Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 68 39 36
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 16.55% 18.06% 6.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.62% 18.57% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 30 32
10th Percentile £462 £512 £556
25th Percentile £506 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £633
Median % change year-on-year - -5.14% +8.12%
75th Percentile £640 £664 £750
90th Percentile £707 £743 £775
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £600 £613
% change year-on-year - -2.04% +4.70%

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 386 210 490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 97.22% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 157 373
10th Percentile £274 £250 £276
25th Percentile £400 £384 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £639 £650 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 32
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.13 £17.91
Median hourly rate £29.61 £18.85 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -16.26% +18.47%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.88 £27.75
90th Percentile £38.18 £55.15 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.08 £19.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +31.97% -10.59% +25.00%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 24 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.59%) Migration
4 13 (19.12%) Azure
5 11 (16.18%) AWS
6 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
7 9 (13.24%) Agile
7 9 (13.24%) DV Cleared
8 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
8 8 (11.76%) ITIL
8 8 (11.76%) Salesforce
8 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (11.76%) TOGAF
9 7 (10.29%) CRM
9 7 (10.29%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.29%) Technology Strategy
10 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (8.82%) Microservices
10 6 (8.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (8.82%) VMware
11 5 (7.35%) .NET
11 5 (7.35%) Design Patterns
11 5 (7.35%) DevOps
11 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
11 5 (7.35%) Incident Response
11 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.35%) Order Management
11 5 (7.35%) Zero Trust

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:

Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.12%) Azure
2 11 (16.18%) AWS
3 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.94%) GCP
5 2 (2.94%) SaaS
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) BGP
1 3 (4.41%) Firewall
1 3 (4.41%) MPLS
1 3 (4.41%) OSPF
1 3 (4.41%) SD-WAN
1 3 (4.41%) VPN
1 3 (4.41%) WAN
2 2 (2.94%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.47%) IPsec
3 1 (1.47%) IPv6
3 1 (1.47%) Multicast
3 1 (1.47%) SNMP
3 1 (1.47%) VoIP
3 1 (1.47%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.47%) Wireless
3 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.76%) Marketing
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Billing
6 2 (2.94%) Law
6 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.47%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.94%) Public Cloud
1 2 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.47%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) VMS
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) Migration
2 9 (13.24%) Agile
3 8 (11.76%) ITIL
3 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (11.76%) TOGAF
4 7 (10.29%) CRM
4 7 (10.29%) Roadmaps
4 7 (10.29%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (8.82%) Microservices
6 5 (7.35%) Design Patterns
6 5 (7.35%) DevOps
6 5 (7.35%) Incident Response
6 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (7.35%) Order Management
6 5 (7.35%) Zero Trust
7 4 (5.88%) Customer Experience
7 4 (5.88%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (5.88%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.88%) SQL
2 2 (2.94%) Bicep
2 2 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (1.47%) C#
3 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) CCNP
4 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.41%) MCSE
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) CCDA
7 1 (1.47%) CCDP
7 1 (1.47%) CCIE
7 1 (1.47%) CCIP
7 1 (1.47%) CCNA
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) NCSC
2 3 (4.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) SEPA
4 1 (1.47%) COBIT
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) Docker
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) CASB
2 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 6 (8.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 6 (8.82%) VMware
4 3 (4.41%) Cisco
4 3 (4.41%) Citrix
4 3 (4.41%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.94%) Darktrace
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Arista
6 1 (1.47%) Aruba
6 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.47%) HP
6 1 (1.47%) Juniper
6 1 (1.47%) Meraki
6 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds