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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,015 1,879 2,349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.93% 8.17% 7.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.74% 8.66% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,323 1,686
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £563 £567 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +12.06%
75th Percentile £732 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £657 £650
% change year-on-year -1.10% +1.12% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 51 17
10th Percentile £60.00 £53.50 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £90.80 £80.25 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

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 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
South East +5 652 £650 - 143
North of England +15 457 £625 -2.34% 144
South West +4 434 £650 -2.69% 79
North West +25 292 £650 +4.00% 81
Midlands +8 238 £625 -3.85% 97
West Midlands +7 165 £650 -3.70% 51
East of England +15 153 £638 -5.42% 55
Yorkshire +7 152 £600 -7.69% 47
Scotland -2 100 £675 +3.85% 37
East Midlands +3 73 £600 -8.85% 45
North East +12 16 £631 +2.02% 16
Northern Ireland +10 11 £650 +18.18% 18
Wales -14 11 £575 - 26
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 978 (48.54%) Security Cleared
2 452 (22.43%) DV Cleared
3 435 (21.59%) SC Cleared
4 346 (17.17%) Azure
5 321 (15.93%) Agile
5 321 (15.93%) Social Skills
6 261 (12.95%) Finance
7 256 (12.70%) Public Sector
8 223 (11.07%) Microsoft
9 217 (10.77%) AWS
10 213 (10.57%) DevOps
11 211 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 205 (10.17%) Degree
12 205 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 176 (8.73%) WAN
14 173 (8.59%) Windows
15 172 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
16 169 (8.39%) Migration
17 153 (7.59%) Firewall
18 152 (7.54%) TOGAF
19 144 (7.15%) Security Architecture
20 140 (6.95%) Cisco
21 137 (6.80%) LAN
21 137 (6.80%) Telecoms
22 135 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture
23 126 (6.25%) Project Management
24 123 (6.10%) Network Management
25 118 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
26 113 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
27 112 (5.56%) Active Directory

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 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.29%) Confluence
3 15 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.35%) CMS
6 7 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.099%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.050%) Apache
8 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.050%) Appian
8 1 (0.050%) Drupal
8 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (0.89%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.099%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.099%) Revit
6 1 (0.050%) CATIA
6 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 9 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI-AP
6 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 346 (17.17%) Azure
2 217 (10.77%) AWS
3 84 (4.17%) SaaS
4 75 (3.72%) PaaS
5 64 (3.18%) Power Platform
6 62 (3.08%) IaaS
7 51 (2.53%) GCP
8 50 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.09%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.09%) Serverless
13 16 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 16 (0.79%) OCI
14 12 (0.60%) Azure Stack
14 12 (0.60%) GitHub
15 10 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 176 (8.73%) WAN
2 153 (7.59%) Firewall
3 137 (6.80%) LAN
4 90 (4.47%) VPN
5 79 (3.92%) SSL
6 54 (2.68%) MPLS
7 45 (2.23%) Network Security
8 41 (2.03%) BGP
9 38 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
10 36 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 36 (1.79%) VoIP
11 33 (1.64%) PBX
12 31 (1.54%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.39%) DNS
13 28 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (0.99%) DHCP
15 16 (0.79%) WLAN
16 14 (0.69%) SAN
16 14 (0.69%) SDH
17 13 (0.65%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 30 (1.49%) Big Data
4 30 (1.49%) Metadata
5 26 (1.29%) Power BI
6 23 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 22 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 13 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (0.60%) Data Mining
9 12 (0.60%) Hadoop
9 12 (0.60%) OLAP
9 12 (0.60%) OLTP
10 10 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
10 10 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (2.48%) JIRA
2 23 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (0.99%) Git
4 14 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (0.65%) MSI
6 12 (0.60%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.35%) GitLab
8 6 (0.30%) ERwin
9 4 (0.20%) kappa
9 4 (0.20%) Selenium
10 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.099%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.099%) webpack
12 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 321 (15.93%) Social Skills
2 261 (12.95%) Finance
3 256 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.80%) Telecoms
5 118 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (4.57%) Manufacturing
7 85 (4.22%) Banking
8 62 (3.08%) Electronics
9 55 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.38%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.13%) Marketing
12 32 (1.59%) Retail
13 25 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.89%) Legal
15 17 (0.84%) Local Government
