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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 135 171 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.84% 9.14% 7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.69% 9.95% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 121 120
10th Percentile £500 £455 £524
25th Percentile £550 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £719 £750 £745
90th Percentile £789 £775 £750
England median daily rate £625 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% +1.92%
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% - +16.67%

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 1,553 1,718 2,036
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 91.82% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,175 1,410
10th Percentile £232 £250 £250
25th Percentile £374 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £644 £713 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 77 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £16.63
Median hourly rate £24.83 £19.59 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -5.52% +15.19%
75th Percentile £35.24 £35.00 £28.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.00 £45.70
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -43.94% +8.43% +61.60%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -4 71 £600 -10.45% 22
Coventry +12 22 £606 +21.25% 9
Birmingham -21 22 £600 -7.69% 50
Solihull +1 6 £594 +29.33% 1
Worcestershire +7 5 £900 +26.32% 1
Herefordshire +13 3 £900 +20.00% 2
Shropshire -12 3 £614 +5.86% 3
Staffordshire - 2 £663 - 31
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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 59 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.93%) Azure
3 30 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 29 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
6 24 (17.78%) SC Cleared
7 22 (16.30%) Migration
8 21 (15.56%) Data Modelling
9 20 (14.81%) SAP
9 20 (14.81%) Agile
10 18 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 18 (13.33%) SCADA
11 17 (12.59%) DevOps
12 16 (11.85%) Machine Learning
12 16 (11.85%) VMware
13 15 (11.11%) Active Directory
13 15 (11.11%) Data Governance
13 15 (11.11%) Broadcom
13 15 (11.11%) AWS
13 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 15 (11.11%) Operational Technology
14 14 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure
15 13 (9.63%) Network Security
15 13 (9.63%) Degree
15 13 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (9.63%) SaaS
16 12 (8.89%) Data Architecture
16 12 (8.89%) Finance
16 12 (8.89%) IoT

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 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) NetWeaver
2 2 (1.48%) SAP EP
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.22%) Revit
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) SAP PM
2 4 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.96%) SAP HR
3 3 (2.22%) Maximo
3 3 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.48%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.74%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.93%) Azure
2 15 (11.11%) AWS
3 13 (9.63%) SaaS
4 12 (8.89%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (7.41%) GCP
7 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.67%) GitHub
8 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.96%) Collibra
10 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.96%) Serverless
11 3 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) Network Security
2 11 (8.15%) Firewall
3 9 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 9 (6.67%) WAN
4 7 (5.19%) FTP
5 6 (4.44%) Internet
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.22%) DKIM
6 3 (2.22%) DMARC
6 3 (2.22%) DNS
6 3 (2.22%) LAN
6 3 (2.22%) Modbus
6 3 (2.22%) SMTP
6 3 (2.22%) VoIP
6 3 (2.22%) VPN
6 3 (2.22%) Wireless
7 2 (1.48%) 5G
7 2 (1.48%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.48%) MQTT
7 2 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.93%) Power BI
2 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.44%) GIS
4 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.96%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.22%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.48%) Big Data
7 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.74%) Metadata
8 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.74%) Git
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) Maven
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 59 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Finance
4 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Automotive
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.48%) Military
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) .NET
2 6 (4.44%) SAP PI
3 5 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 5 (3.70%) Kafka
4 4 (2.96%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (2.96%) SailPoint
4 4 (2.96%) Visualforce
5 3 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.48%) Apache Axis
6 2 (1.48%) Middleware
6 2 (1.48%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.48%) SAPUI5
7 1 (0.74%) EDI
7 1 (0.74%) Java SE
7 1 (0.74%) LDAP
7 1 (0.74%) PySpark
7 1 (0.74%) SAML
7 1 (0.74%) Spring
7 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) SCADA
2 15 (11.11%) Operational Technology
3 12 (8.89%) IoT
4 10 (7.41%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.70%) Blockchain
7 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.48%) NB-IoT
10 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (16.30%) Migration
3 21 (15.56%) Data Modelling
4 20 (14.81%) Agile
5 18 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 17 (12.59%) DevOps
7 16 (11.85%) Machine Learning
8 15 (11.11%) Data Governance
8 15 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 13 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (8.89%) Data Architecture
10 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (8.89%) Threat Modelling
11 11 (8.15%) Analytics
11 11 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (8.15%) Design Patterns
11 11 (8.15%) TOGAF
11 11 (8.15%) Zero Trust
12 10 (7.41%) Security Architecture
12 10 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.15%) SQL
2 6 (4.44%) Java
2 6 (4.44%) Python
3 5 (3.70%) Apex Code
3 5 (3.70%) Bicep
3 5 (3.70%) C#
4 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.48%) ABAP
5 2 (1.48%) Ruby
6 1 (0.74%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 30 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.48%) CCIE
7 2 (1.48%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CCNP
8 1 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.74%) OCP
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) NIST
2 7 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.96%) NCSC
3 4 (2.96%) PMO
4 3 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.96%) Docker
4 3 (2.22%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.22%) Postfix
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (7.41%) Terraform
2 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.74%) CASB
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) SAP
3 16 (11.85%) VMware
4 15 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 6 (4.44%) Autodesk
5 6 (4.44%) Databricks
5 6 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.70%) Cisco
6 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.96%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.96%) Informatica
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle
8 3 (2.22%) Ariba
8 3 (2.22%) ESRI
8 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.48%) Juniper
9 2 (1.48%) Meraki
9 2 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft