Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,007 1,872 2,387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.85% 7.96% 7.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 8.44% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,320 1,701
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £567 £563 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year - +4.42% +13.18%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £650 £658 £646
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.78% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 50 17
10th Percentile £60.00 £39.34 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +5.49%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £91.20 £80.25 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.13%

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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £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 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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 East +7 660 £650 - 163
North of England +12 437 £650 +1.96% 164
South West +5 432 £650 -2.69% 87
North West +18 283 £650 +4.00% 94
Midlands +9 235 £625 -3.85% 95
West Midlands +10 172 £650 -3.70% 53
East of England +10 151 £650 -3.85% 52
Yorkshire +4 141 £625 -3.85% 51
Scotland +9 107 £675 +3.85% 40
East Midlands +2 63 £620 -6.06% 41
North East +16 17 £613 -1.01% 19
Wales -12 12 £625 +8.70% 22
Northern Ireland +13 11 £650 +18.18% 19
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 983 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 452 (22.52%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.87%) SC Cleared
4 340 (16.94%) Azure
5 324 (16.14%) Social Skills
6 319 (15.89%) Agile
7 261 (13.00%) Public Sector
8 259 (12.90%) Finance
9 224 (11.16%) Microsoft
10 208 (10.36%) Degree
11 207 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 205 (10.21%) AWS
13 204 (10.16%) Roadmaps
14 194 (9.67%) DevOps
15 183 (9.12%) WAN
16 176 (8.77%) Windows
17 174 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
18 170 (8.47%) Migration
19 154 (7.67%) TOGAF
20 153 (7.62%) Firewall
21 149 (7.42%) Security Architecture
22 146 (7.27%) LAN
23 139 (6.93%) Cisco
24 137 (6.83%) Telecoms
25 128 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
26 127 (6.33%) Project Management
27 122 (6.08%) Network Management
28 120 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
29 115 (5.73%) Active Directory
30 110 (5.48%) Technical Leadership

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 29 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.20%) Confluence
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (0.35%) CMS
6 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.100%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.100%) GemFire
9 2 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.050%) Appian
10 1 (0.050%) Drupal
10 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (0.90%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.100%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.100%) Revit
5 1 (0.050%) CATIA
5 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI-AP
6 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 340 (16.94%) Azure
2 205 (10.21%) AWS
3 83 (4.14%) SaaS
4 74 (3.69%) PaaS
5 62 (3.09%) IaaS
5 62 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 46 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (2.19%) GCP
8 41 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (1.05%) Entra ID
13 16 (0.80%) OCI
14 15 (0.75%) Serverless
15 12 (0.60%) Azure Stack
16 11 (0.55%) Amazon S3
17 10 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (0.50%) GitHub
18 8 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 183 (9.12%) WAN
2 153 (7.62%) Firewall
3 146 (7.27%) LAN
4 89 (4.43%) VPN
5 79 (3.94%) SSL
6 53 (2.64%) MPLS
7 44 (2.19%) Network Security
8 40 (1.99%) BGP
8 40 (1.99%) VoIP
9 38 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
10 36 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
11 33 (1.64%) PBX
12 30 (1.49%) DNS
12 30 (1.49%) SD-WAN
13 27 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (1.10%) DHCP
15 17 (0.85%) SAN
16 16 (0.80%) WLAN
17 13 (0.65%) Junos
17 13 (0.65%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.49%) Metadata
4 26 (1.30%) Power BI
5 23 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 21 (1.05%) Big Data
8 18 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.60%) Data Mining
12 10 (0.50%) OLAP
12 10 (0.50%) OLTP
13 9 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
14 7 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.30%) GIS
15 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle OLAP
15 6 (0.30%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (1.89%) JIRA
2 23 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (0.60%) MSI
4 12 (0.60%) Robot Framework
5 8 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.35%) GitLab
7 6 (0.30%) ERwin
8 4 (0.20%) Git
8 4 (0.20%) kappa
8 4 (0.20%) Selenium
9 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.100%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.100%) webpack
11 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 324 (16.14%) Social Skills
2 261 (13.00%) Public Sector
3 259 (12.90%) Finance
4 137 (6.83%) Telecoms
5 120 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 71 (3.54%) Banking
8 62 (3.09%) Electronics
9 52 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.14%) Marketing
12 30 (1.49%) Retail
13 27 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.00%) Legal
15 18 (0.90%) Local Government
16 15 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.60%) Back Office
18 8 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.35%) Aeronautics
19 7 (0.35%) Digital Economy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.69%) Web Services
2 50 (2.49%) Node.js
3 33 (1.64%) .NET
4 30 (1.49%) SAML
4 30 (1.49%) XML
5 29 (1.44%) Middleware
5 29 (1.44%) REST
5 29 (1.44%) SOAP
6 27 (1.35%) OpenID
7 25 (1.25%) OAuth
8 21 (1.05%) JSON
9 16 (0.80%) LDAP
10 15 (0.75%) RESTful
11 13 (0.65%) HTML
11 13 (0.65%) Kafka
11 13 (0.65%) React
12 11 (0.55%) SailPoint
13 10 (0.50%) DirectX
13 10 (0.50%) OpenGL
13 10 (0.50%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.29%) PKI
2 84 (4.19%) Data Centre
3 70 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 67 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 39 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.59%) Analogue Electronics
9 26 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.10%) Operational Technology
12 16 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
13 15 (0.75%) NHS
14 13 (0.65%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.50%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.50%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 176 (8.77%) Windows
2 85 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 57 (2.84%) Android
4 56 (2.79%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.54%) Linux
6 17 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.100%) Solaris
12 2 (0.100%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.100%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (15.89%) Agile
2 207 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 204 (10.16%) Roadmaps
4 194 (9.67%) DevOps
5 174 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
6 170 (8.47%) Migration
7 154 (7.67%) TOGAF
8 149 (7.42%) Security Architecture
9 128 (6.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 127 (6.33%) Project Management
11 122 (6.08%) Network Management
12 110 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
13 105 (5.23%) IT Strategy
14 103 (5.13%) Business Strategy
14 103 (5.13%) Project Delivery
15 99 (4.93%) Customer Requirements
16 98 (4.88%) Cybersecurity
17 94 (4.68%) Data Modelling
17 94 (4.68%) Risk Management
18 91 (4.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (4.19%) Java
2 72 (3.59%) SQL
3 62 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.59%) Python
5 23 (1.15%) C
6 20 (1.00%) C#
7 19 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.65%) C++
9 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.45%) Bash
11 8 (0.40%) ABAP
12 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.100%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.100%) SOQL
15 1 (0.050%) PHP
15 1 (0.050%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.050%) Tcl
15 1 (0.050%) VB
15 1 (0.050%) X++
Qualifications
1 983 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 452 (22.52%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.87%) SC Cleared
4 208 (10.36%) Degree
5 46 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 37 (1.84%) CCNP
8 35 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.25%) CISSP
12 17 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.80%) CCNA
13 16 (0.80%) HND
14 14 (0.70%) CCIE
15 13 (0.65%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.65%) CISM
16 12 (0.60%) ISACA
16 12 (0.60%) PhD
17 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.29%) QA
2 39 (1.94%) NIST
3 38 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.35%) GDPR
6 26 (1.30%) JSP 440
7 19 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.85%) NCSC
9 15 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.75%) SLA
10 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.40%) COBIT
12 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.35%) RMADS
14 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) GRC
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 115 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.20%) Docker
4 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) XenApp
8 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.050%) ACF2
10 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.050%) HDFS
10 1 (0.050%) IAG
10 1 (0.050%) UAG
10 1 (0.050%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (2.09%) Terraform
2 30 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (1.30%) Ansible
3 26 (1.30%) Endace
4 13 (0.65%) WMI
5 10 (0.50%) SCCM
6 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.20%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) SCOM
7 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.20%) VxRail
8 3 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.100%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.100%) Kibana
9 2 (0.100%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.100%) Puppet
9 2 (0.100%) vRealize
Vendors
1 224 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.93%) Cisco
3 107 (5.33%) Juniper
4 86 (4.29%) VMware
5 81 (4.04%) SAP
6 58 (2.89%) Oracle
7 49 (2.44%) F5
8 42 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.94%) Google
9 39 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.54%) IBM
11 27 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.20%) Databricks
12 24 (1.20%) Dell
13 22 (1.10%) Nokia
14 20 (1.00%) Sparx
15 17 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.75%) Adobe
17 14 (0.70%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.65%) ForgeRock