Architect Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Architect
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Architect daily rate in Oxfordshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 6 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.23% 7.98% 5.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.69% 8.72% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile - £488 £541
25th Percentile - £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 128 149 223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 91.41% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 93 150
10th Percentile £176 £171 £180
25th Percentile £222 £325 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% - -
75th Percentile £550 £513 £600
90th Percentile £623 £630 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 20
10th Percentile - - £24.31
25th Percentile £25.15 £12.18 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.83 £20.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year +25.98% -32.19% +77.82%
75th Percentile £84.66 £22.81 £36.74
90th Percentile £89.63 £27.35 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +108.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Oxfordshire

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Oxford -7 2 £600 +2.13% 5
Banbury -1 1 - - 1
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Presales
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (50.00%) Business Case
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) UML
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) System Testing
3 3 (50.00%) BPMN
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Smart Meter
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Legal

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (50.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) BPMN
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (50.00%) Presales
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) UML
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Sophos
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk