Applications Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 412 474
Rank change year-on-year +30 +62 -60
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 16 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 31
10th Percentile £593 £538 £513
25th Percentile £613 £551 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £653 £729 £681
90th Percentile £672 £740 £775
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,528 21,567 29,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.42% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,672 14,888 20,612
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £365 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,125 1,402
10th Percentile £12.65 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Architect in the UK excluding London

Applications Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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 +15 6 £625 - 1
Midlands +9 6 £625 +3.09% 1
North of England +29 5 - -
Yorkshire +14 3 - -
South West 0 3 £625 -6.72%
South East +2 2 £672 -10.40% 2
North West - 2 - -
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, Applications 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Application Security
3 4 (25.00%) CRM
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) API Management
5 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Service Design
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Data Management
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Application Security
2 4 (25.00%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) API Management
4 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (12.50%) Service Design
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce