Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £600, 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 15 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 171 240 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.93% 8.71% 7.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.91% 9.48% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 171 178
10th Percentile £418 £450 £513
25th Percentile £504 £550 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £728 £715
90th Percentile £753 £775 £750
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £34.25 -
25th Percentile £30.10 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £30.20 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% - -
75th Percentile £30.30 £54.38 -
90th Percentile - £57.75 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands 0 118 £600 -7.69% 111
East Midlands +4 51 £550 -11.58% 49
Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 50 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 48 (28.07%) Azure
2 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 47 (27.49%) SC Cleared
4 39 (22.81%) Migration
5 36 (21.05%) Microsoft
6 34 (19.88%) Agile
7 31 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.54%) AWS
9 24 (14.04%) TOGAF
9 24 (14.04%) DevOps
10 21 (12.28%) Finance
10 21 (12.28%) Roadmaps
11 19 (11.11%) Firewall
11 19 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (9.94%) Power Platform
12 17 (9.94%) Data Modelling
12 17 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
12 17 (9.94%) CI/CD
13 16 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (8.77%) Microservices
14 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
14 15 (8.77%) SAP
15 14 (8.19%) SQL
15 14 (8.19%) Active Directory
15 14 (8.19%) Degree
15 14 (8.19%) SolarWinds
15 14 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
16 13 (7.60%) Entra ID

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.58%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) InfoPath
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.75%) Revit
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.58%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.58%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.07%) Azure
2 30 (17.54%) AWS
3 17 (9.94%) Power Platform
4 16 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.60%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.43%) PowerApps
7 10 (5.85%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.85%) GCP
7 10 (5.85%) Serverless
8 9 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.51%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.11%) Firewall
2 8 (4.68%) Network Security
3 6 (3.51%) IPsec
4 5 (2.92%) DNS
4 5 (2.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (2.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.92%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.92%) WAN
5 4 (2.34%) HSRP
5 4 (2.34%) OSPF
5 4 (2.34%) VLAN
6 3 (1.75%) 5G
6 3 (1.75%) LAN
6 3 (1.75%) Modbus
6 3 (1.75%) VPN
7 2 (1.17%) Internet
7 2 (1.17%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.17%) MQTT
8 1 (0.58%) 3G
8 1 (0.58%) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.85%) Power BI
2 7 (4.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.92%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.92%) RDBMS
3 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.17%) Big Data
6 2 (1.17%) Metadata
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.58%) DataStage
7 1 (0.58%) DB2
7 1 (0.58%) QualityStage
7 1 (0.58%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.75%) Postman
3 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) Maven
4 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.28%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.43%) Banking
6 7 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.51%) Law
8 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Legal
9 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.75%) Retail
10 2 (1.17%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.17%) Marketing
10 2 (1.17%) Police
10 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.43%) .NET
2 9 (5.26%) CSS
3 8 (4.68%) .NET Framework
3 8 (4.68%) HTML
4 6 (3.51%) Middleware
5 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.92%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (2.92%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 5 (2.92%) Kafka
5 5 (2.92%) SailPoint
6 4 (2.34%) OAuth
6 4 (2.34%) REST
6 4 (2.34%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (2.34%) SAPUI5
7 3 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (1.75%) HTML5
7 3 (1.75%) jQuery
7 3 (1.75%) OpenID
7 3 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.43%) Operational Technology
3 10 (5.85%) SCADA
4 9 (5.26%) IoT
5 8 (4.68%) Security Posture
6 7 (4.09%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.51%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.92%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.34%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 4 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.34%) Windows
2 2 (1.17%) Unix
2 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.81%) Migration
2 34 (19.88%) Agile
3 31 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (14.04%) DevOps
4 24 (14.04%) TOGAF
5 21 (12.28%) Roadmaps
6 17 (9.94%) CI/CD
6 17 (9.94%) Data Modelling
6 17 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
7 15 (8.77%) Microservices
8 14 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (7.02%) Data Governance
9 12 (7.02%) Data Integration
9 12 (7.02%) Data Migration
10 11 (6.43%) Scrum
10 11 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (5.85%) Decision-Making
11 10 (5.85%) Design Patterns
11 10 (5.85%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.19%) SQL
2 13 (7.60%) Java
3 11 (6.43%) C#
3 11 (6.43%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.51%) COBOL
4 6 (3.51%) Python
5 5 (2.92%) ABAP
5 5 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.17%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.17%) Ruby
7 1 (0.58%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) Groovy
7 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.19%) Degree
4 10 (5.85%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (4.68%) CISSP
5 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.34%) CCNP
7 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.17%) CCSP
9 2 (1.17%) GIAC
9 2 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.17%) SANS
10 1 (0.58%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) NIST
2 6 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.34%) GDPR
3 4 (2.34%) NCSC
3 4 (2.34%) PMO
4 3 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.17%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.58%) QA
6 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (8.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.34%) Docker
4 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.75%) CASB
2 3 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) SAP
3 14 (8.19%) SolarWinds
4 12 (7.02%) VMware
5 10 (5.85%) F5
6 8 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.09%) Oracle
7 7 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.51%) Cisco
9 5 (2.92%) Autodesk
9 5 (2.92%) Juniper
10 4 (2.34%) Databricks
10 4 (2.34%) Google
10 4 (2.34%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.75%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.17%) Ariba
12 2 (1.17%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.17%) Infoblox
12 2 (1.17%) NetApp
12 2 (1.17%) TOWER Software