Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £635, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 84 21 35
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 10.85% 9.42% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.20% 9.95% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 15 26
10th Percentile £481 £533 £458
25th Percentile £536 £581 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +27.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £684 £725 £684
90th Percentile £769 £751 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £638 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -8.93% +27.27% -3.51%

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 750 211 322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.90% 94.62% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 140 238
10th Percentile £363 £286 £263
25th Percentile £450 £362 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £434 £464
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -6.47% -3.50%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £676 £638
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 13
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.54 £16.28
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.12 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -20.58% +68.29%
75th Percentile £39.63 £19.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - £53.75 £35.40
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £15.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.13% -32.22% +37.20%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 34 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.00%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (23.81%) AWS
4 19 (22.62%) DV Cleared
4 19 (22.62%) NCSC
5 18 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 18 (21.43%) VMware
6 14 (16.67%) Agile
6 14 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (16.67%) Microservices
6 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 13 (15.48%) NIST
8 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (14.29%) VMware NSX
9 11 (13.10%) Cisco
9 11 (13.10%) Palo Alto
9 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
10 10 (11.90%) CCNP
10 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.90%) Firewall
10 10 (11.90%) IT Strategy
10 10 (11.90%) Migration
10 10 (11.90%) Network Architecture
10 10 (11.90%) ServiceNow
10 10 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (10.71%) 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 (1.19%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.00%) Azure
2 20 (23.81%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.76%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) Firewall
2 9 (10.71%) VPN
3 8 (9.52%) WAN
4 7 (8.33%) LAN
4 7 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 6 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (7.14%) MPLS
6 5 (5.95%) BGP
6 5 (5.95%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (5.95%) IPsec
6 5 (5.95%) OSPF
6 5 (5.95%) VSAN
7 4 (4.76%) BIG-IP
7 4 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (4.76%) DNS
7 4 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (4.76%) Network Security
7 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.76%) VLAN
7 4 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
General
1 17 (20.24%) Public Sector
2 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.71%) Finance
4 8 (9.52%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) Middleware
2 3 (3.57%) REST
2 3 (3.57%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) RESTful
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 7 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.76%) CMDB
4 4 (4.76%) PKI
5 3 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.19%) VMS
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.43%) TOGAF
2 14 (16.67%) Agile
2 14 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 14 (16.67%) Microservices
3 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
5 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (11.90%) IT Strategy
5 10 (11.90%) Migration
5 10 (11.90%) Network Architecture
5 10 (11.90%) Technology Strategy
6 9 (10.71%) Matrix Organization
7 8 (9.52%) Data Architecture
7 8 (9.52%) DevSecOps
7 8 (9.52%) Zero Trust
8 7 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (8.33%) Requirements Management
8 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.57%) Python
2 2 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (22.62%) DV Cleared
4 10 (11.90%) CCNP
4 10 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.95%) MCSE
7 4 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.57%) CCIE
8 3 (3.57%) Degree
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.19%) CCDA
10 1 (1.19%) CCDP
10 1 (1.19%) CCIP
10 1 (1.19%) CCNA
10 1 (1.19%) RHCE
10 1 (1.19%) RHCSA
10 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.62%) NCSC
2 13 (15.48%) NIST
3 7 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.76%) ISO 20022
6 3 (3.57%) QA
6 3 (3.57%) SEPA
7 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.19%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 12 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 8 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.19%) CASB
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.19%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.19%) Packer
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) VMware
2 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.10%) Cisco
3 11 (13.10%) Palo Alto
4 10 (11.90%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.95%) F5
5 5 (5.95%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.38%) Citrix
6 2 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (1.19%) Arista
7 1 (1.19%) Aruba
7 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.19%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.19%) Databricks
7 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.19%) HP
7 1 (1.19%) Juniper
7 1 (1.19%) Meraki
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.19%) Zscaler