Applications Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 312 383 431
Rank change year-on-year +71 +48 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 24 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.077% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.083% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 17
10th Percentile £426 £498 £551
25th Percentile - £531 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £749
90th Percentile £691 £644 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +5.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +20 10 £600 +10.34%
Midlands +28 9 £500 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +19 8 £500 -20.00% 1
North West +17 6 £600 +10.34%
South East +49 4 £450 -10.00% 7
Yorkshire +9 4 £500 -
South West +48 3 £785 +23.62%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Microservices
2 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 8 (33.33%) Java
4 8 (33.33%) SOA
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 8 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
5 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 7 (29.17%) Interface Catalogue
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (29.17%) IoT
5 7 (29.17%) Blockchain
5 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
6 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
6 6 (25.00%) Serverless
6 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 6 (25.00%) Project Planning
6 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (20.83%) Windows
8 4 (16.67%) .NET
8 4 (16.67%) Python

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) JBoss
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Serverless
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Akamai
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Google App Engine
3 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) NAS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Hudson
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Axis
2 3 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 2 (8.33%) LDAP
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Ajax
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) JAX-WS
4 1 (4.17%) JMS
4 1 (4.17%) jQuery
4 1 (4.17%) JSP
4 1 (4.17%) Servlets
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.17%) Struts
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Blockchain
1 7 (29.17%) IoT
2 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Learning Management System
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 8 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 8 (33.33%) SOA
3 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (29.17%) Interface Catalogue
4 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 6 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
6 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.17%) CEH
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Virgin Media
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Confluent
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Imperva
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle