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 £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 378 417
Rank change year-on-year +33 +39 +47
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 12 27 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.089% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 18
10th Percentile £583 £480 £606
25th Percentile £622 £563 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £613 £680
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% -9.93% +2.64%
75th Percentile £800 £705 £769
90th Percentile - £788 £779
UK median daily rate £750 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +7.69%

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 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 June 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
Midlands +9 6 £800 +25.49% 2
West Midlands +7 6 £800 +8.47% 1
North of England +22 4 £650 +44.44% 10
North West +8 2 £650 +87.95% 9
Yorkshire -2 2 - - 1
South East +44 1 £690 +9.31% 6
Scotland 0 1 £530 -31.61% 1
IT Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, 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 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) SCADA
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) NIST
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) Operational Technology
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) OWASP
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (16.67%) Commvault
5 2 (16.67%) Veritas
5 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office

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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Modbus
2 1 (8.33%) MQTT
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 4 (33.33%) SCADA
2 3 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) OWASP
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
6 1 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Commvault
2 2 (16.67%) Veritas
2 2 (16.67%) Virgin Media
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) VMware