The median contractor rate for an Architect was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 6 months to 28 October 2020.
The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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
30,114
79,567
97,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title
92.34%
94.12%
94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted
18,962
52,242
64,120
Median daily rate
£470
£463
£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.62%
+2.78%
+2.27%
10th Percentile
£256
£260
£269
90th Percentile
£656
£644
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£425
£418
% change year-on-year
-
+1.80%
+4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,213
2,867
3,104
Median hourly rate
£27.50
£20.00
£18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50%
+11.11%
-3.73%
10th Percentile
£11.17
£11.17
£11.07
90th Percentile
£53.95
£52.50
£48.75
Median hourly rate
£22.00
£18.17
£17.50
% change year-on-year
+21.11%
+3.80%
-
Architect Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Architect Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect.
Architect Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 28 October 2020.
Architect Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect.
Architect Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 28 October 2020.
Architect Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 28 October 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 28 October 2020, Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Architect in the job title.
Architect Skill Set Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