16 14 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.60%) Back Office
18 10 (0.50%) Automotive
19 8 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
20 7 (0.35%) Aeronautics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (3.77%) Web Services
2 50 (2.48%) Node.js
3 31 (1.54%) .NET
3 31 (1.54%) SOAP
4 30 (1.49%) SAML
4 30 (1.49%) XML
5 29 (1.44%) REST
6 28 (1.39%) Middleware
7 27 (1.34%) OpenID
8 25 (1.24%) OAuth
9 24 (1.19%) Kafka
10 19 (0.94%) JSON
11 16 (0.79%) LDAP
11 16 (0.79%) RESTful
12 13 (0.65%) HTML
12 13 (0.65%) React
13 12 (0.60%) J2EE
13 12 (0.60%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.50%) OpenGL ES
14 10 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 85 (4.22%) PKI
2 82 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.42%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 39 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.64%) Analogue Electronics
7 33 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 16 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (0.74%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.74%) NHS
13 12 (0.60%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
14 11 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.50%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.59%) Windows
2 81 (4.02%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.73%) Android
4 54 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.53%) Linux
6 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.099%) Solaris
12 2 (0.099%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.099%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (15.93%) Agile
2 213 (10.57%) DevOps
3 211 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 205 (10.17%) Roadmaps
5 172 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (8.39%) Migration
7 152 (7.54%) TOGAF
8 144 (7.15%) Security Architecture
9 135 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture
10 126 (6.25%) Project Management
11 123 (6.10%) Network Management
12 113 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
13 107 (5.31%) Business Strategy
14 105 (5.21%) IT Strategy
15 103 (5.11%) Project Delivery
16 101 (5.01%) Data Modelling
17 100 (4.96%) Cybersecurity
18 99 (4.91%) Customer Requirements
19 98 (4.86%) Risk Management
20 92 (4.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 94 (4.67%) Java
2 78 (3.87%) SQL
3 61 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 58 (2.88%) Python
5 24 (1.19%) C
6 20 (0.99%) C#
7 19 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.69%) C++
9 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
11 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.30%) Bash
12 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.099%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.099%) Bicep
13 2 (0.099%) SOQL
14 1 (0.050%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.050%) PHP
14 1 (0.050%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.050%) VB
Qualifications
1 978 (48.54%) Security Cleared
2 452 (22.43%) DV Cleared
3 435 (21.59%) SC Cleared
4 205 (10.17%) Degree
5 43 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.69%) CCNP
8 33 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 23 (1.14%) CISSP
11 17 (0.84%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.79%) HND
13 15 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.74%) CCIE
14 12 (0.60%) CCNA
14 12 (0.60%) CISM
14 12 (0.60%) ISACA
14 12 (0.60%) PhD
15 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.13%) QA
2 38 (1.89%) NIST
3 35 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.29%) GDPR
5 26 (1.29%) JSP 440
6 19 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.84%) NCSC
8 15 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 15 (0.74%) SLA
9 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.40%) COBIT
11 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.35%) RMADS
13 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.15%) GRC
15 2 (0.099%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.099%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 112 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (1.29%) Docker
4 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
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 ESXi
10 2 (0.099%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.050%) ACF2
11 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.050%) HDFS
11 1 (0.050%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 51 (2.53%) Terraform
2 31 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 30 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.29%) Ansible
4 26 (1.29%) Endace
5 14 (0.69%) WMI
6 10 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) SCCM
8 5 (0.25%) 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
10 3 (0.15%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.099%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.099%) Kibana
11 2 (0.099%) Puppet
11 2 (0.099%) vRealize
Vendors
1 223 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.95%) Cisco
3 110 (5.46%) Juniper
4 83 (4.12%) VMware
5 79 (3.92%) SAP
6 59 (2.93%) Oracle
7 47 (2.33%) F5
8 45 (2.23%) Google
9 43 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 33 (1.64%) IBM
12 29 (1.44%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.19%) Dell
14 23 (1.14%) Databricks
14 23 (1.14%) Nokia
15 18 (0.89%) Sparx
16 17 (0.84%) Adobe
16 17 (0.84%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.69%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.65%) ForgeRock