Product Architect Contracts

Product Architect
UK

The median Product Architect daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 678 833
Rank change year-on-year +114 +155 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Product Architect 15 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.011% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £630 £488 £510
25th Percentile £675 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £788 £625 £600
90th Percentile £795 £670 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £575
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Product Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Architect in the UK

Product Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +105 11 £725 +31.82% 3
London +107 10 £725 +31.82% 2
Work from Home +116 9 £738 +34.09% 3
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Product 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 Product Architect in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Microservices
1 10 (66.67%) Service Design
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (26.67%) Product Vision
5 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (20.00%) Educational Technology
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Product Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 1 (6.67%) Marketing Automation
8 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
8 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
8 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
8 1 (6.67%) Databricks
8 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (6.67%) Analytics
8 1 (6.67%) Mentoring

Product 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Microservices
1 10 (66.67%) Service Design
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (26.67%) Product Vision
6 3 (20.00%) Product Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 1 (6.67%) Analytics
8 1 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
8 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 1 (6.67%) Data Architecture
8 1 (6.67%) Marketing Automation
8 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 1 (6.67%) Product Management
8 1 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
8 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks
1 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.67%) VMware