Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 234 267 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.62% 7.95% 8.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.37% 8.40% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 185 322
10th Percentile £450 £521 £450
25th Percentile £550 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £728 £715 £700
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +10.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.25 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £57.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,498 3,180 4,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 94.70% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,235 3,467
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 119 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.40 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.56 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +8 171 £650 -3.70% 42
East Midlands +1 63 £610 -7.33% 45
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 60 (25.64%) Azure
2 56 (23.93%) Finance
3 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
4 50 (21.37%) Agile
5 39 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 37 (15.81%) Security Cleared
6 37 (15.81%) Migration
7 35 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.10%) Microsoft
9 30 (12.82%) AWS
9 30 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (11.54%) SC Cleared
10 27 (11.54%) Analytics
11 26 (11.11%) WAN
12 25 (10.68%) Architectural Design
13 23 (9.83%) LAN
14 20 (8.55%) Power Platform
14 20 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (8.55%) IT Strategy
14 20 (8.55%) Firewall
15 19 (8.12%) Cisco
15 19 (8.12%) SQL
15 19 (8.12%) Windows
16 18 (7.69%) Web Services
16 18 (7.69%) MPLS
16 18 (7.69%) TOGAF
16 18 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (7.26%) Data Analytics
17 17 (7.26%) Mentoring

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) CATIA
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (5.13%) NetSuite
2 9 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.85%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.85%) RMDS
5 1 (0.43%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.64%) Azure
2 30 (12.82%) AWS
3 20 (8.55%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.42%) GCP
6 8 (3.42%) SaaS
7 7 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.56%) Boomi
9 4 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.28%) Serverless
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.85%) IaaS
11 2 (0.85%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.85%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.11%) WAN
2 23 (9.83%) LAN
3 20 (8.55%) Firewall
4 18 (7.69%) MPLS
5 13 (5.56%) VPN
6 11 (4.70%) BGP
7 9 (3.85%) DNS
8 8 (3.42%) PBX
8 8 (3.42%) VoIP
8 8 (3.42%) WLAN
9 6 (2.56%) IPsec
9 6 (2.56%) Junos
9 6 (2.56%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.14%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (2.14%) DHCP
10 5 (2.14%) Internet
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.27%) Power BI
3 9 (3.85%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.56%) Big Data
4 6 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.14%) DB2
5 5 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.14%) Tableau
6 4 (1.71%) Metadata
7 3 (1.28%) OLAP
7 3 (1.28%) OLTP
8 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (0.85%) JIRA
1 2 (0.85%) kappa
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
General
1 56 (23.93%) Finance
2 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.27%) Banking
5 10 (4.27%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Automotive
9 3 (1.28%) Law
9 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.28%) Marketing
9 3 (1.28%) Retail
10 2 (0.85%) Back Office
10 2 (0.85%) Billing
10 2 (0.85%) German Language
10 2 (0.85%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.69%) Web Services
2 17 (7.26%) OAuth
3 15 (6.41%) SAML
4 13 (5.56%) LDAP
4 13 (5.56%) OpenID
5 8 (3.42%) XML
6 6 (2.56%) HTML
6 6 (2.56%) JSON
6 6 (2.56%) RESTful
7 5 (2.14%) .NET
7 5 (2.14%) RAML
7 5 (2.14%) React
8 4 (1.71%) CSS
8 4 (1.71%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.71%) SOAP
8 4 (1.71%) Swagger
9 3 (1.28%) Middleware
9 3 (1.28%) SailPoint
10 2 (0.85%) Node.js
10 2 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.41%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.14%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.71%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.71%) NHS
8 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.28%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) FMCG
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Windows
2 6 (2.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Windows 10
2 6 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.71%) Android
3 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.37%) Agile
2 39 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 37 (15.81%) Migration
4 35 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (11.54%) Analytics
6 25 (10.68%) Architectural Design
7 20 (8.55%) IT Strategy
7 20 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
8 18 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.69%) TOGAF
9 17 (7.26%) Data Analytics
9 17 (7.26%) Enterprise Architecture
9 17 (7.26%) Mentoring
10 16 (6.84%) Data Management
11 15 (6.41%) Project Management
11 15 (6.41%) Technology Strategy
12 14 (5.98%) Business Strategy
12 14 (5.98%) Data Architecture
12 14 (5.98%) Data Modelling
12 14 (5.98%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.12%) SQL
2 8 (3.42%) Java
2 8 (3.42%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.99%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.71%) C
4 4 (1.71%) C#
5 3 (1.28%) Bash
5 3 (1.28%) Python
6 2 (0.85%) ABAP
6 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.85%) SOQL
7 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.43%) VB
7 1 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.26%) Degree
4 16 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.27%) CCNP
6 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.42%) CCIE
7 8 (3.42%) CCIE Data Center
8 7 (2.99%) CCNA
9 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.14%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.43%) CISSP
14 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.56%) QA
3 4 (1.71%) SLA
4 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.28%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.27%) Active Directory
1 10 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.56%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (1.28%) XenApp
4 3 (1.28%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.14%) Terraform
4 3 (1.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.12%) Cisco
3 13 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.70%) Juniper
5 10 (4.27%) ForgeRock
5 10 (4.27%) VMware
6 8 (3.42%) SAP
7 7 (2.99%) Databricks
8 6 (2.56%) Informatica
8 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.14%) Autodesk
9 5 (2.14%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.14%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.14%) Oracle
9 5 (2.14%) Symantec
9 5 (2.14%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.71%) Citrix
10 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.28%) NetApp
11 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds