Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,181 2,075 1,935
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.18% 9.85% 8.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.98% 10.67% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 1,255 1,359
10th Percentile £450 £489 £510
25th Percentile £525 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £760 £788 £799
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £655
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 91 52
10th Percentile £34.53 £60.00 £54.15
25th Percentile £62.25 £60.63 £66.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £86.00 £85.65 £75.67
90th Percentile £99.28 £88.00 £80.93
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +6.06%

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 13,145 19,446 22,073
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.34% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,143 11,680 15,182
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,058 2,405 1,173
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £75.64
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
South East -2 347 £600 -7.69% 897
North of England -11 314 £600 -4.00% 812
North West -5 195 £600 -4.00% 452
Midlands -5 190 £575 -8.00% 590
South West -10 158 £620 -4.62% 503
West Midlands -6 119 £600 -7.69% 356
Scotland +5 103 £625 -7.41% 231
Yorkshire -11 100 £600 +1.69% 297
East of England -12 70 £600 - 442
East Midlands -3 69 £500 -9.09% 225
North East +8 21 £625 -0.99% 63
Wales +13 16 £480 -16.52% 106
Northern Ireland -13 4 £700 +19.15% 80
Channel Islands - 4 £743 -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 361 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 343 (29.04%) Social Skills
3 282 (23.88%) Azure
4 253 (21.42%) AWS
5 206 (17.44%) Agile
6 202 (17.10%) SC Cleared
6 202 (17.10%) Finance
6 202 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
7 199 (16.85%) Roadmaps
8 182 (15.41%) Microsoft
9 157 (13.29%) DV Cleared
10 149 (12.62%) Migration
11 147 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
12 136 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 132 (11.18%) Public Sector
14 130 (11.01%) DevOps
15 117 (9.91%) CI/CD
16 113 (9.57%) TOGAF
17 112 (9.48%) Microservices
18 111 (9.40%) Banking
19 103 (8.72%) Windows
20 98 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
21 97 (8.21%) GCP
22 96 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
23 90 (7.62%) Data Modelling
24 84 (7.11%) Active Directory
25 83 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
26 80 (6.77%) Java
27 79 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
28 78 (6.60%) Architectural Patterns

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 16 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.10%) SAS
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.68%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.59%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.59%) Camunda
5 7 (0.59%) Confluence
5 7 (0.59%) NetWeaver
5 7 (0.59%) SAP EP
6 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) CMS
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 2 (0.17%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.34%) Fusion 360
5 4 (0.34%) Siemens NX
6 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.25%) Revit
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.085%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.085%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (0.85%) Maximo
4 9 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.59%) SAP CRM
6 6 (0.51%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.34%) Avolution ABACUS
7 4 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.25%) Magento
8 3 (0.25%) Primavera
8 3 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.17%) Finacle
9 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 282 (23.88%) Azure
2 253 (21.42%) AWS
3 97 (8.21%) GCP
4 59 (5.00%) Serverless
5 40 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (3.22%) SaaS
7 37 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 36 (3.05%) Amazon S3
9 33 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (2.71%) Entra ID
11 29 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (1.95%) PaaS
13 21 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.69%) GitHub
15 19 (1.61%) IaaS
16 16 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.74%) Firewall
2 42 (3.56%) Network Security
3 33 (2.79%) WAN
4 32 (2.71%) LAN
5 24 (2.03%) VPN
6 20 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.27%) BGP
8 13 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
8 13 (1.10%) iSCSI
9 11 (0.93%) VoIP
10 10 (0.85%) DNS
10 10 (0.85%) MPLS
11 8 (0.68%) SAN
11 8 (0.68%) SSL
12 6 (0.51%) 4G
12 6 (0.51%) Internet
12 6 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.51%) OSPF
12 6 (0.51%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.42%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (2.79%) MongoDB
3 32 (2.71%) NoSQL
4 27 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.12%) Power BI
6 23 (1.95%) Big Data
7 19 (1.61%) Metadata
8 17 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.19%) GIS
9 14 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.76%) Flink
12 9 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 31 (2.62%) Jenkins
2 21 (1.78%) JIRA
3 20 (1.69%) Git
4 9 (0.76%) GitLab
5 5 (0.42%) Storybook
6 4 (0.34%) ERwin
6 4 (0.34%) Hudson
6 4 (0.34%) Maven
6 4 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.17%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.17%) Gradle
8 2 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.17%) SOAtest
8 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.17%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 343 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 202 (17.10%) Finance
3 132 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 111 (9.40%) Banking
5 98 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (4.66%) Telecoms
7 38 (3.22%) Marketing
8 36 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 27 (2.29%) Electronics
9 27 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (1.86%) Legal
12 21 (1.78%) Retail
13 13 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.02%) Automotive
15 10 (0.85%) Aviation
15 10 (0.85%) Military
16 8 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.40%) Kafka
2 43 (3.64%) Middleware
3 33 (2.79%) .NET
4 24 (2.03%) REST
5 21 (1.78%) RESTful
6 19 (1.61%) Web Services
7 17 (1.44%) OAuth
8 15 (1.27%) SOAP
9 12 (1.02%) CSS
9 12 (1.02%) LDAP
10 11 (0.93%) .NET Framework
10 11 (0.93%) React
10 11 (0.93%) SAML
11 10 (0.85%) OpenID
11 10 (0.85%) SAP PI
11 10 (0.85%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.76%) Apache Beam
12 9 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
12 9 (0.76%) SailPoint
12 9 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.74%) Data Centre
3 31 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (2.62%) Onboarding
3 31 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (1.95%) IoT
8 22 (1.86%) SCADA
9 21 (1.78%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.69%) CMDB
10 20 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 15 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.19%) Replication
13 13 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (8.72%) Windows
2 59 (5.00%) Linux
3 23 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.44%) Unix
5 14 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.68%) Android
7 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.68%) HPUX
7 8 (0.68%) Solaris
8 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.25%) VMS
10 2 (0.17%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.085%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (17.44%) Agile
2 202 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
3 199 (16.85%) Roadmaps
4 149 (12.62%) Migration
5 147 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
6 136 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 130 (11.01%) DevOps
8 117 (9.91%) CI/CD
9 113 (9.57%) TOGAF
10 112 (9.48%) Microservices
11 96 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
12 90 (7.62%) Data Modelling
13 83 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
14 79 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
15 78 (6.60%) Architectural Patterns
16 77 (6.52%) Analytics
17 73 (6.18%) Architectural Design
18 70 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
18 70 (5.93%) Security Architecture
19 69 (5.84%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (6.77%) Java
2 77 (6.52%) SQL
3 73 (6.18%) Python
4 55 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.86%) C#
6 18 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.10%) C++
8 10 (0.85%) Apex Code
8 10 (0.85%) Scala
9 8 (0.68%) Bicep
9 8 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.59%) ABAP
11 6 (0.51%) Bash
12 5 (0.42%) C
12 5 (0.42%) R
13 4 (0.34%) Ada
13 4 (0.34%) COBOL
13 4 (0.34%) Magik
13 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 361 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 202 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 157 (13.29%) DV Cleared
4 76 (6.44%) Degree
5 51 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 50 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 37 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (2.96%) CISSP
10 31 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.03%) CCNP
12 20 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.52%) CISM
15 17 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 13 (1.10%) MCSE
17 12 (1.02%) CCNA
18 11 (0.93%) VCP5
18 11 (0.93%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (3.81%) GDPR
2 41 (3.47%) NIST
3 36 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 25 (2.12%) NCSC
6 17 (1.44%) QA
7 13 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.93%) GRC
9 8 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.68%) SEPA
10 7 (0.59%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.59%) SLA
11 6 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.42%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.34%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.34%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.34%) MISRA
13 4 (0.34%) MISRA C
System Software
1 84 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 53 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.71%) Docker
4 17 (1.44%) vSphere
5 14 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (1.10%) NFS
7 8 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.17%) Firmware
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.64%) Terraform
3 14 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.10%) Ansible
5 11 (0.93%) Grafana
5 11 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.25%) Control-M
7 3 (0.25%) SCCM
7 3 (0.25%) WMI
8 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.17%) CASB
8 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.17%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.17%) Puppet
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 182 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 76 (6.44%) VMware
3 71 (6.01%) SAP
4 56 (4.74%) Oracle
5 52 (4.40%) Cisco
6 43 (3.64%) Google
6 43 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.79%) Databricks
8 33 (2.79%) Splunk
9 26 (2.20%) IBM
10 23 (1.95%) Juniper
10 23 (1.95%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.52%) Citrix
12 16 (1.35%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.35%) NetApp
13 15 (1.27%) F5
14 13 (1.10%) Autodesk
14 13 (1.10%) Veeam
15 12 (1.02%) CyberArk