Pega Architect Contract Job Trends

Pega Architect
UK

The median Pega Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 563 641
Rank change year-on-year +12 +78 +202
Contract jobs requiring a Pega Architect 14 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.008% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £404 £561
25th Percentile £625 £439 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £508 £606
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -16.29% -13.39%
75th Percentile £675 £584 £639
90th Percentile - £625 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 29,736 35,681 46,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,755 21,927 32,149
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,586 1,658 1,511
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.17 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.13 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.76% +0.34% +98.86%

Pega Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pega Architect in the UK

Pega Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Pega Architect
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pega Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 21 September 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 +21 9 £650 +28.08% 6
Work from Home +31 7 - - 2
London +25 6 £650 +28.08% 3
UK excluding London +16 6 - - 4
Scotland - 3 - -
South West - 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Pega 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 Pega Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Pega
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (35.71%) Case Management
4 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) QA
5 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (14.29%) Personalization
6 2 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) SOAP
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
7 1 (7.14%) Degree
7 1 (7.14%) Finite Element Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Data Protection

Pega 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) LESS
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Redux
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Case Management
2 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Personalization
5 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (7.14%) Data Science
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Pega