Architect Contracts in Warwickshire

Architect
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The median Architect daily rate in Warwickshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 45 47 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 14.56% 13.91% 14.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.36% 15.93% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 32
10th Percentile £485 £450 £506
25th Percentile £500 £649 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £710 £680
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +4.41% +11.02%
75th Percentile £742 £775 £738
90th Percentile £788 £850 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Warwickshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire with a recognized job title 275 295 368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 87.28% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 203 235
10th Percentile £235 £358 £312
25th Percentile £404 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +6.42% +3.81%
75th Percentile £598 £700 £628
90th Percentile £658 £825 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 7
10th Percentile £14.12 £13.49 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £33.91 £26.92 £53.80
90th Percentile £40.36 £35.50 £66.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Warwickshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Warwickshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Warwickshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Warwickshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwick -2 36 £600 -14.29% 7
Stratford-upon-Avon +2 2 - - 2
Rugby - 1 £575 -
Architect
West Midlands

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Warwickshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (35.56%) Azure
3 14 (31.11%) Migration
4 13 (28.89%) Agile
4 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
4 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
5 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 9 (20.00%) SAP
7 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (17.78%) C#
8 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
9 7 (15.56%) Microservices
9 7 (15.56%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (15.56%) Design Patterns
10 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
10 6 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
10 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
10 6 (13.33%) PowerApps
10 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
10 6 (13.33%) DevOps
10 6 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (13.33%) Degree
10 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
10 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
10 6 (13.33%) ITSM

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) InfoPath
2 3 (6.67%) Revit
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.67%) Maximo
3 1 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (15.56%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.89%) Power Automate
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) AWS
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
8 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.22%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) Network Security
2 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.67%) WAN
3 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (2.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
1 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
1 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.22%) DataStage
4 1 (2.22%) DB2
4 1 (2.22%) QualityStage
4 1 (2.22%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) .NET
1 5 (11.11%) CSS
1 5 (11.11%) SailPoint
2 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
2 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
2 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (8.89%) Entity Framework
2 4 (8.89%) HTML
2 4 (8.89%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Axis
4 1 (2.22%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) LDAP
4 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 5 (11.11%) IoT
3 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
3 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.44%) SCADA
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Migration
2 13 (28.89%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (15.56%) Design Patterns
5 7 (15.56%) Microservices
6 6 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (13.33%) ITSM
6 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 6 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
6 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.33%) SOA
7 5 (11.11%) CRM
7 5 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 5 (11.11%) Data Integration
7 5 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (11.11%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) C#
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.67%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.44%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) CISSP
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CCSP
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) PMO
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.44%) CASB
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) SAP
3 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.89%) Autodesk
5 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.44%) Infoblox
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 2 (4.44%) TOWER Software
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) VMware