Advertising
7 1 (0.87%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) Middleware
2 4 (3.48%) Web Services
3 3 (2.61%) Kafka
4 1 (0.87%) LDAP
4 1 (0.87%) REST
4 1 (0.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (3.48%) PKI
1 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.61%) IoT
2 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.74%) Device Driver
3 2 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.87%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Windows
2 12 (10.43%) Windows Server
2 12 (10.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (8.70%) Linux
4 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) Agile
2 17 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (9.57%) Customer Requirements
5 10 (8.70%) Edge Virtualization
5 10 (8.70%) Network Design
5 10 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
6 9 (7.83%) DevOps
6 9 (7.83%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (6.96%) Business Strategy
7 8 (6.96%) CI/CD
7 8 (6.96%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (6.96%) Migration
7 8 (6.96%) Network Architecture
8 7 (6.09%) Application Packaging
8 7 (6.09%) Computer Science
8 7 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (6.09%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.65%) SQL
2 13 (11.30%) PowerShell
3 12 (10.43%) Java
4 7 (6.09%) Python
5 2 (1.74%) Bash
5 2 (1.74%) C
5 2 (1.74%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.74%) Scala
5 2 (1.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (76.52%) Security Cleared
2 68 (59.13%) DV Cleared
3 23 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (10.43%) MCSE
5 12 (10.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (9.57%) Degree
7 10 (8.70%) CCNA
7 10 (8.70%) CCNP
7 10 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (8.70%) VCP5
7 10 (8.70%) VCP6
8 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (6.09%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.61%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.74%) VCAP
11 1 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) NIST
2 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.35%) SLA
3 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (12.17%) vSphere
4 12 (10.43%) NFS
4 12 (10.43%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.74%) Docker
5 2 (1.74%) Firmware
5 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.61%) SCCM
2 3 (2.61%) WMI
3 2 (1.74%) Ansible
3 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
3 2 (1.74%) vRealize
3 2 (1.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.87%) Iperf
4 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) VMware
2 20 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 18 (15.65%) Cisco
4 16 (13.91%) Juniper
5 12 (10.43%) NetApp
5 12 (10.43%) Splunk
5 12 (10.43%) Veeam
6 8 (6.96%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.35%) Citrix
8 4 (3.48%) Fujitsu
8 4 (3.48%) MuleSoft
9 3 (2.61%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.61%) Thales
10 2 (1.74%) Adobe
10 2 (1.74%) F5
10 2 (1.74%) SAP
10 2 (1.74%) Sparx
11 1 (0.87%) Aruba
11 1 (0.87%) HP
11 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds