IT Architect Contracts

IT Architect
UK

The median IT Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 614 731
Rank change year-on-year +91 +117 -71
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 61 83 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 54 77
10th Percentile £400 £606 £517
25th Percentile £563 £650 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £690 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% +7.00%
75th Percentile £704 £750 £738
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £680 £605
% change year-on-year -9.93% +12.40% +12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £71.50
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +77 48 £650 -7.14% 9
Work from Home +97 33 £675 -2.17% 3
London +76 25 £675 -10.00% 5
UK excluding London +23 25 £613 -9.93% 5
North of England +14 7 £346 -42.93% 1
Midlands +15 6 £638 -6.25% 1
South East +17 5 £613 -10.26% 2
Yorkshire +16 5 - - 1
South West +6 5 £575 +1.86%
West Midlands +16 4 £738 +8.46% 1
Scotland +45 3 £775 +3.33%
North West +10 2 £346 -42.93%
East Midlands +7 2 £588 -3.05%

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, IT 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 featuring IT Architect in the job title.

1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 14 (22.95%) Change Management
5 12 (19.67%) Firewall
6 11 (18.03%) Azure
7 10 (16.39%) ITSM
7 10 (16.39%) Service Management
7 10 (16.39%) ITIL
8 9 (14.75%) AWS
8 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
9 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
9 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
10 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
10 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
11 6 (9.84%) JIRA
11 6 (9.84%) Configuration Management
11 6 (9.84%) VMware
11 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
11 6 (9.84%) NCSC
12 5 (8.20%) NIST
12 5 (8.20%) LAN
12 5 (8.20%) Confluence
13 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
13 4 (6.56%) SaaS
13 4 (6.56%) DevOps
13 4 (6.56%) CMDB
13 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
13 4 (6.56%) Network Security
13 4 (6.56%) TOGAF

IT Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) GCP
3 4 (6.56%) SaaS
4 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) LAN
3 4 (6.56%) Network Security
4 3 (4.92%) SAN
5 2 (3.28%) BGP
5 2 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.28%) MPLS
5 2 (3.28%) OSPF
5 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.28%) VPN
6 1 (1.64%) DHCP
6 1 (1.64%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) JIRA
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Banking
3 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Back Office
4 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) CMDB
2 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.28%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) NHS
4 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
1 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) Change Management
2 10 (16.39%) ITIL
2 10 (16.39%) ITSM
2 10 (16.39%) Service Management
3 6 (9.84%) Configuration Management
3 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
4 4 (6.56%) Architectural Design
4 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (6.56%) DevOps
4 4 (6.56%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (6.56%) Project Management
4 4 (6.56%) TOGAF
5 3 (4.92%) ArchiMate
5 3 (4.92%) Data Protection
5 3 (4.92%) ERP
5 3 (4.92%) Information Security
5 3 (4.92%) Microservices
5 3 (4.92%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (4.92%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.64%) Java
1 1 (1.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) CISSP
5 3 (4.92%) Degree
6 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.28%) CCSK
6 2 (3.28%) CISA
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CRISC
6 2 (3.28%) GIAC
6 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.28%) PhD
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) NCSC
2 5 (8.20%) NIST
3 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 3 (4.92%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.64%) COBIT
6 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) AirWatch
1 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
1 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.84%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.64%) Apple
4 1 (1.64%) Ariba
4 1 (1.64%) FIS
4 1 (1.64%) Guidewire