Architect Contracts in Reading

Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Architect daily rate in Reading is £650, 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 28 18
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 80 70 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 13.40% 5.87% 9.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.21% 6.29% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 25 75
10th Percentile £513 £433 £500
25th Percentile £600 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £700 £699 £725
90th Percentile £825 £721 £772
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £618 £650
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.00% +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
10th Percentile - £82.44 -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +59.02% -
75th Percentile - £87.53 £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 £87.46 £66.75
% change year-on-year -9.10% +31.03% -16.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Reading

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 40 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (41.25%) DV Cleared
3 30 (37.50%) SAP
3 30 (37.50%) Telecoms
4 28 (35.00%) Finance
4 28 (35.00%) Active Directory
5 26 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (32.50%) Windows
5 26 (32.50%) Agile
5 26 (32.50%) Public Sector
6 23 (28.75%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (27.50%) Programme Management
7 22 (27.50%) Marketing
7 22 (27.50%) PowerShell
7 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
7 22 (27.50%) Digital Marketing
7 22 (27.50%) Electronics
7 22 (27.50%) Manufacturing
8 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
9 13 (16.25%) Azure
9 13 (16.25%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.00%) TOGAF
10 8 (10.00%) AWS
10 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
10 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
11 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
12 6 (7.50%) Retail
12 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 5 (6.25%) GCP
4 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.25%) IaaS
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Network Security
2 3 (3.75%) NGFW
2 3 (3.75%) SSL
3 2 (2.50%) 3G
3 2 (2.50%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.50%) 4G
3 2 (2.50%) 5G
3 2 (2.50%) LTE
4 1 (1.25%) Firewall
4 1 (1.25%) LAN
4 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.25%) VPN
4 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (3.75%) SAP BW
2 2 (2.50%) Big Data
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.25%) HBase
3 1 (1.25%) HDInsight
3 1 (1.25%) Impala
3 1 (1.25%) Metadata
3 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) ERwin
General
1 30 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 28 (35.00%) Finance
3 26 (32.50%) Public Sector
4 22 (27.50%) Electronics
4 22 (27.50%) Manufacturing
4 22 (27.50%) Marketing
5 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
6 6 (7.50%) Retail
7 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Back Office
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) SAML
2 3 (3.75%) Middleware
3 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Axis
4 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.25%) OAuth
4 1 (1.25%) OpenID
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.25%) PySpark
4 1 (1.25%) SPML
4 1 (1.25%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) CMDB
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) EPoS
4 1 (1.25%) IoT
4 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.25%) Tandem
4 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) Agile
1 26 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (28.75%) Identity Access Management
3 22 (27.50%) Digital Marketing
3 22 (27.50%) Programme Management
3 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
4 13 (16.25%) Roadmaps
5 8 (10.00%) TOGAF
6 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
6 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (7.50%) Data Security
7 6 (7.50%) Migration
8 5 (6.25%) Application Security
8 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (6.25%) ITIL
8 5 (6.25%) Security Architecture
8 5 (6.25%) SIEM
8 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.75%) ABAP
3 2 (2.50%) C#
3 2 (2.50%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) Java
4 1 (1.25%) Perl
4 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (41.25%) DV Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) CISSP
5 3 (3.75%) CISM
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) CCDA
7 1 (1.25%) CCDP
7 1 (1.25%) CCNA
7 1 (1.25%) CCNP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) MCSE
7 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) COBIT
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) GRC
2 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) SAP
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) VMware
4 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.50%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) BT
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.25%) Hyland
6 1 (1.25%) Openreach
6 1 (1.25%) OpenText
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.25%) Virgin Media