Architect Contracts in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect daily rate in the South East is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 665 535 747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 11.98% 9.21% 9.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.94% 9.74% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 374 510
10th Percentile £500 £500 £500
25th Percentile £575 £557 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +8.18%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £739
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 3
10th Percentile - £60.70 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £62.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +18.64% -19.67%
75th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £70.95
90th Percentile £89.75 - £76.62
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,140 5,495 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.56% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 3,832 5,042
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.80
90th Percentile £76.89 £75.00 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Hampshire +7 362 £650 - 42
Thames Valley +12 247 £625 - 47
Berkshire +7 204 £618 -5.00% 24
Buckinghamshire +3 35 £633 +10.96% 17
Surrey -18 22 £650 +13.04% 27
West Sussex -20 12 £750 +10.62% 2
East Sussex +6 8 £800 +7.38% 8
Oxfordshire +3 8 £563 -8.16% 7
Kent -7 6 £788 +7.51% 7
Sussex -3 2 - - 1
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 481 (72.33%) Security Cleared
2 250 (37.59%) DV Cleared
3 104 (15.64%) SC Cleared
4 98 (14.74%) Agile
5 95 (14.29%) Azure
6 78 (11.73%) PKI
6 78 (11.73%) Microsoft
6 78 (11.73%) Social Skills
7 76 (11.43%) SSL
8 74 (11.13%) Windows
8 74 (11.13%) AWS
9 70 (10.53%) WAN
10 68 (10.23%) Cisco
11 67 (10.08%) Juniper
12 64 (9.62%) Active Directory
13 63 (9.47%) Network Management
14 59 (8.87%) Security Architecture
14 59 (8.87%) Degree
14 59 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
15 58 (8.72%) DevOps
15 58 (8.72%) Prototyping
16 56 (8.42%) Customer Requirements
17 55 (8.27%) Public Sector
18 53 (7.97%) LAN
18 53 (7.97%) Firewall
19 52 (7.82%) Service Management
20 51 (7.67%) Presales
20 51 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
21 50 (7.52%) Finance
22 44 (6.62%) Cryptography

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.90%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) GemFire
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Avolution ABACUS
1 4 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.15%) Maximo
3 1 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 95 (14.29%) Azure
2 74 (11.13%) AWS
3 13 (1.95%) Power Platform
4 6 (0.90%) Azure Stack
4 6 (0.90%) GitHub
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon S3
5 5 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (0.75%) PaaS
5 5 (0.75%) Snowflake
6 4 (0.60%) IaaS
6 4 (0.60%) Serverless
7 3 (0.45%) Amazon Neptune
7 3 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (0.45%) Figma
7 3 (0.45%) SaaS
8 2 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.30%) OCI
8 2 (0.30%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.30%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.43%) SSL
2 70 (10.53%) WAN
3 53 (7.97%) Firewall
3 53 (7.97%) LAN
4 31 (4.66%) Intrusion Detection
4 31 (4.66%) MPLS
5 29 (4.36%) BGP
6 26 (3.91%) VPN
7 25 (3.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 19 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (2.56%) DHCP
9 17 (2.56%) DNS
10 14 (2.11%) SD-WAN
11 10 (1.50%) SAN
12 9 (1.35%) VLAN
13 5 (0.75%) iSCSI
13 5 (0.75%) Network Security
14 4 (0.60%) CATAPAN
14 4 (0.60%) Internet
14 4 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.05%) Big Data
1 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.90%) Oracle Database
2 6 (0.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
3 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.60%) Redis
3 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.45%) Metadata
4 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (0.30%) Power BI
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.15%) Impala
6 1 (0.15%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 12 (1.80%) MSI
1 12 (1.80%) Robot Framework
1 12 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (0.90%) JIRA
3 4 (0.60%) GitLab
3 4 (0.60%) Selenium
4 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.30%) kappa
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (11.73%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.27%) Public Sector
3 50 (7.52%) Finance
4 40 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.50%) Retail
7 8 (1.20%) Legal
8 7 (1.05%) Banking
9 6 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.60%) Local Government
11 3 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.30%) Advertising
12 2 (0.30%) Back Office
12 2 (0.30%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.15%) Automotive
13 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.15%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.32%) Web Services
2 14 (2.11%) .NET
3 6 (0.90%) JSON
3 6 (0.90%) REST
4 4 (0.60%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.45%) Java EE
5 3 (0.45%) OAuth
5 3 (0.45%) OpenID
6 2 (0.30%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.30%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.30%) SAML
7 1 (0.15%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.15%) Middleware
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) SOAP
7 1 (0.15%) XML
7 1 (0.15%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.73%) PKI
2 30 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.91%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.50%) Private Cloud
5 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.45%) IoT
10 3 (0.45%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.30%) Clustering
11 2 (0.30%) CSOC
11 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.13%) Windows
2 23 (3.46%) Linux
3 18 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.60%) Android
7 4 (0.60%) Unix
8 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Solaris
9 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (14.74%) Agile
2 63 (9.47%) Network Management
3 59 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (8.87%) Security Architecture
4 58 (8.72%) DevOps
4 58 (8.72%) Prototyping
5 56 (8.42%) Customer Requirements
6 52 (7.82%) Service Management
7 51 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (7.67%) Presales
8 44 (6.62%) Cryptography
9 42 (6.32%) Key Management
10 40 (6.02%) SIEM
10 40 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (5.86%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (5.26%) Network Design
12 35 (5.26%) Roadmaps
13 31 (4.66%) Project Delivery
14 30 (4.51%) ITIL
15 28 (4.21%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.51%) Java
3 16 (2.41%) Python
4 13 (1.95%) SQL
5 8 (1.20%) C#
6 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.30%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.30%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 481 (72.33%) Security Cleared
2 250 (37.59%) DV Cleared
3 104 (15.64%) SC Cleared
4 59 (8.87%) Degree
5 11 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.50%) CCNP
6 10 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.60%) CCDP
7 4 (0.60%) ISACA
7 4 (0.60%) JNCIS
8 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.45%) CCNA
8 3 (0.45%) JNCIA
8 3 (0.45%) MCSE
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.30%) PhD
9 2 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.95%) QA
2 11 (1.65%) NIST
2 11 (1.65%) SLA
3 9 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.20%) NCSC
5 7 (1.05%) GDPR
5 7 (1.05%) RMADS
6 4 (0.60%) COBIT
7 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.30%) FATCA
8 2 (0.30%) MiFID
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.05%) vSphere
4 4 (0.60%) Docker
5 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.30%) KVM
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) UAG
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (3.76%) Endace
2 17 (2.56%) Ansible
2 17 (2.56%) Terraform
3 13 (1.95%) WMI
4 7 (1.05%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) Podman
5 3 (0.45%) SCCM
5 3 (0.45%) SCOM
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.15%) vRealize
6 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 78 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.23%) Cisco
3 67 (10.08%) Juniper
4 40 (6.02%) VMware
5 28 (4.21%) F5
6 11 (1.65%) Fortinet
6 11 (1.65%) Oracle
7 9 (1.35%) SAP
8 8 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.90%) Dell
10 5 (0.75%) Workday
11 4 (0.60%) Palantir
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) Ariba
12 3 (0.45%) Citrix
12 3 (0.45%) Foundry
12 3 (0.45%) IBM
12 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft
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