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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 205 136 172
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 10.76% 13.45% 13.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.77% 14.88% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 125 108
10th Percentile £516 £519 £590
25th Percentile £612 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £725
90th Percentile £839 £694 £755
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile - - £90.60
25th Percentile £95.00 - £91.50
Median hourly rate £95.50 - £92.19
75th Percentile £96.00 - £92.37
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.88 £85.00 £92.19
% change year-on-year +6.91% -7.79% +21.14%

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 1,742 914 1,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.44% 90.41% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 624 737
10th Percentile £363 £208 £350
25th Percentile £463 £423 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £600 £645
90th Percentile £750 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 78 83
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.17 £21.89
25th Percentile £20.43 £20.71 £30.83
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £65.85
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -61.81% +25.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.06 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £48.46 £25.15 £60.46
% change year-on-year +92.66% -58.40% +17.02%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -2 100 £700 +16.67% 22
Portsmouth -8 29 £670 +24.65% 19
Andover 0 22 £750 +3.45% 2
Farnborough +4 19 £663 +6.00% 44
Fareham +4 14 £650 +33.33% 8
Southampton +3 10 £575 -14.81% 20
Aldershot - 1 £775 - 1
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 158 (77.07%) Security Cleared
2 104 (50.73%) DV Cleared
3 53 (25.85%) SC Cleared
4 48 (23.41%) Agile
5 39 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (18.54%) Service Design
7 37 (18.05%) Azure
8 36 (17.56%) Security Architecture
9 34 (16.59%) Service Management
10 32 (15.61%) CI/CD
10 32 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (15.12%) Microsoft
11 31 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (14.15%) AWS
13 28 (13.66%) Risk Management
14 26 (12.68%) Roadmaps
15 25 (12.20%) DevOps
15 25 (12.20%) ITIL
16 23 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (10.24%) DevSecOps
17 21 (10.24%) PowerShell
17 21 (10.24%) Windows
18 19 (9.27%) AI
18 19 (9.27%) CISSP
18 19 (9.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 19 (9.27%) NCSC
18 19 (9.27%) Project Delivery
18 19 (9.27%) TOGAF
18 19 (9.27%) Translating Business Requirements

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 (3.41%) Documentum
2 4 (1.95%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Remedy AR System
1 5 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.98%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.05%) Azure
2 29 (14.15%) AWS
3 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.41%) iPaaS
5 6 (2.93%) IaaS
5 6 (2.93%) PaaS
5 6 (2.93%) SaaS
6 5 (2.44%) GitHub
7 4 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.95%) Serverless
8 3 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.46%) Route 53
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.98%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.98%) GCP
9 2 (0.98%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Software-Defined Networking
2 7 (3.41%) Network Security
3 6 (2.93%) BGP
3 6 (2.93%) VPN
3 6 (2.93%) WAN
4 5 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.44%) Firewall
4 5 (2.44%) LAN
4 5 (2.44%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.95%) X.509
6 2 (0.98%) DHCP
6 2 (0.98%) DNS
6 2 (0.98%) SAN
6 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.98%) VLAN
7 1 (0.49%) IPsec
7 1 (0.49%) NGFW
7 1 (0.49%) OSPF
7 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.98%) Metadata
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.49%) Stardog
3 1 (0.49%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (4.39%) MSI
2 7 (3.41%) Git
3 5 (2.44%) JIRA
4 4 (1.95%) GitLab
5 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 51 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (6.83%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (5.37%) Finance
5 10 (4.88%) Retail
6 6 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.49%) Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.29%) REST
2 9 (4.39%) SOAP
3 8 (3.90%) OAuth
4 7 (3.41%) SAML
5 6 (2.93%) .NET
5 6 (2.93%) ADO
5 6 (2.93%) OpenID
5 6 (2.93%) SLSA
6 5 (2.44%) LDAP
6 5 (2.44%) ModSecurity
6 5 (2.44%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.44%) Terraform
7 4 (1.95%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.95%) Web Services
8 3 (1.46%) JSON
9 2 (0.98%) Apollo GraphQL
9 2 (0.98%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.98%) Middleware
9 2 (0.98%) RESTful
10 1 (0.49%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.37%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.37%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.39%) PKI
4 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.44%) CMDB
5 5 (2.44%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.24%) Windows
2 2 (0.98%) AIX
2 2 (0.98%) HPUX
2 2 (0.98%) Linux
2 2 (0.98%) Solaris
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (23.41%) Agile
2 39 (19.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (18.54%) Service Design
4 36 (17.56%) Security Architecture
5 34 (16.59%) Service Management
6 32 (15.61%) CI/CD
6 32 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (13.66%) Risk Management
9 26 (12.68%) Roadmaps
10 25 (12.20%) DevOps
10 25 (12.20%) ITIL
11 23 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (10.24%) DevSecOps
13 19 (9.27%) AI
13 19 (9.27%) Project Delivery
13 19 (9.27%) TOGAF
13 19 (9.27%) Translating Business Requirements
14 18 (8.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.24%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.85%) Java
3 9 (4.39%) Python
4 6 (2.93%) Bash
5 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.49%) C#
7 1 (0.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (77.07%) Security Cleared
2 104 (50.73%) DV Cleared
3 53 (25.85%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.27%) CISSP
5 11 (5.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.95%) CISM
7 4 (1.95%) Degree
8 3 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.98%) CCSK
9 2 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.98%) VCAP
9 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.49%) CEH
10 1 (0.49%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 19 (9.27%) NCSC
2 12 (5.85%) NIST
3 10 (4.88%) JSP 440
4 8 (3.90%) SLA
5 7 (3.41%) GDPR
5 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.46%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.49%) Docker
5 1 (0.49%) vCloud
5 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.85%) WMI
3 6 (2.93%) Ansible
4 5 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.98%) Grafana
5 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.98%) vRealize
5 2 (0.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.49%) SCOM
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.34%) VMware
3 5 (2.44%) BMC
3 5 (2.44%) Remedy
3 5 (2.44%) SAP
4 4 (1.95%) Workday
5 3 (1.46%) Broadcom
5 3 (1.46%) Dell
5 3 (1.46%) Foundry
5 3 (1.46%) Palantir
5 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.98%) HP
6 2 (0.98%) NetApp
6 2 (0.98%) Sparx
6 2 (0.98%) Splunk
6 2 (0.98%) Veritas
7 1 (0.49%) Adobe
7 1 (0.49%) Adyen
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow