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 21 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 88 122 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.28% 11.65% 8.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.86% 12.25% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 93 79
10th Percentile £413 £500 £512
25th Percentile £538 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £650
90th Percentile £715 £753 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -6.92% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £83.56 £55.65 -
25th Percentile £87.46 £58.88 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.61% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 £70.38 -
90th Percentile £94.51 £73.15 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £80.40
% change year-on-year +16.61% -6.72% -

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 1,119 996 1,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 95.13% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 643 858
10th Percentile £214 £363 £176
25th Percentile £413 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +11.96% +3.42%
75th Percentile £634 £661 £592
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 8
10th Percentile £38.50 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +142.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £87.46 £75.56 £33.10
90th Percentile £98.75 £79.19 £34.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
% change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%

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 21 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Reading over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 2024, 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 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 35 (39.77%) DV Cleared
3 34 (38.64%) DevOps
4 32 (36.36%) Firewall
5 26 (29.55%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (22.73%) Security Architecture
8 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
9 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
10 14 (15.91%) Azure
11 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (9.09%) ITIL
13 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
14 7 (7.95%) WAN
14 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
14 7 (7.95%) GDPR
15 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
15 6 (6.82%) Threat Modelling
15 6 (6.82%) NIST
15 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
15 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
15 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
15 6 (6.82%) Software Engineering
15 6 (6.82%) Network Security
15 6 (6.82%) Data Protection
15 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
15 6 (6.82%) SAP
15 6 (6.82%) Java

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 1 (1.14%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.55%) SAP EWM
2 4 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.14%) Maximo
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (1.14%) SAP MII
4 1 (1.14%) SAP PM
4 1 (1.14%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.91%) Azure
2 4 (4.55%) AWS
3 3 (3.41%) SaaS
4 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.27%) OCI
4 2 (2.27%) PaaS
4 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.14%) IaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (36.36%) Firewall
2 24 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (7.95%) WAN
4 6 (6.82%) Network Security
5 5 (5.68%) LAN
6 3 (3.41%) MPLS
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) VPN
8 1 (1.14%) 4G
8 1 (1.14%) 5G
8 1 (1.14%) BGP
8 1 (1.14%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.14%) Internet
8 1 (1.14%) OSPF
8 1 (1.14%) PBX
8 1 (1.14%) SDH
8 1 (1.14%) SSL
8 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.14%) VoIP
8 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Star Schema
2 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
1 3 (3.41%) ERwin
1 3 (3.41%) Git
1 3 (3.41%) GitLab
1 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
1 3 (3.41%) REST Assured
1 3 (3.41%) Selenium
1 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
2 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.41%) Local Government
5 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.27%) Finance
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
1 3 (3.41%) Google JAX
1 3 (3.41%) Java EE
1 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.41%) REST
1 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.41%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.27%) OAuth
2 2 (2.27%) OpenID
2 2 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (1.14%) J2EE
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.27%) CSOC
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) IoT
4 1 (1.14%) iPad
4 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) DevOps
2 26 (29.55%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (22.73%) Security Architecture
4 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.09%) ITIL
6 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 7 (7.95%) Risk Management
8 6 (6.82%) Data Protection
8 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
8 6 (6.82%) Software Engineering
8 6 (6.82%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (5.68%) Data Migration
9 5 (5.68%) Data Modelling
9 5 (5.68%) Data Strategy
9 5 (5.68%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (5.68%) Migration
9 5 (5.68%) Project Planning
9 5 (5.68%) SDLC
9 5 (5.68%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.82%) Java
2 4 (4.55%) C
2 4 (4.55%) C++
2 4 (4.55%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) R
4 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 35 (39.77%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.41%) ISACA
5 2 (2.27%) CCIE
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CCNP
6 1 (1.14%) CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) GDPR
2 6 (6.82%) NIST
3 4 (4.55%) COBIT
3 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (3.41%) Podman
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle
1 6 (6.82%) SAP
2 5 (5.68%) Cisco
3 4 (4.55%) Sparx
4 3 (3.41%) Databricks
4 3 (3.41%) Juniper
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.27%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.27%) Workday
6 1 (1.14%) Aruba
6 1 (1.14%) IBM
6 1 (1.14%) Meraki
6 1 (1.14%) VMware