Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £601, 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 18 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,120 2,049 1,932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.77% 9.86% 8.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.52% 10.65% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 1,241 1,365
10th Percentile £450 £500 £513
25th Percentile £525 £569 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% - +5.69%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £799
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 78 54
10th Percentile £59.10 £60.00 £39.68
25th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £66.00
Median hourly rate £73.31 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £81.42 £87.46 -
90th Percentile £85.61 £90.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £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 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%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 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
South East -3 329 £625 -3.85% 406
North of England -5 289 £600 -7.69% 271
North West -1 194 £600 -7.69% 160
South West -5 177 £600 -7.69% 167
Midlands -1 171 £600 -4.00% 183
West Midlands 0 118 £600 -7.69% 115
Scotland -2 101 £625 -7.41% 62
Yorkshire -7 80 £613 -5.77% 82
East of England -14 62 £600 -7.69% 110
East Midlands +4 51 £550 -11.58% 54
Wales +12 24 £510 -20.00% 29
North East -2 15 £625 +1.98% 30
Northern Ireland -19 3 £663 +10.42% 28
Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 375 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 336 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 258 (23.04%) Azure
4 246 (21.96%) SC Cleared
5 208 (18.57%) AWS
6 205 (18.30%) Agile
7 183 (16.34%) Microsoft
7 183 (16.34%) Roadmaps
8 181 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 177 (15.80%) Finance
10 147 (13.13%) Migration
11 136 (12.14%) Public Sector
12 133 (11.88%) DV Cleared
13 129 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 127 (11.34%) TOGAF
15 124 (11.07%) Enterprise Architecture
16 115 (10.27%) DevOps
17 110 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
18 106 (9.46%) Windows
19 104 (9.29%) Banking
20 103 (9.20%) Active Directory
21 100 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
22 92 (8.21%) VMware
22 92 (8.21%) Microservices
22 92 (8.21%) CI/CD
23 85 (7.59%) SAP
24 84 (7.50%) Data Modelling
25 83 (7.41%) Degree
26 81 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
27 77 (6.88%) GCP

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 24 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.89%) SAS
4 9 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.71%) Confluence
6 7 (0.63%) NetWeaver
6 7 (0.63%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.45%) Camunda
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.089%) Apache
11 1 (0.089%) Documentum
Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.45%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.27%) EngageOne
6 3 (0.27%) Revit
6 3 (0.27%) SketchUp
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.089%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.63%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.45%) Maximo
4 5 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.27%) Magento
6 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.27%) Primavera
6 3 (0.27%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.18%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (0.18%) Finacle
7 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 258 (23.04%) Azure
2 208 (18.57%) AWS
3 77 (6.88%) GCP
4 50 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (4.38%) SaaS
6 40 (3.57%) Serverless
7 39 (3.48%) Power Platform
8 35 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 33 (2.95%) PaaS
10 27 (2.41%) IaaS
11 23 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.61%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (1.43%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.34%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.07%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.61%) Firewall
2 41 (3.66%) Network Security
3 39 (3.48%) WAN
4 34 (3.04%) DNS
5 28 (2.50%) VPN
6 26 (2.32%) LAN
7 25 (2.23%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.43%) OSPF
9 15 (1.34%) BGP
9 15 (1.34%) SSL
10 14 (1.25%) Kerberos
10 14 (1.25%) VSAN
11 12 (1.07%) VLAN
12 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
13 10 (0.89%) MPLS
14 8 (0.71%) HTTP
14 8 (0.71%) NGFW
15 7 (0.63%) IPsec
15 7 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
15 7 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (1.96%) Power BI
3 19 (1.70%) Metadata
3 19 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 16 (1.43%) Big Data
4 16 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 16 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.80%) DB2
7 9 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 9 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.71%) Data Mining
8 8 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.63%) Flink
9 7 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.07%) JIRA
3 9 (0.80%) ERwin
4 5 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (0.36%) GitLab
6 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.27%) MSI
6 3 (0.27%) Postman
6 3 (0.27%) Storybook
7 2 (0.18%) GCC
7 2 (0.18%) Git
7 2 (0.18%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) SOAtest
7 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.089%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.089%) Hudson
8 1 (0.089%) Mockito
8 1 (0.089%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.089%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 336 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 177 (15.80%) Finance
3 136 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 110 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (9.29%) Banking
6 63 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 39 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.59%) Marketing
9 28 (2.50%) Electronics
10 27 (2.41%) Legal
11 25 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.96%) Retail
13 19 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.89%) Law
17 9 (0.80%) Military
18 8 (0.71%) Aviation
19 6 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.57%) Kafka
2 38 (3.39%) .NET
3 37 (3.30%) Middleware
4 22 (1.96%) REST
5 20 (1.79%) OAuth
6 17 (1.52%) CSS
6 17 (1.52%) SAML
7 13 (1.16%) HTML
7 13 (1.16%) OpenID
8 12 (1.07%) .NET Framework
8 12 (1.07%) Web Services
9 11 (0.98%) RESTful
9 11 (0.98%) SOAP
10 10 (0.89%) OAuth2
10 10 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
10 10 (0.89%) SAPUI5
11 9 (0.80%) LDAP
11 9 (0.80%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.71%) XML
13 7 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.63%) Data Centre
2 48 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.93%) Cloud Native
4 40 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 39 (3.48%) PKI
6 34 (3.04%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.05%) Replication
11 21 (1.88%) IoT
11 21 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 20 (1.79%) Operational Technology
13 19 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.61%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.43%) CMDB
16 15 (1.34%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.34%) Security Posture
17 14 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (1.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 106 (9.46%) Windows
2 74 (6.61%) Linux
3 18 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.25%) Unix
6 8 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.71%) HPUX
6 8 (0.71%) Solaris
6 8 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.54%) Android
8 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.27%) MVS
9 3 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (18.30%) Agile
2 183 (16.34%) Roadmaps
3 181 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (13.13%) Migration
5 129 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (11.34%) TOGAF
7 124 (11.07%) Enterprise Architecture
8 115 (10.27%) DevOps
9 100 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
10 92 (8.21%) CI/CD
10 92 (8.21%) Microservices
11 84 (7.50%) Data Modelling
12 81 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
13 70 (6.25%) Analytics
14 69 (6.16%) Architectural Design
15 66 (5.89%) Identity Access Management
16 65 (5.80%) Cloud Security
16 65 (5.80%) Decision-Making
17 59 (5.27%) Business Intelligence
17 59 (5.27%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (5.71%) SQL
2 55 (4.91%) Java
3 54 (4.82%) PowerShell
4 37 (3.30%) Python
5 20 (1.79%) C#
5 20 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.25%) ABAP
7 8 (0.71%) Apex Code
7 8 (0.71%) COBOL
8 7 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.63%) Scala
9 6 (0.54%) C++
9 6 (0.54%) Embedded C
10 5 (0.45%) Bash
10 5 (0.45%) C
10 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.27%) Bicep
11 3 (0.27%) PHP
12 2 (0.18%) Perl
12 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 375 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 246 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 133 (11.88%) DV Cleared
4 83 (7.41%) Degree
5 52 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 49 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (4.20%) Azure Certification
8 42 (3.75%) CISSP
9 40 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 40 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (3.04%) CCNP
11 28 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (2.23%) CISM
13 24 (2.14%) MCSE
14 19 (1.70%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (1.34%) CCNA
17 13 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (1.16%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.55%) NIST
2 34 (3.04%) GDPR
3 33 (2.95%) QA
4 32 (2.86%) NCSC
5 27 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 23 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.07%) COBIT
10 8 (0.71%) GRC
11 5 (0.45%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.45%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.36%) PMO
12 4 (0.36%) SEPA
13 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 103 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 57 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.14%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.70%) Docker
5 12 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.89%) vSphere
7 7 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.54%) Firmware
8 6 (0.54%) NFS
9 4 (0.36%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.36%) vCloud
9 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 46 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.32%) Terraform
3 14 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (1.07%) Grafana
5 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.80%) Ansible
7 6 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.36%) CASB
8 4 (0.36%) SCCM
8 4 (0.36%) vRealize
8 4 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.27%) Kibana
9 3 (0.27%) OPNET
9 3 (0.27%) WMI
10 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 1 (0.089%) SCOM
11 1 (0.089%) WSUS
Vendors
1 183 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.21%) VMware
3 85 (7.59%) SAP
4 58 (5.18%) Cisco
5 49 (4.38%) Oracle
6 45 (4.02%) Google
7 36 (3.21%) ServiceNow
8 35 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.68%) Databricks
10 23 (2.05%) MuleSoft
10 23 (2.05%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.88%) Juniper
11 21 (1.88%) Splunk
12 20 (1.79%) IBM
13 18 (1.61%) F5
14 16 (1.43%) SolarWinds
15 13 (1.16%) Ariba
15 13 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.98%) Virgin Media
17 10 (0.89%) CyberArk