Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 20 41 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.37% 13.99% 10.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.85% 14.91% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 58
10th Percentile £486 £450 £481
25th Percentile £644 £490 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% -12.39% +0.86%
75th Percentile £725 £560 £700
90th Percentile £734 £645 £741
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £700 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +36.59% -14.58% +1.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 226 275 621
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 93.86% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 200 495
10th Percentile £213 £249 £280
25th Percentile £350 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £631 £625 £698
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £13.92 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.83 £18.65 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.12 £26.25 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% +93.44% +12.52%
75th Percentile £17.94 £36.19 £18.75
90th Percentile £18.00 £37.12 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £19.35 £16.40
% change year-on-year -21.19% +17.99% +11.19%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect 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 19 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (35.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) TOGAF
3 6 (30.00%) Retail
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) General Ledger
4 5 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Marketing
5 4 (20.00%) ArchiMate
5 4 (20.00%) Big Data
5 4 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (15.00%) Sitecore
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.00%) MODAF
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
7 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Product Information Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Retail
3 5 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 5 (25.00%) General Ledger
4 4 (20.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (35.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) TOGAF
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 4 (20.00%) ArchiMate
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) MODAF
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
6 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Information Management
6 2 (10.00%) Release Management
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Sitecore
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) JDA
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) SAP