Information Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Information Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £760, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 328 388
Rank change year-on-year -94 +60 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Information Architect 9 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.055% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.060% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £526 - £518
25th Percentile £612 - £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £760 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £875 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £800 £588 £725
% change year-on-year +36.17% -18.97% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 22,066 11,764 19,240
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.22% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,946 7,551 11,748
10th Percentile £280 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.46% -1.60%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £684 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 828 2,243
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%

Information Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Information Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Information Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Information Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architect in the UK excluding London

Information Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Information 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 Information Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
West Midlands -58 5 £850 +41.67%
Midlands -72 5 £850 +41.67% 1
North of England - 3 - - 2
North West - 3 - - 2
South East - 1 £670 - 2
Information Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2026, Information 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 Information Architect in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
2 3 (33.33%) Line Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Information Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics

Information 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Metadata
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Neo4j
2 1 (11.11%) Stardog
2 1 (11.11%) Triplestore
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Jena
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Due Diligence
2 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security
2 3 (33.33%) Line Management
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Information Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft