Information Architect Contract Job Trends

Information Architect
UK

The median Information Architect daily rate in the UK is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 510 560
Rank change year-on-year -101 +50 +90
Contract jobs requiring an Information Architect 19 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.048% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.052% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 18
10th Percentile £641 - £506
25th Percentile £719 £563 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £588 £725
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% -18.97% +7.41%
75th Percentile £875 £622 £769
90th Percentile £913 £661 £851
UK excluding London median daily rate £760 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +26.67% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 43,629 27,082 40,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.55% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,928 17,690 26,310
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.46% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,807 1,034 2,664
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%

Information Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Information Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Information Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Information Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Information Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Information Architect job vacancies in the UK

Information Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Architect in the UK

Information Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Information Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Information Architect job vacancies in the UK

Information Architect
Top 9 Contract Job 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 2026. 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 -91 19 £800 +25.49% 7
London -47 10 £800 -
UK excluding London -94 9 £760 +26.67% 6
West Midlands -58 5 £850 +41.67%
Midlands -72 5 £850 +41.67% 1
Work from Home -37 3 £850 +47.83% 2
North of England - 3 - - 2
North West - 3 - - 2
South East - 1 £670 - 2

Information Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2026, Information Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Information Architect in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Information Security
2 8 (42.11%) Due Diligence
2 8 (42.11%) Impact Assessments
2 8 (42.11%) Line Management
2 8 (42.11%) Risk Management
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Technology Transformation
4 5 (26.32%) Azure
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) AWS
5 4 (21.05%) Information Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) CISA
6 3 (15.79%) CISSP
6 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) GRC
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.79%) OSCP
6 3 (15.79%) SANS
6 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Application Security
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
7 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
7 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (10.53%) Data Quality

Information Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) dbt
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.26%) Stardog
2 1 (5.26%) Triplestore
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) J2EE
1 2 (10.53%) JSP
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Jena
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Information Security
2 8 (42.11%) Due Diligence
2 8 (42.11%) Impact Assessments
2 8 (42.11%) Line Management
2 8 (42.11%) Risk Management
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Technology Transformation
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Information Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Application Security
7 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Metadata Management
7 2 (10.53%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISA
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
1 3 (15.79%) OSCP
1 3 (15.79%) SANS
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GRC
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) SAP