Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 260 88 349
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 15.73% 11.97% 21.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.74% 12.54% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 83 187
10th Percentile £503 £502 £557
25th Percentile £575 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £729 £810
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £648
% change year-on-year - -3.55% -0.31%

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 1,553 702 1,429
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 95.51% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 514 812
10th Percentile £350 £281 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -6.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £740 £664 £738
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 45 168
10th Percentile £13.88 £20.03 £13.19
25th Percentile £16.80 £24.66 £34.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.10% +14.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.79 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +50.77% -31.58% +5.56%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +1 147 £700 +12.00%
Farnborough -1 31 £505 -19.33% 4
Andover +3 18 £750 +11.11% 5
Fareham +3 15 £510 -36.25% 3
Southampton -1 10 £800 +68.42%
Portsmouth -5 4 £568 -1.30%
Hook - 3 £800 -
Eastleigh - 2 £600 -
Aldershot - 1 £663 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 223 (85.77%) Security Cleared
2 164 (63.08%) DV Cleared
3 79 (30.38%) Agile
4 49 (18.85%) SC Cleared
5 37 (14.23%) Enterprise Architecture
5 37 (14.23%) VMware
6 31 (11.92%) Roadmaps
7 29 (11.15%) Windows
8 25 (9.62%) Azure
8 25 (9.62%) Sparx
8 25 (9.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 24 (9.23%) Microsoft
10 23 (8.85%) ITIL
10 23 (8.85%) PowerShell
11 21 (8.08%) Decision-Making
11 21 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (6.92%) PaaS
13 17 (6.54%) IT4IT
13 17 (6.54%) TOGAF
14 16 (6.15%) IaaS
14 16 (6.15%) NIST
15 15 (5.77%) ArchiMate
15 15 (5.77%) Strategic Roadmap
16 14 (5.38%) Active Directory
16 14 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (5.38%) vCenter Server
17 13 (5.00%) Architecture Governance
17 13 (5.00%) AWS
17 13 (5.00%) Firewall
17 13 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer

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 (0.77%) Confluence
1 2 (0.77%) Ethereum
1 2 (0.77%) Hyperledger
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (9.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.77%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.77%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.62%) Azure
2 18 (6.92%) PaaS
3 16 (6.15%) IaaS
4 13 (5.00%) AWS
5 7 (2.69%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.92%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.54%) GCP
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.15%) Algolia
8 3 (1.15%) Commercetools
8 3 (1.15%) Contentful
9 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.00%) Firewall
2 9 (3.46%) LAN
2 9 (3.46%) VPN
3 7 (2.69%) Network Security
4 6 (2.31%) WAN
5 4 (1.54%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.77%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.77%) NAS
6 2 (0.77%) SAN
6 2 (0.77%) SSL
6 2 (0.77%) VLAN
7 1 (0.38%) BGP
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
7 1 (0.38%) DNS
7 1 (0.38%) OSPF
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.31%) Power BI
1 6 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Big Data
2 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (1.15%) MSI
2 2 (0.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.15%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.62%) Finance
6 6 (2.31%) Legal
6 6 (2.31%) Military
7 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.69%) REST
2 3 (1.15%) JSON
2 3 (1.15%) XML
3 2 (0.77%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.38%) SOAP
4 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.15%) PKI
2 10 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 7 (2.69%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.92%) Fat Client
5 5 (1.92%) Thin Client
6 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.54%) Smartcard
7 3 (1.15%) Clustering
7 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.77%) Replication
8 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.38%) CMDB
9 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.38%) IoT
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.15%) Windows
2 10 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.08%) Linux
4 5 (1.92%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.38%) Agile
2 37 (14.23%) Enterprise Architecture
3 31 (11.92%) Roadmaps
4 23 (8.85%) ITIL
5 21 (8.08%) Decision-Making
5 21 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (6.54%) IT4IT
6 17 (6.54%) TOGAF
7 15 (5.77%) ArchiMate
7 15 (5.77%) Strategic Roadmap
8 14 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (5.00%) Architecture Governance
9 13 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (4.23%) Scrum
10 11 (4.23%) Service Management
10 11 (4.23%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 10 (3.85%) KYC
11 10 (3.85%) Network Architecture
12 9 (3.46%) GAP Analysis
12 9 (3.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.85%) PowerShell
2 7 (2.69%) Python
3 6 (2.31%) JavaScript
3 6 (2.31%) SQL
4 4 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 223 (85.77%) Security Cleared
2 164 (63.08%) DV Cleared
3 49 (18.85%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.62%) ISEB
5 9 (3.46%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.31%) CISM
6 6 (2.31%) CISSP
7 4 (1.54%) GIAC
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.15%) NIST
2 12 (4.62%) COBIT
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
3 9 (3.46%) NCSC
4 5 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 5 (1.92%) JSP 440
5 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.85%) vCloud
3 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.92%) vSphere
4 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.77%) Docker
5 2 (0.77%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.38%) vCenter Server
2 11 (4.23%) WMI
3 5 (1.92%) Endace
4 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) Terraform
5 2 (0.77%) vRealize
5 2 (0.77%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) VMware
2 25 (9.62%) Sparx
3 24 (9.23%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.62%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (3.46%) Cisco
5 9 (3.46%) Juniper
6 7 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.31%) BMC
7 6 (2.31%) Remedy
7 6 (2.31%) Thales
8 4 (1.54%) F5
9 3 (1.15%) Databricks
10 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.38%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.38%) Foundry
11 1 (0.38%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.38%) NetApp
11 1 (0.38%) Palantir
11 1 (0.38%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.38%) Zerto