Architect Contracts

Architect
UK

The median Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,437 5,334 8,446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.38% 9.40% 9.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.19% 9.94% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,851 3,693 5,627
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £561 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +9.72%
75th Percentile £738 £749 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 66 25
10th Percentile - £35.63 £55.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.25 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.78%
75th Percentile £85.65 £70.26 £69.05
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.25 £79.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
% change year-on-year - +14.90% +3.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,655 53,675 84,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.62% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,814 37,483 59,176
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,482 2,013
10th Percentile £12.80 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £75.98 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +4 3,837 £650 -2.69% 1,246
UK excluding London +5 2,082 £650 - 809
London 0 1,742 £657 -6.14% 643
Work from Home +3 1,599 £650 - 552
South East +7 669 £650 - 343
North of England +19 472 £625 -0.99% 145
South West +5 462 £650 -2.69% 80
North West +25 300 £650 +4.00% 82
Midlands +7 257 £625 -3.85% 110
West Midlands +8 181 £650 -3.70% 64
East of England +15 162 £618 -8.65% 64
Yorkshire +9 158 £600 -7.69% 45
Scotland +2 98 £675 +3.85% 29
East Midlands +5 75 £559 -15.15% 42
North East +15 17 £631 +2.02% 18
Wales -15 12 £600 - 27
Northern Ireland +8 11 £650 +18.18% 19
Isle of Man - 3 - - 3

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,403 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 983 (22.15%) Azure
3 849 (19.13%) Finance
4 801 (18.05%) SC Cleared
5 785 (17.69%) Social Skills
6 703 (15.84%) Agile
7 698 (15.73%) AWS
8 569 (12.82%) Microsoft
9 552 (12.44%) Public Sector
10 539 (12.15%) DV Cleared
11 530 (11.95%) Migration
12 482 (10.86%) Roadmaps
13 480 (10.82%) DevOps
14 381 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
15 371 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 367 (8.27%) Degree
17 344 (7.75%) Data Modelling
18 339 (7.64%) Banking
19 302 (6.81%) Security Architecture
20 281 (6.33%) Enterprise Architecture
21 275 (6.20%) GCP
22 264 (5.95%) Microservices
23 261 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
23 261 (5.88%) Python
24 259 (5.84%) TOGAF
25 256 (5.77%) SAP
26 251 (5.66%) Firewall
26 251 (5.66%) Java
27 250 (5.63%) Data Architecture
27 250 (5.63%) CI/CD

