Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,615 2,484 4,701
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.61% 9.73% 10.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.35% 10.21% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,770 3,283
10th Percentile £500 £510 £510
25th Percentile £555 £568 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% +8.62%
75th Percentile £727 £743 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £653 £641
% change year-on-year -0.42% +1.79% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 40 13
10th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £55.20
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - +14.89% +4.15%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £66.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024, 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.

1 417 (25.82%) Azure
2 392 (24.27%) Finance
3 381 (23.59%) Security Cleared
4 310 (19.20%) SC Cleared
5 295 (18.27%) AWS
6 286 (17.71%) Social Skills
7 249 (15.42%) Agile
8 231 (14.30%) Public Sector
9 225 (13.93%) Migration
10 190 (11.76%) Microsoft
11 183 (11.33%) Roadmaps
12 181 (11.21%) DevOps
13 166 (10.28%) Banking
14 143 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 142 (8.79%) Degree
16 141 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 129 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
18 124 (7.68%) Microservices
19 111 (6.87%) SAP
19 111 (6.87%) Change Management
20 106 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
21 105 (6.50%) TOGAF
22 102 (6.32%) GCP
22 102 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
23 101 (6.25%) Telecoms
24 100 (6.19%) DV Cleared
25 97 (6.01%) Security Architecture
26 95 (5.88%) Data Architecture
27 92 (5.70%) Analytics
28 89 (5.51%) Python

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 45 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.36%) Confluence
3 16 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.93%) Apache
5 11 (0.68%) CMS
6 9 (0.56%) IIS
7 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Revit
5 1 (0.062%) CATIA
5 1 (0.062%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 40 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (0.87%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
9 6 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
9 6 (0.37%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.31%) SAP HCM
11 4 (0.25%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.25%) SAP FI-AP
11 4 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 417 (25.82%) Azure
2 295 (18.27%) AWS
3 102 (6.32%) GCP
4 87 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
7 51 (3.16%) SaaS
8 44 (2.72%) PaaS
9 43 (2.66%) IaaS
10 36 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (1.67%) Serverless
13 20 (1.24%) dbt
13 20 (1.24%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.05%) OCI
16 16 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (0.87%) Azure Stack
18 14 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.40%) Firewall
2 58 (3.59%) Network Security
3 55 (3.41%) WAN
4 42 (2.60%) LAN
4 42 (2.60%) SSL
5 23 (1.42%) VPN
6 19 (1.18%) VoIP
7 17 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
7 17 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.87%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.56%) 4G
9 9 (0.56%) MPLS
10 8 (0.50%) ATM
10 8 (0.50%) CTI
10 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.50%) WLAN
11 7 (0.43%) 3G
11 7 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (0.37%) DNS
12 6 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (2.48%) Power BI
3 38 (2.35%) Data Lake
3 38 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 26 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.55%) Big Data
6 25 (1.55%) Metadata
7 18 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 16 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (0.87%) RDBMS
11 13 (0.80%) Apache Arrow
11 13 (0.80%) Dremio
12 12 (0.74%) Apache Ignite
12 12 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.68%) OLAP
13 11 (0.68%) OLTP
14 10 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 33 (2.04%) JIRA
2 16 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.93%) ERwin
4 7 (0.43%) Git
5 5 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.12%) GitLab
7 2 (0.12%) Postman
7 2 (0.12%) Selenium
7 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.062%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.062%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.062%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.062%) JUnit
8 1 (0.062%) kappa
8 1 (0.062%) LSMW
8 1 (0.062%) MSI
8 1 (0.062%) TestRail
General
1 392 (24.27%) Finance
2 286 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 231 (14.30%) Public Sector
4 166 (10.28%) Banking
5 101 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 80 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (3.47%) Retail
8 55 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 50 (3.10%) Marketing
10 47 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.80%) Electronics
12 24 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.87%) Front Office
17 13 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.80%) General Ledger
17 13 (0.80%) Local Government
18 12 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.96%) Web Services
2 45 (2.79%) .NET
3 44 (2.72%) REST
4 38 (2.35%) Middleware
4 38 (2.35%) SAML
5 34 (2.11%) JSON
6 27 (1.67%) OpenID
7 24 (1.49%) XML
8 23 (1.42%) React
9 22 (1.36%) Node.js
9 22 (1.36%) OAuth
9 22 (1.36%) SOAP
10 20 (1.24%) SailPoint
11 18 (1.11%) RESTful
12 17 (1.05%) LDAP
13 15 (0.93%) GraphQL
13 15 (0.93%) Kafka
14 13 (0.80%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.80%) gRPC
14 13 (0.80%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.60%) PKI
2 41 (2.54%) Data Structures
3 37 (2.29%) Product Ownership
3 37 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 36 (2.23%) Cloud Native
4 36 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 30 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.30%) Mainframe
10 16 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (0.99%) Operational Technology
11 15 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (0.93%) IVR
11 15 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 15 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.87%) Derivative
12 14 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.80%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.16%) Windows
2 40 (2.48%) Linux
3 19 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.05%) Android
5 14 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.80%) Unix
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.37%) Solaris
9 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.31%) VMS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.19%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
13 1 (0.062%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (15.42%) Agile
2 225 (13.93%) Migration
3 183 (11.33%) Roadmaps
4 181 (11.21%) DevOps
5 143 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (8.73%) Data Modelling
7 129 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (7.68%) Microservices
9 111 (6.87%) Change Management
10 106 (6.56%) Enterprise Architecture
11 105 (6.50%) TOGAF
12 102 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
13 97 (6.01%) Security Architecture
14 95 (5.88%) Data Architecture
15 92 (5.70%) Analytics
16 88 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
17 85 (5.26%) Architectural Design
17 85 (5.26%) Data Management
18 77 (4.77%) CI/CD
19 75 (4.64%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 89 (5.51%) Python
2 84 (5.20%) SQL
3 72 (4.46%) Java
4 54 (3.34%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.86%) C#
6 23 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 12 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 9 (0.56%) C++
9 8 (0.50%) C
10 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.37%) ABAP
11 6 (0.37%) Bash
11 6 (0.37%) Go
12 4 (0.25%) Scala
12 4 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.19%) Bicep
13 3 (0.19%) Clojure
13 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 381 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 310 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.79%) Degree
4 100 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.54%) CISSP
7 32 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.86%) CISM
10 25 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.18%) CISA
15 15 (0.93%) CCNP
16 11 (0.68%) SAP Certification
17 8 (0.50%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.43%) CCIE
19 6 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.90%) NIST
2 49 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.60%) GDPR
5 33 (2.04%) NCSC
6 28 (1.73%) QA
7 17 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.56%) COBIT
10 8 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (0.43%) GAAP
11 7 (0.43%) SLA
12 6 (0.37%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.19%) GPG13
14 3 (0.19%) GRC
14 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (5.39%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.30%) Docker
4 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.37%) RACF
5 6 (0.37%) vSphere
6 4 (0.25%) KVM
6 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) Ceph
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.062%) ACF2
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) IAG
8 1 (0.062%) UAG
8 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (2.48%) Terraform
2 36 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.05%) Ansible
6 7 (0.43%) SCCM
7 6 (0.37%) VxRail
8 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) zSecure
9 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.25%) Grafana
9 4 (0.25%) Kibana
9 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.25%) Puppet
10 3 (0.19%) Consul
10 3 (0.19%) logstash
10 3 (0.19%) Packer
10 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 190 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.87%) SAP
3 87 (5.39%) Oracle
4 54 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 47 (2.91%) Cisco
6 44 (2.72%) Google
7 40 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 36 (2.23%) Databricks
8 36 (2.23%) VMware
9 32 (1.98%) Sparx
10 28 (1.73%) CyberArk
10 28 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 25 (1.55%) F5
12 24 (1.49%) IBM
13 21 (1.30%) Citrix
14 18 (1.11%) Genesys
15 17 (1.05%) NetApp
16 16 (0.99%) Informatica
16 16 (0.99%) Okta
17 15 (0.93%) Pega