Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 96 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 12.57% 10.06% 6.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.94% 10.71% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 13 18
10th Percentile £481 £508 £478
25th Percentile £526 £563 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £678 £725 £744
90th Percentile £763 £735 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £635 £700 £613
% change year-on-year -9.29% +14.29% +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 742 168 330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.12% 93.85% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 114 241
10th Percentile £363 £210 £255
25th Percentile £456 £326 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -1.16%
75th Percentile £599 £550 £560
90th Percentile £638 £648 £645
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 24
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.39 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.12 £17.64
Median hourly rate £17.91 £16.69 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -25.84% +65.81%
75th Percentile £39.63 £19.88 £25.82
90th Percentile - £55.38 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £15.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.13% -32.22% +32.74%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Architect job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Milton Keynes

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 39 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.92%) DV Cleared
4 21 (21.88%) AWS
5 20 (20.83%) Azure
6 19 (19.79%) NCSC
7 18 (18.75%) TOGAF
7 18 (18.75%) VMware
8 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
9 16 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
10 15 (15.63%) Migration
11 14 (14.58%) Agile
12 13 (13.54%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (13.54%) Microservices
12 13 (13.54%) NIST
13 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (12.50%) Network Architecture
13 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 12 (12.50%) VMware NSX
14 11 (11.46%) Cisco
14 11 (11.46%) Palo Alto
14 11 (11.46%) Technology Strategy
15 10 (10.42%) CCNP
15 10 (10.42%) CI/CD
15 10 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (10.42%) Firewall
15 10 (10.42%) IT Strategy
15 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow
15 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (9.38%) Matrix Organization

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.04%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.88%) AWS
2 20 (20.83%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.17%) GCP
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.04%) IaaS
5 1 (1.04%) PaaS
5 1 (1.04%) SaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) Firewall
2 9 (9.38%) VPN
3 8 (8.33%) WAN
4 7 (7.29%) LAN
4 7 (7.29%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (6.25%) MPLS
6 5 (5.21%) BGP
6 5 (5.21%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (5.21%) IPsec
6 5 (5.21%) OSPF
6 5 (5.21%) VSAN
7 4 (4.17%) BIG-IP
7 4 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (4.17%) DNS
7 4 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (4.17%) Network Security
7 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.17%) VLAN
7 4 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 18 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 9 (9.38%) Banking
2 9 (9.38%) Finance
2 9 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (3.13%) Retail Banking
3 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Retail
5 1 (1.04%) Law
5 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) REST
2 3 (3.13%) Middleware
2 3 (3.13%) SOAP
3 2 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.17%) CMDB
5 4 (4.17%) PKI
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.04%) VMS
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.75%) TOGAF
2 16 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 15 (15.63%) Migration
4 14 (14.58%) Agile
5 13 (13.54%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (13.54%) Microservices
6 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (12.50%) Network Architecture
6 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 11 (11.46%) Technology Strategy
8 10 (10.42%) CI/CD
8 10 (10.42%) IT Strategy
8 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.38%) Matrix Organization
10 8 (8.33%) Cloud Security
10 8 (8.33%) DevSecOps
10 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (8.33%) Zero Trust
11 7 (7.29%) Data Architecture
11 7 (7.29%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.13%) Python
2 2 (2.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.92%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.42%) CCNP
4 10 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.21%) MCSE
7 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.13%) CCIE
8 3 (3.13%) Degree
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.04%) CCIP
10 1 (1.04%) CCNA
10 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (1.04%) RHCA
10 1 (1.04%) RHCE
10 1 (1.04%) RHCSA
10 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) NCSC
2 13 (13.54%) NIST
3 7 (7.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.17%) ISO 20022
6 3 (3.13%) QA
6 3 (3.13%) SEPA
7 1 (1.04%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Terraform
2 4 (4.17%) Ansible
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.04%) CASB
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.04%) Packer
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) VMware
2 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) Cisco
3 11 (11.46%) Palo Alto
4 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.21%) F5
5 5 (5.21%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.13%) Citrix
6 3 (3.13%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.08%) Google
8 1 (1.04%) Arista
8 1 (1.04%) Aruba
8 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.04%) HP
8 1 (1.04%) Juniper
8 1 (1.04%) Meraki
8 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce