Architect Contracts in Slough

Architect
Berkshire > Slough

The median Architect daily rate in Slough is £525, 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 19 11 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 2.82% 5.26% 4.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 5.41% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £422 £443
25th Percentile £513 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -6.88%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £663
90th Percentile - £606 £711
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £618 £650
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.00% +5.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Slough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Slough. 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 Slough with a recognized job title 67 74 191
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 97.37% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 55 151
10th Percentile £182 £280 £280
25th Percentile £225 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £538
90th Percentile £633 £600 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - - £16.68
25th Percentile - £11.79 £17.11
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.90 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.95% +3.35% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £65.25 £22.50
90th Percentile - £83.75 £24.00
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 Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Slough

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Slough

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Slough

Architect Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough

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 Slough region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) HP