Architect Contracts in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect daily rate in the East of England is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 29 47
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 -14
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 153 138 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.10% 7.03% 4.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.15% 7.65% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 75
10th Percentile £500 £438 £507
25th Percentile £546 £508 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £674 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +3.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £733 £745 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £803
England median daily rate £650 £672 £650
% change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 0
10th Percentile £53.93 £61.50 -
25th Percentile - £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,672 1,804 2,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.56% 91.90% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 1,089 1,391
10th Percentile £205 £188 £165
25th Percentile £314 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 277 354
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £41.80 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% +165.48% -4.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £46.93
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +3 72 £675 -0.15% 21
Cambridgeshire +37 50 £600 +14.29% 17
Bedfordshire +5 13 £565 +18.95% 3
Essex -15 11 £675 +28.21% 8
Suffolk -4 5 £675 -9.40% 1
Norfolk +4 2 £513 +2.50% 4
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 16 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 job ads across the East of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 48 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (26.80%) Manufacturing
4 40 (26.14%) Security Cleared
5 35 (22.88%) Aerospace
6 34 (22.22%) Electronics
7 33 (21.57%) Project Management
7 33 (21.57%) Test Strategy
7 33 (21.57%) SC Cleared
7 33 (21.57%) Analogue Electronics
8 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (14.38%) Degree
10 19 (12.42%) Roadmaps
11 18 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
12 17 (11.11%) SAP
13 16 (10.46%) Finance
13 16 (10.46%) Agile
14 14 (9.15%) Java
15 13 (8.50%) AWS
15 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
15 13 (8.50%) Master's Degree
16 12 (7.84%) Cisco
16 12 (7.84%) Firewall
16 12 (7.84%) Migration
17 11 (7.19%) Validation
17 11 (7.19%) SQL
17 11 (7.19%) Software Architecture
17 11 (7.19%) Palo Alto
17 11 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
18 10 (6.54%) Ray Tracing

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (1.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Appian
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.92%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 6 (3.92%) SAP FI-AP
3 5 (3.27%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.31%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.31%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.31%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.31%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.65%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.50%) AWS
2 8 (5.23%) Azure
3 7 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (4.58%) GCP
3 7 (4.58%) GitHub
4 4 (2.61%) OCI
4 4 (2.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 4 (2.61%) Serverless
5 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.31%) Route 53
6 2 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.65%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.65%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.84%) Firewall
2 10 (6.54%) WAN
3 9 (5.88%) LAN
4 8 (5.23%) SD-WAN
5 7 (4.58%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (4.58%) Software-Defined Radio
6 6 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (3.92%) WLAN
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.31%) BGP
8 2 (1.31%) OSPF
8 2 (1.31%) VPN
8 2 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.65%) Network Security
9 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.31%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.31%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (0.65%) MySQL
2 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.65%) Redis
2 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.88%) JIRA
2 4 (2.61%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 48 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.80%) Manufacturing
3 35 (22.88%) Aerospace
4 34 (22.22%) Electronics
5 16 (10.46%) Finance
6 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Banking
8 5 (3.27%) French Language
8 5 (3.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Marketing
9 3 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.31%) Local Government
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) DirectX
1 10 (6.54%) OpenGL
1 10 (6.54%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (6.54%) Vulkan
2 6 (3.92%) EDI
2 6 (3.92%) IDoc
3 4 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.61%) SAP Business Workflow
4 3 (1.96%) RESTful
5 2 (1.31%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.31%) Kafka
5 2 (1.31%) Node.js
5 2 (1.31%) React
6 1 (0.65%) OAuth
6 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.65%) React Native
6 1 (0.65%) SAML
6 1 (0.65%) Sensu
6 1 (0.65%) SOAP
6 1 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (21.57%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (6.54%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (6.54%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.54%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (5.23%) Digital Media
4 7 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.27%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.31%) FMCG
7 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.31%) Life Science
8 1 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) CentOS
2 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (21.57%) Project Management
2 33 (21.57%) Test Strategy
3 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (12.42%) Roadmaps
5 18 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (10.46%) Agile
7 12 (7.84%) Migration
8 11 (7.19%) Software Architecture
8 11 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (7.19%) Validation
9 10 (6.54%) Computer Science
9 10 (6.54%) ITSM
10 9 (5.88%) Analytics
10 9 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
10 9 (5.88%) Scrum
10 9 (5.88%) Technical Architecture
10 9 (5.88%) TOGAF
10 9 (5.88%) Use Case
11 8 (5.23%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.15%) Java
2 11 (7.19%) SQL
3 10 (6.54%) Python
4 8 (5.23%) C
4 8 (5.23%) C++
5 6 (3.92%) ABAP
6 3 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (0.65%) PHP
7 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.65%) Tcl
7 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.38%) Degree
4 13 (8.50%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.54%) PhD
6 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.96%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.31%) COBIT
1 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.65%) GDPR
2 1 (0.65%) GxP
2 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
2 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (1.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Terraform
2 5 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) Nagios
4 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Puppet
4 1 (0.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.65%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (11.11%) SAP
2 12 (7.84%) Cisco
3 11 (7.19%) Palo Alto
4 9 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.23%) OpenText
6 7 (4.58%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.92%) Google
8 5 (3.27%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.27%) Splunk
9 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.31%) F5
10 2 (1.31%) Oracle
10 2 (1.31%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.65%) Cadence
11 1 (0.65%) Citrix
11 1 (0.65%) HP
11 1 (0.65%) IBM
11 1 (0.65%) Pardot
11 1 (0.65%) Sparx
11 1 (0.65%) Workday