Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 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 3,962 4,436 6,405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.56% 9.43% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.38% 9.98% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 3,147 4,322
10th Percentile £489 £510 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £669 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £745 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £832 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £657 £650
% change year-on-year -1.07% +1.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 62 16
10th Percentile - £36.28 £53.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.25 £56.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year - +13.42% +4.44%
75th Percentile £87.12 £75.38 £80.06
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £81.45
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +1 1,806 £650 -7.14% 363
South East +3 683 £650 - 117
North of England +18 513 £625 - 137
South West +3 465 £650 -2.48% 67
North West +24 328 £625 +3.14% 89
Midlands +9 267 £625 -3.85% 110
West Midlands +7 189 £650 - 79
Yorkshire +10 173 £600 -7.77% 38
East of England +10 165 £600 -7.69% 50
East Midlands 0 77 £567 -14.09% 31
North East +10 15 £613 +2.08% 10
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 1,328 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 842 (21.25%) Azure
3 722 (18.22%) Finance
4 716 (18.07%) SC Cleared
5 692 (17.47%) Social Skills
6 656 (16.56%) Agile
7 620 (15.65%) AWS
8 541 (13.65%) DV Cleared
9 537 (13.55%) Microsoft
10 468 (11.81%) Migration
11 467 (11.79%) Public Sector
12 428 (10.80%) Roadmaps
13 420 (10.60%) DevOps
14 334 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
15 329 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 324 (8.18%) Degree
17 305 (7.70%) Data Modelling
18 275 (6.94%) Banking
19 274 (6.92%) Security Architecture
20 250 (6.31%) Python
21 244 (6.16%) Enterprise Architecture
22 238 (6.01%) GCP
23 237 (5.98%) Analytics
24 236 (5.96%) Microservices
25 233 (5.88%) TOGAF
25 233 (5.88%) Windows
26 230 (5.81%) Firewall
26 230 (5.81%) Data Architecture
27 229 (5.78%) Java
27 229 (5.78%) CI/CD

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
1 109 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.26%) Confluence
3 44 (1.11%) Apache
4 43 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.43%) CMS
9 11 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 11 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.18%) IIS
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.15%) Appian
13 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 6 (0.15%) SAS
14 3 (0.076%) Drupal
14 3 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 42 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.45%) AutoCAD
4 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.050%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.050%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.050%) Revit
9 1 (0.025%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 71 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 58 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
7 13 (0.33%) Primavera
8 10 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.23%) SAP BPC
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 8 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
10 8 (0.20%) SAP EWM
10 8 (0.20%) Temenos T24
11 7 (0.18%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.15%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.15%) SAP FI-AP
12 6 (0.15%) SAP HR
13 5 (0.13%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 842 (21.25%) Azure
2 620 (15.65%) AWS
3 238 (6.01%) GCP
4 180 (4.54%) Power Platform
5 170 (4.29%) SaaS
6 156 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 131 (3.31%) PaaS
8 116 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (2.93%) IaaS
9 82 (2.07%) Entra ID
10 80 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (1.99%) Serverless
12 76 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
13 62 (1.56%) Snowflake
14 43 (1.09%) dbt
15 42 (1.06%) GitHub
16 40 (1.01%) Amazon S3
17 34 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (0.86%) PowerApps
18 33 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 230 (5.81%) Firewall
2 186 (4.69%) WAN
3 145 (3.66%) LAN
4 98 (2.47%) VPN
5 88 (2.22%) Network Security
6 86 (2.17%) SSL
7 62 (1.56%) MPLS
8 53 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 46 (1.16%) VoIP
10 43 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
11 40 (1.01%) BGP
11 40 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
12 39 (0.98%) DNS
13 37 (0.93%) PBX
14 29 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (0.58%) Internet
16 20 (0.50%) SAN
17 19 (0.48%) WLAN
18 18 (0.45%) DHCP
19 17 (0.43%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.58%) Data Lake
2 138 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (2.55%) Power BI
4 98 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 91 (2.30%) Big Data
5 91 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 81 (2.04%) Metadata
7 55 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
8 44 (1.11%) Data Vault
8 44 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 40 (1.01%) Oracle Database
11 37 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
11 37 (0.93%) Dremio
11 37 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
12 36 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
13 35 (0.88%) Tableau
14 29 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 25 (0.63%) Hadoop
16 23 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 94 (2.37%) JIRA
2 59 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 48 (1.21%) Git
4 29 (0.73%) ERwin
5 24 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 16 (0.40%) GitLab
7 16 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.35%) MSI
9 11 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.20%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.20%) Selenium
11 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.10%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 722 (18.22%) Finance
2 692 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 467 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 275 (6.94%) Banking
5 220 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
6 187 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 147 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 104 (2.62%) Marketing
