Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,050 1,913 2,432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.86% 7.91% 7.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.64% 8.41% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,351 1,723
10th Percentile £500 £513 £493
25th Percentile £569 £570 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £799 £761
UK median daily rate £650 £660 £638
% change year-on-year -1.52% +3.53% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 54 17
10th Percentile £60.00 £39.68 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.25 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £77.70 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +11.00% +6.06% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
South East +8 665 £650 - 138
South West +5 443 £650 -2.26% 71
North of England +11 440 £650 - 136
North West +16 289 £650 +1.94% 84
Midlands +9 240 £625 -3.85% 69
West Midlands +14 173 £650 -2.26% 42
East of England +7 142 £650 -7.14% 52
Yorkshire +5 139 £625 -3.85% 41
Scotland +8 126 £675 +3.85% 42
East Midlands +7 66 £622 -5.76% 27
North East +17 16 £631 +2.02% 12
Northern Ireland +17 14 £600 +9.09% 10
Wales -16 13 £638 +11.84% 15
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 996 (48.59%) Security Cleared
2 463 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 439 (21.41%) DV Cleared
4 356 (17.37%) Azure
5 342 (16.68%) Social Skills
6 320 (15.61%) Agile
7 274 (13.37%) Public Sector
8 254 (12.39%) Finance
9 231 (11.27%) Microsoft
10 218 (10.63%) AWS
11 211 (10.29%) Roadmaps
12 206 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 205 (10.00%) Degree
14 199 (9.71%) WAN
15 195 (9.51%) DevOps
16 185 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
17 179 (8.73%) Windows
18 174 (8.49%) TOGAF
19 170 (8.29%) Migration
20 160 (7.80%) LAN
21 158 (7.71%) Firewall
22 151 (7.37%) Security Architecture
23 142 (6.93%) Cisco
24 132 (6.44%) Enterprise Architecture
25 131 (6.39%) Telecoms
26 130 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
27 124 (6.05%) Project Management
28 115 (5.61%) Network Management
29 113 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
30 111 (5.41%) Project Delivery

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 33 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.22%) Confluence
3 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.29%) CMS
6 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.098%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.098%) GemFire
8 2 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.049%) CICS
9 1 (0.049%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.049%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
3 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.098%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.098%) Revit
5 1 (0.049%) CATIA
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 9 (0.44%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.34%) SAP SD
7 6 (0.29%) SAP FI-AP
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.24%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.20%) Avolution ABACUS
9 4 (0.20%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 356 (17.37%) Azure
2 218 (10.63%) AWS
3 85 (4.15%) SaaS
4 76 (3.71%) PaaS
5 69 (3.37%) Power Platform
6 65 (3.17%) IaaS
7 50 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (2.39%) GCP
9 43 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (0.93%) Entra ID
14 17 (0.83%) Serverless
15 16 (0.78%) OCI
16 12 (0.59%) Azure Stack
16 12 (0.59%) GitHub
17 11 (0.54%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.54%) Snowflake
18 10 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 199 (9.71%) WAN
2 160 (7.80%) LAN
3 158 (7.71%) Firewall
4 87 (4.24%) VPN
5 76 (3.71%) SSL
6 50 (2.44%) Network Security
7 48 (2.34%) VoIP
8 47 (2.29%) MPLS
9 38 (1.85%) BGP
10 36 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
11 35 (1.71%) DNS
12 34 (1.66%) SD-WAN
13 33 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
13 33 (1.61%) PBX
14 28 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
15 26 (1.27%) DHCP
16 17 (0.83%) SAN
17 16 (0.78%) WLAN
18 14 (0.68%) Junos
18 14 (0.68%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.71%) Metadata
4 27 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 26 (1.27%) Power BI
6 24 (1.17%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.07%) Oracle Database
8 21 (1.02%) Big Data
9 18 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.73%) RDBMS
10 15 (0.73%) SAP HANA
11 14 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 9 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
13 9 (0.44%) OLAP
13 9 (0.44%) OLTP
14 7 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.29%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (1.66%) JIRA
2 23 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (0.59%) MSI
4 12 (0.59%) Robot Framework
5 9 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.34%) GitLab
7 6 (0.29%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) kappa
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) Git
9 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.098%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.098%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.098%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.098%) webpack
11 1 (0.049%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.049%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 342 (16.68%) Social Skills
2 274 (13.37%) Public Sector
3 254 (12.39%) Finance
4 131 (6.39%) Telecoms
5 130 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (4.54%) Manufacturing
7 72 (3.51%) Banking
8 63 (3.07%) Electronics
9 54 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 46 (2.24%) Marketing
11 34 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.61%) Retail
13 19 (0.93%) Legal
14 17 (0.83%) Local Government
15 13 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.59%) Back Office
17 8 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.34%) Aeronautics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.51%) Web Services
2 50 (2.44%) Node.js
3 32 (1.56%) Middleware
4 30 (1.46%) XML
5 29 (1.41%) .NET
5 29 (1.41%) REST
6 27 (1.32%) SOAP
7 25 (1.22%) SAML
8 24 (1.17%) OAuth
9 22 (1.07%) OpenID
10 21 (1.02%) JSON
11 16 (0.78%) LDAP
12 14 (0.68%) HTML
13 13 (0.63%) Kafka
13 13 (0.63%) RESTful
14 10 (0.49%) DirectX
14 10 (0.49%) OpenGL
14 10 (0.49%) OpenGL ES
14 10 (0.49%) React
14 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 91 (4.44%) Data Centre
2 86 (4.20%) PKI
3 68 (3.32%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 38 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 31 (1.51%) Analogue Electronics
8 29 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 25 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.88%) CMDB
15 17 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.73%) NHS
16 15 (0.73%) Private Cloud
17 11 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
18 10 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 179 (8.73%) Windows
2 85 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.68%) Linux
4 54 (2.63%) Android
5 53 (2.59%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.63%) Unix
9 9 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.098%) Solaris
12 2 (0.098%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.098%) zOS
13 1 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.049%) MVS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (15.61%) Agile
2 211 (10.29%) Roadmaps
3 206 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 195 (9.51%) DevOps
5 185 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
6 174 (8.49%) TOGAF
7 170 (8.29%) Migration
8 151 (7.37%) Security Architecture
9 132 (6.44%) Enterprise Architecture
10 124 (6.05%) Project Management
11 115 (5.61%) Network Management
12 113 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
13 111 (5.41%) IT Strategy
13 111 (5.41%) Project Delivery
14 108 (5.27%) Cybersecurity
15 101 (4.93%) Business Strategy
15 101 (4.93%) Risk Management
16 99 (4.83%) Data Modelling
17 97 (4.73%) Customer Requirements
18 96 (4.68%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 80 (3.90%) Java
2 71 (3.46%) SQL
3 57 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 51 (2.49%) Python
5 22 (1.07%) C#
6 19 (0.93%) C
6 19 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.63%) C++
8 10 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.39%) ABAP
9 8 (0.39%) Bash
10 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.098%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.098%) COBOL
12 2 (0.098%) LookML
12 2 (0.098%) SOQL
12 2 (0.098%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.049%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.049%) PHP
Qualifications
1 996 (48.59%) Security Cleared
2 463 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 439 (21.41%) DV Cleared
4 205 (10.00%) Degree
5 50 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.95%) CCNP
6 40 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 33 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.32%) CISSP
11 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 19 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.83%) CCNA
14 16 (0.78%) HND
15 15 (0.73%) CISM
16 14 (0.68%) CCIE
17 12 (0.59%) ISACA
17 12 (0.59%) PhD
18 10 (0.49%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.34%) QA
2 43 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (2.05%) NIST
4 34 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.32%) GDPR
6 26 (1.27%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.83%) NCSC
7 17 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.73%) SLA
9 14 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 12 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.39%) COBIT
13 7 (0.34%) RMADS
14 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.15%) GRC
17 2 (0.098%) FATCA
17 2 (0.098%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 108 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.12%) Docker
4 12 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.54%) vSphere
6 9 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.20%) XenApp
8 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) ACF2
10 1 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.049%) HDFS
10 1 (0.049%) IAG
10 1 (0.049%) UAG
10 1 (0.049%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (2.05%) Terraform
2 33 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (1.27%) Ansible
5 24 (1.17%) Endace
6 13 (0.63%) WMI
7 9 (0.44%) SCCM
8 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.20%) Grafana
9 4 (0.20%) SCOM
9 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.20%) VxRail
10 3 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.15%) Podman
11 2 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.098%) Istio
11 2 (0.098%) Kibana
11 2 (0.098%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.098%) Puppet
11 2 (0.098%) vRealize
Vendors
1 231 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.93%) Cisco
3 102 (4.98%) Juniper
4 96 (4.68%) SAP
5 86 (4.20%) VMware
6 56 (2.73%) Oracle
6 56 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.24%) F5
7 46 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.00%) Google
9 33 (1.61%) IBM
10 27 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.22%) Databricks
12 24 (1.17%) Dell
13 23 (1.12%) Nokia
14 20 (0.98%) Sparx
15 19 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.73%) Informatica
17 13 (0.63%) Adobe
17 13 (0.63%) ForgeRock