Product Architect Contract Job Trends

Product Architect
UK

The median Product Architect daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 521 592
Rank change year-on-year -55 +71 +206
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 8 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.057% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.061% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 1
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile - £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +7.78% -26.83%
75th Percentile £491 £500 -
90th Percentile £576 £750 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £450 -
% change year-on-year -22.22% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.31 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.31 -

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 33,673 31,116 40,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.74% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,283 19,110 27,220
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 971 1,564
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.02 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +44.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Product Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Product Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Architect over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Product Architect
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 December 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 -47 6 £350 -27.84% 1
South East -12 5 £350 -22.22%
UK excluding London -49 5 £350 -22.22%
Work from Home -4 3 £350 -46.15%

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Product Management
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Application Security
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) Information Security
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) Network Design
2 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog

Product 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Product Management
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (12.50%) Application Security
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
2 1 (12.50%) Product Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) RMADS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper