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 1 October 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 545 639
Rank change year-on-year -8 +94 +203
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 4 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.045% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.048% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £404 £454
25th Percentile - £489 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile - £638 £644
90th Percentile - £782 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - -

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 30,071 35,156 45,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.93% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,008 21,306 31,394
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,609 1,551 1,496
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.85 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.31 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.69% -2.05% +95.11%

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
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 1 October 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
Work from Home +16 4 £350 -51.05% 5
UK excluding London 0 4 £350 - 11
England -11 4 £350 -30.00% 11
South East - 4 £350 - 2

Product Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Meraki
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (50.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management

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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper