Architect Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Architect
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Architect daily rate in Oxford is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 7.81% 5.71% 4.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.20% 5.88% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £495 - £585
25th Percentile - - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £650 - £638
90th Percentile £710 - £645
Oxfordshire median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -4.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 61 34 89
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.31% 97.14% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 71
10th Percentile £211 £220 £150
25th Percentile £252 £279 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £488 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +30.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £481
90th Percentile £600 £659 £600
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +52.94%
75th Percentile £86.32 £37.00 -
90th Percentile £89.63 £43.30 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +52.94%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Architect job vacancy trend in Oxford

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxford

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Oxford over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Oxford

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxford.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxford

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Oxford region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) TETRA
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Sophos
4 1 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet