Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 185 150 143
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 15.40% 13.94% 10.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.08% 15.00% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 110 73
10th Percentile £519 £563 £525
25th Percentile £537 £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +0.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £738
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile £84.50 - £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £95.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year -5.26% +25.55% +8.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,083 1,000 1,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 92.94% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 670 691
10th Percentile £269 £350 £281
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 83
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.85 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +31.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £41.00 £73.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £61.45 £75.00 £71.00
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -56.52% +9.52% +40.00%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 94 £600 -11.11% 30
Portsmouth +14 31 £538 -14.00% 9
Andover - 14 £750 - 14
Farnborough -13 10 £625 -6.99% 16
Southampton -1 8 £738 +18.00% 2
Fareham -3 7 £510 -18.40% 8
Fleet - 5 £492 -
Havant -6 2 £720 +10.77%
Hook - 2 £725 - 1
Aldershot -2 1 £663 +20.45%
Eastleigh -5 1 - -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 159 (85.95%) Security Cleared
2 97 (52.43%) DV Cleared
3 56 (30.27%) SC Cleared
4 42 (22.70%) VMware
5 41 (22.16%) ITIL
6 38 (20.54%) IT4IT
7 37 (20.00%) Agile
7 37 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 33 (17.84%) Windows
9 28 (15.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 28 (15.14%) Service Design
9 28 (15.14%) Service Management
10 25 (13.51%) Project Delivery
11 23 (12.43%) VMware Infrastructure
12 19 (10.27%) vSphere
13 18 (9.73%) Java
13 18 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (9.19%) Azure
14 17 (9.19%) VMware ESXi
15 15 (8.11%) NetApp
15 15 (8.11%) SQL
16 14 (7.57%) Active Directory
16 14 (7.57%) Cisco
16 14 (7.57%) Enterprise Architecture
17 13 (7.03%) Fibre Channel
17 13 (7.03%) iSCSI
17 13 (7.03%) LAN
17 13 (7.03%) MCSE
17 13 (7.03%) NFS
17 13 (7.03%) Splunk

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 3 (1.62%) Documentum
2 1 (0.54%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.54%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.54%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.19%) Azure
2 10 (5.41%) AWS
3 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.16%) GCP
5 3 (1.62%) Algolia
5 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.62%) Commercetools
5 3 (1.62%) Contentful
5 3 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.62%) Serverless
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.54%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.03%) Fibre Channel
1 13 (7.03%) iSCSI
1 13 (7.03%) LAN
2 12 (6.49%) Firewall
3 8 (4.32%) VSAN
4 4 (2.16%) PCoIP
5 3 (1.62%) SAN
6 2 (1.08%) NAS
6 2 (1.08%) SSL
7 1 (0.54%) BGP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.54%) Junos
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
7 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.24%) Git
3 5 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 28 (15.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.19%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.62%) Legal
5 3 (1.62%) Marketing
5 3 (1.62%) Retail
6 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.54%) Aviation
7 1 (0.54%) Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.08%) Kafka
1 2 (1.08%) Middleware
1 2 (1.08%) RESTful
2 1 (0.54%) JSON
2 1 (0.54%) REST
2 1 (0.54%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.54%) Web Services
2 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.73%) PKI
2 8 (4.32%) Fat Client
2 8 (4.32%) Thin Client
3 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.08%) Replication
6 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.84%) Windows
2 13 (7.03%) Windows Server
2 13 (7.03%) Windows Server 2019
3 8 (4.32%) Linux
3 8 (4.32%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.62%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.16%) ITIL
2 38 (20.54%) IT4IT
3 37 (20.00%) Agile
4 28 (15.14%) Service Design
4 28 (15.14%) Service Management
5 25 (13.51%) Project Delivery
6 14 (7.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (6.49%) Architectural Design
7 12 (6.49%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (6.49%) Roadmaps
8 10 (5.41%) CI/CD
8 10 (5.41%) Mentoring
8 10 (5.41%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (5.41%) Prototyping
9 9 (4.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (4.86%) TOGAF
10 8 (4.32%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (4.32%) Open Source
10 8 (4.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.73%) Java
2 15 (8.11%) SQL
3 11 (5.95%) Python
4 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.08%) Bash
5 2 (1.08%) Scala
6 1 (0.54%) Bicep
6 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (85.95%) Security Cleared
2 97 (52.43%) DV Cleared
3 56 (30.27%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.03%) MCSE
6 11 (5.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (5.41%) ISEB
8 7 (3.78%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (3.78%) VCP5
8 7 (3.78%) VCP6
9 6 (3.24%) Degree
10 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.62%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.62%) VCDX
12 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.54%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 10 (5.41%) COBIT
3 8 (4.32%) GDPR
3 8 (4.32%) NIST
4 6 (3.24%) SLA
5 4 (2.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.16%) JSP 440
5 4 (2.16%) NCSC
5 4 (2.16%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (12.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (10.27%) vSphere
3 17 (9.19%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.57%) Active Directory
5 13 (7.03%) NFS
6 5 (2.70%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.62%) Docker
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.86%) WMI
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.16%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.62%) SCCM
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (22.70%) VMware
2 37 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.11%) NetApp
4 14 (7.57%) Cisco
5 13 (7.03%) Splunk
5 13 (7.03%) Veeam
6 12 (6.49%) Juniper
7 10 (5.41%) Sparx
8 4 (2.16%) Citrix
9 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.08%) Thales
10 1 (0.54%) Aruba
10 1 (0.54%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.54%) Criteo
10 1 (0.54%) Databricks
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) Workday
10 1 (0.54%) Zscaler