Architect Contracts in Milton Keynes

Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £591, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 18 24 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.04% 6.06% 8.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.92% 6.50% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 45
10th Percentile £508 £553 £481
25th Percentile £559 £561 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £634 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +11.23% -0.87%
75th Percentile £630 £731 £600
90th Percentile £734 £750 £715
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -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 151 369 675
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.18% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 280 552
10th Percentile £270 £274 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% - -
75th Percentile £576 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £653 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 3
10th Percentile £14.27 £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £15.19 £17.82 £11.33
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.52 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +71.12% +13.84%
75th Percentile £37.13 £28.50 £15.96
90th Percentile £60.25 £48.75 £17.63
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £23.22 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.31% +32.66% +40.00%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 10 (55.56%) TOGAF
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) DevSecOps
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) NCSC
4 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Cisco
5 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (27.78%) VMware
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (27.78%) VMware NSX
5 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
6 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 4 (22.22%) MPLS
6 4 (22.22%) OSPF
6 4 (22.22%) BGP
6 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
6 4 (22.22%) WAN
6 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 4 (22.22%) VPN

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
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) BGP
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (22.22%) MPLS
1 4 (22.22%) NGFW
1 4 (22.22%) OSPF
1 4 (22.22%) SD-WAN
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 4 (22.22%) VPN
1 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) VLAN
2 3 (16.67%) VSAN
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 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%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
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 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 7 (38.89%) DevSecOps
3 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) ITIL
6 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (11.11%) ArchiMate
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Open Source
7 2 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Security Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Magik
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) MCSE
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CRISC
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) CCNA
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) NCSC
2 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (22.22%) NIST
3 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (27.78%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.56%) Sparx