Architect Contracts

Architect
UK

The median Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,474 5,246 8,339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.39% 9.46% 9.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.19% 10.00% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 3,623 5,567
10th Percentile £500 £510 £513
25th Percentile £556 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £659 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +1.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 71 21
10th Percentile £58.75 £35.25 £55.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.44%
75th Percentile £85.99 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year - +14.90% +1.53%

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 39,999 52,446 83,585
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,801 36,620 58,938
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,862 1,460 1,964
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 +4 3,882 £650 -2.99% 868
UK excluding London +5 2,105 £650 - 502
London 0 1,766 £650 -7.14% 354
Work from Home +2 1,571 £650 - 442
South East +5 668 £650 - 124
North of England +18 498 £625 - 128
South West +4 463 £650 -2.69% 72
North West +20 321 £625 +1.63% 74
Midlands +9 252 £625 -3.85% 100
West Midlands +6 173 £650 -2.77% 66
East of England +15 164 £610 -9.76% 44
Yorkshire +7 164 £600 -7.69% 42
Scotland +4 99 £675 +3.85% 22
East Midlands 0 78 £571 -13.48% 34
North East +12 16 £631 +5.21% 12
Wales -8 12 £600 - 20
Northern Ireland +4 10 £650 +18.18% 8
Isle of Man - 3 - - 3

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,406 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 965 (21.57%) Azure
3 870 (19.45%) Finance
4 792 (17.70%) Social Skills
5 789 (17.64%) SC Cleared
6 719 (16.07%) Agile
7 704 (15.74%) AWS
8 585 (13.08%) Microsoft
9 547 (12.23%) DV Cleared
10 544 (12.16%) Public Sector
11 533 (11.91%) Migration
12 483 (10.80%) DevOps
13 481 (10.75%) Roadmaps
14 387 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
15 373 (8.34%) Stakeholder Management
16 367 (8.20%) Degree
17 348 (7.78%) Banking
18 335 (7.49%) Data Modelling
19 303 (6.77%) Security Architecture
20 277 (6.19%) GCP
21 275 (6.15%) Microservices
22 269 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
22 269 (6.01%) Enterprise Architecture
23 265 (5.92%) SAP
24 263 (5.88%) CI/CD
25 258 (5.77%) Java
25 258 (5.77%) Python
25 258 (5.77%) TOGAF
26 254 (5.68%) Analytics
27 247 (5.52%) Data Architecture

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:

Application Platforms
1 113 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 61 (1.36%) Confluence
3 43 (0.96%) Apache
4 40 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 38 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 18 (0.40%) CMS
9 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 11 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.20%) SAS
14 8 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.13%) Appian
16 6 (0.13%) JBoss
17 5 (0.11%) WebLogic
18 4 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 66 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 16 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.045%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.045%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.045%) Revit
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 94 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 78 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 33 (0.74%) Teamcenter
5 20 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 18 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
8 15 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle AGIS
11 12 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
12 11 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 11 (0.25%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.25%) SAP SD
13 10 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 10 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 10 (0.22%) SAP EWM
13 10 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 965 (21.57%) Azure
2 704 (15.74%) AWS
3 277 (6.19%) GCP
4 201 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 185 (4.14%) SaaS
6 163 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 140 (3.13%) PaaS
8 136 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 130 (2.91%) IaaS
10 95 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 86 (1.92%) Serverless
13 83 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
14 62 (1.39%) Snowflake
15 46 (1.03%) GitHub
16 45 (1.01%) Amazon S3
16 45 (1.01%) dbt
17 41 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 40 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 38 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 245 (5.48%) Firewall
2 199 (4.45%) WAN
3 161 (3.60%) LAN
4 107 (2.39%) Network Security
4 107 (2.39%) VPN
5 87 (1.94%) SSL
6 65 (1.45%) MPLS
7 57 (1.27%) SD-WAN
8 56 (1.25%) VoIP
9 43 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
10 42 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
11 41 (0.92%) BGP
11 41 (0.92%) DNS
12 39 (0.87%) PBX
13 33 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.49%) Internet
14 22 (0.49%) WLAN
15 21 (0.47%) SAN
16 19 (0.42%) DHCP
16 19 (0.42%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
2 143 (3.20%) Data Lake
3 113 (2.53%) Power BI
4 104 (2.32%) NoSQL
5 97 (2.17%) Big Data
6 94 (2.10%) SQL Server
7 85 (1.90%) Metadata
8 52 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 46 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 44 (0.98%) Data Vault
11 44 (0.98%) Oracle Database
12 38 (0.85%) Tableau
13 36 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 36 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
14 33 (0.74%) Apache Arrow
14 33 (0.74%) Dremio
15 32 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
16 26 (0.58%) DB2
17 25 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (2.26%) JIRA
2 61 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.10%) Git
4 26 (0.58%) ERwin
5 22 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.31%) GitLab
7 14 (0.31%) MSI
7 14 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 12 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 7 (0.16%) Selenium
10 7 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.13%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.11%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.089%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.089%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.089%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.089%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 870 (19.45%) Finance
2 792 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 544 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 348 (7.78%) Banking
5 269 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 213 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 156 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 108 (2.41%) Retail
9 106 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 102 (2.28%) Marketing
11 95 (2.12%) Electronics
12 55 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 52 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.10%) Investment Banking
16 46 (1.03%) Legal
17 43 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (0.94%) Front Office
19 34 (0.76%) Financial Institution
20 32 (0.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (2.50%) Web Services
2 102 (2.28%) REST
3 100 (2.24%) .NET
4 84 (1.88%) SAML
5 80 (1.79%) Middleware
6 73 (1.63%) Node.js
7 71 (1.59%) XML
8 67 (1.50%) SOAP
9 64 (1.43%) JSON
10 60 (1.34%) Kafka
11 58 (1.30%) OpenID
12 55 (1.23%) React
13 53 (1.18%) OAuth
14 51 (1.14%) SailPoint
15 42 (0.94%) HTML
16 41 (0.92%) RESTful
17 38 (0.85%) LDAP
18 35 (0.78%) gRPC
19 34 (0.76%) CSS
20 33 (0.74%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 156 (3.49%) Data Centre
2 128 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 104 (2.32%) PKI
4 98 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 88 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 87 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 75 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.25%) Reference Data
10 47 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 47 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 46 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 45 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 45 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 37 (0.83%) Derivative
17 36 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 36 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 236 (5.27%) Windows
2 135 (3.02%) Linux
3 95 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 64 (1.43%) Android
4 64 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 29 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (0.63%) Unix
7 19 (0.42%) VMS
8 18 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.34%) Solaris
10 11 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.18%) CentOS
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.089%) AIX
14 3 (0.067%) zOS
15 2 (0.045%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (16.07%) Agile
2 533 (11.91%) Migration
3 483 (10.80%) DevOps
4 481 (10.75%) Roadmaps
5 387 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
6 373 (8.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 335 (7.49%) Data Modelling
8 303 (6.77%) Security Architecture
9 275 (6.15%) Microservices
10 269 (6.01%) Enterprise Architecture
11 263 (5.88%) CI/CD
12 258 (5.77%) TOGAF
13 254 (5.68%) Analytics
14 247 (5.52%) Data Architecture
15 235 (5.25%) Cybersecurity
16 222 (4.96%) Business Strategy
17 206 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
18 201 (4.49%) Architectural Design
19 197 (4.40%) Computer Science
19 197 (4.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 258 (5.77%) Java
1 258 (5.77%) Python
2 243 (5.43%) SQL
3 131 (2.93%) JavaScript
4 122 (2.73%) PowerShell
5 65 (1.45%) C#
6 60 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 35 (0.78%) C++
8 34 (0.76%) C
9 23 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 23 (0.51%) Scala
10 20 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 19 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.36%) Bash
13 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.25%) ABAP
14 11 (0.25%) Bicep
15 5 (0.11%) Go
15 5 (0.11%) PHP
15 5 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 1,406 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 789 (17.64%) SC Cleared
3 547 (12.23%) DV Cleared
4 367 (8.20%) Degree
5 125 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 96 (2.15%) CISSP
7 84 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 64 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 64 (1.43%) CISM
9 62 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 60 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 59 (1.32%) AWS Certification
12 53 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 43 (0.96%) CISA
14 38 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.80%) CCNP
16 23 (0.51%) CCIE
17 20 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 19 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 17 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (2.84%) NIST
2 101 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 96 (2.15%) GDPR
4 92 (2.06%) QA
5 82 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 44 (0.98%) NCSC
8 31 (0.69%) SLA
9 30 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 24 (0.54%) JSP 440
12 23 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 17 (0.38%) COBIT
14 15 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 15 (0.34%) GRC
15 11 (0.25%) GAAP
16 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
18 7 (0.16%) RMADS
System Software
1 198 (4.43%) Active Directory
2 112 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.56%) Docker
4 40 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.78%) vSphere
6 31 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.42%) RACF
8 14 (0.31%) KVM
9 13 (0.29%) ACF2
9 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.29%) IAG
10 10 (0.22%) Firmware
11 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.11%) vCloud
13 4 (0.089%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.089%) XenApp
13 4 (0.089%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 159 (3.55%) Terraform
2 100 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 76 (1.70%) Ansible
4 56 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.58%) Endace
7 19 (0.42%) SCCM
8 17 (0.38%) CSIRT
9 14 (0.31%) WMI
10 13 (0.29%) Puppet
11 12 (0.27%) Grafana
11 12 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.25%) Kibana
13 10 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.20%) logstash
14 9 (0.20%) PingFederate
15 8 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 8 (0.18%) VxRail
16 6 (0.13%) zSecure
Vendors
1 585 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 265 (5.92%) SAP
3 200 (4.47%) Cisco
4 198 (4.43%) Oracle
5 154 (3.44%) VMware
6 149 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 138 (3.08%) Google
8 135 (3.02%) Salesforce
9 117 (2.62%) Juniper
10 88 (1.97%) Databricks
11 82 (1.83%) IBM
12 72 (1.61%) Sparx
13 62 (1.39%) F5
14 53 (1.18%) CyberArk
15 44 (0.98%) Palo Alto
16 36 (0.80%) Dell
16 36 (0.80%) Okta
17 34 (0.76%) Informatica
18 32 (0.72%) Adobe
19 31 (0.69%) BeyondTrust