Computer Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Computer Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 368 417
Rank change year-on-year +6 +49 +103
Contract jobs citing Computer Architecture 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.011% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.013% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £400 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.15 - -
90th Percentile £14.24 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,803 15,081 19,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,085 12,938
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,516 1,195
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

Computer Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Architecture in the UK excluding London

Computer Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Architecture in the UK excluding London

Computer Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Architecture in the UK excluding London

Computer Architecture
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 Computer Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 - - 1
East of England - 1 £400 - 20
Computer Architecture
UK

Computer Architecture
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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Trainee
1 3 (75.00%) Trainee Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (75.00%) Physics
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat