Digital Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Digital Architect
England > Midlands

The median Digital Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.032% - 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% - 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.86%
75th Percentile £530 - £556
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%

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 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Digital 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 Digital Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 1 £520 - 4
Digital Architect
England

Digital Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Digital 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 Midlands region featuring Digital Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Interface Catalogue
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Digital Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Interface Catalogue
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus