Product Architect Contracts

Product Architect
UK

The median Product Architect daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 688 841
Rank change year-on-year +118 +153 -148
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 16 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.009% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.009% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £630 £481 £463
25th Percentile £675 £509 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +9.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £788 £606 £578
90th Percentile £795 £663 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £504
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Architect over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product 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 Product Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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 +100 11 £725 +41.46% 5
London +109 10 £725 +41.46% 1
Work from Home +126 9 £738 +34.09%
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Microservices
1 10 (62.50%) Service Design
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) AWS
4 6 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 6 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (25.00%) Product Vision
7 3 (18.75%) Educational Technology
7 3 (18.75%) Product Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) SDLC
9 1 (6.25%) Marketing Automation
9 1 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
9 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
9 1 (6.25%) Backlog Refinement
9 1 (6.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
9 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
9 1 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
9 1 (6.25%) Architecture Roadmap
9 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
9 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
9 1 (6.25%) CMDB
9 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (6.25%) Databricks

Product 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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Educational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Microservices
1 10 (62.50%) Service Design
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (25.00%) Product Vision
5 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Product Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
8 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
8 1 (6.25%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (6.25%) Architecture Roadmap
8 1 (6.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 1 (6.25%) Backlog Refinement
8 1 (6.25%) Data Architecture
8 1 (6.25%) Marketing Automation
8 1 (6.25%) Product Management
8 1 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
1 1 (6.25%) VMware