Hybrid/Remote Digital Architect Contract Job Trends

Digital Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Digital Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 321 347
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 8 16 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 45
10th Percentile £399 £820 £550
25th Percentile £434 £981 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £1,250 £625
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £572 - £700
90th Percentile £611 - -
UK median daily rate £638 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 9,232 11,907 18,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 93.46% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,085 7,637 13,405
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 295 439
10th Percentile £13.36 £19.42 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -10.00% +4.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.26 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £79.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Digital Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Digital Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Digital Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Digital Architect job vacancies

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Digital Architect over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Digital Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Digital Architect job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote Digital Architect job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Digital 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Digital Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Drupal

Digital 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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) API Design
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft