Applications Architect Contracts

Application Architect
UK

The median Application Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 544 605
Rank change year-on-year +63 +61 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 39 38 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.087% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.094% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 74
10th Percentile £450 £504 £547
25th Percentile £500 £572 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +5.06%
75th Percentile £647 £738 £750
90th Percentile £799 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect.

Daily rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK

Applications Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +59 33 £600 -5.51% 29
UK excluding London +71 24 £500 -20.00% 10
Work from Home +39 10 £799 +37.17% 14
North of England +20 10 £600 +10.34%
London +34 9 £641 -8.43% 21
Midlands +28 9 £500 -20.00% 2
West Midlands +19 8 £500 -20.00% 1
North West +17 6 £600 +10.34%
South East +49 4 £450 -10.00% 6
Yorkshire +9 4 £500 -
South West +48 3 £785 +23.62%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Applications 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 featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 19 (48.72%) Microservices
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 13 (33.33%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) Java
4 12 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (23.08%) Architectural Design
5 9 (23.08%) Cost Reduction
5 9 (23.08%) SOA
5 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 9 (23.08%) Migration
6 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
7 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.95%) Thought Leadership
7 7 (17.95%) Interface Catalogue
7 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.95%) IoT
7 7 (17.95%) Blockchain
7 7 (17.95%) Serverless
7 7 (17.95%) Azure
8 6 (15.38%) AWS
8 6 (15.38%) Project Planning
8 6 (15.38%) Python
8 6 (15.38%) .NET
8 6 (15.38%) Windows
8 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) JBoss
1 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.56%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
1 7 (17.95%) Serverless
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 3 (7.69%) Unqork
4 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) Akamai
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Google App Engine
5 1 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.56%) OCI
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) HTTP
2 2 (5.13%) SSL
3 1 (2.56%) NAS
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Hudson
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Billing
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Axis
2 3 (7.69%) Middleware
2 3 (7.69%) React
2 3 (7.69%) REST
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
3 2 (5.13%) LDAP
3 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) Spring
3 2 (5.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.56%) HTML5
4 1 (2.56%) JMS
4 1 (2.56%) JSP
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.56%) Servlets
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.56%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Blockchain
1 7 (17.95%) IoT
2 6 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Microservices
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (30.77%) Agile
3 12 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (23.08%) Architectural Design
4 9 (23.08%) Cost Reduction
4 9 (23.08%) Migration
4 9 (23.08%) SOA
5 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Interface Catalogue
6 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
6 7 (17.95%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Project Planning
8 5 (12.82%) Event-Driven
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Java
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Dart
6 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) CISSP
4 3 (7.69%) CEH
5 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.13%) Degree
6 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Virgin Media
3 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Confluent
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) F5
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Imperva
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow