Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £669, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 267 95 344
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 16.66% 13.10% 21.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.80% 13.79% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 90 183
10th Percentile £503 £507 £559
25th Percentile £575 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £739 £820
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.50 - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £78.00 £87.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -10.34% +24.29%

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 1,500 689 1,410
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.03% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 512 797
10th Percentile £334 £300 £360
25th Percentile £475 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £665 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 44 156
10th Percentile £13.95 £20.01 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.66 £27.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £53.69 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -6.39% +14.70%
75th Percentile £51.53 £72.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £60.90 £75.00 £76.01
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £47.19
% change year-on-year +35.71% -25.82% +4.86%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +1 149 £700 +12.00% 15
Farnborough 0 35 £600 -4.53% 7
Andover +3 18 £750 +11.11% 2
Fareham +4 15 £510 -36.25%
Southampton -2 11 £675 +38.46%
Portsmouth -9 3 £575 -4.25% 5
Hook - 3 £800 -
Eastleigh - 2 £600 -
Aldershot -2 1 £663 +20.45%
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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.

1 227 (85.02%) Security Cleared
2 170 (63.67%) DV Cleared
3 81 (30.34%) Agile
4 47 (17.60%) SC Cleared
5 39 (14.61%) VMware
6 36 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
7 33 (12.36%) Windows
8 32 (11.99%) Roadmaps
9 27 (10.11%) Microsoft
10 25 (9.36%) ITIL
10 25 (9.36%) Sparx
10 25 (9.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 24 (8.99%) Azure
12 23 (8.61%) PowerShell
13 22 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (7.87%) Decision-Making
15 19 (7.12%) IT4IT
16 18 (6.74%) PaaS
17 17 (6.37%) TOGAF
18 16 (5.99%) Active Directory
18 16 (5.99%) Firewall
18 16 (5.99%) IaaS
18 16 (5.99%) NIST
19 15 (5.62%) ArchiMate
19 15 (5.62%) Strategic Roadmap
20 14 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
20 14 (5.24%) vCenter Server
21 13 (4.87%) Architecture Governance
21 13 (4.87%) Knowledge Transfer
21 13 (4.87%) Service Management

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 (0.75%) Confluence
1 2 (0.75%) Ethereum
1 2 (0.75%) Hyperledger
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (9.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.75%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.75%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.99%) Azure
2 18 (6.74%) PaaS
3 16 (5.99%) IaaS
4 12 (4.49%) AWS
5 6 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.87%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.50%) GCP
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.12%) Algolia
8 3 (1.12%) Commercetools
8 3 (1.12%) Contentful
9 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.37%) GitHub
10 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.99%) Firewall
2 9 (3.37%) LAN
2 9 (3.37%) VPN
3 7 (2.62%) Network Security
4 6 (2.25%) WAN
5 4 (1.50%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.75%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.75%) NAS
6 2 (0.75%) SAN
6 2 (0.75%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) VLAN
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) DNS
7 1 (0.37%) OSPF
7 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.25%) Power BI
1 6 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) Big Data
2 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (1.12%) MSI
2 2 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 16 (5.99%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.49%) Finance
6 6 (2.25%) Legal
6 6 (2.25%) Military
7 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.62%) REST
2 3 (1.12%) JSON
2 3 (1.12%) XML
3 2 (0.75%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (0.37%) SOAP
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.36%) PKI
2 10 (3.75%) Blockchain
3 7 (2.62%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.62%) Fat Client
3 7 (2.62%) Thin Client
4 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.50%) Smartcard
6 3 (1.12%) Clustering
6 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.75%) Replication
7 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.37%) IoT
8 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.36%) Windows
2 10 (3.75%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.62%) Windows 7
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.34%) Agile
2 36 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
3 32 (11.99%) Roadmaps
4 25 (9.36%) ITIL
5 22 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (7.87%) Decision-Making
7 19 (7.12%) IT4IT
8 17 (6.37%) TOGAF
9 15 (5.62%) ArchiMate
9 15 (5.62%) Strategic Roadmap
10 14 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (4.87%) Architecture Governance
11 13 (4.87%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (4.87%) Service Management
12 11 (4.12%) Architectural Design
12 11 (4.12%) Scrum
12 11 (4.12%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 10 (3.75%) KYC
13 10 (3.75%) Network Architecture
14 9 (3.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.61%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.37%) Python
3 6 (2.25%) JavaScript
3 6 (2.25%) SQL
4 4 (1.50%) C#
5 1 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 227 (85.02%) Security Cleared
2 170 (63.67%) DV Cleared
3 47 (17.60%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.49%) ISEB
5 9 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.25%) CISM
6 6 (2.25%) CISSP
7 4 (1.50%) GIAC
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.99%) NIST
2 12 (4.49%) COBIT
3 10 (3.75%) NCSC
4 9 (3.37%) GDPR
5 7 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (1.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (1.87%) JSP 440
7 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.75%) vCloud
3 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.87%) vSphere
4 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.75%) Docker
5 2 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.24%) vCenter Server
2 13 (4.87%) WMI
3 5 (1.87%) Endace
4 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.75%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) Terraform
5 2 (0.75%) vRealize
5 2 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (14.61%) VMware
2 27 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.36%) Sparx
4 12 (4.49%) BiZZdesign
5 10 (3.75%) Cisco
6 9 (3.37%) Juniper
7 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.25%) BMC
8 6 (2.25%) Remedy
8 6 (2.25%) Thales
9 4 (1.50%) F5
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
11 2 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.37%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.37%) NetApp
12 1 (0.37%) Nokia
12 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.37%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.37%) Zerto