Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 221 144 261
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.29% 14.50% 17.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.20% 15.53% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 136 162
10th Percentile £525 £519 £575
25th Percentile £575 £538 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £700
90th Percentile £825 £717 £738
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £90.60
25th Percentile £95.00 - £91.50
Median hourly rate £95.50 - £92.19
75th Percentile £96.00 - £92.37
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 £82.00 £88.73
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.58% +17.78%

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 1,811 927 1,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.35% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 654 854
10th Percentile £363 £204 £361
25th Percentile £463 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -6.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £744 £650 £714
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 65 135
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.56 £25.15 £48.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.82% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £70.43
90th Percentile £72.87 £74.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.46 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.60% -56.15% +14.70%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 0 129 £700 +16.67% 5
Portsmouth -5 31 £670 +24.65% 1
Andover -7 15 £750 +3.45% 3
Farnborough -4 12 £625 +21.36% 21
Fareham +2 11 £563 - 1
Southampton +3 10 £575 -19.30% 7
Aldershot - 1 £775 - 5
Eastleigh - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 177 (80.09%) Security Cleared
2 130 (58.82%) DV Cleared
3 58 (26.24%) Agile
4 45 (20.36%) SC Cleared
5 38 (17.19%) Azure
6 34 (15.38%) Security Architecture
7 33 (14.93%) AWS
8 32 (14.48%) Service Management
9 30 (13.57%) Service Design
10 29 (13.12%) Roadmaps
10 29 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 27 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (11.31%) Risk Management
14 24 (10.86%) DevSecOps
14 24 (10.86%) ITIL
15 23 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
16 22 (9.95%) DevOps
17 21 (9.50%) Microsoft
17 21 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (9.50%) Windows
18 20 (9.05%) AI
18 20 (9.05%) CISSP
18 20 (9.05%) TOGAF
19 19 (8.60%) REST
20 18 (8.14%) Zero Trust
21 17 (7.69%) NCSC
21 17 (7.69%) PowerShell

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 7 (3.17%) Documentum
2 4 (1.81%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.36%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.19%) Azure
2 33 (14.93%) AWS
3 13 (5.88%) PaaS
4 12 (5.43%) IaaS
5 8 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.26%) GCP
7 5 (2.26%) iPaaS
8 4 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.81%) GitHub
8 4 (1.81%) SaaS
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.36%) Route 53
9 3 (1.36%) Serverless
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.90%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.90%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.52%) LAN
2 9 (4.07%) Firewall
2 9 (4.07%) Network Security
2 9 (4.07%) WAN
3 7 (3.17%) BGP
3 7 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.71%) VPN
5 5 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (2.26%) VXLAN
6 4 (1.81%) VLAN
7 3 (1.36%) DHCP
7 3 (1.36%) DNS
7 3 (1.36%) SAN
8 2 (0.90%) OSPF
8 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.90%) X.509
9 1 (0.45%) IPsec
9 1 (0.45%) NAS
9 1 (0.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.81%) Power BI
1 4 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.90%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) Stardog
4 1 (0.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (3.17%) Git
2 5 (2.26%) JIRA
2 5 (2.26%) MSI
3 2 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 49 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (5.88%) Finance
4 11 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.07%) Retail
6 6 (2.71%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Legal
8 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.60%) REST
2 8 (3.62%) OAuth
3 7 (3.17%) SAML
3 7 (3.17%) SOAP
4 6 (2.71%) .NET
4 6 (2.71%) ADO
4 6 (2.71%) OpenID
4 6 (2.71%) SLSA
5 5 (2.26%) LDAP
5 5 (2.26%) ModSecurity
5 5 (2.26%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.26%) Web Services
6 4 (1.81%) JSON
6 4 (1.81%) Terraform
7 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.90%) Apollo GraphQL
7 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.90%) Middleware
7 2 (0.90%) RESTful
8 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.43%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.98%) PKI
3 9 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.26%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Clustering
6 3 (1.36%) CMDB
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.45%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.50%) Windows
2 5 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.90%) AIX
3 2 (0.90%) HPUX
3 2 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.24%) Agile
2 34 (15.38%) Security Architecture
3 32 (14.48%) Service Management
4 30 (13.57%) Service Design
5 29 (13.12%) Roadmaps
5 29 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (12.22%) CI/CD
6 27 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (11.31%) Risk Management
9 24 (10.86%) DevSecOps
9 24 (10.86%) ITIL
10 23 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
11 22 (9.95%) DevOps
12 21 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (9.05%) AI
13 20 (9.05%) TOGAF
14 18 (8.14%) Zero Trust
15 17 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.43%) Java
3 6 (2.71%) Python
4 5 (2.26%) SQL
5 4 (1.81%) Bash
5 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.36%) C#
7 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 177 (80.09%) Security Cleared
2 130 (58.82%) DV Cleared
3 45 (20.36%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.05%) CISSP
5 11 (4.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.26%) CISM
7 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.90%) CCSK
8 2 (0.90%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Degree
9 1 (0.45%) CEH
9 1 (0.45%) ISEB
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.69%) NCSC
2 15 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 15 (6.79%) NIST
3 9 (4.07%) GDPR
4 8 (3.62%) JSP 440
4 8 (3.62%) SLA
5 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.45%) COBIT
7 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.26%) vCloud
3 2 (0.90%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.62%) WMI
3 5 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (2.26%) Ansible
3 5 (2.26%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.90%) Endace
4 2 (0.90%) Grafana
4 2 (0.90%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.45%) SCOM
5 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.88%) VMware
3 7 (3.17%) BMC
3 7 (3.17%) Remedy
4 6 (2.71%) Sparx
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco
5 5 (2.26%) Juniper
5 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.81%) BiZZdesign
6 4 (1.81%) Workday
7 3 (1.36%) Broadcom
7 3 (1.36%) Dell
7 3 (1.36%) F5
7 3 (1.36%) Foundry
7 3 (1.36%) Palantir
7 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.90%) HP
8 2 (0.90%) NetApp
8 2 (0.90%) Veritas