Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 247 86 343
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 16.55% 11.80% 21.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.95% 12.48% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 80 181
10th Percentile £503 £500 £558
25th Percentile £575 £562 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £739 £825
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.50 - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £73.66 £83.77
% change year-on-year +22.19% -12.07% +19.66%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,376 689 1,411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.51% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 501 796
10th Percentile £325 £283 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £667
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 40 127
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.10 £12.48
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £18.32
Median hourly rate £25.00 £54.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.49% +15.66% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.44 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £37.97 £43.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year -13.22% +15.13% -15.56%

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 10 March 2026.

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 10 March 2026. 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 +3 129 £700 +12.00% 22
Farnborough -3 35 £600 -4.76% 1
Andover +2 18 £750 +11.11% 1
Fareham +3 15 £510 -36.25% 2
Southampton 0 10 £800 +68.42% 9
Portsmouth -1 6 £575 -8.00% 4
Hook - 3 £800 -
Eastleigh -1 1 - -
Aldershot -3 1 £663 +20.45% 2
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 2026, 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.

1 205 (83.00%) Security Cleared
2 146 (59.11%) DV Cleared
3 69 (27.94%) Agile
4 49 (19.84%) SC Cleared
5 40 (16.19%) VMware
6 33 (13.36%) Enterprise Architecture
6 33 (13.36%) Windows
7 32 (12.96%) Microsoft
8 26 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.91%) Sparx
9 22 (8.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 21 (8.50%) Azure
11 20 (8.10%) ITIL
11 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
12 18 (7.29%) Decision-Making
12 18 (7.29%) TOGAF
13 17 (6.88%) IT4IT
13 17 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.48%) Active Directory
15 15 (6.07%) Firewall
15 15 (6.07%) WMI
16 14 (5.67%) NIST
17 13 (5.26%) Strategic Roadmap
17 13 (5.26%) vCenter Server
18 12 (4.86%) ArchiMate
18 12 (4.86%) Knowledge Transfer
18 12 (4.86%) PaaS
19 11 (4.45%) COBIT
19 11 (4.45%) ISEB
19 11 (4.45%) Linux

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 2 (0.81%) Confluence
1 2 (0.81%) Ethereum
1 2 (0.81%) Hyperledger
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (8.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.81%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.50%) Azure
2 12 (4.86%) PaaS
3 10 (4.05%) AWS
3 10 (4.05%) IaaS
4 5 (2.02%) Google Ads
5 4 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.21%) Algolia
6 3 (1.21%) Commercetools
6 3 (1.21%) Contentful
6 3 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.81%) GCP
7 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.40%) GitHub
8 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.07%) Firewall
2 7 (2.83%) VPN
3 5 (2.02%) LAN
3 5 (2.02%) Network Security
4 4 (1.62%) S/MIME
4 4 (1.62%) VSAN
5 3 (1.21%) WAN
6 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.81%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.81%) SAN
6 2 (0.81%) SSL
7 1 (0.40%) BGP
7 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.40%) NAS
7 1 (0.40%) VLAN
7 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) Power BI
1 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.40%) Big Data
2 1 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (1.21%) MSI
2 2 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (16.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.88%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.05%) Finance
5 6 (2.43%) Military
6 4 (1.62%) Legal
7 2 (0.81%) Marketing
7 2 (0.81%) Retail
7 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.62%) REST
2 2 (0.81%) JSON
2 2 (0.81%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (0.81%) XML
3 1 (0.40%) SOAP
3 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.96%) PKI
2 10 (4.05%) Blockchain
3 9 (3.64%) Fat Client
3 9 (3.64%) Thin Client
4 6 (2.43%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.62%) Smartcard
6 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.40%) IoT
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.36%) Windows
2 11 (4.45%) Linux
3 9 (3.64%) Windows 7
4 7 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.94%) Agile
2 33 (13.36%) Enterprise Architecture
3 26 (10.53%) Roadmaps
4 20 (8.10%) ITIL
5 18 (7.29%) Decision-Making
5 18 (7.29%) TOGAF
6 17 (6.88%) IT4IT
6 17 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (5.26%) Strategic Roadmap
8 12 (4.86%) ArchiMate
8 12 (4.86%) Knowledge Transfer
9 11 (4.45%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (4.05%) Architectural Design
10 10 (4.05%) KYC
10 10 (4.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (3.64%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (3.64%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (3.64%) Prototyping
11 9 (3.64%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 9 (3.64%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
2 10 (4.05%) Python
3 3 (1.21%) C#
3 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.21%) SQL
4 1 (0.40%) Bash
Qualifications
1 205 (83.00%) Security Cleared
2 146 (59.11%) DV Cleared
3 49 (19.84%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.45%) ISEB
5 8 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.62%) CISM
6 4 (1.62%) CISSP
6 4 (1.62%) GIAC
7 3 (1.21%) VCDX
8 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.81%) Degree
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) NIST
2 11 (4.45%) COBIT
3 10 (4.05%) NCSC
4 8 (3.24%) GDPR
5 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (2.02%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.24%) vSphere
3 7 (2.83%) vCloud
4 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.81%) Docker
7 2 (0.81%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (6.07%) WMI
2 13 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.21%) Endace
3 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.81%) Terraform
4 2 (0.81%) vRealize
4 2 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 40 (16.19%) VMware
2 32 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.91%) Sparx
4 9 (3.64%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (2.43%) Cisco
5 6 (2.43%) Thales
6 5 (2.02%) Juniper
7 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.21%) BMC
8 3 (1.21%) Remedy
9 2 (0.81%) Databricks
9 2 (0.81%) F5
9 2 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.40%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.40%) NetApp
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Workday