Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 15 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +20
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 26 40 63
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.32% 13.20% 10.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.74% 13.75% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 53
10th Percentile £462 £450 £519
25th Percentile £466 £490 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £725 £560 £700
90th Percentile £735 £675 £749
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £650 £516 £600
% change year-on-year +25.91% -13.96% -

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 267 291 555
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.70% 96.04% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 208 435
10th Percentile £226 £250 £245
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £631 £625 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 14
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.50 £13.27
Median hourly rate £29.61 £22.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.60% +34.33% +28.85%
75th Percentile - £36.00 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.00 £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.87 £19.35 £18.25
% change year-on-year -7.65% +6.03% +17.74%

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 31 October 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 & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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 10 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 7 (26.92%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (23.08%) TOGAF
4 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
5 4 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) MODAF
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
6 3 (11.54%) Sitecore
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) ArchiMate
7 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
7 2 (7.69%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (7.69%) B2C
7 2 (7.69%) Big Data
7 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.69%) COBIT
7 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Docker

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Retail
3 5 (19.23%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
4 3 (11.54%) General Ledger
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) Middleware
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 7 (26.92%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (23.08%) TOGAF
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
5 4 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) MODAF
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) ETL
7 2 (7.69%) Information Management
7 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2
7 2 (7.69%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) COBIT
1 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Sitecore
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) JDA
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) SAP