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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,094 2,097 1,887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.39% 10.12% 8.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.15% 10.95% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 1,260 1,318
10th Percentile £450 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £563 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £656
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.88% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 93 53
10th Percentile £45.58 - £55.10
25th Percentile £66.00 £60.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £73.31 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% - +14.90%
75th Percentile £82.25 £87.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.70 £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 11,956 19,149 21,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.41% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 11,598 14,941
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,392 1,083
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.28 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -9 305 £600 -4.00% 197
South East -4 304 £615 -5.38% 252
North West -6 204 £575 -9.66% 112
Midlands -2 181 £599 -4.16% 162
South West -11 158 £600 -7.69% 167
West Midlands -4 115 £600 -7.69% 101
Scotland +3 92 £625 -7.41% 82
Yorkshire -9 89 £600 - 57
East of England -17 64 £600 -2.83% 86
East Midlands +1 63 £526 -7.23% 61
Wales +12 21 £480 -20.00% 18
North East -3 13 £600 -4.95% 30
Northern Ireland -20 3 £663 +1.92% 27
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 343 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 337 (30.80%) Social Skills
3 261 (23.86%) Azure
4 227 (20.75%) AWS
5 214 (19.56%) SC Cleared
6 198 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (18.01%) Agile
8 185 (16.91%) Microsoft
9 183 (16.73%) Finance
10 177 (16.18%) Roadmaps
11 148 (13.53%) Migration
12 136 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
13 128 (11.70%) DV Cleared
13 128 (11.70%) Public Sector
14 123 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 116 (10.60%) TOGAF
16 114 (10.42%) DevOps
17 110 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
18 103 (9.41%) Windows
19 97 (8.87%) Banking
20 93 (8.50%) Active Directory
20 93 (8.50%) Data Modelling
21 92 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
22 90 (8.23%) CI/CD
23 81 (7.40%) SAP
24 80 (7.31%) Microservices
25 79 (7.22%) Degree
26 78 (7.13%) GCP
27 73 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
27 73 (6.67%) Analytics

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 21 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.91%) SAS
5 7 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 7 (0.64%) Camunda
5 7 (0.64%) NetWeaver
5 7 (0.64%) SAP EP
6 6 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.46%) Confluence
7 5 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.37%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.18%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.37%) Fusion 360
5 4 (0.37%) Siemens NX
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.27%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.27%) Revit
6 3 (0.27%) SketchUp
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.64%) SAP CRM
4 6 (0.55%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.46%) Maximo
5 5 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.37%) Avolution ABACUS
6 4 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.27%) Magento
7 3 (0.27%) Primavera
7 3 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.18%) Finacle
8 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.091%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 261 (23.86%) Azure
2 227 (20.75%) AWS
3 78 (7.13%) GCP
4 52 (4.75%) Serverless
5 47 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (3.47%) Power Platform
7 34 (3.11%) SaaS
8 33 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 32 (2.93%) Amazon S3
10 29 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.10%) PaaS
13 21 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (1.83%) GitHub
15 18 (1.65%) IaaS
16 17 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
18 15 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.85%) Firewall
2 38 (3.47%) WAN
3 32 (2.93%) Network Security
4 29 (2.65%) VPN
5 27 (2.47%) LAN
6 24 (2.19%) SD-WAN
7 23 (2.10%) DNS
8 17 (1.55%) BGP
9 15 (1.37%) MPLS
10 13 (1.19%) OSPF
11 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 12 (1.10%) VoIP
12 11 (1.01%) SSL
13 10 (0.91%) VLAN
14 8 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.73%) HTTP
15 7 (0.64%) Internet
15 7 (0.64%) IPsec
15 7 (0.64%) iSCSI
15 7 (0.64%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 22 (2.01%) Big Data
3 22 (2.01%) Power BI
4 21 (1.92%) Metadata
5 18 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.19%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.10%) GIS
10 11 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.01%) RDBMS
11 10 (0.91%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.82%) Flink
12 9 (0.82%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 18 (1.65%) JIRA
3 8 (0.73%) Git
4 5 (0.46%) Storybook
5 4 (0.37%) ERwin
5 4 (0.37%) GitLab
5 4 (0.37%) Maven
6 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.27%) MSI
6 3 (0.27%) Postman
6 3 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.18%) Gradle
7 2 (0.18%) Hudson
7 2 (0.18%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) SOAtest
7 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 337 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 183 (16.73%) Finance
3 128 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 110 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (8.87%) Banking
6 64 (5.85%) Telecoms
7 38 (3.47%) Marketing
8 37 (3.38%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.65%) Electronics
10 26 (2.38%) Retail
11 25 (2.29%) Legal
11 25 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.19%) Automotive
16 10 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.82%) Aviation
17 9 (0.82%) Military
18 8 (0.73%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.66%) Kafka
2 38 (3.47%) Middleware
3 35 (3.20%) .NET
4 24 (2.19%) REST
5 20 (1.83%) OAuth
6 17 (1.55%) CSS
7 15 (1.37%) RESTful
7 15 (1.37%) Web Services
8 14 (1.28%) SAML
9 13 (1.19%) .NET Framework
9 13 (1.19%) OpenID
9 13 (1.19%) SOAP
10 12 (1.10%) LDAP
10 12 (1.10%) React
11 11 (1.01%) HTML
12 10 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 10 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
12 10 (0.91%) SAPUI5
13 9 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
13 9 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.66%) Data Centre
3 39 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.19%) IoT
10 23 (2.10%) PKI
11 20 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.83%) Operational Technology
12 19 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.74%) SCADA
13 16 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.37%) Replication
14 15 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.19%) CMDB
15 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.41%) Windows
2 63 (5.76%) Linux
3 20 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.19%) Unix
6 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.91%) Android
9 8 (0.73%) HPUX
9 8 (0.73%) Solaris
9 8 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.27%) VMS
12 2 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.091%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (18.01%) Agile
3 177 (16.18%) Roadmaps
4 148 (13.53%) Migration
5 136 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
6 123 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 116 (10.60%) TOGAF
8 114 (10.42%) DevOps
9 93 (8.50%) Data Modelling
10 92 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
11 90 (8.23%) CI/CD
12 80 (7.31%) Microservices
13 73 (6.67%) Analytics
13 73 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
14 70 (6.40%) Architectural Design
14 70 (6.40%) Identity Access Management
15 67 (6.12%) Architectural Patterns
15 67 (6.12%) Data Governance
15 67 (6.12%) Decision-Making
16 65 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 69 (6.31%) SQL
2 66 (6.03%) Java
3 59 (5.39%) Python
4 54 (4.94%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.29%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.01%) C#
7 14 (1.28%) ABAP
8 11 (1.01%) Scala
9 9 (0.82%) C++
9 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.73%) Bicep
10 8 (0.73%) COBOL
11 7 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.37%) Ada
12 4 (0.37%) Bash
12 4 (0.37%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.37%) Magik
12 4 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.37%) VB
13 3 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 343 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 214 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 128 (11.70%) DV Cleared
4 79 (7.22%) Degree
5 51 (4.66%) AWS Certification
5 51 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 39 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (2.56%) CISSP
9 28 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (2.47%) CCNP
11 19 (1.74%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.46%) MCSE
13 15 (1.37%) CISM
14 14 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 13 (1.19%) CCNA
16 11 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.64%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.20%) GDPR
1 35 (3.20%) NIST
2 31 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.29%) NCSC
4 24 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.19%) QA
5 14 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.82%) GRC
7 8 (0.73%) SEPA
8 7 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.46%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.37%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 51 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.19%) Docker
4 10 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 10 (0.91%) vSphere
5 8 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.64%) NFS
6 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.37%) Firmware
8 3 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.56%) Terraform
3 14 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.19%) Ansible
4 13 (1.19%) Grafana
5 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.37%) SCCM
7 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.27%) Control-M
7 3 (0.27%) Kibana
7 3 (0.27%) OPNET
7 3 (0.27%) WMI
8 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.18%) CASB
8 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize
8 2 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 185 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.40%) SAP
3 67 (6.12%) VMware
4 54 (4.94%) Cisco
5 45 (4.11%) Google
6 44 (4.02%) Oracle
7 34 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.93%) ServiceNow
9 30 (2.74%) Databricks
10 27 (2.47%) MuleSoft
11 26 (2.38%) Splunk
12 22 (2.01%) Juniper
13 20 (1.83%) IBM
14 15 (1.37%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.28%) F5
16 12 (1.10%) Ariba
16 12 (1.10%) Palo Alto
16 12 (1.10%) SolarWinds
16 12 (1.10%) Virgin Media
17 11 (1.01%) Autodesk