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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 227 143 293
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.62% 14.90% 19.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.53% 15.82% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 134 182
10th Percentile £550 £519 £575
25th Percentile £575 £537 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +1.88%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £700
90th Percentile £825 £718 £738
South East median daily rate £626 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.33% -7.69% -
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 £92.00 £82.00 £87.50
% change year-on-year +12.20% -6.28% +15.63%

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 1,811 904 1,411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.17% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 639 895
10th Percentile £375 £213 £363
25th Percentile £475 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £657 £717
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 57 133
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.15 £51.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year - -17.18% +14.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £70.43
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +17.05%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 0 135 £700 +16.67% 24
Portsmouth -6 31 £670 +24.65% 7
Andover -5 16 £750 +3.45% 1
Farnborough -5 12 £625 +21.36% 53
Southampton +1 10 £575 -17.12% 5
Fareham +1 9 £475 - 2
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Eastleigh - 1 £600 - 1
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 184 (81.06%) Security Cleared
2 135 (59.47%) DV Cleared
3 60 (26.43%) Agile
4 47 (20.70%) SC Cleared
5 38 (16.74%) Azure
6 34 (14.98%) AWS
7 33 (14.54%) Roadmaps
8 32 (14.10%) Security Architecture
8 32 (14.10%) Service Management
9 29 (12.78%) Service Design
10 27 (11.89%) CI/CD
10 27 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (11.01%) DevSecOps
11 25 (11.01%) ITIL
12 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.57%) Risk Management
13 23 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
14 22 (9.69%) DevOps
15 21 (9.25%) AI
15 21 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (9.25%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (9.25%) TOGAF
16 20 (8.81%) CISSP
16 20 (8.81%) REST
17 19 (8.37%) Windows
18 18 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (7.93%) Zero Trust
19 17 (7.49%) NCSC
20 16 (7.05%) IT4IT

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 7 (3.08%) Documentum
2 3 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.32%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.74%) Azure
2 34 (14.98%) AWS
3 16 (7.05%) PaaS
4 15 (6.61%) IaaS
5 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.20%) GCP
7 5 (2.20%) GitHub
7 5 (2.20%) iPaaS
8 4 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.76%) SaaS
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.32%) Route 53
9 3 (1.32%) Serverless
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.85%) LAN
1 11 (4.85%) Network Security
2 9 (3.96%) Firewall
2 9 (3.96%) WAN
3 7 (3.08%) BGP
3 7 (3.08%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.20%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.76%) VLAN
5 4 (1.76%) VPN
6 3 (1.32%) DHCP
6 3 (1.32%) DNS
6 3 (1.32%) SAN
7 2 (0.88%) OSPF
7 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) IPsec
8 1 (0.44%) NAS
8 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.20%) Power BI
1 5 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.32%) Metadata
2 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.44%) Big Data
4 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.44%) Stardog
4 1 (0.44%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Git
2 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.32%) JIRA
2 3 (1.32%) MSI
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 51 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (5.29%) Finance
4 11 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (3.52%) Retail
6 7 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.81%) REST
2 8 (3.52%) OAuth
3 7 (3.08%) SAML
3 7 (3.08%) SOAP
4 6 (2.64%) .NET
4 6 (2.64%) ADO
4 6 (2.64%) OpenID
4 6 (2.64%) SLSA
5 5 (2.20%) LDAP
5 5 (2.20%) ModSecurity
5 5 (2.20%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.20%) Web Services
6 4 (1.76%) JSON
7 2 (0.88%) Apollo GraphQL
7 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.88%) Middleware
7 2 (0.88%) RESTful
8 1 (0.44%) IDoc
8 1 (0.44%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.29%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.85%) PKI
3 7 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.32%) Clustering
6 3 (1.32%) CMDB
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.37%) Windows
2 6 (2.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.88%) AIX
3 2 (0.88%) HPUX
3 2 (0.88%) Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.43%) Agile
2 33 (14.54%) Roadmaps
3 32 (14.10%) Security Architecture
3 32 (14.10%) Service Management
4 29 (12.78%) Service Design
5 27 (11.89%) CI/CD
5 27 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (11.01%) DevSecOps
6 25 (11.01%) ITIL
7 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (10.57%) Risk Management
8 23 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
9 22 (9.69%) DevOps
10 21 (9.25%) AI
10 21 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (9.25%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (9.25%) TOGAF
11 18 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (7.93%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.05%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.29%) Java
3 7 (3.08%) Python
4 6 (2.64%) SQL
5 5 (2.20%) Bash
5 5 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.76%) C#
7 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 184 (81.06%) Security Cleared
2 135 (59.47%) DV Cleared
3 47 (20.70%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.81%) CISSP
5 11 (4.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.20%) CISM
7 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Degree
8 2 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.88%) CCSK
8 2 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CEH
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) ISEB
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.49%) NCSC
2 16 (7.05%) NIST
3 15 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 10 (4.41%) GDPR
5 7 (3.08%) SLA
6 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (2.64%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.32%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.44%) COBIT
9 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.44%) PMO
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.64%) vCloud
3 3 (1.32%) Docker
4 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.64%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.20%) WMI
4 4 (1.76%) Ansible
4 4 (1.76%) Terraform
5 2 (0.88%) Endace
5 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 2 (0.88%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.44%) SCOM
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.73%) VMware
3 8 (3.52%) BMC
3 8 (3.52%) Remedy
4 6 (2.64%) Cisco
4 6 (2.64%) Juniper
4 6 (2.64%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.64%) Sparx
5 4 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (1.76%) F5
5 4 (1.76%) Workday
6 3 (1.32%) Broadcom
6 3 (1.32%) Dell
6 3 (1.32%) Foundry
6 3 (1.32%) Palantir
6 3 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (0.88%) HP
7 2 (0.88%) NetApp
7 2 (0.88%) Veritas