Architect Contracts in the South West

Architect
England > South West

The median Architect daily rate in the South West is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 433 443 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 13.60% 12.55% 8.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.60% 13.59% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 354 218
10th Percentile £506 £552 £513
25th Percentile £575 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £628
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +5.92% +4.64%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £795 £788
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 12
10th Percentile - £66.23 £55.82
25th Percentile £67.50 - £60.93
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.53
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +17.78%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.05 £79.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,966 3,260 3,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 92.38% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 2,442 2,495
10th Percentile £210 £275 £225
25th Percentile £396 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 258 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.92 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.17 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +36.66% +11.18%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.98 £64.06
90th Percentile £77.60 £83.51 £69.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Bristol +8 206 £650 -3.70% 55
Wiltshire -1 141 £700 +3.70%
Gloucestershire +5 41 £663 +10.42% 7
Dorset +8 20 £620 -0.80% 5
Devon -11 8 £665 -0.45% 2
Somerset -1 6 £530 -21.48% 8
Cornwall - 1 - - 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 West region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 333 (76.91%) Security Cleared
2 187 (43.19%) SC Cleared
3 177 (40.88%) DV Cleared
4 95 (21.94%) Telecoms
5 91 (21.02%) Public Sector
6 65 (15.01%) Azure
6 65 (15.01%) Strategic Thinking
7 63 (14.55%) Degree
8 61 (14.09%) Network Management
9 59 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 56 (12.93%) WAN
11 54 (12.47%) Social Skills
12 53 (12.24%) Agile
13 52 (12.01%) Microsoft
14 49 (11.32%) Finance
15 48 (11.09%) PaaS
16 47 (10.85%) ArchiMate
17 46 (10.62%) SaaS
18 44 (10.16%) DevOps
19 43 (9.93%) Roadmaps
20 42 (9.70%) Zero Trust
20 42 (9.70%) Project Management
21 40 (9.24%) LAN
21 40 (9.24%) Enterprise Architecture
22 38 (8.78%) TOGAF
22 38 (8.78%) Migration
23 36 (8.31%) Data Centre
24 35 (8.08%) Business Strategy
24 35 (8.08%) Systems Engineering
24 35 (8.08%) ITIL

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 15 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.54%) Confluence
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (4.16%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.23%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 65 (15.01%) Azure
2 48 (11.09%) PaaS
3 46 (10.62%) SaaS
4 33 (7.62%) IaaS
5 27 (6.24%) AWS
5 27 (6.24%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.00%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.08%) GCP
9 8 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.92%) Azure Stack
11 4 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.92%) OCI
12 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.46%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.23%) Apigee
14 1 (0.23%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.23%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 56 (12.93%) WAN
2 40 (9.24%) LAN
3 23 (5.31%) VoIP
4 21 (4.85%) PBX
5 10 (2.31%) SDH
6 9 (2.08%) 4G
7 8 (1.85%) 3G
7 8 (1.85%) Firewall
8 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.15%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.15%) VPN
9 4 (0.92%) Junos
9 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.69%) MPLS
10 3 (0.69%) Network Security
11 2 (0.46%) DNS
12 1 (0.23%) Internet
12 1 (0.23%) Intranet
12 1 (0.23%) IPsec
12 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.31%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.08%) Metadata
5 8 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (1.15%) Power BI
7 4 (0.92%) GIS
7 4 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.46%) OLAP
9 2 (0.46%) OLTP
10 1 (0.23%) Cognos Framework Manager
10 1 (0.23%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.85%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (2.54%) JIRA
3 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.46%) ERwin
4 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 95 (21.94%) Telecoms
2 91 (21.02%) Public Sector
3 54 (12.47%) Social Skills
4 49 (11.32%) Finance
5 33 (7.62%) Manufacturing
6 27 (6.24%) Marketing
7 23 (5.31%) Electronics
8 14 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.62%) Digital Economy
12 5 (1.15%) Aeronautics
12 5 (1.15%) Banking
13 4 (0.92%) Legal
13 4 (0.92%) Military
14 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.77%) XML
2 9 (2.08%) .NET
3 6 (1.39%) Middleware
4 5 (1.15%) REST
4 5 (1.15%) RESTful
5 4 (0.92%) JSON
6 3 (0.69%) ModSecurity
6 3 (0.69%) SOAP
7 2 (0.46%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.46%) CSS
7 2 (0.46%) HTML
7 2 (0.46%) React
8 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.23%) Node.js
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.23%) Swagger
8 1 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.31%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.77%) Video Conferencing
7 10 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.08%) Blackberry
9 8 (1.85%) CESG
10 7 (1.62%) Blog
10 7 (1.62%) Replication
11 6 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.15%) Verilog
12 5 (1.15%) VHDL
13 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.92%) PKI
13 4 (0.92%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.46%) Windows
2 8 (1.85%) Linux
2 8 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.23%) VMS
3 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (15.01%) Strategic Thinking
2 61 (14.09%) Network Management
3 59 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (12.24%) Agile
5 47 (10.85%) ArchiMate
6 44 (10.16%) DevOps
7 43 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 42 (9.70%) Project Management
8 42 (9.70%) Zero Trust
9 40 (9.24%) Enterprise Architecture
10 38 (8.78%) Migration
10 38 (8.78%) TOGAF
11 35 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (8.08%) Business Strategy
11 35 (8.08%) ITIL
11 35 (8.08%) Systems Engineering
12 34 (7.85%) Data Management
13 33 (7.62%) Data Modelling
14 30 (6.93%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (6.70%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.70%) SQL
2 11 (2.54%) C
3 8 (1.85%) Python
4 7 (1.62%) C#
4 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.39%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.15%) C++
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 333 (76.91%) Security Cleared
2 187 (43.19%) SC Cleared
3 177 (40.88%) DV Cleared
4 63 (14.55%) Degree
5 15 (3.46%) HND
6 13 (3.00%) CISSP
6 13 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (2.31%) CCNP
7 10 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.08%) CISM
8 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.85%) CEH
9 8 (1.85%) CISA
9 8 (1.85%) CISMP
9 8 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (1.85%) ISACA
9 8 (1.85%) SSCP
10 7 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.39%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.00%) JSP 440
2 16 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.70%) QA
3 13 (3.00%) NIST
4 12 (2.77%) GDPR
4 12 (2.77%) HIPAA
5 9 (2.08%) NCSC
5 9 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
8 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.46%) COBIT
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.85%) Docker
2 8 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.23%) XenApp
4 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.46%) Ansible
3 2 (0.46%) OPNET
3 2 (0.46%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.23%) SCCM
4 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.16%) Cisco
3 30 (6.93%) SAP
4 24 (5.54%) Juniper
5 20 (4.62%) IBM
5 20 (4.62%) Nokia
6 16 (3.70%) Dell
7 15 (3.46%) Oracle
8 13 (3.00%) Google
8 13 (3.00%) VMware
9 9 (2.08%) Avaya
9 9 (2.08%) Ericsson
9 9 (2.08%) Ribbon
9 9 (2.08%) Sparx
10 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.39%) Remedy
12 5 (1.15%) Adobe
12 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.92%) Ciena