Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 221 86 369
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.17% 11.48% 22.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.13% 11.98% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 79 202
10th Percentile £503 £523 £575
25th Percentile £570 £565 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £691 £738
90th Percentile £775 £732 £800
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
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 £90.00 £82.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year +9.76% -6.24% +24.94%

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 1,564 718 1,479
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.86% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 528 846
10th Percentile £363 £275 £356
25th Percentile £481 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £661 £738
South East median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 44 179
10th Percentile £13.88 £18.94 £13.85
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.66 £29.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.10% +6.70%
75th Percentile £56.00 £66.56 £64.38
90th Percentile £64.11 £75.00 £76.99
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +61.31% -31.58% -1.86%

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 May 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 May 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 0 133 £700 +12.00% 6
Farnborough 0 28 £553 -11.60% 5
Fareham +3 13 £510 -36.25%
Andover 0 13 £750 +11.11% 8
Southampton -10 5 £483 -3.40% 1
Portsmouth -8 4 £568 -1.30%
Eastleigh - 2 £600 -
Hook -4 1 £875 +45.83%
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 189 (85.52%) Security Cleared
2 144 (65.16%) DV Cleared
3 72 (32.58%) Agile
4 37 (16.74%) Enterprise Architecture
4 37 (16.74%) SC Cleared
5 33 (14.93%) VMware
6 31 (14.03%) Roadmaps
7 24 (10.86%) Windows
8 23 (10.41%) Azure
8 23 (10.41%) Decision-Making
8 23 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.05%) PowerShell
10 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
10 19 (8.60%) PaaS
11 18 (8.14%) Sparx
11 18 (8.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 17 (7.69%) IaaS
12 17 (7.69%) ITIL
13 15 (6.79%) TOGAF
14 14 (6.33%) Architecture Governance
14 14 (6.33%) Strategic Roadmap
14 14 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (6.33%) vCenter Server
15 13 (5.88%) AWS
15 13 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
15 13 (5.88%) LAN
15 13 (5.88%) NIST
16 12 (5.43%) ArchiMate
17 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
17 11 (4.98%) BiZZdesign

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 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.45%) Hyperledger
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (8.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.41%) Azure
2 19 (8.60%) PaaS
3 17 (7.69%) IaaS
4 13 (5.88%) AWS
5 7 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.26%) GCP
6 5 (2.26%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Neptune
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.45%) Boomi
9 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.45%) SaaS
9 1 (0.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) LAN
2 10 (4.52%) Firewall
3 9 (4.07%) VPN
4 7 (3.17%) Network Security
4 7 (3.17%) WAN
5 4 (1.81%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.90%) BGP
6 2 (0.90%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.90%) OSPF
6 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.90%) VLAN
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) DNS
7 1 (0.45%) IPsec
7 1 (0.45%) NAS
7 1 (0.45%) NGFW
7 1 (0.45%) SAN
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.71%) Power BI
1 6 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.90%) Metadata
3 1 (0.45%) Big Data
3 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.45%) Stardog
3 1 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (1.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) MSI
3 1 (0.45%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 39 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (5.43%) Finance
3 11 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (4.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.17%) Legal
5 6 (2.71%) Military
6 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.52%) REST
2 4 (1.81%) JSON
3 3 (1.36%) OAuth
3 3 (1.36%) SOAP
4 2 (0.90%) .NET
4 2 (0.90%) SAML
4 2 (0.90%) Web Services
4 2 (0.90%) XML
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Jena
5 1 (0.45%) BAPI
5 1 (0.45%) IDoc
5 1 (0.45%) LDAP
5 1 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.45%) OpenID
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.45%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.05%) PKI
2 9 (4.07%) Blockchain
3 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.71%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.81%) Smartcard
6 3 (1.36%) Clustering
6 3 (1.36%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.36%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.45%) CMDB
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.45%) IoT
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.86%) Windows
2 10 (4.52%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.17%) Linux
4 4 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.58%) Agile
2 37 (16.74%) Enterprise Architecture
3 31 (14.03%) Roadmaps
4 23 (10.41%) Decision-Making
4 23 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (7.69%) ITIL
6 15 (6.79%) TOGAF
7 14 (6.33%) Architecture Governance
7 14 (6.33%) Strategic Roadmap
7 14 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
9 12 (5.43%) ArchiMate
10 11 (4.98%) Integration Patterns
10 11 (4.98%) IT4IT
10 11 (4.98%) Service Management
11 10 (4.52%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (4.52%) CI/CD
12 9 (4.07%) Architectural Design
12 9 (4.07%) Cloud Security
12 9 (4.07%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.05%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (2.71%) SQL
3 5 (2.26%) Python
4 4 (1.81%) C#
5 2 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 189 (85.52%) Security Cleared
2 144 (65.16%) DV Cleared
3 37 (16.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.71%) CISM
4 6 (2.71%) CISSP
4 6 (2.71%) ISEB
5 5 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.81%) GIAC
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Degree
8 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) NIST
2 8 (3.62%) GDPR
2 8 (3.62%) NCSC
3 6 (2.71%) COBIT
4 5 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.52%) vCloud
3 5 (2.26%) vSphere
4 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.90%) Docker
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (6.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (3.62%) WMI
3 5 (2.26%) Endace
4 4 (1.81%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Terraform
5 2 (0.90%) vRealize
5 2 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (14.93%) VMware
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.14%) Sparx
4 11 (4.98%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (4.07%) Cisco
5 9 (4.07%) Juniper
6 8 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.71%) BMC
7 6 (2.71%) Remedy
8 4 (1.81%) F5
8 4 (1.81%) Thales
9 2 (0.90%) Databricks
9 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 1 (0.45%) Dell
10 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.45%) Google
10 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.45%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.45%) Zerto