Architect Contracts in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect daily rate in the North of England is £625 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 13 28 22
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 457 335 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.84% 6.00% 7.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.55% 6.28% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 231 368
10th Percentile £463 £501 £500
25th Percentile £530 £557 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +10.42%
75th Percentile £715 £745 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
England median daily rate £650 £672 £650
% change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,330 5,332 6,905
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.44% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,711 3,750 5,067
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £389 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £556
90th Percentile £675 £680 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 155 290
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.99 £14.40
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.54 £19.35
Median % change year-on-year -31.99% +57.81% +8.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.45 £34.89
90th Percentile £62.75 £66.41 £58.75
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
North West +25 292 £650 +4.00% 79
Yorkshire +7 152 £600 -7.69% 48
North East +12 16 £631 +2.02% 17
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 North of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 113 (24.73%) Azure
2 96 (21.01%) Agile
3 93 (20.35%) DevOps
4 74 (16.19%) Security Cleared
4 74 (16.19%) Risk Management
5 70 (15.32%) SC Cleared
6 65 (14.22%) Finance
7 64 (14.00%) Social Skills
8 61 (13.35%) Firewall
8 61 (13.35%) AWS
8 61 (13.35%) Security Architecture
9 60 (13.13%) Windows
9 60 (13.13%) Public Sector
10 58 (12.69%) CI/CD
11 54 (11.82%) Design Patterns
12 53 (11.60%) Microsoft
12 53 (11.60%) Migration
13 50 (10.94%) Android
13 50 (10.94%) Apple iOS
14 48 (10.50%) Windows Server
15 47 (10.28%) VPN
16 46 (10.07%) Node.js
17 45 (9.85%) TOGAF
18 44 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 44 (9.63%) Mobile Device Management
19 43 (9.41%) Zero Trust
20 42 (9.19%) Microservices
21 41 (8.97%) Threat Intelligence
22 40 (8.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
22 40 (8.75%) Data Modelling

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 13 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.53%) Confluence
4 6 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (1.53%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.66%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.22%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.73%) Azure
2 61 (13.35%) AWS
3 22 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (4.81%) GCP
4 21 (4.60%) SaaS
5 20 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.72%) PaaS
7 16 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.28%) IaaS
9 14 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.41%) Serverless
11 10 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.53%) Apigee
12 7 (1.53%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 7 (1.53%) Cloudflare
12 7 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.53%) Kong
12 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.35%) Firewall
2 47 (10.28%) VPN
3 28 (6.13%) Network Security
4 7 (1.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (1.53%) LAN
4 7 (1.53%) WAN
5 4 (0.88%) DNS
5 4 (0.88%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.66%) MQTT
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) SAN
8 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (3.28%) Data Lake
3 14 (3.06%) Big Data
4 10 (2.19%) Hadoop
4 10 (2.19%) Metadata
4 10 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (1.97%) Power BI
6 8 (1.75%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.53%) OLAP
7 7 (1.53%) OLTP
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle OLAP
8 6 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.09%) GIS
10 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.28%) JIRA
2 14 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.63%) Git
4 4 (0.88%) ERwin
5 2 (0.44%) GitLab
5 2 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 65 (14.22%) Finance
2 64 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 60 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.53%) Banking
5 17 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.06%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.06%) Retail
7 9 (1.97%) Legal
7 9 (1.97%) Marketing
8 8 (1.75%) Local Government
9 7 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.31%) Automotive
10 6 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.09%) Electronics
12 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.66%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.07%) Node.js
2 17 (3.72%) Kafka
3 13 (2.84%) SOAP
4 12 (2.63%) XML
5 11 (2.41%) REST
5 11 (2.41%) Web Services
6 8 (1.75%) JSON
6 8 (1.75%) Middleware
6 8 (1.75%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.53%) IBM Integration Bus
7 7 (1.53%) J2EE
7 7 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.53%) Spring
8 6 (1.31%) Apache Camel
8 6 (1.31%) React
8 6 (1.31%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.31%) Spring Integration
9 5 (1.09%) OAuth
10 4 (0.88%) .NET
10 4 (0.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.88%) Public Cloud
2 15 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.84%) NHS
4 8 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.53%) DataPower
6 6 (1.31%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.31%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.31%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.09%) CMDB
7 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.09%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.88%) Taxonomies
8 4 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (13.13%) Windows
2 50 (10.94%) Android
2 50 (10.94%) Apple iOS
3 48 (10.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.53%) Linux
5 6 (1.31%) Unix
6 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) zOS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.01%) Agile
2 93 (20.35%) DevOps
3 74 (16.19%) Risk Management
4 61 (13.35%) Security Architecture
5 58 (12.69%) CI/CD
6 54 (11.82%) Design Patterns
7 53 (11.60%) Migration
8 45 (9.85%) TOGAF
9 44 (9.63%) Mobile Device Management
9 44 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (9.41%) Zero Trust
11 42 (9.19%) Microservices
12 41 (8.97%) Threat Intelligence
13 40 (8.75%) Architectural Design
13 40 (8.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 40 (8.75%) Data Modelling
14 38 (8.32%) Enterprise Architecture
14 38 (8.32%) Roadmaps
14 38 (8.32%) Technology Strategy
15 36 (7.88%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (7.66%) Java
2 21 (4.60%) SQL
3 19 (4.16%) Python
4 9 (1.97%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.66%) C
7 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 74 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 70 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.53%) Degree
4 13 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.75%) CISSP
6 7 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.31%) CCNP
8 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.88%) CCIE
9 4 (0.88%) CCIE Security
10 3 (0.66%) CISM
11 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) RIBA
12 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.84%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.97%) QA
5 5 (1.09%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.88%) Docker
4 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) ACF2
5 1 (0.22%) IAG
5 1 (0.22%) RACF
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (2.41%) Terraform
2 10 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Istio
6 1 (0.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.81%) Google
3 17 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.28%) Oracle
5 14 (3.06%) F5
6 13 (2.84%) SAP
7 10 (2.19%) Adobe
8 9 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.97%) VMware
9 8 (1.75%) Cisco
9 8 (1.75%) Sparx
10 7 (1.53%) IBM
10 7 (1.53%) TSYS
11 6 (1.31%) Brio
11 6 (1.31%) Databricks
12 5 (1.09%) Apple
12 5 (1.09%) AVEVA
12 5 (1.09%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.88%) Pega