Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,008 1,887 2,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.80% 8.08% 7.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.60% 8.57% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,327 1,684
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £570 £563 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £650 £655 £650
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 52 17
10th Percentile £60.00 £41.06 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £90.80 £80.25 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +7 659 £650 - 134
North of England +14 441 £650 +1.56% 153
South West +4 433 £650 -2.26% 80
North West +21 285 £650 +4.00% 87
Midlands +8 233 £625 -3.85% 85
West Midlands +6 170 £650 -3.70% 42
East of England +14 154 £650 -3.85% 46
Yorkshire +6 143 £625 -3.85% 46
Scotland +2 103 £675 +3.85% 38
East Midlands +2 63 £610 -7.58% 42
North East +17 16 £631 +2.02% 20
Northern Ireland +12 11 £650 +18.18% 17
Wales -16 11 £575 - 21
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 985 (49.05%) Security Cleared
2 454 (22.61%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 341 (16.98%) Azure
5 320 (15.94%) Agile
5 320 (15.94%) Social Skills
6 260 (12.95%) Finance
7 258 (12.85%) Public Sector
8 224 (11.16%) Microsoft
9 211 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 205 (10.21%) Degree
10 205 (10.21%) AWS
11 203 (10.11%) Roadmaps
12 195 (9.71%) DevOps
13 180 (8.96%) WAN
14 174 (8.67%) Windows
14 174 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
15 168 (8.37%) Migration
16 153 (7.62%) Firewall
16 153 (7.62%) TOGAF
17 148 (7.37%) Security Architecture
18 142 (7.07%) LAN
19 139 (6.92%) Cisco
20 137 (6.82%) Telecoms
21 128 (6.37%) Project Management
22 127 (6.32%) Enterprise Architecture
23 122 (6.08%) Network Management
24 120 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
25 115 (5.73%) Active Directory
26 111 (5.53%) Technical Leadership

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.20%) Confluence
3 12 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.100%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.100%) IIS
6 2 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.050%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.050%) Appian
7 1 (0.050%) Drupal
7 1 (0.050%) GemFire
7 1 (0.050%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.050%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.050%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (0.90%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.100%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.100%) Revit
5 1 (0.050%) CATIA
5 1 (0.050%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 9 (0.45%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI-AP
6 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 341 (16.98%) Azure
2 205 (10.21%) AWS
3 84 (4.18%) SaaS
4 74 (3.69%) PaaS
5 65 (3.24%) Power Platform
6 62 (3.09%) IaaS
7 50 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.19%) GCP
9 42 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (1.10%) Entra ID
13 16 (0.80%) OCI
13 16 (0.80%) Serverless
14 12 (0.60%) Azure Stack
15 11 (0.55%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.55%) GitHub
16 10 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 180 (8.96%) WAN
2 153 (7.62%) Firewall
3 142 (7.07%) LAN
4 89 (4.43%) VPN
5 79 (3.93%) SSL
6 53 (2.64%) MPLS
7 44 (2.19%) Network Security
8 40 (1.99%) BGP
9 38 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
9 38 (1.89%) VoIP
10 36 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
11 33 (1.64%) PBX
12 30 (1.49%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.39%) DNS
14 27 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (1.00%) DHCP
16 16 (0.80%) SAN
16 16 (0.80%) WLAN
17 13 (0.65%) Junos
17 13 (0.65%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.49%) Metadata
4 26 (1.29%) Power BI
5 23 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 22 (1.10%) Big Data
6 22 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 19 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.60%) Data Mining
9 12 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.50%) OLAP
10 10 (0.50%) OLTP
11 9 (0.45%) Metadata Repository
12 7 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.30%) GIS
13 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.30%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 38 (1.89%) JIRA
2 23 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
3 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (0.65%) MSI
5 12 (0.60%) Robot Framework
6 9 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.35%) GitLab
8 6 (0.30%) ERwin
9 5 (0.25%) Git
10 4 (0.20%) kappa
10 4 (0.20%) Selenium
11 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.100%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.100%) webpack
13 1 (0.050%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.050%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.050%) Visual Studio
General
1 320 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 260 (12.95%) Finance
3 258 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 120 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 70 (3.49%) Banking
8 63 (3.14%) Electronics
9 53 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.39%) Aerospace
11 44 (2.19%) Marketing
12 32 (1.59%) Retail
13 25 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.00%) Legal
15 18 (0.90%) Local Government
16 15 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.60%) Back Office
