Architect Contracts in Northamptonshire

Architect
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Architect daily rate in Northamptonshire is £504 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 17 29
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 48 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.60% 7.69% 4.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.35% 8.41% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 14 12
10th Percentile £445 £516 £381
25th Percentile £455 £556 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £597 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +12.33% +31.82%
75th Percentile £584 £642 £595
90th Percentile £622 £687 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £567 £660 £575
% change year-on-year -14.09% +14.78% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 248 214 358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 91.45% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 171 289
10th Percentile £310 £213 £177
25th Percentile £358 £308 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £513
90th Percentile £618 £588 £550
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 34
10th Percentile £10.90 £12.89 £11.33
25th Percentile £11.83 £15.42 £18.81
Median hourly rate £14.00 £21.38 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% -24.84% +86.49%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £45.72 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.60 £21.67 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +8.35% +36.94%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Northamptonshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Northampton +10 45 £511 -15.64% 6
Towcester - 1 - -
Architect
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 19 (39.58%) Banking
2 19 (39.58%) AWS
3 15 (31.25%) Architectural Design
4 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (20.83%) ForgeRock
4 10 (20.83%) OpenID
4 10 (20.83%) OAuth
4 10 (20.83%) Identity Management
4 10 (20.83%) LDAP
4 10 (20.83%) SAML
5 9 (18.75%) Azure
5 9 (18.75%) DevOps
6 8 (16.67%) Microservices
6 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.67%) Network Design
6 8 (16.67%) Java
6 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 8 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (14.58%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Firewall
7 7 (14.58%) JIRA
7 7 (14.58%) Credit Risk
7 7 (14.58%) Git
7 7 (14.58%) Data Lake
7 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
7 7 (14.58%) Progress Chef

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
3 4 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.08%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Firewall
2 3 (6.25%) BGP
2 3 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (6.25%) MPLS
2 3 (6.25%) OSPF
2 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Git
1 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 19 (39.58%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) LDAP
1 10 (20.83%) OAuth
1 10 (20.83%) OpenID
1 10 (20.83%) SAML
2 5 (10.42%) RAML
2 5 (10.42%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) .NET
3 4 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 4 (8.33%) React
3 4 (8.33%) Swagger
4 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.08%) gRPC
4 1 (2.08%) JMS
4 1 (2.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Credit Risk
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Android
1 4 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Architectural Design
2 10 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (20.83%) Identity Management
2 10 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps
4 8 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (16.67%) Microservices
4 8 (16.67%) Network Design
4 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.58%) Migration
6 6 (12.50%) API Design
6 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (12.50%) IT Strategy
6 6 (12.50%) Project Management
6 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (10.42%) Agile
7 5 (10.42%) Business Strategy
7 5 (10.42%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Java
2 4 (8.33%) C
2 4 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (2.08%) Degree
1 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (14.58%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle
2 1 (2.08%) Salesforce