Architect Contracts in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect daily rate in the South East is £648 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 671 547 767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 11.94% 9.22% 9.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.89% 9.78% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 375 513
10th Percentile £513 £500 £501
25th Percentile £575 £559 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +5.69% +8.18%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £738
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 9 3
10th Percentile £81.87 £60.70 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £62.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +18.64% -7.09%
75th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £70.95
90th Percentile - - £76.62
England median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 5,204 5,592 7,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.30% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,891 5,110
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 238 336
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +8 349 £650 - 36
Thames Valley +7 254 £625 - 46
Berkshire +4 206 £625 -3.85% 25
Buckinghamshire +10 38 £625 +9.17% 13
Surrey -8 30 £623 +8.26% 19
West Sussex -18 16 £750 +10.62% 1
Oxfordshire +7 10 £600 -4.00% 9
East Sussex +9 8 £800 +7.38% 3
Kent -6 6 £788 +7.51% 8
Sussex -3 2 - - 1
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 470 (70.04%) Security Cleared
2 249 (37.11%) DV Cleared
3 98 (14.61%) Azure
4 97 (14.46%) SC Cleared
5 95 (14.16%) Agile
6 87 (12.97%) Social Skills
7 79 (11.77%) PKI
8 76 (11.33%) Microsoft
8 76 (11.33%) AWS
9 73 (10.88%) SSL
9 73 (10.88%) Windows
10 67 (9.99%) WAN
11 64 (9.54%) DevOps
12 63 (9.39%) Cisco
12 63 (9.39%) Active Directory
13 61 (9.09%) Juniper
14 60 (8.94%) Security Architecture
15 59 (8.79%) Network Management
16 57 (8.49%) Degree
17 55 (8.20%) Finance
17 55 (8.20%) Prototyping
17 55 (8.20%) Public Sector
18 54 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
19 53 (7.90%) Customer Requirements
20 52 (7.75%) Service Management
20 52 (7.75%) Firewall
20 52 (7.75%) LAN
21 51 (7.60%) Presales
22 50 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
23 44 (6.56%) Cryptography

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 12 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.89%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) GemFire
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Avolution ABACUS
1 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 98 (14.61%) Azure
2 76 (11.33%) AWS
3 13 (1.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (1.04%) GCP
5 6 (0.89%) Azure Stack
5 6 (0.89%) GitHub
5 6 (0.89%) Snowflake
6 5 (0.75%) Amazon S3
6 5 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (0.75%) PaaS
6 5 (0.75%) SaaS
7 4 (0.60%) IaaS
7 4 (0.60%) Serverless
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Neptune
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (0.45%) Figma
9 2 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.30%) OCI
9 2 (0.30%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 73 (10.88%) SSL
2 67 (9.99%) WAN
3 52 (7.75%) Firewall
3 52 (7.75%) LAN
4 31 (4.62%) VPN
5 30 (4.47%) Intrusion Detection
6 28 (4.17%) MPLS
7 27 (4.02%) BGP
8 23 (3.43%) Cisco Firepower
9 19 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (2.68%) DHCP
10 18 (2.68%) DNS
11 14 (2.09%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.64%) Network Security
13 10 (1.49%) SAN
14 9 (1.34%) VLAN
15 5 (0.75%) iSCSI
16 4 (0.60%) Internet
16 4 (0.60%) IPv4
16 4 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.04%) Big Data
2 7 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.89%) BigQuery
3 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.89%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.60%) Redis
5 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.45%) Metadata
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.30%) Power BI
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (1.64%) MSI
1 11 (1.64%) Robot Framework
1 11 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (0.89%) JIRA
3 4 (0.60%) GitLab
3 4 (0.60%) Selenium
4 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.30%) kappa
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (12.97%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.20%) Finance
2 55 (8.20%) Public Sector
3 40 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (3.43%) Telecoms
5 14 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (1.79%) Retail
7 8 (1.19%) Legal
8 7 (1.04%) Banking
9 4 (0.60%) Automotive
9 4 (0.60%) Local Government
10 3 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.30%) Back Office
11 2 (0.30%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.30%) Marketing
11 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.15%) Advertising
12 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.15%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.26%) Web Services
2 17 (2.53%) .NET
3 6 (0.89%) JSON
3 6 (0.89%) REST
4 4 (0.60%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.45%) Java EE
6 2 (0.30%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.30%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.30%) OAuth
6 2 (0.30%) OpenID
7 1 (0.15%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) JSON Schema
7 1 (0.15%) Kafka
7 1 (0.15%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) Playwright
7 1 (0.15%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.77%) PKI
2 32 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.89%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.45%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.45%) IoT
10 3 (0.45%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.30%) Clustering
11 2 (0.30%) CSOC
11 2 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.30%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.88%) Windows
2 25 (3.73%) Linux
3 17 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.75%) Android
8 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.60%) Unix
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
9 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) MVS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (14.16%) Agile
2 64 (9.54%) DevOps
3 60 (8.94%) Security Architecture
4 59 (8.79%) Network Management
5 55 (8.20%) Prototyping
6 54 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (7.90%) Customer Requirements
8 52 (7.75%) Service Management
9 51 (7.60%) Presales
10 50 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (6.56%) Cryptography
12 43 (6.41%) Key Management
13 41 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (5.96%) SIEM
15 39 (5.81%) Roadmaps
16 37 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (4.62%) Project Delivery
18 30 (4.47%) ITIL
18 30 (4.47%) Network Design
18 30 (4.47%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (4.92%) PowerShell
2 31 (4.62%) Java
3 16 (2.38%) Python
4 14 (2.09%) SQL
5 9 (1.34%) C#
6 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.30%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 470 (70.04%) Security Cleared
2 249 (37.11%) DV Cleared
3 97 (14.46%) SC Cleared
4 57 (8.49%) Degree
5 10 (1.49%) CCNP
5 10 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.60%) CCDP
7 4 (0.60%) ISACA
7 4 (0.60%) JNCIS
8 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.45%) CCNA
8 3 (0.45%) JNCIA
8 3 (0.45%) MCSE
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
9 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.09%) QA
2 12 (1.79%) NIST
3 10 (1.49%) SLA
4 9 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (1.19%) NCSC
6 7 (1.04%) GDPR
6 7 (1.04%) RMADS
7 4 (0.60%) COBIT
7 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.30%) FATCA
9 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (9.39%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.04%) vSphere
4 4 (0.60%) Docker
5 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.30%) KVM
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) UAG
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (3.43%) Endace
2 22 (3.28%) Terraform
3 17 (2.53%) Ansible
4 12 (1.79%) WMI
5 8 (1.19%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.45%) Podman
6 3 (0.45%) SCCM
6 3 (0.45%) SCOM
7 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.15%) vRealize
7 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 76 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.39%) Cisco
3 61 (9.09%) Juniper
4 41 (6.11%) VMware
5 26 (3.87%) F5
6 13 (1.94%) SAP
7 11 (1.64%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.64%) Oracle
8 10 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.89%) Dell
10 6 (0.89%) Google
10 6 (0.89%) Workday
11 4 (0.60%) Citrix
11 4 (0.60%) IBM
11 4 (0.60%) Palantir
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) Ariba
12 3 (0.45%) Foundry
12 3 (0.45%) Veeam