IT Architect Contracts

IT Architect
UK

The median IT Architect daily rate in the UK is £663 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 506 600 741
Rank change year-on-year +94 +141 -95
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 65 87 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 54 72
10th Percentile £400 £602 £475
25th Percentile £563 £652 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £690 £631
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% +9.31% +5.21%
75th Percentile £691 £750 £738
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £680 £575
% change year-on-year -9.93% +18.26% -4.17%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Architect in the UK

IT Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the UK 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
England +93 44 £650 -7.14% 20
Work from Home +94 40 £675 -0.74% 15
London +93 26 £675 -10.00% 9
UK excluding London +45 19 £613 -9.93% 14
South East +38 6 £613 -12.50% 4
South West +12 6 £575 +1.86% 3
Midlands +16 4 £600 -11.76% 3
Scotland +36 2 £688 -8.33% 2
North of England +25 2 £346 -42.93% 2
West Midlands +16 2 £800 +17.65% 2
North West +16 2 £346 -42.93% 2
East Midlands +14 2 £588 -3.05% 1

IT Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 27 (41.54%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Banking
3 19 (29.23%) Change Management
3 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
4 16 (24.62%) Telecoms
5 10 (15.38%) ITIL
5 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 10 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 9 (13.85%) Azure
6 9 (13.85%) Service Management
6 9 (13.85%) ITSM
7 8 (12.31%) AWS
7 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
8 7 (10.77%) TOGAF
8 7 (10.77%) Firewall
9 6 (9.23%) Configuration Management
9 6 (9.23%) NCSC
9 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.69%) NIST
10 5 (7.69%) Architectural Design
10 5 (7.69%) LAN
10 5 (7.69%) VMware
10 5 (7.69%) Network Security
11 4 (6.15%) CMDB
11 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
11 4 (6.15%) SaaS
11 4 (6.15%) ArchiMate
11 4 (6.15%) GCP
11 4 (6.15%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (6.15%) Migration

IT 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 3 (4.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Azure
2 8 (12.31%) AWS
3 4 (6.15%) GCP
3 4 (6.15%) SaaS
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
2 5 (7.69%) LAN
2 5 (7.69%) Network Security
3 3 (4.62%) SAN
4 2 (3.08%) BGP
4 2 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.08%) MPLS
4 2 (3.08%) OSPF
4 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.54%) 4G
5 1 (1.54%) 5G
5 1 (1.54%) DHCP
5 1 (1.54%) DNS
5 1 (1.54%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
General
1 27 (41.54%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Banking
3 16 (24.62%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Back Office
4 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Law
5 1 (1.54%) Legal
5 1 (1.54%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) CMDB
2 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.08%) IoT
3 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) Change Management
2 10 (15.38%) ITIL
3 9 (13.85%) ITSM
3 9 (13.85%) Service Management
4 7 (10.77%) TOGAF
5 6 (9.23%) Configuration Management
5 6 (9.23%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.69%) Architectural Design
7 4 (6.15%) ArchiMate
7 4 (6.15%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.15%) ERP
7 4 (6.15%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (6.15%) Migration
8 3 (4.62%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (4.62%) Decision-Making
8 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (4.62%) Information Security
8 3 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (4.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.54%) Java
1 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) CISSP
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.08%) CCSK
5 2 (3.08%) CISA
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CRISC
5 2 (3.08%) GIAC
5 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.08%) PhD
6 1 (1.54%) CISM
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) NCSC
2 5 (7.69%) NIST
3 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.62%) GDPR
4 3 (4.62%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.54%) COBIT
6 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
2 5 (7.69%) VMware
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) Sparx
5 1 (1.54%) Citrix
5 1 (1.54%) Guidewire