Architect Contracts in Northamptonshire

Architect
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Architect daily rate in Northamptonshire 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 10 3 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 16 26 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.96% 13.27% 5.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.85% 14.05% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 10
10th Percentile £358 £445 £485
25th Percentile £405 £498 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £559 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% -0.71% -2.17%
75th Percentile £537 £622 £662
90th Percentile £725 £624 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £550 £622 £660
% change year-on-year -11.58% -5.76% +13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £30.20 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -45.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 135 185 221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.39% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 138 171
10th Percentile £271 £265 £205
25th Percentile £358 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £537 £500
90th Percentile £575 £621 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 10
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £14.19
25th Percentile £21.56 £12.37 £17.82
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%
75th Percentile £45.06 £35.00 £26.33
90th Percentile £51.03 £57.88 £35.30
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
% change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -5 16 £458 -21.26% 29
Architect
East Midlands

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

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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