Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,610 2,500 4,634
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.70% 9.92% 10.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.44% 10.41% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 1,782 3,240
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £556 £570 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year - +3.12% +7.89%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £655 £650
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 41 13
10th Percentile £59.00 £62.50 £55.20
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - +14.89% +4.15%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £66.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,070 24,019 42,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,440 16,961 30,444
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Architect hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Architect in the job title.

1 414 (25.71%) Azure
2 388 (24.10%) Finance
3 384 (23.85%) Security Cleared
4 313 (19.44%) SC Cleared
5 295 (18.32%) AWS
6 286 (17.76%) Social Skills
7 248 (15.40%) Agile
8 228 (14.16%) Public Sector
9 222 (13.79%) Migration
10 191 (11.86%) Microsoft
11 185 (11.49%) DevOps
12 181 (11.24%) Roadmaps
13 164 (10.19%) Banking
14 148 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 143 (8.88%) Degree
16 139 (8.63%) Data Modelling
17 127 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
18 119 (7.39%) Microservices
19 111 (6.89%) SAP
20 110 (6.83%) Change Management
21 104 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture
22 103 (6.40%) TOGAF
22 103 (6.40%) GCP
23 100 (6.21%) Telecoms
24 98 (6.09%) DV Cleared
24 98 (6.09%) Security Architecture
24 98 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
25 97 (6.02%) Python
26 94 (5.84%) Analytics
27 90 (5.59%) Data Architecture

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 47 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.37%) Confluence
3 17 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.99%) Apache
5 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.62%) CMS
7 8 (0.50%) IIS
8 7 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.31%) SAS
11 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.19%) JBoss
12 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.12%) Drupal
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.062%) CATIA
6 1 (0.062%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.93%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
8 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
9 8 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
10 6 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
10 6 (0.37%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
11 5 (0.31%) SAP HCM
12 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
12 4 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 4 (0.25%) SAP FI-AP
12 4 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 414 (25.71%) Azure
2 295 (18.32%) AWS
3 103 (6.40%) GCP
4 88 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
7 51 (3.17%) SaaS
8 41 (2.55%) PaaS
9 40 (2.48%) IaaS
10 38 (2.36%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.61%) Serverless
13 21 (1.30%) dbt
14 20 (1.24%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.18%) GitHub
16 17 (1.06%) OCI
17 16 (0.99%) PowerApps
18 15 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 14 (0.87%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.66%) Firewall
2 56 (3.48%) Network Security
3 50 (3.11%) WAN
4 43 (2.67%) SSL
5 36 (2.24%) LAN
6 23 (1.43%) VPN
7 18 (1.12%) VoIP
8 17 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
9 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.87%) NetScaler
11 10 (0.62%) CTI
12 9 (0.56%) 4G
12 9 (0.56%) MPLS
13 8 (0.50%) ATM
13 8 (0.50%) WLAN
14 7 (0.43%) 3G
14 7 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (2.42%) Power BI
3 37 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 37 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.55%) Metadata
6 24 (1.49%) Big Data
6 24 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (0.81%) Apache Arrow
10 13 (0.81%) Dremio
11 12 (0.75%) Apache Ignite
11 12 (0.75%) RDBMS
11 12 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (0.68%) OLAP
12 11 (0.68%) OLTP
13 10 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.62%) DB2
Development Applications
1 34 (2.11%) JIRA
2 15 (0.93%) ERwin
3 14 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.50%) Git
5 5 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.19%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Bugzilla
8 2 (0.12%) GitLab
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.12%) TestRail
8 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.062%) kappa
9 1 (0.062%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.062%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 388 (24.10%) Finance
2 286 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 228 (14.16%) Public Sector
4 164 (10.19%) Banking
5 100 (6.21%) Telecoms
6 80 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 56 (3.48%) Manufacturing
7 56 (3.48%) Retail
8 49 (3.04%) Marketing
9 48 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (1.68%) Electronics
