Digital Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 410 471
Rank change year-on-year +33 +61 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 19 37 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 28
10th Percentile £512 £579 -
25th Percentile £525 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £598
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.97% +14.35%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £675
90th Percentile £663 £807 £703
UK median daily rate £688 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -1.79% +12.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Digital Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital 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 Digital Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +33 9 £575 -11.54% 1
North West +22 8 - - 1
South East +15 5 £568 -18.93%
South West +7 3 £590 +1.81%
Midlands +35 2 - - 1
West Midlands +22 2 - -
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 -14.81%
Digital Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Digital 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 Digital Architect in the job title.

1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
3 6 (31.58%) Microservices
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
4 5 (26.32%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) Android
4 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
4 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
4 5 (26.32%) Node.js
4 5 (26.32%) Mobile Device Management
4 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) Windows
4 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
5 4 (21.05%) Azure
5 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
6 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.79%) Architectural Design
6 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared

Digital 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 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
General
1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Military
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Android
1 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
3 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
3 5 (26.32%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.79%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Business Case
6 2 (10.53%) CRM
6 2 (10.53%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (10.53%) TDD
6 2 (10.53%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx