Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London 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 13 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,024 1,892 2,354
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.97% 8.22% 7.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.78% 8.72% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,331 1,679
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £563 £570 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £731 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £658 £650
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.23% +10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 51 18
10th Percentile £60.00 £53.50 £54.10
25th Percentile £61.25 £66.00 £55.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year - +13.42% +5.50%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £69.05
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.25 £80.30
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +8 651 £650 - 205
North of England +16 463 £625 -2.65% 149
South West +4 435 £650 -2.69% 88
North West +25 299 £644 +3.00% 76
Midlands +9 239 £624 -4.08% 104
West Midlands +5 165 £650 -3.70% 64
East of England +15 155 £638 -5.70% 59
Yorkshire +6 151 £600 -7.69% 54
Scotland +1 100 £675 +3.85% 40
East Midlands +1 74 £598 -9.47% 39
North East +14 16 £631 +2.02% 19
Northern Ireland +9 11 £650 +18.18% 22
Wales -15 11 £575 -2.13% 25
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 978 (48.32%) Security Cleared
2 456 (22.53%) DV Cleared
3 436 (21.54%) SC Cleared
4 345 (17.05%) Azure
5 328 (16.21%) Agile
6 323 (15.96%) Social Skills
7 261 (12.90%) Finance
8 256 (12.65%) Public Sector
9 224 (11.07%) Microsoft
10 216 (10.67%) AWS
11 214 (10.57%) DevOps
12 213 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 207 (10.23%) Roadmaps
14 203 (10.03%) Degree
15 176 (8.70%) WAN
16 174 (8.60%) Windows
16 174 (8.60%) Migration
17 172 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
18 153 (7.56%) Firewall
19 151 (7.46%) TOGAF
20 141 (6.97%) Security Architecture
21 140 (6.92%) Cisco
22 137 (6.77%) LAN
22 137 (6.77%) Enterprise Architecture
23 136 (6.72%) Telecoms
24 128 (6.32%) Project Management
25 123 (6.08%) Network Management
26 118 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
27 113 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
28 112 (5.53%) Juniper

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.28%) Confluence
3 15 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.35%) CMS
6 7 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.099%) Appian
7 2 (0.099%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.049%) Apache
8 1 (0.049%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.049%) Drupal
8 1 (0.049%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.049%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (0.89%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.099%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.099%) Revit
6 1 (0.049%) CATIA
6 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.44%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 6 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.30%) SAP FI-AP
6 6 (0.30%) SAP SD
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.15%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 345 (17.05%) Azure
2 216 (10.67%) AWS
3 84 (4.15%) SaaS
4 75 (3.71%) PaaS
5 64 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 62 (3.06%) IaaS
7 51 (2.52%) GCP
8 50 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.09%) Serverless
14 16 (0.79%) Amazon S3
14 16 (0.79%) OCI
15 12 (0.59%) Azure Stack
15 12 (0.59%) GitHub
16 10 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 176 (8.70%) WAN
2 153 (7.56%) Firewall
3 137 (6.77%) LAN
4 90 (4.45%) VPN
5 77 (3.80%) SSL
6 54 (2.67%) MPLS
7 46 (2.27%) Network Security
8 41 (2.03%) BGP
9 38 (1.88%) Cisco Firepower
10 36 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
10 36 (1.78%) VoIP
11 33 (1.63%) PBX
12 31 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 28 (1.38%) DNS
13 28 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (0.99%) DHCP
15 16 (0.79%) WLAN
16 14 (0.69%) SAN
16 14 (0.69%) SDH
17 13 (0.64%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.68%) Data Lake
4 30 (1.48%) Big Data
5 29 (1.43%) Metadata
6 26 (1.28%) Power BI
7 23 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 22 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 13 (0.64%) Relational Database
10 12 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (0.59%) Data Mining
10 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
10 12 (0.59%) OLAP
10 12 (0.59%) OLTP
11 10 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
11 10 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (2.52%) JIRA
2 24 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 23 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (1.04%) Git
5 14 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (0.64%) MSI
7 12 (0.59%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.35%) GitLab
9 5 (0.25%) ERwin
10 4 (0.20%) kappa
10 4 (0.20%) Selenium
11 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.099%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.099%) webpack
13 1 (0.049%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.049%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.049%) Visual Studio
General
1 323 (15.96%) Social Skills
2 261 (12.90%) Finance
3 256 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 136 (6.72%) Telecoms
5 118 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (4.50%) Manufacturing
7 87 (4.30%) Banking
8 62 (3.06%) Electronics
9 55 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (2.37%) Aerospace
11 42 (2.08%) Marketing
12 31 (1.53%) Retail
13 25 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.89%) Legal
15 17 (0.84%) Local Government
16 14 (0.69%) Automotive
16 14 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.59%) Back Office
18 8 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.35%) Aeronautics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (3.71%) Web Services
2 50 (2.47%) Node.js
3 35 (1.73%) SOAP
4 32 (1.58%) REST
5 31 (1.53%) .NET
6 30 (1.48%) SAML
6 30 (1.48%) XML
7 28 (1.38%) Middleware
8 27 (1.33%) OpenID
9 25 (1.24%) OAuth
10 24 (1.19%) Kafka
11 19 (0.94%) JSON
12 17 (0.84%) RESTful
13 16 (0.79%) LDAP
14 14 (0.69%) HTML
15 13 (0.64%) React
16 12 (0.59%) J2EE
16 12 (0.59%) SailPoint
17 10 (0.49%) DirectX
17 10 (0.49%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.10%) Data Centre
1 83 (4.10%) PKI
2 69 (3.41%) Public Cloud
3 66 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
6 34 (1.68%) Analogue Electronics
7 33 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.04%) Operational Technology
11 16 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (0.74%) Cloud Native
12 15 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.74%) NHS
13 12 (0.59%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
14 11 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.49%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 174 (8.60%) Windows
2 82 (4.05%) Windows Server
3 55 (2.72%) Android
4 54 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 51 (2.52%) Linux
6 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.49%) Unix
9 9 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.099%) Solaris
12 2 (0.099%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.099%) zOS
13 1 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (16.21%) Agile
2 214 (10.57%) DevOps
3 213 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 207 (10.23%) Roadmaps
5 174 (8.60%) Migration
6 172 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
7 151 (7.46%) TOGAF
8 141 (6.97%) Security Architecture
9 137 (6.77%) Enterprise Architecture
10 128 (6.32%) Project Management
11 123 (6.08%) Network Management
12 113 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
13 110 (5.43%) Business Strategy
14 106 (5.24%) IT Strategy
15 103 (5.09%) Project Delivery
16 100 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
16 100 (4.94%) Data Modelling
17 99 (4.89%) Customer Requirements
17 99 (4.89%) Risk Management
18 92 (4.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 94 (4.64%) Java
2 78 (3.85%) SQL
3 61 (3.01%) PowerShell
4 58 (2.87%) Python
5 24 (1.19%) C
6 20 (0.99%) C#
6 20 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.69%) C++
8 11 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.40%) ABAP
10 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.30%) Bash
11 4 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.099%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.099%) Bicep
12 2 (0.099%) SOQL
13 1 (0.049%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.049%) Go
13 1 (0.049%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.049%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 978 (48.32%) Security Cleared
2 456 (22.53%) DV Cleared
3 436 (21.54%) SC Cleared
4 203 (10.03%) Degree
5 43 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.68%) CCNP
8 33 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 23 (1.14%) CISSP
11 17 (0.84%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.79%) HND
13 15 (0.74%) CCIE
14 14 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.59%) CCNA
15 12 (0.59%) CISM
15 12 (0.59%) ISACA
15 12 (0.59%) PhD
16 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (2.17%) QA
2 38 (1.88%) NIST
3 35 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.28%) JSP 440
6 25 (1.24%) GDPR
7 19 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.84%) NCSC
9 15 (0.74%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.74%) SLA
10 12 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.40%) COBIT
11 8 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.35%) RMADS
13 4 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.15%) GRC
15 2 (0.099%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.099%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 111 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (1.28%) Docker
4 12 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.54%) vSphere
6 9 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.20%) XenApp
8 4 (0.20%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.099%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.049%) ACF2
11 1 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.049%) HDFS
11 1 (0.049%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 51 (2.52%) Terraform
2 31 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
3 30 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 26 (1.28%) Ansible
4 26 (1.28%) Endace
5 14 (0.69%) WMI
6 11 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.35%) SCCM
8 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.20%) Grafana
9 4 (0.20%) SCOM
9 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.20%) VxRail
10 3 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.15%) Podman
10 3 (0.15%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.099%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.099%) Kibana
11 2 (0.099%) Puppet
11 2 (0.099%) vRealize
Vendors
1 224 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.92%) Cisco
3 112 (5.53%) Juniper
4 83 (4.10%) VMware
5 78 (3.85%) SAP
6 59 (2.92%) Oracle
7 47 (2.32%) F5
8 45 (2.22%) Google
9 43 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 35 (1.73%) ServiceNow
11 34 (1.68%) IBM
12 29 (1.43%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.19%) Dell
14 23 (1.14%) Databricks
14 23 (1.14%) Nokia
15 18 (0.89%) Adobe
16 17 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.84%) Sparx
17 14 (0.69%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.64%) ForgeRock