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
1 112 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.08%) Confluence
3 42 (0.95%) Apache
4 39 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 22 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 18 (0.41%) CMS
8 13 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 11 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.23%) IIS
11 9 (0.20%) SAS
12 8 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.14%) JBoss
15 5 (0.11%) Appian
16 4 (0.090%) WebLogic
17 3 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 58 (1.31%) MS Visio
2 22 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.045%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.045%) Revit
9 1 (0.023%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 92 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 79 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 58 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 32 (0.72%) Teamcenter
5 20 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 19 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 17 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
7 17 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
8 15 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle AGIS
11 12 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
11 12 (0.27%) SAP SD
12 11 (0.25%) SAP ERP
13 10 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 10 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
13 10 (0.23%) SAP EWM
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
15 8 (0.18%) SAP FI
15 8 (0.18%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 983 (22.15%) Azure
2 698 (15.73%) AWS
3 275 (6.20%) GCP
4 205 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 191 (4.30%) SaaS
6 163 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
7 142 (3.20%) PaaS
8 132 (2.97%) IaaS
9 127 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 95 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 88 (1.98%) Serverless
13 80 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
14 60 (1.35%) Snowflake
15 46 (1.04%) GitHub
16 45 (1.01%) Amazon S3
17 42 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 41 (0.92%) dbt
19 39 (0.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 251 (5.66%) Firewall
2 203 (4.58%) WAN
3 163 (3.67%) LAN
4 110 (2.48%) Network Security
5 105 (2.37%) VPN
6 88 (1.98%) SSL
7 66 (1.49%) MPLS
8 59 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 57 (1.28%) VoIP
10 45 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
11 43 (0.97%) DNS
12 42 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
13 41 (0.92%) BGP
14 39 (0.88%) PBX
15 34 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (0.52%) Internet
16 23 (0.52%) SAN
17 21 (0.47%) DHCP
17 21 (0.47%) WLAN
18 19 (0.43%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (3.00%) Data Lake
3 116 (2.61%) Power BI
4 105 (2.37%) NoSQL
5 98 (2.21%) Big Data
5 98 (2.21%) SQL Server
6 87 (1.96%) Metadata
7 47 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
8 46 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 43 (0.97%) Data Vault
9 43 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 39 (0.88%) Tableau
11 37 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 36 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
13 29 (0.65%) Apache Arrow
13 29 (0.65%) Dremio
14 28 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
15 25 (0.56%) RDBMS
16 24 (0.54%) DB2
Development Applications
1 84 (1.89%) JIRA
2 63 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 47 (1.06%) Git
4 28 (0.63%) ERwin
5 23 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.32%) GitLab
7 14 (0.32%) MSI
7 14 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.23%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.18%) Selenium
11 7 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.14%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.11%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.11%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.090%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.090%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.090%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 849 (19.13%) Finance
2 785 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 552 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 339 (7.64%) Banking
5 261 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 212 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 154 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 109 (2.46%) Retail
9 106 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
10 100 (2.25%) Marketing
11 93 (2.10%) Electronics
12 56 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 55 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 52 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.10%) Legal
16 45 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 44 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
18 38 (0.86%) Financial Institution
18 38 (0.86%) Front Office
19 32 (0.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (2.50%) Web Services
2 103 (2.32%) .NET
3 95 (2.14%) REST
4 87 (1.96%) SAML
5 77 (1.74%) Middleware
6 74 (1.67%) Node.js
7 71 (1.60%) XML
8 66 (1.49%) SOAP
9 65 (1.46%) JSON
10 61 (1.37%) Kafka
10 61 (1.37%) OpenID
11 56 (1.26%) React
12 54 (1.22%) OAuth
13 50 (1.13%) SailPoint
14 42 (0.95%) LDAP
15 40 (0.90%) HTML
16 37 (0.83%) RESTful
17 31 (0.70%) CSS
17 31 (0.70%) gRPC
18 29 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 157 (3.54%) Data Centre
2 121 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 105 (2.37%) PKI
4 96 (2.16%) Public Cloud
5 94 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 87 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 77 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 66 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.26%) Reference Data
10 48 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 45 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (0.88%) IoT
16 38 (0.86%) Mainframe
16 38 (0.86%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.79%) Analogue Electronics
18 33 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 233 (5.25%) Windows
2 137 (3.09%) Linux
3 93 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 62 (1.40%) Android
6 31 (0.70%) Unix
7 29 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 19 (0.43%) VMS
10 18 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.34%) Solaris
12 11 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.20%) CentOS
14 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.090%) AIX
16 3 (0.068%) zOS
17 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
18 1 (0.023%) Mac OS
18 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (15.84%) Agile
2 530 (11.95%) Migration
3 482 (10.86%) Roadmaps
4 480 (10.82%) DevOps
5 381 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
6 371 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 344 (7.75%) Data Modelling
8 302 (6.81%) Security Architecture
9 281 (6.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 264 (5.95%) Microservices
11 259 (5.84%) TOGAF
12 250 (5.63%) CI/CD
12 250 (5.63%) Data Architecture
13 246 (5.54%) Analytics
14 233 (5.25%) Cybersecurity
15 222 (5.00%) Business Strategy
16 213 (4.80%) Business Intelligence
17 195 (4.39%) Computer Science
18 194 (4.37%) Architectural Design
19 193 (4.35%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 261 (5.88%) Python
2 251 (5.66%) Java
3 244 (5.50%) SQL
4 130 (2.93%) JavaScript
5 120 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 66 (1.49%) C#
7 56 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 31 (0.70%) C
8 31 (0.70%) C++
9 23 (0.52%) Scala
10 22 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 18 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 17 (0.38%) Bash
13 16 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.25%) Bicep
15 10 (0.23%) ABAP
16 8 (0.18%) Go
17 5 (0.11%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,403 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 801 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 539 (12.15%) DV Cleared
4 367 (8.27%) Degree
5 122 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.16%) CISSP
7 83 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 68 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (1.49%) CISM
10 63 (1.42%) Azure Certification
11 62 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.31%) AWS Certification
13 53 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 45 (1.01%) CISA
15 41 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 40 (0.90%) CCNP
17 23 (0.52%) CCIE
18 20 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 19 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 18 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (2.95%) NIST
2 103 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 98 (2.21%) QA
4 97 (2.19%) GDPR
5 84 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 41 (0.92%) NCSC
8 32 (0.72%) SLA
9 30 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 26 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 23 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 17 (0.38%) COBIT
14 15 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.34%) GRC
15 11 (0.25%) GAAP
16 9 (0.20%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
17 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 196 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.58%) Docker
4 41 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.72%) vSphere
6 29 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.43%) RACF
8 14 (0.32%) KVM
9 13 (0.29%) ACF2
9 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.29%) IAG
10 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.11%) vCloud
13 4 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.090%) XenApp
13 4 (0.090%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.068%) HDFS
14 3 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 162 (3.65%) Terraform
2 105 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 78 (1.76%) Ansible
4 56 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.59%) Endace
7 17 (0.38%) SCCM
8 16 (0.36%) CSIRT
9 15 (0.34%) Grafana
10 14 (0.32%) Puppet
10 14 (0.32%) WMI
11 13 (0.29%) Kibana
11 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.23%) logstash
14 9 (0.20%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.20%) Prometheus
14 9 (0.20%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.18%) VxRail
16 6 (0.14%) zSecure
Vendors
1 569 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.77%) SAP
3 207 (4.67%) Oracle
4 204 (4.60%) Cisco
5 154 (3.47%) VMware
6 147 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.11%) Google
8 128 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 118 (2.66%) Juniper
10 89 (2.01%) Databricks
11 84 (1.89%) IBM
12 73 (1.65%) Sparx
13 64 (1.44%) F5
14 53 (1.19%) CyberArk
15 46 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 39 (0.88%) Okta
17 38 (0.86%) Dell
18 35 (0.79%) Informatica
19 34 (0.77%) Adobe
20 31 (0.70%) BeyondTrust