IT Architect Contracts in England

IT Architect
UK > England

The median IT Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 586 696
Rank change year-on-year +97 +110 -121
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 42 60 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 62
10th Percentile £400 £606 £499
25th Percentile £559 £669 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £631
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.89% +9.78%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £734
90th Percentile £800 £755 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £690 £650
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% +7.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Architect in England

IT Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +93 24 £675 -10.00% 11
South East +26 6 £613 -12.50% 4
South West +14 6 £575 +1.86% 3
Midlands +11 4 £600 -11.76% 3
North of England +22 2 £346 -42.93% 2
East Midlands +17 2 £588 -3.05% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £800 +17.65% 2
North West +11 2 £346 -42.93% 2
IT Architect
UK

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the England region featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) ITIL
3 9 (21.43%) ITSM
3 9 (21.43%) Service Management
3 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) Azure
4 8 (19.05%) AWS
5 7 (16.67%) Finance
5 7 (16.67%) Firewall
6 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 6 (14.29%) NCSC
7 5 (11.90%) NIST
7 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.90%) Network Security
7 5 (11.90%) LAN
7 5 (11.90%) VMware
8 4 (9.52%) TOGAF
8 4 (9.52%) CISSP
8 4 (9.52%) CMDB
8 4 (9.52%) SaaS
8 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
8 4 (9.52%) GCP
8 4 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (7.14%) DevOps
9 3 (7.14%) ArchiMate
9 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
9 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud

IT Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
3 4 (9.52%) SaaS
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Firewall
2 5 (11.90%) LAN
2 5 (11.90%) Network Security
3 3 (7.14%) SAN
4 2 (4.76%) BGP
4 2 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.76%) MPLS
4 2 (4.76%) OSPF
4 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (2.38%) 4G
5 1 (2.38%) 5G
5 1 (2.38%) DHCP
5 1 (2.38%) DNS
5 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Back Office
2 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.38%) Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.38%) Law
3 1 (2.38%) Legal
3 1 (2.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) CMDB
2 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.76%) IoT
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) ITIL
2 9 (21.43%) ITSM
2 9 (21.43%) Service Management
3 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (9.52%) TOGAF
6 3 (7.14%) ArchiMate
6 3 (7.14%) Architectural Design
6 3 (7.14%) Decision-Making
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) ERP
6 3 (7.14%) Information Security
6 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.76%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (4.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.38%) Java
1 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) CISSP
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.76%) CCSK
5 2 (4.76%) CISA
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.76%) CRISC
5 2 (4.76%) GIAC
5 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.76%) PhD
6 1 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) NCSC
2 5 (11.90%) NIST
3 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
4 3 (7.14%) GDPR
4 3 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (2.38%) COBIT
6 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.38%) Sparx