Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £622 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 240 272 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.83% 8.38% 8.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.57% 8.86% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 191 315
10th Percentile £445 £519 £463
25th Percentile £520 £591 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £716 £720 £696
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
England median daily rate £650 £671 £650
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.25 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £57.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +15.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,509 3,069 4,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 94.52% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,711 2,161 3,497
10th Percentile £213 £225 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% +14.20%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £560
90th Percentile £676 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 115 167
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.70
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.36 £20.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% +17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.67 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

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 23 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 May 2024. 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 +6 167 £650 -3.70% 56
East Midlands +1 72 £567 -13.63% 39
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 60 (25.00%) Azure
2 57 (23.75%) Finance
3 50 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 49 (20.42%) Agile
5 42 (17.50%) Roadmaps
6 37 (15.42%) Security Cleared
7 34 (14.17%) AWS
8 33 (13.75%) Migration
8 33 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (12.92%) Microsoft
9 31 (12.92%) Architectural Design
10 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
11 27 (11.25%) SC Cleared
12 24 (10.00%) WAN
13 23 (9.58%) Analytics
13 23 (9.58%) IT Strategy
14 22 (9.17%) Banking
14 22 (9.17%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (8.75%) LAN
16 19 (7.92%) Firewall
16 19 (7.92%) TOGAF
16 19 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (7.92%) Data Centre
17 18 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (7.50%) Power Platform
17 18 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (7.50%) MPLS
17 18 (7.50%) Cisco
17 18 (7.50%) SQL
17 18 (7.50%) Web Services

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 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) CATIA
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (5.83%) NetSuite
2 9 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.42%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.42%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.42%) RMDS
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.00%) Azure
2 34 (14.17%) AWS
3 18 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.92%) Boomi
6 7 (2.92%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.92%) GCP
6 7 (2.92%) SaaS
7 4 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) Serverless
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.83%) IaaS
9 2 (0.83%) iPaaS
9 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.00%) WAN
2 21 (8.75%) LAN
3 19 (7.92%) Firewall
4 18 (7.50%) MPLS
5 13 (5.42%) VPN
6 11 (4.58%) BGP
7 9 (3.75%) DNS
8 8 (3.33%) PBX
8 8 (3.33%) VoIP
8 8 (3.33%) WLAN
9 7 (2.92%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.50%) IPsec
10 6 (2.50%) Junos
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (2.08%) DHCP
11 5 (2.08%) Internet
12 4 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.42%) Data Lake
2 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.17%) Power BI
5 9 (3.75%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.08%) DB2
6 5 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.08%) Tableau
7 4 (1.67%) Big Data
7 4 (1.67%) Metadata
7 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.25%) OLAP
8 3 (1.25%) OLTP
9 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.83%) MySQL
10 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 9 (3.75%) JIRA
2 8 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.92%) Git
4 2 (0.83%) kappa
5 1 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
General
1 57 (23.75%) Finance
2 50 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.17%) Banking
5 14 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Law
11 3 (1.25%) Marketing
11 3 (1.25%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Automotive
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) German Language
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.50%) Web Services
2 17 (7.08%) OAuth
3 15 (6.25%) SAML
4 13 (5.42%) LDAP
4 13 (5.42%) OpenID
5 8 (3.33%) XML
6 6 (2.50%) HTML
6 6 (2.50%) JSON
6 6 (2.50%) RESTful
7 5 (2.08%) .NET
7 5 (2.08%) RAML
7 5 (2.08%) React
8 4 (1.67%) CSS
8 4 (1.67%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.67%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.67%) SOAP
8 4 (1.67%) Swagger
9 2 (0.83%) Node.js
9 2 (0.83%) REST
9 2 (0.83%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.67%) NHS
7 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.25%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.25%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.08%) Windows
2 6 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.67%) Android
4 4 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.67%) Linux
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (20.42%) Agile
2 42 (17.50%) Roadmaps
3 33 (13.75%) Migration
3 33 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (12.92%) Architectural Design
5 23 (9.58%) Analytics
5 23 (9.58%) IT Strategy
6 22 (9.17%) Enterprise Architecture
7 19 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (7.92%) TOGAF
8 18 (7.50%) Business Strategy
8 18 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.50%) Technology Strategy
9 17 (7.08%) DevOps
9 17 (7.08%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.25%) Data Management
10 15 (6.25%) ETL
10 15 (6.25%) Project Management
11 14 (5.83%) Data Architecture
11 14 (5.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.50%) SQL
2 8 (3.33%) Java
2 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.67%) C
4 4 (1.67%) C#
5 3 (1.25%) Bash
5 3 (1.25%) Python
6 2 (0.83%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.83%) SOQL
7 1 (0.42%) ABAP
7 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.42%) VB
7 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.08%) Degree
4 16 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.17%) CCNP
6 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.33%) CCIE
7 8 (3.33%) CCIE Data Center
7 8 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.92%) CCNA
9 6 (2.50%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.08%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.42%) CISSP
14 1 (0.42%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.50%) QA
2 4 (1.67%) SLA
3 3 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.25%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 10 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.08%) Docker
3 4 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.25%) vSphere
4 3 (1.25%) XenApp
4 3 (1.25%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (3.33%) Progress Chef
3 6 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.67%) Terraform
5 2 (0.83%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) Grafana
5 2 (0.83%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 31 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.50%) Cisco
3 15 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.17%) ForgeRock
4 10 (4.17%) Juniper
4 10 (4.17%) VMware
5 7 (2.92%) SAP
6 6 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.08%) Autodesk
7 5 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.08%) Databricks
7 5 (2.08%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.08%) Oracle
7 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.08%) Symantec
7 5 (2.08%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.67%) Citrix
9 3 (1.25%) NetApp
9 3 (1.25%) Okta
9 3 (1.25%) SolarWinds