Architect Contracts in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect daily rate in the North of England is £600, 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 19 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 289 442 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.77% 9.27% 6.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.39% 9.95% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 307 263
10th Percentile £450 £478 £513
25th Percentile £500 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £762 £825 £788
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 13
10th Percentile £73.13 £43.50 £35.94
25th Percentile £77.51 - £39.68
Median hourly rate £85.78 £60.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.97% -9.09% +14.78%
75th Percentile £92.17 - £70.00
90th Percentile £96.00 £72.35 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -1 194 £600 -7.69% 160
Yorkshire -7 80 £613 -5.77% 79
North East -2 15 £625 +1.98% 29
Architect
England

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

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 of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.45%) Security Cleared
3 55 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (18.69%) Banking
5 52 (17.99%) Azure
6 51 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 50 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (16.61%) AWS
8 48 (16.61%) SC Cleared
9 42 (14.53%) DevOps
10 41 (14.19%) Migration
11 40 (13.84%) Agile
12 38 (13.15%) Finance
12 38 (13.15%) Microsoft
13 34 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (11.42%) Architectural Design
14 33 (11.42%) Microservices
15 32 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
16 31 (10.73%) GCP
17 30 (10.38%) Public Sector
18 28 (9.69%) CI/CD
19 27 (9.34%) Kafka
19 27 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
19 27 (9.34%) Degree
20 25 (8.65%) Analytics
21 24 (8.30%) Data Modelling
22 23 (7.96%) TOGAF
22 23 (7.96%) Kubernetes
23 22 (7.61%) Data Governance
23 22 (7.61%) Data Pipeline

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (3.46%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.08%) SAS
4 5 (1.73%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Apache
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.04%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) SketchUp
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.04%) Magento
2 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.04%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Maximo
3 2 (0.69%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (17.99%) Azure
2 48 (16.61%) AWS
3 31 (10.73%) GCP
4 13 (4.50%) Serverless
5 9 (3.11%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.77%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (2.42%) Collibra
7 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.08%) GitHub
8 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.73%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.11%) Firewall
2 5 (1.73%) Network Security
3 4 (1.38%) SSL
3 4 (1.38%) VPN
4 3 (1.04%) NAS
4 3 (1.04%) SAN
4 3 (1.04%) Wireless
5 2 (0.69%) BGP
5 2 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.69%) DNS
5 2 (0.69%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.69%) LAN
5 2 (0.69%) MPLS
5 2 (0.69%) OSPF
5 2 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) ATM
6 1 (0.35%) PBX
6 1 (0.35%) PSTN
6 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.42%) Flink
2 7 (2.42%) Hadoop
3 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.73%) Big Data
4 5 (1.73%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.73%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.73%) Metadata
5 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.38%) Power BI
5 4 (1.38%) Tableau
6 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.04%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.69%) DB2
7 2 (0.69%) MySQL
7 2 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.04%) JIRA
3 2 (0.69%) ERwin
3 2 (0.69%) GitLab
3 2 (0.69%) Selenium
3 2 (0.69%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Hudson
General
1 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.69%) Banking
3 38 (13.15%) Finance
4 32 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.54%) Legal
7 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.77%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.73%) Retail
11 4 (1.38%) Military
12 3 (1.04%) Automotive
13 2 (0.69%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.34%) Kafka
2 13 (4.50%) Middleware
2 13 (4.50%) OAuth
3 10 (3.46%) OAuth2
4 9 (3.11%) .NET
4 9 (3.11%) REST
5 7 (2.42%) Apache Beam
5 7 (2.42%) LDAP
5 7 (2.42%) OpenID
5 7 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.42%) RESTful
5 7 (2.42%) SAML
5 7 (2.42%) Spark Streaming
6 5 (1.73%) Web Services
7 4 (1.38%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.38%) Node.js
8 3 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.04%) D3.js
8 3 (1.04%) JSON
8 3 (1.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.50%) Public Cloud
2 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.73%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.73%) NHS
7 5 (1.73%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.38%) IoT
8 4 (1.38%) Replication
9 3 (1.04%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.57%) Windows
2 17 (5.88%) Linux
3 8 (2.77%) Unix
4 4 (1.38%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.38%) HPUX
4 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 50 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (14.53%) DevOps
5 41 (14.19%) Migration
6 40 (13.84%) Agile
7 34 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (11.42%) Architectural Design
8 33 (11.42%) Microservices
9 28 (9.69%) CI/CD
10 27 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
11 25 (8.65%) Analytics
12 24 (8.30%) Data Modelling
13 23 (7.96%) TOGAF
14 22 (7.61%) Data Governance
14 22 (7.61%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (6.92%) Event-Driven
16 20 (6.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.57%) Java
2 10 (3.46%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.11%) Python
4 8 (2.77%) SQL
5 5 (1.73%) C#
5 5 (1.73%) Scala
6 3 (1.04%) C++
6 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.04%) PHP
7 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.69%) Bicep
7 2 (0.69%) COBOL
7 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.69%) JCL
7 2 (0.69%) REXX
8 1 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.34%) Degree
4 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.46%) CISSP
7 8 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.77%) CISM
8 6 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.38%) CCSP
10 4 (1.38%) CEH
10 4 (1.38%) OSCP
11 3 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.35%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.19%) QA
2 11 (3.81%) GDPR
2 11 (3.81%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.46%) NIST
4 6 (2.08%) COBIT
4 6 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.73%) NCSC
6 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.38%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.38%) SEPA
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.69%) PSD2
7 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (4.84%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.19%) Terraform
3 11 (3.81%) Grafana
4 10 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.73%) Ansible
5 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.04%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.35%) Control-M
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.88%) Google
3 15 (5.19%) SAP
4 13 (4.50%) Databricks
5 12 (4.15%) Splunk
6 10 (3.46%) IBM
6 10 (3.46%) MuleSoft
6 10 (3.46%) Virgin Media
7 9 (3.11%) Oracle
8 7 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.73%) Adobe
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco
9 5 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.73%) VMware
10 4 (1.38%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.38%) Informatica
10 4 (1.38%) Sun
10 4 (1.38%) Veritas
11 3 (1.04%) Ariba
11 3 (1.04%) Unisys