Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the West Midlands 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 14 14 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 118 175 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.77% 8.99% 7.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.66% 9.85% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 118 115
10th Percentile £431 £450 £540
25th Percentile £550 £557 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £709 £745 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £750
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the West Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire 0 45 £600 -15.49% 17
Birmingham +1 44 £600 -4.00% 46
Coventry -3 12 £606 +1.04% 14
Herefordshire - 4 £900 -
Solihull +12 3 £599 +34.91% 4
Worcestershire +2 3 £900 +38.46% 4
Shropshire -4 2 £630 +48.24% 8
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 7
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.05%) Azure
3 32 (27.12%) Security Cleared
4 31 (26.27%) Microsoft
5 30 (25.42%) SC Cleared
6 29 (24.58%) Migration
7 23 (19.49%) Agile
8 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.80%) TOGAF
10 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (13.56%) DevOps
11 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
11 16 (13.56%) AWS
12 15 (12.71%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (12.71%) SAP
12 15 (12.71%) Power Platform
13 14 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
15 12 (10.17%) Data Modelling
15 12 (10.17%) Finance
15 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
16 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
16 11 (9.32%) Operational Technology
16 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
16 11 (9.32%) SQL
16 11 (9.32%) Degree
17 10 (8.47%) SCADA
17 10 (8.47%) Data Integration
17 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Software

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) CMS
3 1 (0.85%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.85%) SAP EP
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) InfoPath
2 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.54%) Revit
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.54%) Maximo
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.05%) Azure
2 16 (13.56%) AWS
3 15 (12.71%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (10.17%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.47%) PowerApps
7 9 (7.63%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (6.78%) GCP
8 8 (6.78%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.08%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.24%) Serverless
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.69%) OCI
12 2 (1.69%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.85%) Azure API Management
13 1 (0.85%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.47%) Firewall
2 7 (5.93%) Network Security
3 5 (4.24%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.24%) WAN
4 3 (2.54%) LAN
4 3 (2.54%) Modbus
4 3 (2.54%) VPN
5 2 (1.69%) 5G
5 2 (1.69%) Internet
5 2 (1.69%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (1.69%) MQTT
6 1 (0.85%) ATM
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.85%) Frame Relay
6 1 (0.85%) HTTP
6 1 (0.85%) IPsec
6 1 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.85%) SDH
6 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) Power BI
2 7 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.69%) Big Data
6 2 (1.69%) Metadata
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.85%) DataStage
7 1 (0.85%) DB2
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.85%) QualityStage
7 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Postman
2 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Finance
4 11 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Legal
6 2 (1.69%) Banking
6 2 (1.69%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Military
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.47%) .NET
2 8 (6.78%) CSS
3 7 (5.93%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.93%) HTML
4 5 (4.24%) SailPoint
5 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (3.39%) Entity Framework
5 4 (3.39%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (3.39%) Middleware
5 4 (3.39%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (3.39%) SAPUI5
6 3 (2.54%) CSS3
6 3 (2.54%) HTML5
6 3 (2.54%) jQuery
7 2 (1.69%) Apache Axis
8 1 (0.85%) OAuth
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.85%) REST
8 1 (0.85%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Operational Technology
2 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.47%) SCADA
3 9 (7.63%) IoT
4 7 (5.93%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.24%) Blockchain
5 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.69%) NB-IoT
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
2 2 (1.69%) Unix
2 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (24.58%) Migration
2 23 (19.49%) Agile
3 22 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.80%) TOGAF
5 16 (13.56%) DevOps
5 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
6 15 (12.71%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.17%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.47%) Data Governance
10 10 (8.47%) Data Integration
10 10 (8.47%) Microservices
10 10 (8.47%) Security Architecture
10 10 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (7.63%) Data Migration
11 9 (7.63%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (6.78%) Cloud Security
12 8 (6.78%) Design Patterns
12 8 (6.78%) Interface Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.32%) SQL
2 9 (7.63%) C#
2 9 (7.63%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.93%) Java
4 6 (5.08%) COBOL
5 5 (4.24%) ABAP
5 5 (4.24%) Python
6 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.69%) Ruby
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) Degree
4 9 (7.63%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (6.78%) CISSP
6 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.69%) CCSP
9 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.69%) GIAC
9 2 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.69%) SANS
10 1 (0.85%) CISA
10 1 (0.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) NIST
2 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.39%) NCSC
3 4 (3.39%) PMO
4 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 3 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.69%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.85%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) CASB
2 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.71%) SAP
3 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.08%) Oracle
4 6 (5.08%) VMware
5 5 (4.24%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.39%) Autodesk
7 3 (2.54%) Databricks
7 3 (2.54%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.69%) Ariba
8 2 (1.69%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.69%) Foundry
8 2 (1.69%) Google
8 2 (1.69%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.69%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco
9 1 (0.85%) F5
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Informatica