Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 97 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 13.92% 17.71% 7.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.46% 19.02% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 25 26
10th Percentile £478 £531 £544
25th Percentile £553 £566 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £643
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -6.70% +12.82%
75th Percentile £644 £703 £750
90th Percentile £695 £743 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £630 £608 £633
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.95% +10.96%

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 671 163 381
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.27% 93.14% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 123 291
10th Percentile £351 £289 £250
25th Percentile £444 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £598 £589 £580
90th Percentile £638 £642 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 25
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.90 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.34 £19.00 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% -15.85% +94.99%
75th Percentile £38.72 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £39.63 £63.50 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £14.42 £23.75
% change year-on-year +27.05% -39.28% +80.47%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.62%) Azure
4 18 (18.56%) Migration
5 17 (17.53%) AWS
5 17 (17.53%) DV Cleared
6 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
7 14 (14.43%) NCSC
8 13 (13.40%) NIST
8 13 (13.40%) Technology Strategy
8 13 (13.40%) VMware
9 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (12.37%) Microservices
9 12 (12.37%) TOGAF
10 11 (11.34%) Agile
11 10 (10.31%) IT Strategy
12 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
12 9 (9.28%) Matrix Organization
13 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
13 8 (8.25%) Cisco
13 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (8.25%) ITIL
13 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (8.25%) Network Architecture
14 7 (7.22%) Containerisation
14 7 (7.22%) CRM
14 7 (7.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (7.22%) DevOps
14 7 (7.22%) Firewall

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 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.62%) Azure
2 17 (17.53%) AWS
3 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Firewall
2 6 (6.19%) VPN
3 5 (5.15%) VSAN
3 5 (5.15%) WAN
4 4 (4.12%) MPLS
4 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.12%) Wireless
5 3 (3.09%) BGP
5 3 (3.09%) OSPF
6 2 (2.06%) EIGRP
6 2 (2.06%) LAN
6 2 (2.06%) Network Security
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.03%) IPsec
7 1 (1.03%) Multicast
7 1 (1.03%) SNMP
7 1 (1.03%) VoIP
7 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) GitLab
1 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (14.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.25%) Finance
3 7 (7.22%) Banking
3 7 (7.22%) Marketing
4 6 (6.19%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Billing
6 2 (2.06%) Law
6 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) .NET
2 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.03%) OAuth
2 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.03%) OpenID
2 1 (1.03%) REST
2 1 (1.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.12%) PKI
4 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.03%) VMS
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.56%) Migration
2 13 (13.40%) Technology Strategy
3 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (12.37%) Microservices
3 12 (12.37%) TOGAF
4 11 (11.34%) Agile
5 10 (10.31%) IT Strategy
6 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.28%) Matrix Organization
7 8 (8.25%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (8.25%) ITIL
7 8 (8.25%) Network Architecture
8 7 (7.22%) Containerisation
8 7 (7.22%) CRM
8 7 (7.22%) DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) Requirements Management
8 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (6.19%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.12%) SQL
2 2 (2.06%) Bicep
2 2 (2.06%) Python
3 1 (1.03%) C#
3 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) CCNP
4 6 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.15%) MCSE
6 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.03%) CCDA
7 1 (1.03%) CCDP
7 1 (1.03%) CCIE
7 1 (1.03%) CCIP
7 1 (1.03%) CCNA
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.03%) RHCA
7 1 (1.03%) RHCE
7 1 (1.03%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) NCSC
2 13 (13.40%) NIST
3 7 (7.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.12%) ISO 20022
6 3 (3.09%) SEPA
7 1 (1.03%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.09%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) CASB
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.03%) Packer
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) VMware
3 8 (8.25%) Cisco
4 7 (7.22%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.19%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Citrix
6 3 (3.09%) Darktrace
6 3 (3.09%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.03%) Aruba
7 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.03%) F5
7 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) Juniper
7 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds