Information Architect Contracts

Information Architect
UK

The median Information Architect daily rate in the UK is £588, 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 506 560 649
Rank change year-on-year +54 +89 +164
Contract jobs requiring an Information Architect 14 22 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.051% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.054% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 52
10th Percentile - £506 £526
25th Percentile £563 £634 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +7.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £622 £769 £759
90th Percentile £661 £851 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £66.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

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%

Information Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information 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 +48 11 £638 -12.07% 5
UK excluding London +59 7 £600 -14.29% 3
Work from Home +40 7 £575 -20.69% 4
London +34 4 - - 2
East of England - 4 - -
South West +42 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £600 - 1
Midlands - 1 £600 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

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

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

1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) DB2
2 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 6 (42.86%) Information Management
2 6 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
3 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Information Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Business Case
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
6 2 (14.29%) Network Security
6 2 (14.29%) Time Management
6 2 (14.29%) Banking
6 2 (14.29%) Google
6 2 (14.29%) JIRA
6 2 (14.29%) QA
6 2 (14.29%) Information Security
6 2 (14.29%) SharePoint

Information 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 6 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Information Management
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Information Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Business Case
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Use Case
6 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 2 (14.29%) Information Security
6 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Time Management
7 1 (7.14%) Information Governance
7 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (7.14%) Physical Data Model
7 1 (7.14%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft