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 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 140 173 154
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.66% 14.55% 11.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.22% 15.67% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 116 85
10th Percentile £519 £581 £531
25th Percentile £525 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £674 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +3.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £694 £761 £738
South East median daily rate £600 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £90.60 -
25th Percentile £81.50 £91.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate £83.00 £92.19 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +18.95% -3.13%
75th Percentile £84.50 £92.37 £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.82 £92.37 £75.67
% change year-on-year -9.26% +22.07% -5.41%

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 920 1,104 1,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 92.85% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 719 713
10th Percentile £214 £355 £271
25th Percentile £432 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £639 £630
90th Percentile £650 £700 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 77 92
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +29.91% +21.74%
75th Percentile £41.00 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.33 £76.50 £73.46
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.17 £51.90
% change year-on-year -64.26% +12.09% +66.61%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 0 81 £600 -12.73% 12
Portsmouth +14 31 £538 -14.00% 18
Farnborough -9 6 £638 -5.13% 11
Fleet - 5 £492 - 5
Southampton -1 4 £613 -11.87% 8
Fareham -3 3 £488 -22.00%
Andover - 3 £725 - 1
Havant -6 2 £720 +10.77% 1
Hook - 1 £600 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

1 116 (82.86%) Security Cleared
2 79 (56.43%) DV Cleared
3 40 (28.57%) VMware
4 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 34 (24.29%) Windows
6 31 (22.14%) ITIL
6 31 (22.14%) Microsoft
7 28 (20.00%) Agile
7 28 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 28 (20.00%) IT4IT
7 28 (20.00%) Service Design
7 28 (20.00%) Service Management
8 26 (18.57%) Project Delivery
9 24 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (15.00%) vSphere
11 19 (13.57%) VMware ESXi
12 18 (12.86%) Java
12 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (12.14%) Azure
13 17 (12.14%) LAN
13 17 (12.14%) SQL
14 16 (11.43%) Cisco
14 16 (11.43%) NetApp
15 15 (10.71%) Active Directory
15 15 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
15 15 (10.71%) iSCSI
15 15 (10.71%) MCSE
15 15 (10.71%) NFS
15 15 (10.71%) Splunk
15 15 (10.71%) Veeam

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 (2.14%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.14%) Azure
2 11 (7.86%) AWS
3 8 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.14%) Serverless
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.71%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.14%) LAN
2 15 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
2 15 (10.71%) iSCSI
3 9 (6.43%) Firewall
4 8 (5.71%) VSAN
5 4 (2.86%) PCoIP
5 4 (2.86%) WAN
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.43%) Junos
6 2 (1.43%) SAN
7 1 (0.71%) BGP
7 1 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.71%) NAS
7 1 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.71%) VLAN
7 1 (0.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.29%) Git
3 5 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 19 (13.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.86%) Finance
3 4 (2.86%) Retail
4 3 (2.14%) Marketing
5 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.43%) Aviation
5 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.71%) Advertising
6 1 (0.71%) Banking
6 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) Middleware
2 2 (1.43%) Kafka
2 2 (1.43%) REST
2 2 (1.43%) RESTful
2 2 (1.43%) Web Services
3 1 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.14%) PKI
2 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.29%) Fat Client
2 6 (4.29%) Thin Client
3 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Windows
2 15 (10.71%) Windows Server
2 15 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (7.14%) Linux
4 6 (4.29%) Windows 7
5 3 (2.14%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.14%) ITIL
2 28 (20.00%) Agile
2 28 (20.00%) IT4IT
2 28 (20.00%) Service Design
2 28 (20.00%) Service Management
3 26 (18.57%) Project Delivery
4 11 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (7.14%) Architectural Design
5 10 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 10 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (6.43%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (6.43%) DevOps
6 9 (6.43%) Edge Virtualization
6 9 (6.43%) Performance Analysis
6 9 (6.43%) Prototyping
7 8 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (5.71%) Mentoring
8 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (5.00%) Service Delivery
8 7 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.86%) Java
2 17 (12.14%) SQL
3 10 (7.14%) Python
4 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.43%) Bash
5 2 (1.43%) Scala
5 2 (1.43%) VB
6 1 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 116 (82.86%) Security Cleared
2 79 (56.43%) DV Cleared
3 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (10.71%) MCSE
6 13 (9.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (6.43%) VCP5
7 9 (6.43%) VCP6
8 7 (5.00%) Degree
9 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.14%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.14%) VCDX
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.71%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (5.00%) SLA
3 6 (4.29%) NIST
4 5 (3.57%) GDPR
5 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.86%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (15.00%) vSphere
3 19 (13.57%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (10.71%) Active Directory
4 15 (10.71%) NFS
5 5 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.14%) Docker
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) WMI
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.86%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.14%) SCCM
4 2 (1.43%) Ansible
4 2 (1.43%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (28.57%) VMware
2 31 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.43%) Cisco
3 16 (11.43%) NetApp
4 15 (10.71%) Splunk
4 15 (10.71%) Veeam
5 13 (9.29%) Juniper
6 5 (3.57%) Citrix
7 3 (2.14%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.43%) F5
8 2 (1.43%) Sparx
9 1 (0.71%) Criteo
9 1 (0.71%) HP
9 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) Thales
9 1 (0.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.71%) Zscaler