Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work 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 16 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,017 1,636 2,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.27% 10.66% 9.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.95% 11.40% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 1,074 1,789
10th Percentile £481 £500 £510
25th Percentile £538 £550 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £743
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 41
10th Percentile £58.25 £58.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £61.50 £67.50 £66.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +14.89%
75th Percentile £74.38 £87.46 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.53 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Architect.

Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Architect.

Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Architect hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Architect in the job title.

1 303 (29.79%) Azure
2 279 (27.43%) Security Cleared
3 269 (26.45%) AWS
4 250 (24.58%) Social Skills
5 241 (23.70%) SC Cleared
6 158 (15.54%) Public Sector
7 153 (15.04%) Microsoft
8 146 (14.36%) Agile
9 139 (13.67%) Finance
9 139 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 132 (12.98%) Roadmaps
12 125 (12.29%) Migration
13 113 (11.11%) TOGAF
14 105 (10.32%) GCP
15 103 (10.13%) DevOps
16 94 (9.24%) CI/CD
17 92 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
18 91 (8.95%) Data Modelling
19 87 (8.55%) Data Architecture
20 75 (7.37%) SaaS
21 73 (7.18%) Enterprise Architecture
22 72 (7.08%) SQL
22 72 (7.08%) Firewall
22 72 (7.08%) Terraform
23 71 (6.98%) Analytics
24 67 (6.59%) Java
25 64 (6.29%) Microservices
25 64 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
26 62 (6.10%) PaaS

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.88%) Confluence
3 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.39%) CMS
7 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.29%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 2 (0.20%) MTS
8 2 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.20%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.098%) Appian
9 1 (0.098%) CICS
9 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
Applications
1 17 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.098%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.098%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.69%) Endur
6 6 (0.59%) Primavera
7 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.29%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.098%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.098%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 303 (29.79%) Azure
2 269 (26.45%) AWS
3 105 (10.32%) GCP
4 75 (7.37%) SaaS
5 62 (6.10%) PaaS
6 56 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (5.21%) IaaS
7 53 (5.21%) Serverless
8 50 (4.92%) Entra ID
9 49 (4.82%) Power Platform
10 44 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 29 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.65%) GitHub
15 26 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (2.36%) Snowflake
17 20 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
19 14 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 72 (7.08%) Firewall
2 46 (4.52%) DNS
3 38 (3.74%) VPN
4 34 (3.34%) BGP
5 31 (3.05%) OSPF
6 30 (2.95%) TCP/IP
7 28 (2.75%) DHCP
7 28 (2.75%) Network Security
8 26 (2.56%) HTTP
9 24 (2.36%) WAN
10 20 (1.97%) HTTPS
11 17 (1.67%) LAN
12 13 (1.28%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.08%) SSL
13 11 (1.08%) VSAN
14 9 (0.88%) NGFW
15 8 (0.79%) IPsec
15 8 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (0.59%) Kerberos
16 6 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (2.85%) Data Lake
4 25 (2.46%) Power BI
5 24 (2.36%) Metadata
6 21 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.77%) SQL Server
8 17 (1.67%) Big Data
9 15 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.38%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.08%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.88%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.59%) DB2
14 6 (0.59%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.38%) GitLab
3 9 (0.88%) Git
3 9 (0.88%) JIRA
4 5 (0.49%) ERwin
5 3 (0.29%) Maven
5 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.098%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.098%) GCC
7 1 (0.098%) MLflow
7 1 (0.098%) Mockito
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.098%) Postman
7 1 (0.098%) Selenium
7 1 (0.098%) Storybook
7 1 (0.098%) Toad
7 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio
General
1 250 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 158 (15.54%) Public Sector
3 139 (13.67%) Finance
4 92 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (5.90%) Banking
6 35 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.56%) Retail
9 18 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.38%) Legal
12 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.08%) Marketing
13 10 (0.98%) Law
13 10 (0.98%) Military
14 9 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (0.59%) Automotive
16 6 (0.59%) Back Office
16 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.56%) Kafka
2 24 (2.36%) Middleware
3 22 (2.16%) REST
4 19 (1.87%) Web Services
5 18 (1.77%) .NET
5 18 (1.77%) HTML
6 16 (1.57%) OAuth
7 14 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 14 (1.38%) CSS
7 14 (1.38%) SAML
8 13 (1.28%) RESTful
9 12 (1.18%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (1.08%) React
10 11 (1.08%) Spring
11 10 (0.98%) SOAP
12 9 (0.88%) OAuth2
12 9 (0.88%) OpenID
12 9 (0.88%) SailPoint
13 8 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 39 (3.83%) Data Centre
3 33 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 22 (2.16%) PKI
7 21 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.87%) CMDB
8 19 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
10 14 (1.38%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.18%) NHS
12 11 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.88%) FMCG
15 8 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.72%) Windows
2 46 (4.52%) Linux
3 19 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.39%) Android
7 3 (0.29%) Unix
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (14.36%) Agile
2 139 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 132 (12.98%) Roadmaps
5 125 (12.29%) Migration
6 113 (11.11%) TOGAF
7 103 (10.13%) DevOps
8 94 (9.24%) CI/CD
9 91 (8.95%) Data Modelling
10 87 (8.55%) Data Architecture
11 73 (7.18%) Enterprise Architecture
12 71 (6.98%) Analytics
13 64 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 64 (6.29%) Microservices
14 58 (5.70%) Data Governance
15 56 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
16 54 (5.31%) Security Architecture
17 53 (5.21%) Cybersecurity
18 49 (4.82%) Technical Architecture
19 48 (4.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.08%) SQL
2 67 (6.59%) Java
3 50 (4.92%) Python
4 32 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 30 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.75%) Bicep
7 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.98%) C#
9 8 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.59%) Bash
11 5 (0.49%) C
11 5 (0.49%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.39%) ABAP
12 4 (0.39%) Ruby
12 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.29%) Scala
14 2 (0.20%) C++
14 2 (0.20%) COBOL
14 2 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 279 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 241 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 60 (5.90%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.01%) Degree
5 44 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 37 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (3.15%) CISSP
9 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.77%) CISM
13 17 (1.67%) DV Cleared
14 15 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.28%) CCNP
15 13 (1.28%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.88%) MCSE
17 8 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
17 8 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 6 (0.59%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.13%) NIST
2 34 (3.34%) GDPR
3 27 (2.65%) QA
4 18 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.67%) NCSC
6 12 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.69%) GRC
10 5 (0.49%) HL7
11 4 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
12 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) IFRS
13 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (3.05%) Docker
4 23 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.59%) vSphere
8 5 (0.49%) Firmware
9 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.29%) RACF
10 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.098%) Ceph
11 1 (0.098%) Gluster
11 1 (0.098%) GlusterFS
11 1 (0.098%) NFS
11 1 (0.098%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 72 (7.08%) Terraform
2 42 (4.13%) Kubernetes
3 26 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.26%) Ansible
5 13 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.59%) SCCM
7 5 (0.49%) Grafana
7 5 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.49%) Puppet
8 4 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.39%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.29%) Packer
9 3 (0.29%) QRadar
10 2 (0.20%) OPNET
10 2 (0.20%) SCOM
11 1 (0.098%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.098%) Nagios
11 1 (0.098%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 153 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.80%) Oracle
3 58 (5.70%) VMware
4 55 (5.41%) Cisco
5 54 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 52 (5.11%) SAP
7 41 (4.03%) Palo Alto
8 35 (3.44%) Fortinet
9 34 (3.34%) Google
9 34 (3.34%) Salesforce
10 32 (3.15%) Databricks
11 23 (2.26%) CheckPoint
12 18 (1.77%) CyberArk
13 14 (1.38%) IBM
14 13 (1.28%) Ariba
14 13 (1.28%) Splunk
15 10 (0.98%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.88%) Sparx
17 8 (0.79%) Okta
18 7 (0.69%) F5