Architect Contracts in Hertfordshire

Architect
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Architect daily rate in Hertfordshire is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 76 72 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.04% 9.57% 6.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.16% 10.37% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 37
10th Percentile £563 £500 £538
25th Percentile £600 £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +1.96%
75th Percentile £838 £838 £803
90th Percentile £885 £925 £809
East of England median daily rate £618 £676 £650
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +22.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 0
10th Percentile £56.25 £61.95 -
25th Percentile - £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 748 694 718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 92.29% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 381 447
10th Percentile £231 £210 £162
25th Percentile £313 £360 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £613
90th Percentile £695 £775 £700
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 136 77
10th Percentile £39.43 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £49.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.32 £16.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +170.72% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Hertfordshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Hertfordshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Hertfordshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Hertfordshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Stevenage +6 55 £750 +11.61% 6
Watford +2 5 £675 +3.85% 8
Welwyn Garden City +4 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead -9 2 £588 -21.67%
Letchworth - 2 £842 -
Baldock - 1 - -
Hatfield - 1 £575 -
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 40 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 37 (48.68%) Aerospace
3 36 (47.37%) Manufacturing
4 35 (46.05%) Electronics
4 35 (46.05%) Project Management
4 35 (46.05%) Test Strategy
4 35 (46.05%) Analogue Electronics
4 35 (46.05%) Social Skills
5 33 (43.42%) SC Cleared
5 33 (43.42%) Security Cleared
6 10 (13.16%) SQL
6 10 (13.16%) Use Case
7 9 (11.84%) Validation
7 9 (11.84%) Java
8 8 (10.53%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
9 7 (9.21%) WAN
9 7 (9.21%) Scrum
9 7 (9.21%) Data Management
9 7 (9.21%) Agile
9 7 (9.21%) JIRA
10 6 (7.89%) Cisco
10 6 (7.89%) Firewall
10 6 (7.89%) LAN
10 6 (7.89%) WLAN
10 6 (7.89%) SD-WAN
10 6 (7.89%) Content Development
11 5 (6.58%) Data Engineering
11 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
11 5 (6.58%) Edge Computing

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) CMS
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 3 (3.95%) AWS
2 3 (3.95%) OCI
3 2 (2.63%) Azure
3 2 (2.63%) Serverless
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.32%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.32%) SaaS
4 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) WAN
2 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) LAN
2 6 (7.89%) SD-WAN
2 6 (7.89%) WLAN
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.32%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.32%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.32%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.32%) MySQL
2 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.32%) Redis
2 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (3.95%) IntelliJ
General
1 37 (48.68%) Aerospace
2 36 (47.37%) Manufacturing
3 35 (46.05%) Electronics
3 35 (46.05%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Retail
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (2.63%) Kafka
2 2 (2.63%) Node.js
2 2 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) OAuth
3 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.32%) React
3 1 (1.32%) React Native
3 1 (1.32%) SAML
3 1 (1.32%) Sensu
Miscellaneous
1 35 (46.05%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (6.58%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.95%) FMCG
4 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) IoT
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) PropTech
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
1 1 (1.32%) Windows
1 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (46.05%) Project Management
2 35 (46.05%) Test Strategy
3 10 (13.16%) Use Case
4 9 (11.84%) Validation
5 8 (10.53%) Verification and Validation
6 7 (9.21%) Agile
6 7 (9.21%) Data Management
6 7 (9.21%) Scrum
7 6 (7.89%) Content Development
8 5 (6.58%) Data Engineering
8 5 (6.58%) Edge Computing
8 5 (6.58%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (6.58%) OO
8 5 (6.58%) OOP
8 5 (6.58%) Software Engineering
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Security
9 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (5.26%) Project Delivery
10 3 (3.95%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) SQL
2 9 (11.84%) Java
3 3 (3.95%) Python
4 1 (1.32%) Bash
4 1 (1.32%) PHP
4 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (43.42%) SC Cleared
1 33 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.63%) Ansible
1 2 (2.63%) Terraform
2 1 (1.32%) Grafana
2 1 (1.32%) Nagios
2 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.32%) Puppet
2 1 (1.32%) SCCM
2 1 (1.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco
3 5 (6.58%) Fortinet
3 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.32%) Aruba
6 1 (1.32%) Citrix
6 1 (1.32%) HP
6 1 (1.32%) OpenText
6 1 (1.32%) Pardot
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow