Architect Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 32 72 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.58% 8.31% 7.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.05% 8.83% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 61
10th Percentile £511 £481 £468
25th Percentile £556 £513 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £738 £675
South East median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 454 815 926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 94.11% 97.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 650 710
10th Percentile £253 £246 £219
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £560 £579 £575
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 45
10th Percentile £15.85 £11.13 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £13.57 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.22 £17.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.66% +40.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £28.75 £19.50 £18.76
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.05 £47.00
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in Buckinghamshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Milton Keynes +1 26 £625 +9.65% 14
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 1 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) VMware
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 7 (21.88%) TOGAF
4 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 7 (21.88%) Microservices
5 6 (18.75%) AWS
5 6 (18.75%) NCSC
5 6 (18.75%) NIST
5 6 (18.75%) Finance
6 5 (15.63%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
7 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (12.50%) ArchiMate
7 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
7 4 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (9.38%) SCCM
8 3 (9.38%) SCOM
8 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.38%) MCSE
8 3 (9.38%) Cisco
8 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
8 3 (9.38%) CCNP
8 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
1 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.13%) Impala
1 1 (3.13%) Redis
1 1 (3.13%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Microservices
2 7 (21.88%) TOGAF
3 5 (15.63%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (12.50%) ArchiMate
4 4 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.38%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (9.38%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Business Case
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Prototyping
6 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.25%) Story Mapping
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) CCNP
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.38%) MCSE
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) NCSC
1 6 (18.75%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) HDFS
2 1 (3.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) SCCM
1 3 (9.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) VMware
2 3 (9.38%) Cisco
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) Veeam
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow