Architect Contracts in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect daily rate in the South East is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 679 553 701
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 11.90% 9.77% 9.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.92% 10.32% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 395 493
10th Percentile £520 £500 £510
25th Percentile £600 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £799 £769
England median daily rate £650 £668 £650
% change year-on-year -2.69% +2.77% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 3
10th Percentile - £59.80 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £69.19 £56.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.34 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.09% +27.69% -11.61%
75th Percentile £89.38 £80.25 £70.95
90th Percentile £94.94 - £76.62
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
% change year-on-year - +14.89% +1.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,254 5,356 7,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 94.60% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,091 3,710 5,080
10th Percentile £234 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £591
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 543 235 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.43 £22.16 £16.15
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £58.88
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -14.44% +88.21% +12.12%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hampshire +9 394 £650 - 29
Thames Valley +1 231 £611 -2.20% 51
Berkshire +2 190 £600 -7.69% 29
Buckinghamshire -1 31 £613 +6.99% 14
Surrey -18 25 £688 +3.77% 11
Oxfordshire +7 10 £550 -12.00% 8
East Sussex +3 9 £800 +7.38% 6
West Sussex -25 9 £750 +7.45% 4
Middlesex - 4 £625 -
Kent -5 2 £788 +20.69% 1
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Sussex -5 1 £550 -18.52% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 494 (72.75%) Security Cleared
2 267 (39.32%) DV Cleared
3 120 (17.67%) Agile
4 110 (16.20%) SC Cleared
5 86 (12.67%) Azure
6 83 (12.22%) Social Skills
7 82 (12.08%) Windows
8 77 (11.34%) Cisco
8 77 (11.34%) PKI
9 75 (11.05%) SSL
9 75 (11.05%) Microsoft
10 74 (10.90%) WAN
10 74 (10.90%) Juniper
11 68 (10.01%) Active Directory
12 67 (9.87%) AWS
13 63 (9.28%) DevOps
14 61 (8.98%) Public Sector
14 61 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (8.84%) Prototyping
16 59 (8.69%) Network Management
17 58 (8.54%) Degree
17 58 (8.54%) Customer Requirements
18 57 (8.39%) Security Architecture
19 54 (7.95%) LAN
19 54 (7.95%) Finance
20 52 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
21 51 (7.51%) VMware
22 50 (7.36%) Firewall
22 50 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
23 46 (6.77%) Service Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.74%) CMS
3 4 (0.59%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) SAP EWM
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) Maximo
5 1 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 86 (12.67%) Azure
2 67 (9.87%) AWS
3 13 (1.91%) Power Platform
4 6 (0.88%) IaaS
5 5 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (0.74%) PaaS
5 5 (0.74%) SaaS
5 5 (0.74%) Snowflake
6 4 (0.59%) Azure Stack
6 4 (0.59%) PowerApps
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon Neptune
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (0.44%) Figma
7 3 (0.44%) GitHub
7 3 (0.44%) Serverless
8 2 (0.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.05%) SSL
2 74 (10.90%) WAN
3 54 (7.95%) LAN
4 50 (7.36%) Firewall
5 33 (4.86%) MPLS
6 31 (4.57%) Intrusion Detection
7 27 (3.98%) BGP
8 26 (3.83%) Cisco Firepower
9 22 (3.24%) VPN
10 20 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.50%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.62%) DHCP
12 11 (1.62%) DNS
12 11 (1.62%) Network Security
13 10 (1.47%) SAN
14 8 (1.18%) NX-OS
15 6 (0.88%) VLAN
16 5 (0.74%) Internet
16 5 (0.74%) iSCSI
17 3 (0.44%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
1 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (0.88%) Big Data
2 6 (0.88%) Oracle Database
2 6 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.59%) Metadata
4 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.29%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (0.29%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.29%) Power BI
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.15%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.15%) Impala
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (1.91%) MSI
1 13 (1.91%) Robot Framework
1 13 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (0.88%) JIRA
3 4 (0.59%) GitLab
3 4 (0.59%) Selenium
4 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.29%) Git
5 2 (0.29%) kappa
