Architect Contracts in the North East

Architect
England > North East

The median Architect daily rate in the North East is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -22
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 15 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.69% 5.03% 4.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.87% 5.57% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 11
10th Percentile £550 £525 £513
25th Percentile £559 £550 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £672 £875 £666
90th Percentile £854 £955 £675
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 308 305 414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.25% 90.24% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 319
10th Percentile £200 £190 £231
25th Percentile £344 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 63 2
10th Percentile - £10.42 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 £35.56
Median hourly rate £13.00 £13.99 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -65.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £23.97 £34.50 £45.56
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North East

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North East

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North East

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North East

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -4 12 £624 +8.57% 24
Durham 0 1 £550 -26.67% 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 1 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 North East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) QA
4 3 (20.00%) Databricks
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) NCSC
5 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Workday
5 2 (13.33%) CTC Cleared

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) IPsec
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) MPLS
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
1 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (13.33%) ERP
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (13.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (6.67%) API Design
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (6.67%) Converged Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Workday
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) VMware