9 97 (2.45%) Electronics
10 89 (2.25%) Retail
11 83 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 53 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 51 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 46 (1.16%) Front Office
16 43 (1.09%) Legal
17 37 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
18 33 (0.83%) Financial Institution
19 32 (0.81%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.45%) Web Services
2 88 (2.22%) .NET
3 87 (2.20%) REST
4 68 (1.72%) SAML
5 67 (1.69%) Node.js
6 63 (1.59%) JSON
7 62 (1.56%) XML
8 61 (1.54%) Middleware
9 59 (1.49%) Kafka
10 51 (1.29%) React
11 50 (1.26%) OAuth
11 50 (1.26%) SOAP
12 43 (1.09%) OpenID
13 40 (1.01%) HTML
14 39 (0.98%) gRPC
14 39 (0.98%) RESTful
15 37 (0.93%) CSS
15 37 (0.93%) Protocol Buffers
16 36 (0.91%) NumPy
16 36 (0.91%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 155 (3.91%) Data Centre
2 116 (2.93%) Product Ownership
3 104 (2.62%) PKI
4 93 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 82 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 71 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 61 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.31%) Reference Data
10 47 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 47 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 45 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 45 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.03%) Derivative
14 40 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 38 (0.96%) Equities
15 38 (0.96%) Fixed Income
16 37 (0.93%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 233 (5.88%) Windows
2 123 (3.10%) Linux
3 96 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 68 (1.72%) Android
5 67 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (0.50%) Unix
8 20 (0.50%) VMS
8 20 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.33%) Solaris
10 11 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.20%) CentOS
12 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.076%) zOS
14 2 (0.050%) AIX
14 2 (0.050%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (16.56%) Agile
2 468 (11.81%) Migration
3 428 (10.80%) Roadmaps
4 420 (10.60%) DevOps
5 334 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
6 329 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 305 (7.70%) Data Modelling
8 274 (6.92%) Security Architecture
9 244 (6.16%) Enterprise Architecture
10 237 (5.98%) Analytics
11 236 (5.96%) Microservices
12 233 (5.88%) TOGAF
13 230 (5.81%) Data Architecture
14 229 (5.78%) CI/CD
15 210 (5.30%) Business Strategy
15 210 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
16 186 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
17 184 (4.64%) Technical Leadership
18 177 (4.47%) Data Governance
19 173 (4.37%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 250 (6.31%) Python
2 229 (5.78%) Java
3 224 (5.65%) SQL
4 124 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 124 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 63 (1.59%) TypeScript
6 62 (1.56%) C#
7 36 (0.91%) C
8 33 (0.83%) C++
9 23 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 22 (0.56%) Scala
11 18 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.38%) Bash
14 14 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.23%) ABAP
16 8 (0.20%) Bicep
17 6 (0.15%) R
18 4 (0.10%) Go
18 4 (0.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,328 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 716 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 541 (13.65%) DV Cleared
4 324 (8.18%) Degree
5 104 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 85 (2.15%) CISSP
7 65 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 57 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (1.44%) CISM
9 51 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 50 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 48 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 37 (0.93%) CISA
13 33 (0.83%) CCNP
13 33 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.48%) CCIE
15 17 (0.43%) PhD
16 16 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (2.90%) NIST
2 96 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.12%) GDPR
4 80 (2.02%) QA
5 69 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 38 (0.96%) NCSC
8 26 (0.66%) SLA
9 24 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 21 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.50%) JSP 440
12 18 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 16 (0.40%) COBIT
14 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.28%) GRC
16 8 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.18%) RMADS
18 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
18 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 178 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (1.59%) Docker
4 37 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.83%) vSphere
6 29 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.35%) RACF
8 13 (0.33%) KVM
9 10 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.20%) ACF2
10 8 (0.20%) IAG
10 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.15%) Firmware
13 5 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.10%) XenApp
14 4 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 3 (0.076%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 142 (3.58%) Terraform
2 90 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 71 (1.79%) Ansible
4 47 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.63%) Endace
7 24 (0.61%) SCCM
8 18 (0.45%) CSIRT
9 14 (0.35%) WMI
10 12 (0.30%) Grafana
10 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.30%) Puppet
11 10 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.20%) Kibana
12 8 (0.20%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.18%) logstash
13 7 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.15%) PingFederate
14 6 (0.15%) zSecure
15 5 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 537 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 210 (5.30%) SAP
3 181 (4.57%) Cisco
4 152 (3.84%) Oracle
5 140 (3.53%) VMware
6 126 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 121 (3.05%) Google
8 112 (2.83%) Juniper
9 108 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 75 (1.89%) Databricks
11 71 (1.79%) IBM
11 71 (1.79%) Sparx
12 50 (1.26%) F5
13 43 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 34 (0.86%) Dell
15 30 (0.76%) Adobe
16 29 (0.73%) Informatica
17 26 (0.66%) Citrix
17 26 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 26 (0.66%) NetApp