Architect Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 18 29 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.18% 8.22% 8.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.73% 8.79% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 48
10th Percentile £508 £468 £477
25th Percentile £563 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £568 £570
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -0.44% -0.87%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £655
90th Percentile £735 £750 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £700 £560 £570
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.75% -0.87%

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 185 330 702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 93.48% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 241 573
10th Percentile £213 £250 £252
25th Percentile £338 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £481
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -1.16% +0.12%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £575
90th Percentile £643 £645 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £441 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -7.11% -3.55% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 5
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.85 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £17.64 £13.17
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +65.81% +17.39%
75th Percentile £19.25 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £16.68
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £22.50 £16.40
% change year-on-year -32.22% +37.20% +28.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Architect 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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Milton Keynes

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Milton Keynes

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) TOGAF
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Retail
5 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
5 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
5 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Marketing
5 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (22.22%) ArchiMate
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 4 (22.22%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
6 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Camunda
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
2 1 (5.56%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
2 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
1 2 (11.11%) OpenJDK
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 7 (38.89%) TOGAF
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (22.22%) ArchiMate
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 4 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
7 2 (11.11%) B2C
7 2 (11.11%) Information Management
7 2 (11.11%) Open Source
7 2 (11.11%) Release Management
7 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Magik
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.56%) Sparx