Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650 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 11 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,869 4,444 6,477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.49% 9.36% 9.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.30% 9.90% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 3,147 4,372
10th Percentile £500 £512 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £670 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £745 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £831 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £656 £650
% change year-on-year -0.88% +0.88% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 66 14
10th Percentile - £36.40 £55.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year - +13.42% +4.44%
75th Percentile £86.32 £74.81 £76.33
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £80.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England 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
London 0 1,753 £660 -5.71% 415
South East +5 679 £650 - 126
North of England +18 487 £625 - 156
South West +4 463 £650 -2.69% 75
North West +22 310 £636 +3.33% 91
Midlands +8 253 £625 -3.85% 117
West Midlands +6 174 £650 -2.77% 81
East of England +11 163 £618 -8.65% 42
Yorkshire +8 163 £600 -7.69% 47
East Midlands +2 78 £567 -14.09% 36
North East +15 17 £631 +5.21% 18
Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,307 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 837 (21.63%) Azure
3 705 (18.22%) SC Cleared
4 695 (17.96%) Finance
5 670 (17.32%) Social Skills
6 643 (16.62%) Agile
7 605 (15.64%) AWS
8 530 (13.70%) DV Cleared
9 513 (13.26%) Microsoft
10 457 (11.81%) Public Sector
11 436 (11.27%) Migration
12 422 (10.91%) DevOps
13 407 (10.52%) Roadmaps
14 333 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 326 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
16 317 (8.19%) Degree
17 304 (7.86%) Data Modelling
18 272 (7.03%) Security Architecture
19 257 (6.64%) Banking
20 246 (6.36%) Enterprise Architecture
21 233 (6.02%) GCP
22 232 (6.00%) Firewall
23 230 (5.94%) Python
24 226 (5.84%) CI/CD
25 225 (5.82%) Windows
26 224 (5.79%) Analytics
27 223 (5.76%) Data Architecture
27 223 (5.76%) Microservices
28 222 (5.74%) TOGAF
29 217 (5.61%) Analytical Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 103 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.14%) Confluence
3 38 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 36 (0.93%) Apache
4 36 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 16 (0.41%) CMS
8 11 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.18%) SAS
12 6 (0.16%) Appian
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 6 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
14 2 (0.052%) Drupal
14 2 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 20 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.052%) Gliffy
7 2 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.052%) Revit
8 1 (0.026%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 69 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.54%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
7 10 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 9 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.21%) SAP EWM
9 8 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 8 (0.21%) Temenos T24
10 7 (0.18%) Loan IQ
10 7 (0.18%) SAP BPC
10 7 (0.18%) SAP MM
11 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 6 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
11 6 (0.16%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.13%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 837 (21.63%) Azure
2 605 (15.64%) AWS
3 233 (6.02%) GCP
4 177 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 169 (4.37%) SaaS
6 152 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
7 132 (3.41%) PaaS
8 117 (3.02%) IaaS
9 108 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
10 81 (2.09%) Serverless
11 79 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 74 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (1.42%) Snowflake
14 42 (1.09%) GitHub
15 40 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.01%) dbt
17 35 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 32 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 232 (6.00%) Firewall
2 189 (4.88%) WAN
3 150 (3.88%) LAN
4 99 (2.56%) VPN
5 87 (2.25%) Network Security
5 87 (2.25%) SSL
6 64 (1.65%) MPLS
7 55 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 47 (1.21%) VoIP
9 43 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 42 (1.09%) BGP
11 41 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
12 39 (1.01%) DNS
13 37 (0.96%) PBX
14 32 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.57%) Internet
15 22 (0.57%) SAN
16 19 (0.49%) DHCP
16 19 (0.49%) WLAN
17 17 (0.44%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (3.39%) Data Lake
3 102 (2.64%) Power BI
4 96 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 88 (2.27%) Big Data
6 86 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 82 (2.12%) Metadata
8 47 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 43 (1.11%) Data Vault
10 42 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
11 41 (1.06%) Relational Database
12 35 (0.90%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
12 35 (0.90%) Tableau
13 31 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 29 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
14 29 (0.75%) Dremio
15 28 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
16 24 (0.62%) OLAP
17 23 (0.59%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 82 (2.12%) JIRA
2 58 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.03%) Git
4 27 (0.70%) ERwin
5 22 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
6 18 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.36%) MSI
7 14 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 13 (0.34%) GitLab
9 11 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.23%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.18%) Selenium
11 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.13%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.10%) kappa
14 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 695 (17.96%) Finance
2 670 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 457 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 257 (6.64%) Banking
5 217 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (4.81%) Telecoms
7 147 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 97 (2.51%) Marketing
9 94 (2.43%) Electronics
10 89 (2.30%) Retail
11 84 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 51 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 51 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 43 (1.11%) Legal
15 39 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (0.98%) Front Office
17 34 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 31 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.51%) Web Services
2 85 (2.20%) .NET
3 75 (1.94%) REST
4 71 (1.84%) SAML
5 67 (1.73%) Node.js
6 58 (1.50%) Middleware
7 57 (1.47%) XML
8 56 (1.45%) JSON
9 55 (1.42%) Kafka
10 49 (1.27%) OAuth
11 48 (1.24%) React
12 46 (1.19%) OpenID
12 46 (1.19%) SOAP
13 35 (0.90%) RESTful
14 34 (0.88%) HTML
14 34 (0.88%) SailPoint
15 31 (0.80%) gRPC
15 31 (0.80%) LDAP
16 30 (0.78%) Spring Boot
17 29 (0.75%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 145 (3.75%) Data Centre
2 117 (3.02%) Product Ownership
3 101 (2.61%) PKI
4 92 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 81 (2.09%) Cloud Native
6 74 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 66 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 50 (1.29%) Reference Data
10 46 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 43 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 43 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 37 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 35 (0.90%) Analogue Electronics
16 33 (0.85%) Derivative
16 33 (0.85%) IoT
16 33 (0.85%) Mainframe
17 32 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 225 (5.82%) Windows
2 122 (3.15%) Linux
3 92 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 59 (1.52%) Android
6 29 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (0.52%) Unix
9 19 (0.49%) VMS
10 18 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.34%) Solaris
12 11 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.21%) CentOS
14 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.078%) zOS
16 2 (0.052%) AIX
16 2 (0.052%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (16.62%) Agile
2 436 (11.27%) Migration
3 422 (10.91%) DevOps
4 407 (10.52%) Roadmaps
5 333 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 326 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (7.86%) Data Modelling
8 272 (7.03%) Security Architecture
9 246 (6.36%) Enterprise Architecture
10 226 (5.84%) CI/CD
11 224 (5.79%) Analytics
12 223 (5.76%) Data Architecture
12 223 (5.76%) Microservices
13 222 (5.74%) TOGAF
14 207 (5.35%) Business Strategy
14 207 (5.35%) Cybersecurity
15 187 (4.83%) Business Intelligence
16 179 (4.63%) Technical Leadership
17 170 (4.39%) Data Governance
18 169 (4.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (5.94%) Python
2 213 (5.51%) Java
3 207 (5.35%) SQL
4 117 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 110 (2.84%) JavaScript
6 57 (1.47%) C#
7 52 (1.34%) TypeScript
8 32 (0.83%) C
9 30 (0.78%) C++
10 22 (0.57%) Scala
11 19 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 18 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.34%) Bash
16 8 (0.21%) ABAP
16 8 (0.21%) Bicep
17 5 (0.13%) Go
18 4 (0.10%) PHP
18 4 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 1,307 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 705 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 530 (13.70%) DV Cleared
4 317 (8.19%) Degree
5 100 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (2.27%) CISSP
7 63 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 60 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 59 (1.52%) CISM
10 50 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 47 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 44 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 42 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 39 (1.01%) CISA
15 36 (0.93%) CCNP
16 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
17 19 (0.49%) CCIE
18 17 (0.44%) PhD
19 16 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 16 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.08%) NIST
2 94 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 86 (2.22%) GDPR
4 84 (2.17%) QA
5 70 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 40 (1.03%) NCSC
8 26 (0.67%) JSP 440
8 26 (0.67%) SLA
9 25 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 22 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 18 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 16 (0.41%) COBIT
13 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.28%) GRC
15 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.18%) RMADS
17 6 (0.16%) ISO 22301
17 6 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.58%) Docker
4 37 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.78%) vSphere
6 27 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.36%) RACF
8 13 (0.34%) KVM
9 10 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.21%) ACF2
10 8 (0.21%) IAG
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.13%) vCloud
13 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.10%) XenApp
13 4 (0.10%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.078%) HDFS
14 3 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 141 (3.64%) Terraform
2 89 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.84%) Ansible
4 47 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.67%) Endace
7 18 (0.47%) SCCM
8 16 (0.41%) CSIRT
9 14 (0.36%) WMI
10 13 (0.34%) Grafana
11 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.31%) Puppet
12 10 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.26%) Kibana
13 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.18%) logstash
15 6 (0.16%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.16%) zSecure
16 5 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 513 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 201 (5.20%) SAP
3 186 (4.81%) Cisco
4 145 (3.75%) Oracle
5 138 (3.57%) VMware
6 125 (3.23%) Google
7 122 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 116 (3.00%) Juniper
9 103 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 74 (1.91%) Databricks
11 73 (1.89%) IBM
12 68 (1.76%) Sparx
13 53 (1.37%) F5
14 44 (1.14%) Palo Alto
15 35 (0.90%) Dell
16 30 (0.78%) Informatica
17 29 (0.75%) Adobe
17 29 (0.75%) CyberArk
18 25 (0.65%) NetApp
18 25 (0.65%) Red Hat