Architect Contracts in Luton

Architect
Bedfordshire > Luton

The median Architect daily rate in Luton is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 5.05% 7.33% 3.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.17% 8.59% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - - £494
25th Percentile - £525 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £631
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -10.50% -6.48%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £717
90th Percentile £661 £590 £763
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 £565 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% +18.95% -25.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Luton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Luton. 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 Luton with a recognized job title 81 128 104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 85.33% 99.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 77 73
10th Percentile £489 £300 £281
25th Percentile £500 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £691 £575 £600
90th Percentile £741 £650 £605
Bedfordshire median daily rate £580 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +16.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 5
10th Percentile £28.21 - £29.50
25th Percentile £60.75 £15.39 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £16.90 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +373.51% -77.47% +36.36%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £91.60 £67.18 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £63.25 £31.80 £63.75
% change year-on-year +98.90% -50.12% +15.91%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Luton

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Luton

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Luton region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Ariba
2 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Aviation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Design
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) EPoS
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Ontologies
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Ariba
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Workday