Architect Contracts in Northampton

Architect
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Architect daily rate in Northampton is £458, 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 9 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 16 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 13.01% 17.32% 5.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% 17.89% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 4
10th Percentile £358 £445 £495
25th Percentile £405 £493 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.26% +8.09% -5.49%
75th Percentile £537 £622 £602
90th Percentile £725 £629 £652
Northamptonshire median daily rate £458 £559 £563
% change year-on-year -18.08% -0.71% -2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 112 123 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 96.85% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 96
10th Percentile £266 £333 £200
25th Percentile £358 £356 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £500
90th Percentile £560 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £433 £400
% change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Northampton

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Northampton

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Northampton

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

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 Northampton region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Finance
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Java
6 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Kafka
6 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
7 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (18.75%) Contingency Planning
7 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Apigee
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Google App Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Kong
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) RAML
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) BPR
5 3 (18.75%) Budget Control
5 3 (18.75%) Contingency Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (18.75%) IT Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk