IT Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 417 562
Rank change year-on-year +113 +145 -104
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 42 54 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 37
10th Percentile £563 £606 £484
25th Percentile £625 £658 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £683 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +9.20% +15.74%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £750
90th Percentile £724 - £775
UK median daily rate £675 £685 £620
% change year-on-year -1.46% +10.48% +3.33%

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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

IT Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT 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 IT Architect.

IT Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Architect over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

IT Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT 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 IT Architect.

IT Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 24 (57.14%) Finance
2 19 (45.24%) Change Management
2 19 (45.24%) Banking
3 16 (38.10%) Telecoms
4 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
5 11 (26.19%) Service Management
5 11 (26.19%) ITIL
6 10 (23.81%) ITSM
6 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
7 8 (19.05%) Azure
8 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 6 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
9 4 (9.52%) Migration
9 4 (9.52%) Information Security
9 4 (9.52%) AWS
9 4 (9.52%) ArchiMate
10 3 (7.14%) Confluence
10 3 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
10 3 (7.14%) JIRA
10 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
10 3 (7.14%) CISSP
10 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security
10 3 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (7.14%) NCSC
10 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
10 3 (7.14%) GCP
10 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
11 2 (4.76%) Portfolio Management

IT 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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (2.38%) IaaS
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) 4G
2 1 (2.38%) 5G
2 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 24 (57.14%) Finance
2 19 (45.24%) Banking
3 16 (38.10%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Change Management
2 11 (26.19%) ITIL
2 11 (26.19%) Service Management
3 10 (23.81%) ITSM
4 6 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 4 (9.52%) ArchiMate
5 4 (9.52%) Information Security
5 4 (9.52%) Migration
5 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Agile
7 2 (4.76%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (4.76%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Modelling
7 2 (4.76%) ERP
7 2 (4.76%) Security Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (4.76%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) CISSP
5 2 (4.76%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (7.14%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) COBIT
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.76%) Sparx
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) VMware