Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,803 4,449 6,455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.45% 9.23% 9.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.27% 9.76% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,151 4,350
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £563 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £672 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% +10.64%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £835 £813
UK median daily rate £650 £657 £650
% change year-on-year -1.10% +1.12% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 61 19
10th Percentile £60.00 £36.54 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%
75th Percentile £87.46 £70.26 £72.03
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.25 £80.28
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +1 1,777 £663 -5.36% 404
South East +5 652 £650 - 149
North of England +15 457 £625 -2.34% 143
South West +4 434 £650 -2.69% 84
North West +25 292 £650 +4.00% 79
Midlands +8 238 £625 -3.85% 96
West Midlands +7 165 £650 -3.70% 52
East of England +15 153 £638 -5.42% 53
Yorkshire +7 152 £600 -7.69% 47
East Midlands +3 73 £600 -8.85% 43
North East +12 16 £631 +2.02% 17
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 across the England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,303 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 828 (21.77%) Azure
3 716 (18.83%) SC Cleared
4 688 (18.09%) Finance
5 659 (17.33%) Social Skills
6 620 (16.30%) Agile
7 610 (16.04%) AWS
8 510 (13.41%) DV Cleared
9 502 (13.20%) Microsoft
10 472 (12.41%) Public Sector
11 414 (10.89%) Migration
12 412 (10.83%) Roadmaps
13 410 (10.78%) DevOps
14 328 (8.62%) Data Modelling
15 321 (8.44%) Degree
16 320 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 316 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
18 281 (7.39%) Security Architecture
19 252 (6.63%) Enterprise Architecture
20 238 (6.26%) Firewall
21 234 (6.15%) TOGAF
21 234 (6.15%) GCP
22 233 (6.13%) Banking
23 232 (6.10%) Data Architecture
24 225 (5.92%) Python
25 224 (5.89%) Analytics
26 217 (5.71%) Windows
27 216 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
27 216 (5.68%) Microservices
28 212 (5.57%) SQL

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 96 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.26%) Confluence
3 37 (0.97%) Apache
4 35 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 34 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 28 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 16 (0.42%) CMS
9 12 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.18%) IIS
11 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.18%) SAS
12 6 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.079%) Drupal
15 2 (0.053%) JBoss
15 2 (0.053%) NetWeaver
15 2 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 38 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.053%) Revit
8 1 (0.026%) CATIA
8 1 (0.026%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 68 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 58 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 53 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.47%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
6 13 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 9 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.21%) Temenos T24
11 7 (0.18%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.18%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.18%) SAP SD
12 6 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
12 6 (0.16%) SAP MM
13 5 (0.13%) SAP BPC
13 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.13%) SAP HCM
14 4 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 828 (21.77%) Azure
2 610 (16.04%) AWS
3 234 (6.15%) GCP
4 179 (4.71%) Power Platform
5 175 (4.60%) SaaS
6 148 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
7 133 (3.50%) PaaS
8 118 (3.10%) IaaS
9 103 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
10 84 (2.21%) Serverless
11 77 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
12 73 (1.92%) Entra ID
13 72 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 55 (1.45%) Snowflake
15 41 (1.08%) GitHub
16 37 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 36 (0.95%) Amazon S3
18 35 (0.92%) dbt
19 34 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
20 33 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 238 (6.26%) Firewall
2 194 (5.10%) WAN
3 153 (4.02%) LAN
4 100 (2.63%) VPN
5 91 (2.39%) SSL
6 87 (2.29%) Network Security
7 64 (1.68%) MPLS
8 46 (1.21%) VoIP
9 45 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 44 (1.16%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.13%) BGP
12 42 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
12 42 (1.10%) DNS
13 35 (0.92%) PBX
14 33 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (0.60%) DHCP
15 23 (0.60%) SAN
16 22 (0.58%) Internet
17 18 (0.47%) WLAN
18 17 (0.45%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 122 (3.21%) Data Lake
3 103 (2.71%) Power BI
4 101 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 92 (2.42%) Big Data
6 89 (2.34%) Metadata
7 87 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 45 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 42 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 42 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 37 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
11 35 (0.92%) BigQuery
11 35 (0.92%) Tableau
12 32 (0.84%) Oracle Database
13 25 (0.66%) Apache Arrow
13 25 (0.66%) Dremio
14 24 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
14 24 (0.63%) OLAP
15 23 (0.60%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 80 (2.10%) JIRA
2 62 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 37 (0.97%) ERwin
4 35 (0.92%) Git
5 23 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.37%) MSI
8 13 (0.34%) GitLab
8 13 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 11 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.21%) Selenium
12 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.13%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.11%) kappa
14 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 688 (18.09%) Finance
2 659 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 472 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 233 (6.13%) Banking
5 216 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (4.89%) Telecoms
7 146 (3.84%) Manufacturing
8 100 (2.63%) Marketing
9 95 (2.50%) Retail
10 94 (2.47%) Electronics
11 84 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 49 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 49 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (1.21%) Legal
15 42 (1.10%) Investment Banking
16 41 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
17 38 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 35 (0.92%) Local Government
19 32 (0.84%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.55%) Web Services
2 86 (2.26%) .NET
3 69 (1.81%) REST
4 68 (1.79%) SAML
5 67 (1.76%) Node.js
6 59 (1.55%) XML
7 58 (1.53%) JSON
8 56 (1.47%) Kafka
9 55 (1.45%) Middleware
10 47 (1.24%) React
11 45 (1.18%) OAuth
11 45 (1.18%) OpenID
12 39 (1.03%) SOAP
13 36 (0.95%) LDAP
14 34 (0.89%) SailPoint
15 31 (0.82%) HTML
16 30 (0.79%) RESTful
17 29 (0.76%) Spring Boot
18 27 (0.71%) gRPC
19 25 (0.66%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 134 (3.52%) Data Centre
2 106 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 100 (2.63%) PKI
4 84 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 83 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 71 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 68 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 57 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 48 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 44 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 44 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 42 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (0.89%) IoT
15 33 (0.87%) Analogue Electronics
16 32 (0.84%) Mainframe
16 32 (0.84%) Security Posture
17 29 (0.76%) Derivative
17 29 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 217 (5.71%) Windows
2 109 (2.87%) Linux
3 87 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 61 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 60 (1.58%) Android
6 27 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 23 (0.60%) Unix
8 18 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.45%) VMS
10 14 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.32%) Solaris
12 10 (0.26%) CentOS
12 10 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.079%) zOS
16 2 (0.053%) AIX
16 2 (0.053%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (16.30%) Agile
2 414 (10.89%) Migration
3 412 (10.83%) Roadmaps
4 410 (10.78%) DevOps
5 328 (8.62%) Data Modelling
6 320 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 316 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (7.39%) Security Architecture
9 252 (6.63%) Enterprise Architecture
10 234 (6.15%) TOGAF
11 232 (6.10%) Data Architecture
12 224 (5.89%) Analytics
13 216 (5.68%) Microservices
14 211 (5.55%) Cybersecurity
15 209 (5.50%) CI/CD
16 194 (5.10%) Business Intelligence
17 193 (5.07%) Business Strategy
18 183 (4.81%) Data Governance
19 174 (4.58%) ITIL
19 174 (4.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 225 (5.92%) Python
2 212 (5.57%) SQL
3 206 (5.42%) Java
4 115 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 106 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 58 (1.53%) C#
7 47 (1.24%) TypeScript
8 27 (0.71%) C
9 25 (0.66%) C++
10 22 (0.58%) Scala
11 18 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.45%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.37%) Bash
15 9 (0.24%) ABAP
16 8 (0.21%) Go
17 7 (0.18%) Bicep
18 5 (0.13%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,303 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 716 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 510 (13.41%) DV Cleared
4 321 (8.44%) Degree
5 101 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (2.34%) CISSP
7 64 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 57 (1.50%) CISM
10 50 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 50 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 45 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 44 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (1.00%) CCNP
13 38 (1.00%) CISA
14 32 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (0.47%) CCIE
16 16 (0.42%) PhD
16 16 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (3.26%) NIST
2 99 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 92 (2.42%) GDPR
4 85 (2.24%) QA
5 74 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.05%) NCSC
7 39 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.71%) SLA
9 26 (0.68%) JSP 440
10 24 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 23 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 19 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 15 (0.39%) COBIT
14 14 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.32%) GRC
16 8 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.18%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.18%) RMADS
18 5 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 75 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.60%) Docker
4 37 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.39%) vSphere
6 14 (0.37%) RACF
7 12 (0.32%) KVM
8 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.21%) ACF2
9 8 (0.21%) IAG
9 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.13%) vCloud
12 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.079%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.079%) HDFS
13 3 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 141 (3.71%) Terraform
2 91 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 74 (1.95%) Ansible
4 45 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.68%) Endace
7 16 (0.42%) Grafana
7 16 (0.42%) Puppet
8 15 (0.39%) SCCM
9 14 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.37%) WMI
10 12 (0.32%) Kibana
11 10 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.26%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.24%) logstash
13 6 (0.16%) PingFederate
13 6 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.16%) zSecure
14 5 (0.13%) Packer
14 5 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 502 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 189 (4.97%) SAP
3 176 (4.63%) Cisco
4 156 (4.10%) Oracle
5 123 (3.23%) Google
6 117 (3.08%) VMware
7 115 (3.02%) Juniper
7 115 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 112 (2.95%) ServiceNow
9 79 (2.08%) Sparx
10 71 (1.87%) Databricks
11 69 (1.81%) IBM
12 55 (1.45%) F5
13 45 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 36 (0.95%) Informatica
15 34 (0.89%) Dell
16 31 (0.82%) CyberArk
17 29 (0.76%) Adobe
18 27 (0.71%) Citrix
19 25 (0.66%) Okta