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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 200 130 144
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 16.00% 12.87% 10.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.76% 13.70% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 96 70
10th Percentile £519 £563 £525
25th Percentile £534 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £659 £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 £92.50 £75.67
% change year-on-year -2.70% +22.24% +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 1,126 949 1,214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 93.96% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 641 675
10th Percentile £300 £341 £290
25th Percentile £428 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 65 81
10th Percentile £16.17 £22.03 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.85 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.03% +34.39% +8.89%
75th Percentile £38.71 £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £59.73 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £54.00 £51.24
% change year-on-year -53.70% +5.39% +36.63%

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 29 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 29 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 +1 102 £600 -10.28% 21
Portsmouth +16 31 £538 -14.00% 2
Andover - 15 £750 - 8
Fareham +1 12 £510 -18.40% 6
Farnborough -13 10 £625 -2.34% 8
Southampton -1 8 £800 +28.00% 2
Hook - 3 £800 -
Fleet - 3 £537 -
Havant -9 2 £720 +10.77%
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 29 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.

1 174 (87.00%) Security Cleared
2 105 (52.50%) DV Cleared
3 62 (31.00%) SC Cleared
4 43 (21.50%) VMware
5 42 (21.00%) ITIL
6 39 (19.50%) Agile
6 39 (19.50%) IT4IT
7 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
8 34 (17.00%) Windows
9 29 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 29 (14.50%) Service Design
9 29 (14.50%) Service Management
10 25 (12.50%) Project Delivery
11 22 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 18 (9.00%) vSphere
13 17 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (8.50%) VMware ESXi
14 16 (8.00%) Azure
14 16 (8.00%) Java
15 15 (7.50%) Active Directory
15 15 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
16 14 (7.00%) NetApp
16 14 (7.00%) Roadmaps
17 13 (6.50%) Cisco
17 13 (6.50%) Firewall
17 13 (6.50%) iSCSI
17 13 (6.50%) NFS
18 12 (6.00%) Architectural Design
18 12 (6.00%) Customer Requirements
18 12 (6.00%) Fibre Channel

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 (1.50%) Documentum
2 1 (0.50%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.50%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.50%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.00%) Azure
2 7 (3.50%) AWS
3 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (2.50%) Google Ads
4 3 (1.50%) Algolia
4 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.50%) Commercetools
4 3 (1.50%) Contentful
4 3 (1.50%) GCP
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.50%) PaaS
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.50%) Serverless
5 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Firewall
1 13 (6.50%) iSCSI
2 12 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
2 12 (6.00%) LAN
3 8 (4.00%) VSAN
4 4 (2.00%) PCoIP
5 3 (1.50%) SAN
6 2 (1.00%) NAS
6 2 (1.00%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) BGP
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.50%) Junos
7 1 (0.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.50%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Git
2 5 (2.50%) GitLab
2 5 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) MSI
General
1 27 (13.50%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.50%) Legal
5 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.00%) Marketing
5 2 (1.00%) Retail
5 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.00%) Middleware
1 2 (1.00%) RESTful
2 1 (0.50%) JSON
2 1 (0.50%) REST
2 1 (0.50%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (0.50%) Web Services
2 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.50%) PKI
2 9 (4.50%) Fat Client
2 9 (4.50%) Thin Client
3 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.00%) Replication
5 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.50%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.00%) Windows
2 12 (6.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 9 (4.50%) Windows 7
4 6 (3.00%) Linux
5 3 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.00%) ITIL
2 39 (19.50%) Agile
2 39 (19.50%) IT4IT
3 29 (14.50%) Service Design
3 29 (14.50%) Service Management
4 25 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 15 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (7.00%) Roadmaps
7 12 (6.00%) Architectural Design
7 12 (6.00%) Customer Requirements
8 11 (5.50%) Prototyping
8 11 (5.50%) TOGAF
9 10 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (4.50%) Business Strategy
10 9 (4.50%) CI/CD
10 9 (4.50%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (4.50%) Open Source
10 9 (4.50%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.00%) Java
2 12 (6.00%) SQL
3 10 (5.00%) Python
4 8 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.00%) Bash
6 1 (0.50%) Bicep
6 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 174 (87.00%) Security Cleared
2 105 (52.50%) DV Cleared
3 62 (31.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (6.00%) MCSE
6 10 (5.00%) ISEB
6 10 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (3.00%) VCP5
8 6 (3.00%) VCP6
9 5 (2.50%) Degree
10 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.50%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.50%) VCDX
12 2 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 10 (5.00%) COBIT
3 9 (4.50%) NIST
4 7 (3.50%) GDPR
5 6 (3.00%) SLA
6 5 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (2.50%) JSP 440
6 5 (2.50%) NCSC
7 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.00%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 22 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (9.00%) vSphere
3 17 (8.50%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (7.50%) Active Directory
5 13 (6.50%) NFS
6 6 (3.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.50%) Docker
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (5.50%) WMI
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.50%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.50%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) vRealize
4 1 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 43 (21.50%) VMware
2 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.00%) NetApp
4 13 (6.50%) Cisco
5 12 (6.00%) Juniper
5 12 (6.00%) Sparx
5 12 (6.00%) Splunk
5 12 (6.00%) Veeam
6 4 (2.00%) Citrix
7 2 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.00%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.00%) Thales
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) F5
8 1 (0.50%) Nokia
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Workday
8 1 (0.50%) Zscaler