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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 208 130 175
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 10.89% 13.18% 13.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 14.53% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 122 110
10th Percentile £515 £519 £586
25th Percentile £611 £520 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £722
90th Percentile £825 £694 £752
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £92.50 £85.00 £92.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% -7.61% +21.58%

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 1,745 895 1,173
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 90.77% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 610 746
10th Percentile £363 £200 £355
25th Percentile £463 £418 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £645
90th Percentile £738 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 75 92
10th Percentile £15.14 £17.25 £21.89
25th Percentile £20.43 £20.71 £34.75
Median hourly rate £44.30 £25.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.15% -61.31% +20.93%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £70.46 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £48.91 £25.15 £58.49
% change year-on-year +94.45% -57.00% +12.48%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -2 108 £700 +16.67% 19
Portsmouth -5 29 £670 +24.65% 15
Andover -2 22 £750 +3.45%
Farnborough +4 15 £625 - 44
Fareham +4 14 £650 +33.33% 5
Southampton +3 10 £575 -14.81% 15
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 161 (77.40%) Security Cleared
2 112 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 52 (25.00%) Agile
4 48 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 39 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (17.79%) Azure
6 37 (17.79%) Service Design
7 36 (17.31%) Security Architecture
8 34 (16.35%) Service Management
9 32 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
10 31 (14.90%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (13.94%) AWS
12 28 (13.46%) Risk Management
13 27 (12.98%) CI/CD
14 25 (12.02%) ITIL
15 24 (11.54%) DevOps
16 23 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (10.58%) PowerShell
17 22 (10.58%) Roadmaps
17 22 (10.58%) Windows
18 21 (10.10%) DevSecOps
19 19 (9.13%) AI
19 19 (9.13%) CISSP
19 19 (9.13%) NCSC
19 19 (9.13%) Project Delivery
19 19 (9.13%) TOGAF
19 19 (9.13%) Translating Business Requirements
20 18 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (3.37%) Documentum
2 4 (1.92%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.40%) Remedy AR System
3 3 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.79%) Azure
2 29 (13.94%) AWS
3 8 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.37%) IaaS
4 7 (3.37%) iPaaS
4 7 (3.37%) PaaS
5 6 (2.88%) SaaS
6 5 (2.40%) GitHub
7 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.92%) Serverless
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.44%) Route 53
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.96%) GCP
9 2 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.96%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
2 7 (3.37%) Network Security
3 6 (2.88%) BGP
3 6 (2.88%) VPN
3 6 (2.88%) WAN
4 5 (2.40%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.40%) Firewall
4 5 (2.40%) LAN
4 5 (2.40%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.92%) X.509
6 2 (0.96%) DHCP
6 2 (0.96%) DNS
6 2 (0.96%) SAN
6 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.96%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) IPsec
7 1 (0.48%) NGFW
7 1 (0.48%) OSPF
7 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.96%) Metadata
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.48%) Power BI
3 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.48%) Stardog
3 1 (0.48%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) MSI
2 7 (3.37%) Git
3 5 (2.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.21%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (5.29%) Finance
5 10 (4.81%) Retail
6 6 (2.88%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.48%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.65%) REST
2 9 (4.33%) SOAP
3 8 (3.85%) OAuth
4 7 (3.37%) SAML
5 6 (2.88%) .NET
5 6 (2.88%) ADO
5 6 (2.88%) OpenID
5 6 (2.88%) SLSA
6 5 (2.40%) LDAP
6 5 (2.40%) ModSecurity
6 5 (2.40%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.40%) Terraform
7 4 (1.92%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.92%) Web Services
8 3 (1.44%) JSON
9 2 (0.96%) Apollo GraphQL
9 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.96%) Middleware
9 2 (0.96%) RESTful
10 1 (0.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (4.81%) PKI
3 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.40%) CMDB
5 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.48%) Clustering
7 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.58%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) AIX
2 2 (0.96%) HPUX
2 2 (0.96%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Solaris
2 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.00%) Agile
2 39 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (17.79%) Service Design
4 36 (17.31%) Security Architecture
5 34 (16.35%) Service Management
6 32 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (14.90%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (13.46%) Risk Management
9 27 (12.98%) CI/CD
10 25 (12.02%) ITIL
11 24 (11.54%) DevOps
12 23 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (10.58%) Roadmaps
14 21 (10.10%) DevSecOps
15 19 (9.13%) AI
15 19 (9.13%) Project Delivery
15 19 (9.13%) TOGAF
15 19 (9.13%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.58%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.77%) Java
3 9 (4.33%) Python
4 6 (2.88%) Bash
5 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.96%) SQL
7 1 (0.48%) C#
7 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 161 (77.40%) Security Cleared
2 112 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 48 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.13%) CISSP
5 11 (5.29%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.92%) CISM
7 4 (1.92%) Degree
8 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.96%) CCSK
9 2 (0.96%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.96%) VCAP
9 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.48%) CEH
10 1 (0.48%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.13%) NCSC
2 18 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 13 (6.25%) NIST
4 10 (4.81%) JSP 440
5 8 (3.85%) SLA
6 7 (3.37%) GDPR
6 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.48%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.48%) GRC
9 1 (0.48%) PMO
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.96%) vCloud
3 2 (0.96%) vSphere
4 1 (0.48%) Docker
4 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.77%) WMI
2 8 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.88%) Ansible
4 5 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.96%) Grafana
5 2 (0.96%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.96%) vRealize
5 2 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.48%) SCOM
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.81%) VMware
3 6 (2.88%) BMC
3 6 (2.88%) Remedy
4 5 (2.40%) SAP
5 4 (1.92%) Workday
6 3 (1.44%) Broadcom
6 3 (1.44%) Dell
6 3 (1.44%) Foundry
6 3 (1.44%) Palantir
6 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.44%) Sparx
7 2 (0.96%) HP
7 2 (0.96%) NetApp
7 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.96%) Splunk
7 2 (0.96%) Veritas
8 1 (0.48%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle