Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 231 110 168
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 17.11% 12.35% 12.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.89% 13.08% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 92 75
10th Percentile £519 £551 £516
25th Percentile £540 £592 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £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 £73.31 £76.53
% change year-on-year +22.77% -4.21% +9.33%

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 1,223 841 1,180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.39% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 591 641
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £454 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 43 89
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.70 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.38 £28.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £23.89 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.74% -36.36% +25.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £56.82 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -40.82% -22.42% +46.80%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 +2 116 £625 -7.41% 31
Portsmouth +11 31 £538 -14.00% 23
Andover - 18 £750 - 1
Farnborough -12 16 £613 -2.78% 5
Fareham +2 14 £510 -20.78% 1
Southampton -2 8 £800 +64.10% 22
Hook - 3 £800 -
Fleet - 3 £537 -
Eastleigh -4 1 - -
Aldershot -5 1 £663 +20.45%
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 December 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.

1 201 (87.01%) Security Cleared
2 121 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 72 (31.17%) SC Cleared
4 51 (22.08%) Agile
5 47 (20.35%) VMware
6 42 (18.18%) ITIL
6 42 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 39 (16.88%) IT4IT
8 36 (15.58%) Windows
9 29 (12.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 29 (12.55%) Service Design
9 29 (12.55%) Service Management
10 25 (10.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 25 (10.82%) Project Delivery
11 21 (9.09%) Azure
12 19 (8.23%) Roadmaps
13 18 (7.79%) Sparx
13 18 (7.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 17 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure
15 16 (6.93%) Active Directory
15 16 (6.93%) Firewall
16 15 (6.49%) TOGAF
16 15 (6.49%) vSphere
17 14 (6.06%) PowerShell
17 14 (6.06%) WMI
18 13 (5.63%) Decision-Making
18 13 (5.63%) Java
18 13 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
19 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification

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 (1.30%) Documentum
2 1 (0.43%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.43%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.09%) Azure
2 10 (4.33%) AWS
3 5 (2.16%) Google Ads
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (2.16%) PaaS
4 4 (1.73%) GCP
5 3 (1.30%) Algolia
5 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.30%) Commercetools
5 3 (1.30%) Contentful
5 3 (1.30%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.30%) IaaS
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.93%) Firewall
2 10 (4.33%) LAN
3 9 (3.90%) iSCSI
4 8 (3.46%) VSAN
5 7 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (2.16%) VPN
7 4 (1.73%) PCoIP
8 3 (1.30%) S/MIME
8 3 (1.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.87%) NAS
9 2 (0.87%) SSL
9 2 (0.87%) WAN
10 1 (0.43%) BGP
10 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.43%) VLAN
10 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Git
2 3 (1.30%) GitLab
2 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.87%) MSI
General
1 34 (14.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.73%) Military
6 3 (1.30%) Legal
7 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.87%) Marketing
7 2 (0.87%) Retail
7 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.87%) JSON
1 2 (0.87%) RESTful
1 2 (0.87%) XML
2 1 (0.43%) REST
2 1 (0.43%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.69%) PKI
2 10 (4.33%) Fat Client
2 10 (4.33%) Thin Client
3 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.30%) Smartcard
5 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.58%) Windows
2 10 (4.33%) Windows 7
3 9 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.46%) Linux
5 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (22.08%) Agile
2 42 (18.18%) ITIL
3 39 (16.88%) IT4IT
4 29 (12.55%) Service Design
4 29 (12.55%) Service Management
5 25 (10.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 25 (10.82%) Project Delivery
6 19 (8.23%) Roadmaps
7 15 (6.49%) TOGAF
8 13 (5.63%) Decision-Making
8 13 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (5.19%) Prototyping
10 11 (4.76%) Architectural Design
10 11 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (4.33%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (4.33%) Open Source
11 10 (4.33%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (3.90%) Business Strategy
12 9 (3.90%) Customer Requirements
13 8 (3.46%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.06%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.63%) Java
3 10 (4.33%) Python
4 7 (3.03%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 201 (87.01%) Security Cleared
2 121 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 72 (31.17%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.33%) ISEB
6 7 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (3.03%) MCSE
6 7 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.73%) Degree
8 3 (1.30%) CISM
8 3 (1.30%) CISSP
8 3 (1.30%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (1.30%) GIAC
8 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.30%) VCDX
8 3 (1.30%) VCP5
8 3 (1.30%) VCP6
9 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 12 (5.19%) NIST
3 10 (4.33%) COBIT
4 9 (3.90%) GDPR
5 7 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.03%) NCSC
6 5 (2.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (2.16%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.49%) vSphere
4 13 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.90%) NFS
6 7 (3.03%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.30%) vCloud
8 1 (0.43%) Docker
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.06%) WMI
2 9 (3.90%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.30%) SCCM
4 2 (0.87%) Endace
4 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.87%) vRealize
4 2 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.43%) Nessus
5 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (20.35%) VMware
2 42 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.79%) Sparx
4 11 (4.76%) Cisco
5 10 (4.33%) Juniper
6 9 (3.90%) NetApp
7 7 (3.03%) Splunk
7 7 (3.03%) Veeam
8 5 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (2.16%) Thales
9 3 (1.30%) Citrix
10 2 (0.87%) Databricks
10 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) SAP
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.43%) Workday
11 1 (0.43%) Zscaler