Architect Contracts in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect daily rate in the South East is £625, 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 11 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 329 663 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.93% 11.93% 9.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.89% 12.90% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 338 374
10th Percentile £500 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +5.69%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £738
90th Percentile £745 £800 £800
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 9
10th Percentile £69.96 - £60.70
25th Percentile £72.50 £81.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £82.00 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +24.94% +18.64%
75th Percentile £85.50 £87.53 £80.25
90th Percentile £86.70 £89.75 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +5 202 £625 - 103
Berkshire +4 158 £625 +1.21% 65
Hampshire -7 89 £625 -3.85% 88
Buckinghamshire +16 39 £608 -2.80% 27
West Sussex +18 18 £623 -17.00% 9
Surrey +8 13 £675 +3.85% 15
Kent +7 5 £701 -11.05% 17
Oxfordshire +2 5 £625 +11.11% 28
East Sussex -9 1 £625 -21.88% 5
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 153 (46.50%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.31%) Social Skills
3 85 (25.84%) DV Cleared
4 75 (22.80%) Agile
5 72 (21.88%) SC Cleared
6 69 (20.97%) Azure
7 57 (17.33%) Windows
7 57 (17.33%) AWS
8 54 (16.41%) Active Directory
9 53 (16.11%) Roadmaps
10 52 (15.81%) Microsoft
11 50 (15.20%) VMware
11 50 (15.20%) Public Sector
12 49 (14.89%) Telecoms
13 46 (13.98%) Finance
14 42 (12.77%) SAP
15 41 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 40 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (11.85%) TOGAF
17 39 (11.85%) PowerShell
18 38 (11.55%) Migration
19 37 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
20 36 (10.94%) Enterprise Architecture
21 33 (10.03%) Cisco
21 33 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
22 31 (9.42%) ITIL
23 30 (9.12%) Test Automation
23 30 (9.12%) Identity Access Management
24 29 (8.81%) Microservices
24 29 (8.81%) Linux

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (1.82%) Confluence
1 6 (1.82%) NetWeaver
1 6 (1.82%) SAP EP
2 4 (1.22%) Camunda
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Documentum
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) EngageOne
1 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.82%) SAP CRM
3 5 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.61%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.61%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (20.97%) Azure
2 57 (17.33%) AWS
3 26 (7.90%) SaaS
4 19 (5.78%) PaaS
5 14 (4.26%) IaaS
6 13 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.65%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.04%) GCP
9 7 (2.13%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.82%) Serverless
10 6 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.91%) AWS KMS
12 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.91%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.91%) Tricentis Tosca
13 2 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.61%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.56%) WAN
2 14 (4.26%) SD-WAN
3 13 (3.95%) Firewall
4 12 (3.65%) VSAN
5 11 (3.34%) Network Security
5 11 (3.34%) VPN
6 10 (3.04%) BGP
7 9 (2.74%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.43%) NGFW
8 8 (2.43%) SSL
9 7 (2.13%) LAN
10 6 (1.82%) HTTP
10 6 (1.82%) iSCSI
10 6 (1.82%) MPLS
10 6 (1.82%) OSPF
11 5 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.52%) DNS
11 5 (1.52%) VLAN
11 5 (1.52%) VoIP
12 4 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.43%) Big Data
3 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.91%) Metadata
5 3 (0.91%) Power BI
5 3 (0.91%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.61%) GIS
6 2 (0.61%) MySQL
6 2 (0.61%) NewSQL
6 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.61%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.82%) ERwin
2 5 (1.52%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (0.91%) MSI
4 2 (0.61%) GCC
4 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.61%) JIRA
4 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 103 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.20%) Public Sector
3 49 (14.89%) Telecoms
4 46 (13.98%) Finance
5 26 (7.90%) Manufacturing
6 25 (7.60%) Electronics
6 25 (7.60%) Marketing
7 22 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.04%) Retail
9 9 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Billing
10 5 (1.52%) Legal
10 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Back Office
12 2 (0.61%) Automotive
12 2 (0.61%) Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.30%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.43%) Middleware
2 7 (2.13%) Kafka
2 7 (2.13%) REST
2 7 (2.13%) SAML
2 7 (2.13%) Web Services
3 6 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (1.82%) SAP PI
3 6 (1.82%) SAPUI5
3 6 (1.82%) XML
4 4 (1.22%) Ajax
4 4 (1.22%) CSS
4 4 (1.22%) HTML
4 4 (1.22%) SOAP
5 3 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Axis
5 3 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.91%) OAuth
5 3 (0.91%) OpenID
6 2 (0.61%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.61%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 21 (6.38%) PKI
2 14 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.74%) CMDB
6 8 (2.43%) IoT
7 7 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.82%) Device Driver
8 6 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.22%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.33%) Windows
2 29 (8.81%) Linux
3 10 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.91%) MVS
5 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (22.80%) Agile
2 53 (16.11%) Roadmaps
3 41 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (11.85%) TOGAF
6 38 (11.55%) Migration
7 36 (10.94%) Enterprise Architecture
8 33 (10.03%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (9.42%) ITIL
10 30 (9.12%) Identity Access Management
10 30 (9.12%) Test Automation
11 29 (8.81%) Microservices
12 28 (8.51%) CI/CD
13 26 (7.90%) Decision-Making
14 25 (7.60%) Digital Marketing
14 25 (7.60%) IT Strategy
14 25 (7.60%) Programme Management
15 21 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (6.38%) Risk Management
15 21 (6.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.85%) PowerShell
2 23 (6.99%) SQL
3 20 (6.08%) Java
4 16 (4.86%) Python
5 9 (2.74%) ABAP
6 7 (2.13%) C#
7 6 (1.82%) Embedded C
8 5 (1.52%) C
9 4 (1.22%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.91%) Bash
11 2 (0.61%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Magik
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 153 (46.50%) Security Cleared
2 85 (25.84%) DV Cleared
3 72 (21.88%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.60%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (7.29%) CCNP
6 21 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (6.08%) MCSE
8 17 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 16 (4.86%) Degree
10 14 (4.26%) CCNA
11 12 (3.65%) CISSP
12 7 (2.13%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.52%) CISM
13 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.22%) VCP5
14 4 (1.22%) VCP6
15 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.91%) CEH
15 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.90%) NIST
2 21 (6.38%) NCSC
3 14 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (3.34%) GDPR
5 9 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.52%) QA
7 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.91%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.61%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (16.41%) Active Directory
2 37 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.47%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.82%) Firmware
4 6 (1.82%) NFS
4 6 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.82%) vSphere
5 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.52%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.22%) Terraform
2 4 (1.22%) vRealize
2 4 (1.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.91%) WMI
4 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.30%) CASB
5 1 (0.30%) Iperf
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.20%) VMware
3 42 (12.77%) SAP
4 33 (10.03%) Cisco
5 15 (4.56%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.34%) Oracle
8 10 (3.04%) Juniper
9 7 (2.13%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.82%) Ariba
10 6 (1.82%) Sparx
10 6 (1.82%) Splunk
11 5 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.52%) Google
11 5 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.22%) Adobe
12 4 (1.22%) Fujitsu
12 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.22%) NetApp