Architect Contracts in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect daily rate in the South East is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 651 540 710
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 11.93% 9.64% 9.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.93% 10.19% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 386 493
10th Percentile £522 £513 £500
25th Percentile £600 £563 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +9.92%
75th Percentile £725 £729 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 3
10th Percentile - £58.90 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £64.38 £56.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +18.64% -19.67%
75th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £70.95
90th Percentile £92.26 - £76.62
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,035 5,299 7,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 94.63% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,027 3,700 5,008
10th Percentile £214 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £390 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 231 321
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.97 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £75.00 £58.38
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire +6 369 £650 - 31
Thames Valley +6 229 £625 - 64
Berkshire +6 193 £625 -3.85% 36
Buckinghamshire +4 30 £625 +9.65% 16
Surrey -21 21 £672 +7.52% 22
West Sussex -22 11 £750 +7.45% 3
East Sussex +2 9 £800 +7.38% 6
Oxfordshire +6 6 £550 -10.20% 13
Kent -1 6 £788 +7.51% 2
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Sussex -4 1 - - 2
Middlesex - 1 £625 -
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 478 (73.43%) Security Cleared
2 258 (39.63%) DV Cleared
3 107 (16.44%) Agile
4 102 (15.67%) SC Cleared
5 93 (14.29%) Azure
6 77 (11.83%) Microsoft
7 76 (11.67%) SSL
8 75 (11.52%) Windows
8 75 (11.52%) PKI
9 74 (11.37%) Juniper
10 72 (11.06%) WAN
10 72 (11.06%) Social Skills
11 70 (10.75%) Cisco
12 67 (10.29%) AWS
13 65 (9.98%) Active Directory
14 61 (9.37%) Network Management
14 61 (9.37%) Prototyping
15 60 (9.22%) DevOps
16 59 (9.06%) Degree
17 58 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (8.91%) Public Sector
18 57 (8.76%) Security Architecture
19 54 (8.29%) Customer Requirements
20 53 (8.14%) LAN
21 52 (7.99%) Firewall
22 51 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
23 47 (7.22%) Finance
24 46 (7.07%) Service Management
25 43 (6.61%) Presales
25 43 (6.61%) VMware

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.77%) CMS
3 3 (0.46%) Confluence
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) Maximo
4 1 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Business ByDesign
4 1 (0.15%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 93 (14.29%) Azure
2 67 (10.29%) AWS
3 13 (2.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (1.08%) PaaS
5 6 (0.92%) Azure Stack
5 6 (0.92%) IaaS
5 6 (0.92%) SaaS
6 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (0.77%) Snowflake
7 4 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.61%) Serverless
8 3 (0.46%) Amazon Neptune
8 3 (0.46%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.46%) Figma
8 3 (0.46%) GitHub
9 2 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.67%) SSL
2 72 (11.06%) WAN
3 53 (8.14%) LAN
4 52 (7.99%) Firewall
5 33 (5.07%) MPLS
6 31 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 28 (4.30%) BGP
8 26 (3.99%) Cisco Firepower
9 23 (3.53%) VPN
10 20 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (2.00%) DHCP
11 13 (2.00%) DNS
12 11 (1.69%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.54%) Network Security
13 10 (1.54%) SAN
14 7 (1.08%) VLAN
15 5 (0.77%) Internet
15 5 (0.77%) iSCSI
16 3 (0.46%) Junos
16 3 (0.46%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.08%) Big Data
1 7 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 4 (0.61%) Metadata
3 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.31%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (0.31%) Power BI
5 2 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.15%) DTS
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.15%) Impala
6 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (2.00%) MSI
2 12 (1.84%) Robot Framework
2 12 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (0.92%) JIRA
4 4 (0.61%) GitLab
4 4 (0.61%) Selenium
5 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.31%) kappa
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (11.06%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.91%) Public Sector
3 47 (7.22%) Finance
4 41 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.54%) Retail
7 8 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.08%) Banking
9 6 (0.92%) Legal
10 5 (0.77%) Local Government
11 2 (0.31%) Advertising
11 2 (0.31%) Back Office
11 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.15%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.15%) Automotive
12 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.15%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.30%) Web Services
2 12 (1.84%) .NET
3 6 (0.92%) REST
4 4 (0.61%) ARM Templates
4 4 (0.61%) JSON
5 3 (0.46%) Java EE
5 3 (0.46%) OAuth
5 3 (0.46%) OpenID
6 2 (0.31%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.31%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.31%) J2EE
6 2 (0.31%) SAML
7 1 (0.15%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.15%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) Playwright
7 1 (0.15%) RESTful
7 1 (0.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.52%) PKI
2 30 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 10 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (1.38%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.46%) IoT
10 3 (0.46%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.31%) CSOC
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.31%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.31%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 75 (11.52%) Windows
2 23 (3.53%) Linux
3 18 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.61%) Unix
8 2 (0.31%) Android
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Solaris
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (16.44%) Agile
2 61 (9.37%) Network Management
2 61 (9.37%) Prototyping
3 60 (9.22%) DevOps
4 58 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (8.76%) Security Architecture
6 54 (8.29%) Customer Requirements
7 51 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
8 46 (7.07%) Service Management
9 43 (6.61%) Presales
10 41 (6.30%) Cryptography
11 40 (6.14%) Roadmaps
12 39 (5.99%) Key Management
13 37 (5.68%) Network Design
13 37 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (5.07%) SIEM
15 31 (4.76%) Project Delivery
16 28 (4.30%) ITIL
17 27 (4.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (5.99%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.61%) Java
3 17 (2.61%) Python
4 12 (1.84%) SQL
5 8 (1.23%) C#
6 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.31%) ActionScript
7 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.31%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.15%) C
8 1 (0.15%) C++
8 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 478 (73.43%) Security Cleared
2 258 (39.63%) DV Cleared
3 102 (15.67%) SC Cleared
4 59 (9.06%) Degree
5 11 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.23%) CCNP
8 4 (0.61%) ISACA
8 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.46%) CCNA
9 3 (0.46%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.46%) MCSE
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.31%) CCIE
10 2 (0.31%) CISSP
10 2 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
10 2 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.84%) NIST
1 12 (1.84%) QA
2 11 (1.69%) SLA
3 8 (1.23%) NCSC
4 7 (1.08%) GDPR
4 7 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 7 (1.08%) RMADS
5 4 (0.61%) COBIT
6 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (9.98%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.08%) vSphere
4 4 (0.61%) Docker
5 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.31%) KVM
5 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) UAG
6 1 (0.15%) vCloud
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (3.99%) Endace
2 18 (2.76%) Terraform
3 17 (2.61%) Ansible
4 14 (2.15%) WMI
5 6 (0.92%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.77%) SCCM
7 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.46%) Podman
7 3 (0.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 77 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 74 (11.37%) Juniper
3 70 (10.75%) Cisco
4 43 (6.61%) VMware
5 30 (4.61%) F5
6 12 (1.84%) Oracle
7 9 (1.38%) SAP
8 8 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.92%) Dell
10 6 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
12 3 (0.46%) Ariba
12 3 (0.46%) IBM
12 3 (0.46%) Palantir
12 3 (0.46%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.46%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.46%) Workday
13 2 (0.31%) JDA
13 2 (0.31%) Sparx