18 8 (0.40%) Automotive
18 8 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.35%) Digital Economy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.69%) Web Services
2 50 (2.49%) Node.js
3 33 (1.64%) .NET
4 30 (1.49%) SAML
4 30 (1.49%) XML
5 29 (1.44%) REST
5 29 (1.44%) SOAP
6 28 (1.39%) Middleware
7 27 (1.34%) OpenID
8 25 (1.25%) OAuth
9 20 (1.00%) JSON
10 16 (0.80%) LDAP
10 16 (0.80%) RESTful
11 14 (0.70%) Kafka
12 13 (0.65%) HTML
12 13 (0.65%) React
13 11 (0.55%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.50%) DirectX
14 10 (0.50%) OpenGL
14 10 (0.50%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.28%) PKI
2 83 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.44%) Public Cloud
4 68 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 39 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.64%) Analogue Electronics
7 33 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 15 (0.75%) Cloud Native
11 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 15 (0.75%) NHS
12 14 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
13 13 (0.65%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.50%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.50%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 174 (8.67%) Windows
2 83 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.74%) Android
4 54 (2.69%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.54%) Linux
6 18 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.50%) Unix
9 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.100%) Solaris
12 2 (0.100%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.100%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (15.94%) Agile
2 211 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 203 (10.11%) Roadmaps
4 195 (9.71%) DevOps
5 174 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (8.37%) Migration
7 153 (7.62%) TOGAF
8 148 (7.37%) Security Architecture
9 128 (6.37%) Project Management
10 127 (6.32%) Enterprise Architecture
11 122 (6.08%) Network Management
12 111 (5.53%) Technical Leadership
13 104 (5.18%) IT Strategy
14 103 (5.13%) Business Strategy
14 103 (5.13%) Project Delivery
15 98 (4.88%) Customer Requirements
16 97 (4.83%) Cybersecurity
17 95 (4.73%) Data Modelling
18 94 (4.68%) Risk Management
19 92 (4.58%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 85 (4.23%) Java
2 74 (3.69%) SQL
3 63 (3.14%) PowerShell
4 52 (2.59%) Python
5 23 (1.15%) C
6 20 (1.00%) C#
7 19 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.65%) C++
9 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 8 (0.40%) Bash
11 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.100%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.100%) Bicep
13 2 (0.100%) SOQL
14 1 (0.050%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.050%) Tcl
14 1 (0.050%) VB
14 1 (0.050%) X++
Qualifications
1 985 (49.05%) Security Cleared
2 454 (22.61%) DV Cleared
3 439 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 205 (10.21%) Degree
5 44 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.74%) CCNP
8 33 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (1.25%) CISSP
11 17 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.80%) HND
13 14 (0.70%) CCIE
13 14 (0.70%) CCNA
14 13 (0.65%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.65%) CISM
15 12 (0.60%) ISACA
15 12 (0.60%) PhD
16 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (2.29%) QA
2 40 (1.99%) NIST
3 38 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.39%) GDPR
6 26 (1.29%) JSP 440
7 19 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.85%) NCSC
9 15 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.75%) SLA
10 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.40%) COBIT
12 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.35%) RMADS
14 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.15%) GRC
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.100%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 115 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.20%) Docker
4 12 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.20%) XenApp
9 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.15%) KVM
10 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.100%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.050%) ACF2
12 1 (0.050%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.050%) HDFS
12 1 (0.050%) IAG
12 1 (0.050%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 45 (2.24%) Terraform
2 30 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (1.29%) Ansible
3 26 (1.29%) Endace
4 14 (0.70%) WMI
5 9 (0.45%) SCCM
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.20%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) SCOM
7 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.20%) VxRail
8 3 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.100%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.100%) Istio
9 2 (0.100%) Kibana
9 2 (0.100%) Puppet
9 2 (0.100%) vRealize
Vendors
1 224 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.92%) Cisco
3 109 (5.43%) Juniper
4 85 (4.23%) VMware
5 81 (4.03%) SAP
6 58 (2.89%) Oracle
7 47 (2.34%) F5
8 42 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.94%) Google
10 37 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.54%) IBM
12 27 (1.34%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.20%) Dell
14 23 (1.15%) Databricks
15 22 (1.10%) Nokia
16 20 (1.00%) Sparx
17 17 (0.85%) Fortinet
18 16 (0.80%) Adobe
19 14 (0.70%) Zscaler
20 13 (0.65%) ForgeRock