Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 10 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 197 86 394
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.98% 11.38% 22.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.88% 11.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 78 223
10th Percentile £490 £511 £575
25th Percentile £558 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £688 £738
90th Percentile £776 £727 £799
South East median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £90.60
25th Percentile - - £91.50
Median hourly rate - - £92.19
75th Percentile - - £92.37
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £97.50 £82.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year +18.90% -6.24% +16.09%

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 1,530 724 1,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 95.77% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 527 901
10th Percentile £363 £256 £363
25th Percentile £475 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +11.65%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £725 £661 £738
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 44 186
10th Percentile £13.93 £20.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.68 £33.02 £26.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% -4.10% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.00 £70.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.11 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.00 £33.05 £48.00
% change year-on-year +57.34% -31.15% -4.00%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +1 121 £700 +12.00% 13
Farnborough +4 28 £553 -8.68% 18
Andover 0 14 £750 +11.11% 13
Portsmouth -4 5 £560 -2.61% 9
Southampton -6 5 £483 -8.00% 5
Fareham -4 4 £650 - 3
Eastleigh - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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.

1 168 (85.28%) Security Cleared
2 130 (65.99%) DV Cleared
3 69 (35.03%) Agile
4 32 (16.24%) SC Cleared
5 29 (14.72%) Enterprise Architecture
5 29 (14.72%) VMware
6 27 (13.71%) Azure
7 24 (12.18%) Roadmaps
8 21 (10.66%) Decision-Making
8 21 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (10.66%) Windows
9 20 (10.15%) Microsoft
10 19 (9.64%) AWS
11 17 (8.63%) PaaS
11 17 (8.63%) PowerShell
12 16 (8.12%) IaaS
13 15 (7.61%) Architecture Governance
13 15 (7.61%) CI/CD
13 15 (7.61%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (7.11%) Active Directory
14 14 (7.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 14 (7.11%) LAN
14 14 (7.11%) Sparx
14 14 (7.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 13 (6.60%) vCenter Server
16 12 (6.09%) Cloud Security
16 12 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (6.09%) GDPR
16 12 (6.09%) ITIL
16 12 (6.09%) REST

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 (1.02%) Confluence
1 2 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.51%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.51%) Hyperledger
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (7.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.71%) Azure
2 19 (9.64%) AWS
3 17 (8.63%) PaaS
4 16 (8.12%) IaaS
5 8 (4.06%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.54%) GCP
7 4 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.52%) GitHub
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.02%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.02%) Route 53
9 2 (1.02%) Serverless
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.11%) LAN
2 9 (4.57%) Firewall
3 8 (4.06%) VPN
4 7 (3.55%) Network Security
4 7 (3.55%) WAN
5 3 (1.52%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.02%) BGP
6 2 (1.02%) OSPF
6 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.02%) VLAN
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) DNS
7 1 (0.51%) IPsec
7 1 (0.51%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.51%) NAS
7 1 (0.51%) NGFW
7 1 (0.51%) SAN
7 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.05%) Power BI
1 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.02%) Metadata
2 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.51%) Big Data
3 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.51%) Stardog
3 1 (0.51%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.52%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Git
2 1 (0.51%) GitLab
2 1 (0.51%) MSI
2 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 36 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.09%) Finance
3 10 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (3.05%) Military
4 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.03%) Legal
6 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.09%) REST
2 7 (3.55%) OAuth
3 6 (3.05%) .NET
3 6 (3.05%) SAML
4 5 (2.54%) JSON
4 5 (2.54%) LDAP
4 5 (2.54%) OpenID
5 4 (2.03%) OAuth2
5 4 (2.03%) SOAP
6 3 (1.52%) Web Services
7 2 (1.02%) Apollo GraphQL
7 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.02%) RESTful
7 2 (1.02%) XML
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Jena
8 1 (0.51%) IDoc
8 1 (0.51%) Middleware
8 1 (0.51%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.51%) Smart Contracts
8 1 (0.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) PKI
2 9 (4.57%) Blockchain
3 6 (3.05%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.52%) Clustering
5 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) Smartcard
6 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.02%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) IoT
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.66%) Windows
2 10 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.55%) Linux
4 4 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.02%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.51%) CentOS
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.03%) Agile
2 29 (14.72%) Enterprise Architecture
3 24 (12.18%) Roadmaps
4 21 (10.66%) Decision-Making
4 21 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (7.61%) Architecture Governance
5 15 (7.61%) CI/CD
5 15 (7.61%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (7.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 12 (6.09%) Cloud Security
7 12 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (6.09%) ITIL
8 11 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (5.58%) DevSecOps
8 11 (5.58%) Integration Patterns
8 11 (5.58%) Knowledge Transfer
8 11 (5.58%) OWASP
9 10 (5.08%) ArchiMate
9 10 (5.08%) DevOps
9 10 (5.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.05%) JavaScript
2 6 (3.05%) SQL
3 5 (2.54%) C#
3 5 (2.54%) Java
4 4 (2.03%) Python
5 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) Bash
Qualifications
1 168 (85.28%) Security Cleared
2 130 (65.99%) DV Cleared
3 32 (16.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.55%) CISM
4 7 (3.55%) CISSP
5 4 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Degree
6 3 (1.52%) GIAC
7 2 (1.02%) ISEB
7 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CEH
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.09%) GDPR
2 11 (5.58%) NCSC
2 11 (5.58%) NIST
3 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.51%) GRC
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.57%) vCloud
3 5 (2.54%) vSphere
4 4 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.02%) Docker
5 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (6.60%) vCenter Server
2 7 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.54%) Endace
3 5 (2.54%) WMI
4 2 (1.02%) Ansible
4 2 (1.02%) Grafana
4 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.02%) Terraform
5 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) vRealize
5 1 (0.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (14.72%) VMware
2 20 (10.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.11%) Sparx
4 9 (4.57%) BiZZdesign
4 9 (4.57%) Cisco
4 9 (4.57%) Juniper
5 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.05%) BMC
6 6 (3.05%) Remedy
7 4 (2.03%) F5
8 3 (1.52%) Thales
9 2 (1.02%) Databricks
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) Palantir
9 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.02%) SAP
10 1 (0.51%) Adobe
10 1 (0.51%) Dell
10 1 (0.51%) Google
10 1 (0.51%) TIBCO