Product Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 May 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 389 -
Rank change year-on-year +57 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.005% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.005% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +36.36% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.26 - -
Median hourly rate £73.31 - -
75th Percentile £78.36 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.31 - -

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 11,803 19,102 22,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.55% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,555 11,668 15,787
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,253 1,161
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -5.11% +115.96%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +88.21%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Architect in the UK excluding London

Product Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Architect in the UK excluding London

Product Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Architect in the UK excluding London

Product 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 Product Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +37 5 £450 - 1
North of England - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 - - 2
Product Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Network Design
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Meraki
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) BGP
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) WFM
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) CISSP
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) EAM

Product 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Network Design
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Product Management
4 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 1 (16.67%) EAM
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) WFM
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Meraki
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow