Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Architect
England > Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £625 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 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 253 275 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.06% 8.46% 8.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.84% 8.95% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 195 299
10th Percentile £450 £518 £473
25th Percentile £525 £591 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 £715 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £753
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.25 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £57.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
% change year-on-year - +13.42% +4.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 3,071 4,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.52% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,168 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £228 £212
25th Percentile £336 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.60% +15.43%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 155
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +6 174 £650 -2.77% 82
East Midlands +2 78 £567 -14.09% 37
Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 60 (23.72%) Azure
2 56 (22.13%) Finance
3 52 (20.55%) Security Cleared
4 48 (18.97%) Social Skills
5 43 (17.00%) Agile
6 42 (16.60%) SC Cleared
7 38 (15.02%) Roadmaps
8 34 (13.44%) Migration
8 34 (13.44%) Microsoft
9 32 (12.65%) AWS
10 31 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (12.25%) Architectural Design
11 30 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
12 25 (9.88%) Cisco
13 24 (9.49%) Data Centre
14 23 (9.09%) WAN
15 22 (8.70%) Firewall
15 22 (8.70%) Banking
15 22 (8.70%) DevOps
16 21 (8.30%) Analytics
17 20 (7.91%) Enterprise Architecture
17 20 (7.91%) LAN
18 19 (7.51%) Technical Leadership
18 19 (7.51%) IT Strategy
19 18 (7.11%) Single Sign-On
19 18 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 18 (7.11%) Mentoring
19 18 (7.11%) Web Services
19 18 (7.11%) MPLS
19 18 (7.11%) Degree

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) CATIA
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (5.53%) NetSuite
2 8 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.72%) Azure
2 32 (12.65%) AWS
3 17 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.77%) Boomi
6 7 (2.77%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.77%) SaaS
7 5 (1.98%) GCP
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Serverless
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.79%) IaaS
10 2 (0.79%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.09%) WAN
2 22 (8.70%) Firewall
3 20 (7.91%) LAN
4 18 (7.11%) MPLS
5 15 (5.93%) SD-WAN
6 13 (5.14%) VPN
7 11 (4.35%) BGP
8 9 (3.56%) DNS
8 9 (3.56%) NX-OS
9 8 (3.16%) PBX
9 8 (3.16%) VoIP
9 8 (3.16%) WLAN
10 6 (2.37%) IPsec
10 6 (2.37%) Junos
11 5 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (1.98%) DHCP
11 5 (1.98%) Internet
12 4 (1.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.14%) Data Lake
2 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.95%) Power BI
5 8 (3.16%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.98%) DB2
6 5 (1.98%) Tableau
7 4 (1.58%) Big Data
7 4 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.19%) Metadata
8 3 (1.19%) OLAP
8 3 (1.19%) OLTP
9 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.79%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.79%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Jenkins
1 8 (3.16%) JIRA
2 7 (2.77%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) kappa
4 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
General
1 56 (22.13%) Finance
2 48 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.70%) Banking
5 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Law
10 3 (1.19%) Local Government
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Billing
11 2 (0.79%) German Language
11 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.11%) Web Services
2 17 (6.72%) OAuth
3 15 (5.93%) SAML
4 13 (5.14%) LDAP
4 13 (5.14%) OpenID
5 8 (3.16%) XML
6 6 (2.37%) HTML
6 6 (2.37%) JSON
6 6 (2.37%) RESTful
7 5 (1.98%) .NET
7 5 (1.98%) RAML
7 5 (1.98%) React
8 4 (1.58%) CSS
8 4 (1.58%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.58%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.58%) SOAP
8 4 (1.58%) Swagger
9 3 (1.19%) Middleware
10 2 (0.79%) XSD
10 2 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.49%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.74%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.77%) Credit Risk
5 7 (2.77%) SCADA
6 6 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.58%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.58%) NHS
9 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.19%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.19%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.19%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.72%) Windows
2 11 (4.35%) Linux
3 9 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.37%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.58%) Android
6 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.00%) Agile
2 38 (15.02%) Roadmaps
3 34 (13.44%) Migration
4 31 (12.25%) Architectural Design
4 31 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (8.70%) DevOps
6 21 (8.30%) Analytics
7 20 (7.91%) Enterprise Architecture
8 19 (7.51%) IT Strategy
8 19 (7.51%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (7.11%) Mentoring
10 17 (6.72%) TOGAF
11 16 (6.32%) Business Strategy
11 16 (6.32%) Technology Strategy
12 15 (5.93%) Project Management
13 14 (5.53%) Computer Science
13 14 (5.53%) Data Architecture
13 14 (5.53%) ETL
13 14 (5.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.72%) SQL
2 8 (3.16%) Java
3 7 (2.77%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.77%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.58%) C
4 4 (1.58%) C#
5 3 (1.19%) Bash
5 3 (1.19%) Python
6 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.79%) SOQL
7 1 (0.40%) ABAP
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) VB
7 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 52 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.11%) Degree
4 15 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.56%) CCNP
7 8 (3.16%) CCIE
7 8 (3.16%) CCIE Data Center
7 8 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.77%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.37%) CCNA
9 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.98%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.19%) CISSP
12 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.37%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.37%) QA
2 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.19%) SLA
3 2 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.35%) VMware NSX
2 11 (4.35%) vSphere
3 10 (3.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.58%) Docker
4 4 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.19%) XenApp
5 3 (1.19%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (7.11%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (3.16%) CSIRT
2 8 (3.16%) Progress Chef
3 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.58%) Terraform
5 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Grafana
5 2 (0.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.88%) Cisco
3 17 (6.72%) Salesforce
3 17 (6.72%) VMware
4 10 (3.95%) ForgeRock
5 9 (3.56%) Juniper
6 8 (3.16%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.98%) Autodesk
8 5 (1.98%) CheckPoint
8 5 (1.98%) Databricks
8 5 (1.98%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.98%) Oracle
8 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.98%) Symantec
8 5 (1.98%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.58%) Citrix
9 4 (1.58%) SAP
9 4 (1.58%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.19%) NetApp