11 23 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 15 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.87%) Front Office
16 13 (0.81%) General Ledger
16 13 (0.81%) Local Government
17 12 (0.75%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.04%) Web Services
2 46 (2.86%) .NET
3 44 (2.73%) REST
4 39 (2.42%) SAML
5 38 (2.36%) Middleware
6 33 (2.05%) JSON
7 28 (1.74%) OpenID
8 24 (1.49%) XML
9 23 (1.43%) OAuth
9 23 (1.43%) React
10 22 (1.37%) Node.js
10 22 (1.37%) SOAP
11 20 (1.24%) SailPoint
12 18 (1.12%) RESTful
13 17 (1.06%) LDAP
14 15 (0.93%) GraphQL
14 15 (0.93%) Kafka
15 13 (0.81%) .NET Framework
15 13 (0.81%) gRPC
15 13 (0.81%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.61%) Data Structures
1 42 (2.61%) PKI
2 37 (2.30%) Cloud Native
2 37 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 36 (2.24%) Public Cloud
4 35 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.37%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.06%) IVR
11 16 (0.99%) Operational Technology
12 15 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (0.93%) Mobile App
12 15 (0.93%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.87%) Derivative
13 14 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (0.81%) Equities
14 13 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.98%) Windows
2 39 (2.42%) Linux
3 17 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.93%) Android
5 13 (0.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.37%) Solaris
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.31%) VMS
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.19%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 1 (0.062%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (15.40%) Agile
2 222 (13.79%) Migration
3 185 (11.49%) DevOps
4 181 (11.24%) Roadmaps
5 148 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (8.63%) Data Modelling
7 127 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (7.39%) Microservices
9 110 (6.83%) Change Management
10 104 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture
11 103 (6.40%) TOGAF
12 98 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
12 98 (6.09%) Security Architecture
13 94 (5.84%) Analytics
14 90 (5.59%) Data Architecture
15 85 (5.28%) Architectural Design
15 85 (5.28%) Business Intelligence
16 84 (5.22%) Data Management
17 81 (5.03%) CI/CD
18 71 (4.41%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 97 (6.02%) Python
2 84 (5.22%) SQL
3 76 (4.72%) Java
4 54 (3.35%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.86%) C#
6 23 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.43%) TypeScript
7 12 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.68%) C++
9 10 (0.62%) C
10 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.37%) ABAP
11 6 (0.37%) Bash
12 5 (0.31%) Go
12 5 (0.31%) Scala
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.19%) Clojure
14 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 384 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 313 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 143 (8.88%) Degree
4 98 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (2.42%) CISSP
7 34 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 27 (1.68%) CISM
10 26 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.18%) CISA
15 14 (0.87%) CCNP
16 11 (0.68%) SAP Certification
17 8 (0.50%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.10%) NIST
2 48 (2.98%) Data Quality
2 48 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (2.92%) GDPR
4 32 (1.99%) NCSC
5 27 (1.68%) QA
6 19 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.56%) COBIT
9 8 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.43%) GAAP
10 7 (0.43%) SLA
11 6 (0.37%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.19%) GPG13
14 3 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 87 (5.40%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.37%) Docker
2 22 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.43%) RACF
5 6 (0.37%) vSphere
6 4 (0.25%) KVM
6 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.062%) ACF2
9 1 (0.062%) Ceph
9 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.062%) IAG
9 1 (0.062%) UAG
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (2.98%) Terraform
2 35 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.99%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) SCCM
6 6 (0.37%) VxRail
6 6 (0.37%) zSecure
7 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.25%) Grafana
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
8 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.19%) logstash
9 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.12%) Packer
10 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 191 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 111 (6.89%) SAP
3 89 (5.53%) Oracle
4 51 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 48 (2.98%) Cisco
6 46 (2.86%) Google
7 40 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.17%) VMware
9 34 (2.11%) Databricks
10 32 (1.99%) Sparx
11 28 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 27 (1.68%) IBM
12 27 (1.68%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.55%) F5
14 21 (1.30%) Citrix
15 20 (1.24%) Genesys
16 18 (1.12%) NetApp
17 17 (1.06%) Okta
18 14 (0.87%) Pega
19 13 (0.81%) Informatica