Architect Contracts in Leicester

Architect
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Architect daily rate in Leicester is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 19 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 24.68% 12.39% 3.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.16% 13.33% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 3
10th Percentile £560 £552 -
25th Percentile £590 £573 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £663 £666 £631
90th Percentile £715 £688 £643
Leicestershire median daily rate £630 £620 £575
% change year-on-year +1.65% +7.78% -11.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 63 105 108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 92.92% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 74 91
10th Percentile £225 £131 £263
25th Percentile £275 £318 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £451 £415
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +8.73% +3.75%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £450
90th Percentile £651 £625 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £446 £375 £395
% change year-on-year +19.00% -5.06% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £14.98 £13.02
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.81 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £20.46
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.19% +16.91%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.81 £32.81
90th Percentile - £28.38 £62.63
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £20.46
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.19% +9.12%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Leicester

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Leicester

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Leicester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Leicester

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leicester region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) SolarWinds
2 9 (47.37%) F5
3 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (26.32%) IPsec
3 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Juniper
4 4 (21.05%) CCNP
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (21.05%) Biometrics
4 4 (21.05%) OSPF
4 4 (21.05%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Use Case
4 4 (21.05%) HSRP
4 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.79%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 2 (10.53%) Azure
6 2 (10.53%) AWS
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) VMware

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Anthos
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (26.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (26.32%) IPsec
3 4 (21.05%) HSRP
3 4 (21.05%) OSPF
3 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 1 (5.26%) 3G
4 1 (5.26%) 3GPP
4 1 (5.26%) 4G
4 1 (5.26%) 5G
4 1 (5.26%) LTE
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security
4 1 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 4 (21.05%) Law
1 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
2 4 (21.05%) Biometrics
2 4 (21.05%) Use Case
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.26%) Data Integration
5 1 (5.26%) ETL
5 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Network Architecture
5 1 (5.26%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) CCNP
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) F5
1 9 (47.37%) SolarWinds
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 5 (26.32%) Juniper
3 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.53%) NetApp
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft