Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley 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 17 23 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -10
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 232 221 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.93% 7.89% 8.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.64% 8.36% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 158 214
10th Percentile £413 £500 £475
25th Percentile £525 £544 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £652
90th Percentile £725 £767 £700
South East median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £81.86 £55.83 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £59.31 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.75 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -16.98% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £74.31 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £77.88 -
South East median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +24.94% +18.64% -19.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,407 2,645 3,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 94.46% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,830 2,284
10th Percentile £212 £300 £200
25th Percentile £370 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 77 102
10th Percentile £15.55 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year - +157.73% -17.05%
75th Percentile £62.25 £66.21 £22.25
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £54.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -19.19%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +7 196 £625 -3.85% 37
Buckinghamshire +5 30 £625 +9.65% 16
Oxfordshire +6 6 £550 -10.20% 11
Architect
South East

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

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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 124 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.72%) DV Cleared
3 49 (21.12%) Security Architecture
4 47 (20.26%) DevOps
5 43 (18.53%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (17.67%) Firewall
7 39 (16.81%) Azure
8 36 (15.52%) Public Sector
9 31 (13.36%) Intrusion Detection
10 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (12.07%) WAN
12 25 (10.78%) Presales
13 24 (10.34%) LAN
14 23 (9.91%) VMware
14 23 (9.91%) AWS
15 20 (8.62%) Roadmaps
16 19 (8.19%) Social Skills
16 19 (8.19%) SC Cleared
17 18 (7.76%) Data Centre
18 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
19 15 (6.47%) Degree
19 15 (6.47%) IT Strategy
20 14 (6.03%) Cisco
21 13 (5.60%) Agile
22 12 (5.17%) TOGAF
22 12 (5.17%) Microsoft
22 12 (5.17%) Problem-Solving
23 11 (4.74%) SSL
23 11 (4.74%) Active Directory
23 11 (4.74%) ITIL

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.43%) CMS
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.43%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (16.81%) Azure
2 23 (9.91%) AWS
3 7 (3.02%) PaaS
4 6 (2.59%) SaaS
5 5 (2.16%) Azure Stack
5 5 (2.16%) IaaS
6 4 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.86%) Azure API Management
8 2 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.86%) OCI
8 2 (0.86%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.43%) GCP
9 1 (0.43%) Serverless
9 1 (0.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.67%) Firewall
2 31 (13.36%) Intrusion Detection
3 28 (12.07%) WAN
4 24 (10.34%) LAN
5 11 (4.74%) SSL
6 9 (3.88%) MPLS
7 8 (3.45%) DHCP
7 8 (3.45%) DNS
8 6 (2.59%) Network Security
9 5 (2.16%) Internet
9 5 (2.16%) VPN
10 4 (1.72%) BGP
11 3 (1.29%) SAN
12 2 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (0.86%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.86%) OSPF
12 2 (0.86%) PBX
12 2 (0.86%) VLAN
12 2 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.72%) Big Data
1 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.86%) Power BI
2 2 (0.86%) Redis
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.43%) DTS
3 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.43%) Impala
3 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.43%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (2.59%) JIRA
2 4 (1.72%) Selenium
3 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (15.52%) Public Sector
2 19 (8.19%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
4 11 (4.74%) Finance
5 7 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.02%) Retail
6 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Local Government
8 2 (0.86%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) French Language
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.45%) Web Services
2 6 (2.59%) REST
3 4 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.72%) JSON
4 3 (1.29%) .NET
4 3 (1.29%) Java EE
4 3 (1.29%) OAuth
4 3 (1.29%) OpenID
5 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.86%) SAML
6 1 (0.43%) J2EE
6 1 (0.43%) JSON Schema
6 1 (0.43%) Kafka
6 1 (0.43%) Next.js
6 1 (0.43%) Playwright
6 1 (0.43%) RESTful
6 1 (0.43%) SOAP
6 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.43%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.76%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (3.45%) PKI
3 8 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.86%) CSOC
7 2 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.43%) Clustering
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.43%) iPad
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.74%) Linux
2 3 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Solaris
3 2 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (21.12%) Security Architecture
2 47 (20.26%) DevOps
3 43 (18.53%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (10.78%) Presales
6 20 (8.62%) Roadmaps
7 15 (6.47%) IT Strategy
8 13 (5.60%) Agile
9 12 (5.17%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (5.17%) TOGAF
10 11 (4.74%) ITIL
10 11 (4.74%) Migration
11 10 (4.31%) Data Protection
11 10 (4.31%) Enterprise Architecture
11 10 (4.31%) Microservices
11 10 (4.31%) Network Architecture
12 9 (3.88%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (3.45%) Key Management
13 8 (3.45%) Mentoring
13 8 (3.45%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.16%) Java
1 5 (2.16%) SQL
2 3 (1.29%) C#
3 2 (0.86%) ActionScript
3 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
3 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.43%) Python
4 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.72%) DV Cleared
3 19 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.47%) Degree
5 7 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.59%) CCNP
7 4 (1.72%) ISACA
8 3 (1.29%) MCSE
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.86%) CCIE
10 1 (0.43%) CCDP
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.31%) NIST
2 7 (3.02%) NCSC
2 7 (3.02%) QA
3 5 (2.16%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) COBIT
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.72%) Docker
4 2 (0.86%) KVM
4 2 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.43%) HDFS
5 1 (0.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (1.72%) Terraform
2 3 (1.29%) Ansible
2 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.29%) Podman
2 3 (1.29%) SCCM
2 3 (1.29%) SCOM
3 2 (0.86%) Endace
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.91%) VMware
2 14 (6.03%) Cisco
3 12 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.45%) Oracle
5 7 (3.02%) Juniper
6 5 (2.16%) SAP
7 4 (1.72%) F5
7 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.72%) Splunk
8 3 (1.29%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.29%) Workday
9 2 (0.86%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.86%) Veeam
10 1 (0.43%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.43%) Aruba
10 1 (0.43%) Databricks
10 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow