Architect Contracts

Architect
UK

The median Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

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
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 17 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,249 6,819 8,302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.25% 8.74% 9.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.89% 9.19% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,886 4,502 5,413
10th Percentile £500 £525 £500
25th Percentile £563 £581 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £650 £595
% change year-on-year -3.08% +9.24% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 67 29
10th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £47.00
25th Percentile £70.35 £62.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £75.67 £70.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +1.38% +7.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.50 £79.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.53 £70.00 £69.05
% change year-on-year +9.33% +1.38% +16.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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 42,945 74,232 84,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.15% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,993 51,832 58,809
10th Percentile £290 £313 £301
25th Percentile £413 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £613
90th Percentile £740 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,530 1,731 2,173
10th Percentile £15.16 £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.08 £16.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +50.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £46.05
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £62.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £17.91
% change year-on-year +78.00% +39.59% -10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK

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 November 2023. 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 +5 3,568 £650 - 1,183
Work from Home +2 1,846 £650 - 627
London +3 1,841 £670 -0.74% 614
UK excluding London +5 1,725 £630 -3.08% 626
South East +4 505 £650 - 174
North of England +5 424 £625 -1.96% 151
South West +12 317 £650 - 96
North West +7 270 £627 +0.32% 90
Midlands +14 218 £650 +4.00% 101
Scotland +3 174 £625 -3.85% 37
Yorkshire +3 153 £610 -6.15% 49
West Midlands +10 132 £650 - 70
East of England -7 101 £650 - 58
East Midlands +24 90 £650 +7.44% 30
Wales -12 23 £600 -4.00% 12
Northern Ireland +19 12 £510 -15.00% 9
North East +18 6 £570 -12.31% 12

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 November 2023, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 1,027 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 1,026 (24.15%) Azure
3 805 (18.95%) Finance
4 802 (18.88%) Social Skills
5 767 (18.05%) AWS
6 734 (17.27%) SC Cleared
7 732 (17.23%) Agile
8 617 (14.52%) Roadmaps
9 592 (13.93%) Microsoft
10 535 (12.59%) Public Sector
11 486 (11.44%) Migration
12 453 (10.66%) DevOps
13 449 (10.57%) TOGAF
14 436 (10.26%) Data Modelling
15 390 (9.18%) SAP
16 364 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 305 (7.18%) Firewall
18 304 (7.15%) Degree
19 303 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
19 303 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
20 295 (6.94%) Enterprise Architecture
21 285 (6.71%) SQL
22 284 (6.68%) Banking
22 284 (6.68%) Data Architecture
23 281 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
24 276 (6.50%) Analytics
25 272 (6.40%) DV Cleared
26 265 (6.24%) Security Architecture
27 256 (6.02%) Microservices
28 252 (5.93%) Oracle

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
1 119 (2.80%) Confluence
2 79 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 33 (0.78%) CMS
4 31 (0.73%) Apache
5 22 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 16 (0.38%) Drupal
8 15 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.33%) IIS
10 12 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.28%) MS Exchange
10 12 (0.28%) NetWeaver
10 12 (0.28%) nginx
11 11 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.21%) SAP EP
12 9 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.19%) Appian
13 8 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 40 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.12%) CATIA
5 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.12%) PlantUML
6 4 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.071%) Siemens NX
8 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.024%) Trello
Business Applications
1 105 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 40 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
6 18 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 17 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.40%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.38%) Endur
9 14 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 14 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.24%) SAP CRM
11 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
11 9 (0.21%) SAP SD
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle CRM
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.19%) Teamcenter
13 7 (0.16%) Loan IQ
13 7 (0.16%) Magento
14 6 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (24.15%) Azure
2 767 (18.05%) AWS
3 205 (4.82%) GCP
4 200 (4.71%) SaaS
5 154 (3.62%) Power Platform
6 136 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
7 135 (3.18%) PaaS
8 119 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
8 119 (2.80%) Entra ID
8 119 (2.80%) IaaS
9 95 (2.24%) Serverless
10 79 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
11 70 (1.65%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 41 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
16 39 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 305 (7.18%) Firewall
2 227 (5.34%) WAN
3 204 (4.80%) LAN
4 156 (3.67%) Network Security
5 85 (2.00%) DNS
6 82 (1.93%) VPN
7 70 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
8 60 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 54 (1.27%) SD-WAN
10 53 (1.25%) Wireless
11 50 (1.18%) DHCP
12 46 (1.08%) VLAN
13 44 (1.04%) TCP/IP
14 41 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
15 40 (0.94%) NetScaler
16 39 (0.92%) SSL
17 38 (0.89%) Skype
18 35 (0.82%) VoIP
19 34 (0.80%) HTTP
19 34 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
2 98 (2.31%) Metadata
3 92 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 86 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 84 (1.98%) Power BI
6 78 (1.84%) Big Data
6 78 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 60 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 60 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 51 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 33 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 33 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (0.66%) Tableau
13 27 (0.64%) GIS
13 27 (0.64%) SAP HANA
14 26 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 25 (0.59%) DB2
16 24 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 134 (3.15%) JIRA
2 61 (1.44%) ERwin
3 42 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.92%) Git
5 17 (0.40%) GitLab
6 16 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 15 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.31%) Postman
9 11 (0.26%) Subversion
10 8 (0.19%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
11 6 (0.14%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.12%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.12%) webpack
13 4 (0.094%) MorphX
13 4 (0.094%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.094%) Rational Rhapsody
13 4 (0.094%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.071%) Oracle Forms
General
1 805 (18.95%) Finance
2 802 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 535 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 303 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 284 (6.68%) Banking
6 163 (3.84%) Telecoms
7 161 (3.79%) Marketing
8 144 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 127 (2.99%) Retail
10 91 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 87 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 67 (1.58%) Electronics
12 67 (1.58%) Legal
13 57 (1.34%) Law
14 51 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 50 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (0.89%) Back Office
16 38 (0.89%) Billing
17 37 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
18 36 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (3.06%) REST
2 93 (2.19%) Middleware
3 80 (1.88%) .NET
4 71 (1.67%) JSON
5 68 (1.60%) SOAP
6 60 (1.41%) XML
7 46 (1.08%) HTML
8 44 (1.04%) SailPoint
8 44 (1.04%) Web Services
9 40 (0.94%) 802.1X
10 36 (0.85%) OAuth
10 36 (0.85%) React
11 35 (0.82%) Kafka
12 34 (0.80%) CSS
13 32 (0.75%) LDAP
14 30 (0.71%) SAML
15 29 (0.68%) Node.js
16 27 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
17 26 (0.61%) RESTful
18 25 (0.59%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 224 (5.27%) Data Centre
2 120 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 113 (2.66%) Public Cloud
4 97 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 96 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 92 (2.17%) PKI
7 73 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 61 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 56 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 55 (1.29%) CMDB
12 53 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 51 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 50 (1.18%) Mainframe
15 45 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 41 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
17 38 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
17 38 (0.89%) NHS
18 37 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 230 (5.41%) Windows
2 199 (4.68%) Linux
3 77 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (0.94%) Unix
6 24 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 20 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 20 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (0.38%) VMS
9 11 (0.26%) Android
10 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
11 9 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.14%) Solaris
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.047%) Debian
15 2 (0.047%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (17.23%) Agile
2 617 (14.52%) Roadmaps
3 486 (11.44%) Migration
4 453 (10.66%) DevOps
5 449 (10.57%) TOGAF
6 436 (10.26%) Data Modelling
7 364 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 303 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
9 295 (6.94%) Enterprise Architecture
10 284 (6.68%) Data Architecture
11 281 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
12 276 (6.50%) Analytics
13 265 (6.24%) Security Architecture
14 256 (6.02%) Microservices
15 248 (5.84%) Technical Architecture
16 209 (4.92%) CI/CD
17 202 (4.75%) Architectural Design
18 201 (4.73%) ITIL
19 200 (4.71%) Business Intelligence
20 193 (4.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 285 (6.71%) SQL
2 222 (5.22%) Java
3 221 (5.20%) Python
4 108 (2.54%) C#
5 106 (2.49%) JavaScript
6 87 (2.05%) PowerShell
7 41 (0.96%) Bash
8 31 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 28 (0.66%) PHP
10 24 (0.56%) TypeScript
11 23 (0.54%) C++
12 21 (0.49%) Ruby
13 19 (0.45%) C
13 19 (0.45%) Go
14 16 (0.38%) ABAP
14 16 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 14 (0.33%) Bicep
16 12 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.28%) R
17 10 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,027 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 734 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 304 (7.15%) Degree
4 272 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 134 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
6 128 (3.01%) CISSP
7 88 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 85 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 82 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 76 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 62 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 60 (1.41%) CISM
13 53 (1.25%) CCNP
14 52 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 49 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 46 (1.08%) CCIE
17 45 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
18 42 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 37 (0.87%) CISA
20 33 (0.78%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (2.87%) QA
2 114 (2.68%) NIST
3 112 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 79 (1.86%) GDPR
6 44 (1.04%) NCSC
7 29 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 25 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 24 (0.56%) SLA
10 17 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 16 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.33%) HL7
12 14 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.31%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
15 11 (0.26%) COBIT
15 11 (0.26%) PMO
16 9 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
16 9 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 8 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 186 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 140 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (2.33%) Docker
4 32 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 30 (0.71%) vSphere
6 26 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.16%) Squid
11 6 (0.14%) Ceph
11 6 (0.14%) Postfix
11 6 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.094%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.094%) Firmware
12 4 (0.094%) IAG
12 4 (0.094%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.071%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.071%) Samba
14 2 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 162 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 138 (3.25%) Terraform
3 72 (1.69%) Ansible
4 48 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (0.80%) Puppet
7 26 (0.61%) SCCM
8 23 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 23 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 23 (0.54%) VxRail
9 15 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
9 15 (0.35%) vRealize
10 11 (0.26%) Grafana
11 10 (0.24%) Packer
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.24%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.21%) SCOM
12 9 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 592 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 390 (9.18%) SAP
3 252 (5.93%) Oracle
4 218 (5.13%) Cisco
5 199 (4.68%) VMware
6 186 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 157 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 93 (2.19%) Palo Alto
9 86 (2.02%) IBM
10 83 (1.95%) Google
11 79 (1.86%) Juniper
12 67 (1.58%) Red Hat
13 61 (1.44%) Sparx
14 55 (1.29%) Citrix
15 51 (1.20%) CyberArk
16 49 (1.15%) Ariba
17 48 (1.13%) Databricks
17 48 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 42 (0.99%) Workday
19 38 (0.89%) Meraki