IT Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 422 485
Rank change year-on-year +53 +63 -84
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 22 35 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 28
10th Percentile £506 £606 £463
25th Percentile £563 £653 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £680 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% +20.35% -5.83%
75th Percentile £691 £746 £741
90th Percentile £726 £781 £775
UK median daily rate £663 £685 £620
% change year-on-year -3.28% +10.48% +3.33%

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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Architect in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South West +29 7 £575 +1.86% 3
South East +26 6 £613 -22.22% 2
Midlands +23 5 £655 -3.68% 3
Scotland +36 3 £675 -10.00%
West Midlands +19 3 £755 +11.03% 1
East Midlands +23 2 £588 -3.05% 2
North of England +18 2 £346 -42.93% 2
North West +14 2 £346 -42.93% 2
IT Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) NCSC
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) VMware
4 5 (22.73%) Finance
5 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
5 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
5 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
5 4 (18.18%) Network Security
6 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (13.64%) Firewall
6 3 (13.64%) SAN
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Windows
6 3 (13.64%) Linux
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 3 (13.64%) Confluence
6 3 (13.64%) ArchiMate
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
6 3 (13.64%) NIST
6 3 (13.64%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security

IT 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Network Security
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) SAN
3 2 (9.09%) BGP
3 2 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (9.09%) MPLS
3 2 (9.09%) OSPF
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) 4G
4 1 (4.55%) 5G
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) LAN
4 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
2 3 (13.64%) ArchiMate
2 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (13.64%) Project Management
2 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
2 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (9.09%) Agile
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
3 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
3 2 (9.09%) Data Security
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) ERP
3 2 (9.09%) Information Security
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Network Design
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) PhD
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) NCSC
2 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
3 3 (13.64%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (13.64%) NIST
4 2 (9.09%) GDPR
4 2 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Sparx