Digital Architect Contracts

Digital Architect
UK

The median Digital Architect daily rate in the UK is £449, 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 508 530 619
Rank change year-on-year +22 +89 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 12 52 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 69
10th Percentile £393 £563 £575
25th Percentile £420 £567 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £663 £700
Median % change year-on-year -32.30% -5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £763
90th Percentile £805 £1,215 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - £580 £675
% change year-on-year - -14.07% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00

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%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Architect in the UK

Digital Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital 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 +27 11 £449 -31.00% 12
London +25 9 £449 -38.14% 9
Work from Home +26 6 £435 -59.53% 3
UK excluding London +45 2 - - 5
South West +45 2 - -

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

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

1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (16.67%) UX Research
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) SABSA
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS

Digital 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) UX Research
5 1 (8.33%) B2B
5 1 (8.33%) Business Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) MODAF
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP