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 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 135 191 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.11% 14.01% 10.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.31% 15.05% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 120 75
10th Percentile £519 £573 £539
25th Percentile £538 £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £672 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £90.60 -
25th Percentile - £91.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £92.19 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.95% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £92.37 £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £85.00 £88.73 £75.67
% change year-on-year -4.20% +17.26% -5.41%

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 882 1,269 1,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.10% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 805 683
10th Percentile £213 £360 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 116 104
10th Percentile £17.10 £22.07 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £51.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +4.27% +54.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.88 £66.84
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.81 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architect 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 84 £600 -11.11% 14
Portsmouth +22 27 £538 -14.68% 2
Fleet - 5 £492 -
Andover -1 3 £725 +7.41%
Southampton -4 3 £713 -6.86% 11
Fareham -4 2 - -
Havant -4 2 £720 -
Farnborough -6 1 £625 -6.99% 2
Hook - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 115 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 76 (56.30%) DV Cleared
3 36 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 35 (25.93%) Windows
5 34 (25.19%) VMware
6 28 (20.74%) ITIL
6 28 (20.74%) Agile
7 26 (19.26%) Microsoft
7 26 (19.26%) Project Delivery
8 25 (18.52%) IT4IT
8 25 (18.52%) Service Design
8 25 (18.52%) Service Management
8 25 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (15.56%) SQL
11 20 (14.81%) vSphere
11 20 (14.81%) Azure
11 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
12 19 (14.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (13.33%) Java
13 18 (13.33%) Active Directory
13 18 (13.33%) LAN
13 18 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (12.59%) Cisco
14 17 (12.59%) NetApp
15 16 (11.85%) NFS
15 16 (11.85%) MCSE
15 16 (11.85%) Veeam
15 16 (11.85%) iSCSI
15 16 (11.85%) Windows Server 2019

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.22%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.81%) Azure
2 12 (8.89%) AWS
3 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (2.22%) AWS KMS
5 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.22%) Serverless
6 2 (1.48%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.33%) LAN
2 16 (11.85%) Fibre Channel
2 16 (11.85%) iSCSI
3 5 (3.70%) VSAN
3 5 (3.70%) WAN
4 3 (2.22%) Firewall
4 3 (2.22%) SSL
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.48%) Junos
5 2 (1.48%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.74%) BGP
6 1 (0.74%) Frame Relay
6 1 (0.74%) NAS
6 1 (0.74%) SAN
6 1 (0.74%) SDH
6 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.74%) VLAN
6 1 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.44%) Git
3 5 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) MSI
General
1 20 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (3.70%) Finance
4 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.48%) Aviation
5 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.48%) Retail
6 1 (0.74%) Advertising
6 1 (0.74%) Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) Middleware
2 4 (2.96%) Web Services
3 2 (1.48%) Kafka
3 2 (1.48%) REST
3 2 (1.48%) RESTful
4 1 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.44%) PKI
2 4 (2.96%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.48%) Fat Client
4 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.48%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.93%) Windows
2 16 (11.85%) Windows Server
2 16 (11.85%) Windows Server 2019
3 9 (6.67%) Linux
4 3 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.74%) Agile
1 28 (20.74%) ITIL
2 26 (19.26%) Project Delivery
3 25 (18.52%) IT4IT
3 25 (18.52%) Service Design
3 25 (18.52%) Service Management
4 15 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (8.15%) Customer Requirements
5 11 (8.15%) DevOps
6 10 (7.41%) CI/CD
6 10 (7.41%) Edge Virtualization
6 10 (7.41%) Performance Analysis
7 8 (5.93%) Business Strategy
7 8 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (5.93%) Mentoring
7 8 (5.93%) Service Delivery
8 7 (5.19%) Application Packaging
8 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (5.19%) IT Strategy
8 7 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.56%) SQL
2 18 (13.33%) Java
3 9 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.19%) Python
5 2 (1.48%) Bash
5 2 (1.48%) Scala
5 2 (1.48%) VB
6 1 (0.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 115 (85.19%) Security Cleared
2 76 (56.30%) DV Cleared
3 36 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 19 (14.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (11.85%) MCSE
6 13 (9.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (7.41%) VCP5
7 10 (7.41%) VCP6
8 8 (5.93%) Degree
9 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.22%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.48%) VCAP
11 2 (1.48%) VCDX
12 1 (0.74%) CCNA
12 1 (0.74%) CCNP
12 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.74%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (5.19%) SLA
3 6 (4.44%) NIST
4 4 (2.96%) GDPR
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.96%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.81%) vSphere
3 18 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (11.85%) NFS
5 5 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.22%) Docker
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (2.96%) WMI
2 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) SCCM
3 2 (1.48%) Ansible
3 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.48%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.74%) vRealize
4 1 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 34 (25.19%) VMware
2 26 (19.26%) Microsoft
3 17 (12.59%) Cisco
3 17 (12.59%) NetApp
4 16 (11.85%) Splunk
4 16 (11.85%) Veeam
5 14 (10.37%) Juniper
6 5 (3.70%) Citrix
7 4 (2.96%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.22%) Thales
9 2 (1.48%) F5
9 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.48%) Sparx
10 1 (0.74%) Adobe
10 1 (0.74%) Aruba
10 1 (0.74%) Criteo
10 1 (0.74%) HP
10 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.74%) Zscaler