6 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (12.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (8.98%) Public Sector
3 54 (7.95%) Finance
4 50 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.83%) Telecoms
6 9 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.18%) Banking
7 8 (1.18%) Marketing
8 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.03%) Retail
9 6 (0.88%) Electronics
10 5 (0.74%) Legal
10 5 (0.74%) Local Government
11 4 (0.59%) Aviation
11 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Billing
13 2 (0.29%) Advertising
13 2 (0.29%) Back Office
14 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.15%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.89%) Web Services
2 9 (1.33%) .NET
3 6 (0.88%) JSON
4 5 (0.74%) J2EE
5 4 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.59%) Middleware
5 4 (0.59%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.44%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (0.44%) CSS
6 3 (0.44%) HTML
6 3 (0.44%) Java EE
6 3 (0.44%) REST
6 3 (0.44%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.44%) WCF
6 3 (0.44%) XML
7 2 (0.29%) Google JAX
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.34%) PKI
2 31 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.88%) Private Cloud
8 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.74%) SCADA
9 4 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.44%) IoT
10 3 (0.44%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.44%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.29%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.29%) CSOC
11 2 (0.29%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.08%) Windows
2 30 (4.42%) Linux
3 20 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.59%) Unix
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.29%) Solaris
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (17.67%) Agile
2 63 (9.28%) DevOps
3 61 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (8.84%) Prototyping
5 59 (8.69%) Network Management
6 58 (8.54%) Customer Requirements
7 57 (8.39%) Security Architecture
8 52 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (6.77%) Service Management
10 40 (5.89%) Cryptography
10 40 (5.89%) Roadmaps
11 38 (5.60%) Key Management
11 38 (5.60%) Network Design
11 38 (5.60%) Presales
12 37 (5.45%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (5.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (4.57%) Migration
14 31 (4.57%) SIEM
15 29 (4.27%) Project Delivery
15 29 (4.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.19%) PowerShell
2 33 (4.86%) Java
3 26 (3.83%) Python
4 12 (1.77%) SQL
5 8 (1.18%) C#
6 7 (1.03%) C
6 7 (1.03%) C++
7 5 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.29%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.29%) R
10 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 494 (72.75%) Security Cleared
2 267 (39.32%) DV Cleared
3 110 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 58 (8.54%) Degree
5 11 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.59%) CCNP
7 4 (0.59%) ISACA
7 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.44%) CCNA
8 3 (0.44%) CISSP
8 3 (0.44%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.29%) CCIE
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.29%) PhD
9 2 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.77%) QA
2 11 (1.62%) NIST
2 11 (1.62%) SLA
3 9 (1.33%) GDPR
4 8 (1.18%) NCSC
5 7 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 7 (1.03%) RMADS
6 5 (0.74%) COBIT
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (10.01%) Active Directory
2 39 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.36%) vSphere
4 11 (1.62%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.44%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.44%) Docker
6 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.29%) KVM
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.15%) HDFS
7 1 (0.15%) UAG
7 1 (0.15%) vCloud
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (3.83%) Endace
2 22 (3.24%) Terraform
3 18 (2.65%) Ansible
4 14 (2.06%) WMI
5 8 (1.18%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.03%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.88%) SCCM
8 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.44%) Podman
8 3 (0.44%) SCOM
9 2 (0.29%) vRealize
9 2 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.15%) Nessus
10 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (11.34%) Cisco
2 75 (11.05%) Microsoft
3 74 (10.90%) Juniper
4 51 (7.51%) VMware
5 30 (4.42%) F5
6 22 (3.24%) SAP
7 12 (1.77%) Oracle
8 8 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.03%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.88%) Dell
10 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) CA
11 4 (0.59%) Databricks
11 4 (0.59%) Splunk
12 3 (0.44%) Ariba
12 3 (0.44%) IBM
12 3 (0.44%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.44%) Sparx
13 2 (0.29%) Palantir