Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 194 90 387
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.32% 11.24% 21.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.22% 11.70% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 82 223
10th Percentile £490 £538 £575
25th Percentile £575 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £750 £688 £731
90th Percentile £826 £737 £794
South East median daily rate £625 £601 £650
% change year-on-year +4.08% -7.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £90.60
25th Percentile - - £91.50
Median hourly rate - - £92.19
75th Percentile - - £92.37
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £95.00 £82.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year +15.85% -6.24% +16.61%

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 1,587 769 1,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 96.00% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 544 940
10th Percentile £356 £252 £371
25th Percentile £475 £418 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +11.65%
75th Percentile £647 £613 £672
90th Percentile £738 £660 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 53 203
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.04 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.57 £32.94 £26.88
Median hourly rate £38.25 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.50% -12.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.11 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £31.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +61.29% -38.00% -

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +2 116 £700 +12.00% 11
Farnborough 0 24 £563 +9.22% 3
Andover 0 15 £750 +11.11% 6
Portsmouth +4 14 £713 +23.91% 2
Southampton -6 5 £483 -28.44% 4
Fareham -4 3 £650 - 4
Aldershot - 1 £775 -
Eastleigh - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 158 (81.44%) Security Cleared
2 118 (60.82%) DV Cleared
3 66 (34.02%) Agile
4 34 (17.53%) SC Cleared
5 27 (13.92%) Azure
5 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
6 26 (13.40%) Enterprise Architecture
7 23 (11.86%) VMware
8 22 (11.34%) AWS
9 20 (10.31%) Windows
10 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (9.28%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.76%) Architecture Governance
12 17 (8.76%) IaaS
12 17 (8.76%) PaaS
12 17 (8.76%) REST
13 15 (7.73%) CI/CD
13 15 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (7.22%) NIST
14 14 (7.22%) PowerShell
14 14 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (6.70%) Active Directory
15 13 (6.70%) Architectural Patterns
15 13 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (6.70%) DevOps
15 13 (6.70%) Microsoft
16 12 (6.19%) GDPR
16 12 (6.19%) ITIL
16 12 (6.19%) LAN
16 12 (6.19%) Zero Trust

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 5 (2.58%) Documentum
2 3 (1.55%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.52%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.92%) Azure
2 22 (11.34%) AWS
3 17 (8.76%) IaaS
3 17 (8.76%) PaaS
4 9 (4.64%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.06%) GCP
6 4 (2.06%) GitHub
6 4 (2.06%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.55%) Route 53
7 3 (1.55%) Serverless
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.03%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.19%) LAN
2 7 (3.61%) Network Security
3 6 (3.09%) Firewall
4 5 (2.58%) WAN
5 4 (2.06%) VPN
6 2 (1.03%) BGP
6 2 (1.03%) OSPF
6 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.03%) VLAN
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) IPsec
7 1 (0.52%) NAS
7 1 (0.52%) NGFW
7 1 (0.52%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.09%) Power BI
1 6 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.55%) Metadata
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.52%) Big Data
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.52%) Stardog
4 1 (0.52%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Git
2 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) MSI
3 1 (0.52%) Postman
General
1 36 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.22%) Finance
3 8 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.06%) Legal
6 2 (1.03%) Military
7 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.52%) Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.52%) Marketing
7 1 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.76%) REST
2 8 (4.12%) OAuth
3 7 (3.61%) SAML
4 6 (3.09%) .NET
4 6 (3.09%) OpenID
5 5 (2.58%) LDAP
5 5 (2.58%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.58%) SOAP
6 4 (2.06%) ADO
6 4 (2.06%) JSON
7 3 (1.55%) Web Services
8 2 (1.03%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (1.03%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.03%) Middleware
8 2 (1.03%) RESTful
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Jena
9 1 (0.52%) IDoc
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.52%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) PKI
2 9 (4.64%) Blockchain
3 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.55%) Clustering
6 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.52%) CMDB
7 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.52%) IoT
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.31%) Windows
2 9 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.09%) Linux
4 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.02%) Agile
2 27 (13.92%) Roadmaps
3 26 (13.40%) Enterprise Architecture
4 19 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (9.28%) Decision-Making
6 17 (8.76%) Architecture Governance
7 15 (7.73%) CI/CD
7 15 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (6.70%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.70%) DevOps
10 12 (6.19%) ITIL
10 12 (6.19%) Zero Trust
11 11 (5.67%) Cloud Security
11 11 (5.67%) OWASP
11 11 (5.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (5.15%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (5.15%) Service Management
12 10 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.15%) Java
3 7 (3.61%) SQL
4 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.58%) C#
5 5 (2.58%) Python
6 2 (1.03%) Bash
6 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 158 (81.44%) Security Cleared
2 118 (60.82%) DV Cleared
3 34 (17.53%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.09%) CISSP
5 5 (2.58%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.58%) CISM
6 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Degree
7 2 (1.03%) ISEB
7 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.52%) CCSK
8 1 (0.52%) CEH
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.22%) NIST
2 12 (6.19%) GDPR
3 11 (5.67%) NCSC
4 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (1.03%) COBIT
7 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) PMO
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.61%) vCloud
3 4 (2.06%) vSphere
4 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.03%) Docker
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (5.15%) vCenter Server
2 7 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.55%) Endace
4 3 (1.55%) Terraform
4 3 (1.55%) WMI
5 2 (1.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.03%) Grafana
5 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (11.86%) VMware
2 13 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.67%) Sparx
4 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.61%) BiZZdesign
5 7 (3.61%) Cisco
5 7 (3.61%) Juniper
6 6 (3.09%) BMC
6 6 (3.09%) Remedy
7 4 (2.06%) F5
7 4 (2.06%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.55%) Foundry
8 3 (1.55%) Palantir
8 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.52%) Databricks
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) Thales
9 1 (0.52%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Zerto