Architect Contracts in the East Midlands

Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £567 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -21
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 72 102 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.20% 10.08% 5.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.76% 10.60% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 91 52
10th Percentile £445 £525 £451
25th Percentile £458 £553 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £657 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +14.17% +9.73%
75th Percentile £645 £745 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
England median daily rate £650 £671 £650
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +15.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 738 962 1,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 95.06% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 749 970
10th Percentile £167 £213 £180
25th Percentile £267 £330 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.16% +13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £513
90th Percentile £622 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 53 90
10th Percentile £11.83 £11.98 £9.74
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.65 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.60 £20.71 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +9.70% +28.40%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £28.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the East Midlands

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Northamptonshire +15 45 £500 -16.21% 11
Leicestershire +13 12 £600 +4.35% 3
Lincolnshire +4 9 £675 +2.27% 5
Nottinghamshire -11 4 £525 -29.53% 16
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 East Midlands region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 25 (34.72%) Finance
2 21 (29.17%) Azure
3 19 (26.39%) AWS
3 19 (26.39%) Banking
4 17 (23.61%) Architectural Design
5 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (18.06%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
6 13 (18.06%) OAuth
6 13 (18.06%) OpenID
6 13 (18.06%) SAML
6 13 (18.06%) LDAP
7 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 12 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
8 11 (15.28%) Migration
9 10 (13.89%) Agile
9 10 (13.89%) Identity Management
9 10 (13.89%) Firewall
9 10 (13.89%) ForgeRock
9 10 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (13.89%) Data Lake
10 9 (12.50%) DevOps
10 9 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
11 8 (11.11%) Java
11 8 (11.11%) Windows
11 8 (11.11%) Microservices
11 8 (11.11%) API Design
11 8 (11.11%) Dynamics 365

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.39%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 19 (26.39%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (9.72%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) VPN
3 3 (4.17%) BGP
3 3 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (4.17%) MPLS
3 3 (4.17%) OSPF
3 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (1.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.56%) DB2
4 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Git
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.72%) JIRA
General
1 25 (34.72%) Finance
2 19 (26.39%) Banking
3 7 (9.72%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) LDAP
1 13 (18.06%) OAuth
1 13 (18.06%) OpenID
1 13 (18.06%) SAML
2 5 (6.94%) RAML
2 5 (6.94%) RESTful
2 5 (6.94%) Web Services
3 4 (5.56%) .NET
3 4 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 4 (5.56%) React
3 4 (5.56%) SailPoint
3 4 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.39%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.39%) gRPC
4 1 (1.39%) IDoc
4 1 (1.39%) JMS
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.39%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Credit Risk
2 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) FMCG
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (5.56%) Android
2 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.39%) VMS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Architectural Design
2 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (15.28%) Migration
5 10 (13.89%) Agile
5 10 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
5 10 (13.89%) Identity Management
6 9 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (12.50%) DevOps
7 8 (11.11%) API Design
7 8 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (11.11%) Microservices
8 7 (9.72%) Service Management
9 6 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (8.33%) ETL
9 6 (8.33%) IT Strategy
9 6 (8.33%) Network Design
9 6 (8.33%) Project Management
9 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) Java
2 5 (6.94%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) C
3 4 (5.56%) C#
3 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.17%) Bash
4 3 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (1.39%) ABAP
5 1 (1.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) HIPAA
1 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) PMO
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (9.72%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) ForgeRock
3 3 (4.17%) Okta
3 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) Citrix
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) F5
5 1 (1.39%) Infor
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.39%) Zuora