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 1 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 218 141 236
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.19% 14.27% 16.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.12% 15.36% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 133 147
10th Percentile £518 £519 £575
25th Percentile £575 £538 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £750 £650 £700
90th Percentile £825 £715 £738
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 1,799 918 1,344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.91% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 644 842
10th Percentile £363 £213 £360
25th Percentile £463 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.11% +9.05%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 61 132
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.87 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.56 £25.15 £51.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -28.51% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £70.43
90th Percentile £73.25 £71.25 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +108.45% -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 1 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 1 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 0 124 £700 +16.67% 10
Portsmouth -5 31 £670 +24.65% 3
Andover -6 16 £750 +3.45% 3
Farnborough -3 14 £625 +9.65% 33
Fareham +2 11 £563 - 2
Southampton +2 10 £575 -19.30% 11
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 1 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.

1 174 (79.82%) Security Cleared
2 126 (57.80%) DV Cleared
3 55 (25.23%) Agile
4 46 (21.10%) SC Cleared
5 37 (16.97%) Azure
6 35 (16.06%) Security Architecture
7 32 (14.68%) AWS
8 31 (14.22%) Service Design
8 31 (14.22%) Service Management
9 30 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.84%) Roadmaps
12 27 (12.39%) CI/CD
13 26 (11.93%) Risk Management
14 24 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (10.55%) DevOps
15 23 (10.55%) DevSecOps
15 23 (10.55%) Microsoft
16 22 (10.09%) Enterprise Architecture
16 22 (10.09%) ITIL
16 22 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (9.63%) Windows
18 20 (9.17%) CISSP
18 20 (9.17%) TOGAF
19 19 (8.72%) AI
20 18 (8.26%) NCSC
20 18 (8.26%) PowerShell
20 18 (8.26%) REST
20 18 (8.26%) Translating Business Requirements

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 (3.21%) Documentum
2 5 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.38%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.97%) Azure
2 32 (14.68%) AWS
3 11 (5.05%) IaaS
3 11 (5.05%) PaaS
4 8 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.75%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.29%) iPaaS
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.83%) GCP
7 4 (1.83%) GitHub
7 4 (1.83%) SaaS
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.38%) Route 53
8 3 (1.38%) Serverless
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (0.92%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.13%) Firewall
1 9 (4.13%) LAN
1 9 (4.13%) Network Security
1 9 (4.13%) WAN
2 8 (3.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 7 (3.21%) BGP
3 7 (3.21%) VPN
4 5 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.29%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.83%) VLAN
6 3 (1.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.38%) DNS
6 3 (1.38%) SAN
6 3 (1.38%) X.509
7 2 (0.92%) OSPF
7 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.46%) IPsec
8 1 (0.46%) NAS
8 1 (0.46%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.38%) Power BI
1 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.92%) Metadata
3 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.46%) Stardog
3 1 (0.46%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Git
2 6 (2.75%) JIRA
2 6 (2.75%) MSI
3 3 (1.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 49 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.88%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (5.96%) Finance
4 11 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (4.13%) Retail
6 5 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.38%) Legal
7 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.92%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) REST
2 8 (3.67%) OAuth
3 7 (3.21%) SAML
3 7 (3.21%) SOAP
4 6 (2.75%) .NET
4 6 (2.75%) ADO
4 6 (2.75%) OpenID
4 6 (2.75%) SLSA
5 5 (2.29%) LDAP
5 5 (2.29%) ModSecurity
5 5 (2.29%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.83%) JSON
6 4 (1.83%) Terraform
6 4 (1.83%) Web Services
7 3 (1.38%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.92%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (0.92%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.92%) Middleware
8 2 (0.92%) RESTful
9 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.96%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.05%) PKI
3 8 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.75%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.38%) CMDB
7 2 (0.92%) Clustering
7 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.46%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.63%) Windows
2 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.92%) AIX
3 2 (0.92%) HPUX
3 2 (0.92%) Linux
3 2 (0.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.23%) Agile
2 35 (16.06%) Security Architecture
3 31 (14.22%) Service Design
3 31 (14.22%) Service Management
4 30 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (12.84%) Roadmaps
7 27 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 26 (11.93%) Risk Management
9 24 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (10.55%) DevOps
10 23 (10.55%) DevSecOps
11 22 (10.09%) Enterprise Architecture
11 22 (10.09%) ITIL
11 22 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (9.17%) TOGAF
13 19 (8.72%) AI
14 18 (8.26%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (7.80%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.26%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.50%) Java
3 7 (3.21%) Python
4 4 (1.83%) Bash
4 4 (1.83%) SQL
5 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.92%) C#
6 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 174 (79.82%) Security Cleared
2 126 (57.80%) DV Cleared
3 46 (21.10%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.17%) CISSP
5 11 (5.05%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.29%) CISM
7 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Degree
8 2 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.92%) CCSK
8 2 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CEH
9 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) ISEB
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) VCAP
9 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.26%) NCSC
2 14 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 14 (6.42%) NIST
3 9 (4.13%) GDPR
3 9 (4.13%) JSP 440
4 8 (3.67%) SLA
5 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.38%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.46%) COBIT
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) vCloud
3 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.13%) WMI
2 8 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.75%) Ansible
4 5 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.83%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.92%) Endace
6 2 (0.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.92%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.46%) SCOM
7 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.46%) vRealize
7 1 (0.46%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.42%) VMware
3 6 (2.75%) BMC
3 6 (2.75%) Remedy
4 5 (2.29%) Sparx
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco
5 4 (1.83%) Juniper
5 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.83%) Workday
6 3 (1.38%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (1.38%) Broadcom
6 3 (1.38%) Dell
6 3 (1.38%) Foundry
6 3 (1.38%) Palantir
6 3 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.38%) SAP
7 2 (0.92%) F5
7 2 (0.92%) HP
7 2 (0.92%) NetApp
7 2 (0.92%) Veritas
77 Architect jobs in Hampshire