Architect Contracts in the South West

Architect
England > South West

The median Architect daily rate in the South West is £600, 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 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 177 442 448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.55% 13.82% 12.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.45% 14.80% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 274 361
10th Percentile £450 £506 £553
25th Percentile £520 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £665
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.26% +6.40%
75th Percentile £686 £738 £725
90th Percentile £744 £788 £788
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 18
10th Percentile £62.93 - £68.80
25th Percentile £65.06 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £79.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £95.00 £81.15
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the South West

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the South West

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the South West

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -4 68 £568 -12.69% 65
Wiltshire -4 58 £625 -7.41% 25
Gloucestershire +4 28 £548 -15.69% 43
Somerset +5 8 £625 +17.92% 17
Dorset -13 3 £700 +12.90% 10
Cornwall +8 2 £575 -
Devon +8 2 - - 7
Architect
England

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

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 West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 107 (60.45%) Security Cleared
2 78 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (24.86%) Social Skills
4 38 (21.47%) DV Cleared
4 38 (21.47%) Azure
5 33 (18.64%) Microsoft
6 29 (16.38%) Firewall
6 29 (16.38%) AWS
6 29 (16.38%) Data Centre
7 26 (14.69%) Roadmaps
8 20 (11.30%) Active Directory
8 20 (11.30%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (11.30%) Public Sector
9 19 (10.73%) Finance
10 18 (10.17%) Migration
10 18 (10.17%) DNS
11 17 (9.60%) Windows
11 17 (9.60%) PKI
11 17 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (9.04%) RBAC
12 16 (9.04%) Agile
12 16 (9.04%) TOGAF
12 16 (9.04%) .NET
12 16 (9.04%) Data Modelling
13 15 (8.47%) VMware
13 15 (8.47%) Management Information System
13 15 (8.47%) Network Architecture
14 14 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (7.91%) Data Architecture
14 14 (7.91%) WAN

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.13%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.47%) Azure
2 29 (16.38%) AWS
3 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
3 9 (5.08%) GCP
4 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Storage
9 3 (1.69%) PaaS
9 3 (1.69%) SaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
10 2 (1.13%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.13%) IaaS
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.38%) Firewall
2 18 (10.17%) DNS
3 14 (7.91%) WAN
4 13 (7.34%) Kerberos
5 11 (6.21%) LAN
5 11 (6.21%) Network Security
6 6 (3.39%) VPN
7 4 (2.26%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.69%) Skype
9 2 (1.13%) BGP
9 2 (1.13%) BIG-IP
9 2 (1.13%) DHCP
9 2 (1.13%) LTE
9 2 (1.13%) MPLS
9 2 (1.13%) OSPF
9 2 (1.13%) VLAN
9 2 (1.13%) WLAN
10 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Data Mining
1 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
1 3 (1.69%) Power BI
1 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
1 3 (1.69%) Tableau
2 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.56%) DB2
3 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.56%) Metadata
3 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.26%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 44 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.30%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.73%) Finance
4 12 (6.78%) Banking
5 10 (5.65%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.26%) Military
8 3 (1.69%) Electronics
8 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.56%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.04%) .NET
2 3 (1.69%) D3.js
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.13%) LDAP
3 2 (1.13%) Middleware
3 2 (1.13%) OAuth
3 2 (1.13%) OpenID
4 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.56%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.56%) Next.js
4 1 (0.56%) Node.js
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.56%) Qt
4 1 (0.56%) React
4 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.38%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.60%) PKI
3 15 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.34%) Replication
5 7 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.26%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.13%) Digital Wallet
9 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.56%) CMDB
10 1 (0.56%) FMCG
10 1 (0.56%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.60%) Windows
2 12 (6.78%) Linux
3 4 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.26%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.13%) Android
5 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.69%) Roadmaps
2 20 (11.30%) Enterprise Architecture
3 18 (10.17%) Migration
4 17 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (9.04%) Agile
5 16 (9.04%) Data Modelling
5 16 (9.04%) RBAC
5 16 (9.04%) TOGAF
6 15 (8.47%) Network Architecture
7 14 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (7.91%) Data Architecture
7 14 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (6.78%) Decision-Making
9 11 (6.21%) Cloud Security
9 11 (6.21%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (5.65%) ArchiMate
10 10 (5.65%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (5.65%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (5.65%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.95%) SQL
2 2 (1.13%) Bicep
3 1 (0.56%) Ada
3 1 (0.56%) C++
3 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.56%) Python
3 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.56%) VB
3 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (60.45%) Security Cleared
2 78 (44.07%) SC Cleared
3 38 (21.47%) DV Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.95%) CISSP
7 6 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.39%) CISM
8 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (2.26%) CEH
9 4 (2.26%) Degree
9 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.69%) CCIE
10 3 (1.69%) CCSP
10 3 (1.69%) MCSA
10 3 (1.69%) MCSE
10 3 (1.69%) OSCP
11 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.39%) GDPR
2 6 (3.39%) NIST
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.82%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) COBIT
4 3 (1.69%) NCSC
4 3 (1.69%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.56%) MISRA
5 1 (0.56%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (11.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.82%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.26%) vCloud
4 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.13%) Docker
6 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.26%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) OPNET
3 3 (1.69%) SCCM
4 2 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.47%) VMware
3 7 (3.95%) Cisco
4 6 (3.39%) Oracle
5 5 (2.82%) Google
5 5 (2.82%) Juniper
6 4 (2.26%) F5
6 4 (2.26%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.26%) Pega
6 4 (2.26%) SAP
7 3 (1.69%) Apple
7 3 (1.69%) Databricks
8 2 (1.13%) Aruba
8 2 (1.13%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.13%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.13%) Symantec
9 1 (0.56%) Meraki
9 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic