Digital Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 356 376
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 18 2 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.013% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.015% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 22
10th Percentile £402 - £525
25th Percentile £480 £713 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +20.83% -1.60%
75th Percentile £731 £738 -
90th Percentile £825 - £634
UK median daily rate £613 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -15.52% +20.83% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 16,345 13,724 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 92.39% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,035 8,185 11,953
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,655 776 1,187
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.36 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.26 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% -26.67% +50.00%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies 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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Architect in the UK excluding London

Digital Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies 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 21 December 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 - 8 £713 - 3
East of England -19 3 £625 - 4
North of England - 2 £389 -
Midlands - 2 £560 - 5
North West - 2 £389 -
South West - 2 £744 -
West Midlands - 2 £560 - 5
Scotland +5 1 - - 5
Digital Architect
UK

Digital Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Digital Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 3 (16.67%) COBIT
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Datadog
4 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) GDPR
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability

Digital Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Drupal
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
1 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 3 (16.67%) Datadog
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
2 4 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
2 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 3 (16.67%) High Availability
3 3 (16.67%) Interface Catalogue
3 3 (16.67%) IT4IT
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (16.67%) Observability
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) COBIT
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 2 (11.11%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce