Product Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 372 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.006% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
UK median daily rate £350 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -30.00% -6.98% -6.52%

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 14,015 16,111 20,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.24% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,639 9,167 13,435
10th Percentile £212 £219 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,302 1,311 1,217
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.69 £14.15
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -2.05% +95.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Product Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Product Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Architect job vacancies 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 1 October 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 - 4 £350 - 2
Product Architect
UK

Product Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (50.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management

Product 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper