Architect Contracts in Nottingham

Architect
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Architect daily rate in Nottingham is £563, 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 17 17 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 3.54% 7.46% 12.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.92% 7.81% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 28
10th Percentile £473 £495 £604
25th Percentile £506 £525 £692
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £704 £745
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% -5.50% +29.57%
75th Percentile £608 £768 -
90th Percentile £644 £795 £758
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £563 £727 £745
% change year-on-year -22.63% -2.42% +29.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 102 128 239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 95.52% 99.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 71 197
10th Percentile £202 £205 £320
25th Percentile £373 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +6.04%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £700
90th Percentile £575 £650 £744
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £481 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 14
10th Percentile - £12.22 £11.24
25th Percentile - £12.75 £12.76
Median hourly rate £11.44 £14.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -32.81% +98.43%
75th Percentile - £14.67 £26.48
90th Percentile £12.33 £16.25 £31.13
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £11.44 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -30.00% +47.28%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Nottingham

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Nottingham

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Nottingham

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Nottingham.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Nottingham

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

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 Nottingham region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) API Management
2 1 (25.00%) BPR
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (25.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce