Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect daily rate in Work from Home 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 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,592 2,470 4,604
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.78% 10.03% 10.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.53% 10.52% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,766 3,222
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £631
Median % change year-on-year - +3.01% +7.50%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £658 £650
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.23% +10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 41 13
10th Percentile £59.00 £62.50 £55.20
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year - +14.89% +5.05%
75th Percentile £87.46 - £66.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Architect hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Architect in the job title.

1 404 (25.38%) Azure
2 384 (24.12%) Finance
3 376 (23.62%) Security Cleared
4 308 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 295 (18.53%) AWS
6 286 (17.96%) Social Skills
7 249 (15.64%) Agile
8 221 (13.88%) Migration
8 221 (13.88%) Public Sector
9 189 (11.87%) DevOps
10 185 (11.62%) Microsoft
11 180 (11.31%) Roadmaps
12 173 (10.87%) Banking
13 149 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 142 (8.92%) Degree
15 134 (8.42%) Data Modelling
16 125 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
17 120 (7.54%) Microservices
18 108 (6.78%) Change Management
19 107 (6.72%) GCP
20 105 (6.60%) Enterprise Architecture
21 104 (6.53%) SAP
22 100 (6.28%) Python
23 97 (6.09%) TOGAF
24 96 (6.03%) DV Cleared
24 96 (6.03%) Telecoms
25 95 (5.97%) Analytics
25 95 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
26 93 (5.84%) Security Architecture
27 89 (5.59%) Oracle

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 48 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.51%) Confluence
3 18 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.07%) Apache
5 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.63%) CMS
7 7 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.38%) IIS
9 5 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.31%) SAS
10 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.063%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Revit
6 1 (0.063%) CATIA
6 1 (0.063%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 36 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 36 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.01%) Teamcenter
3 14 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
5 12 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
8 6 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
8 6 (0.38%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.31%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.31%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.25%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.25%) SAP FI-AP
10 4 (0.25%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 404 (25.38%) Azure
2 295 (18.53%) AWS
3 107 (6.72%) GCP
4 88 (5.53%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
7 48 (3.02%) SaaS
8 37 (2.32%) Entra ID
9 36 (2.26%) PaaS
10 34 (2.14%) IaaS
11 32 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (1.88%) Serverless
13 22 (1.38%) dbt
14 21 (1.32%) Snowflake
15 20 (1.26%) GitHub
16 17 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.01%) OCI
17 16 (1.01%) PowerApps
18 15 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.71%) Firewall
2 55 (3.45%) Network Security
3 47 (2.95%) WAN
4 42 (2.64%) SSL
5 33 (2.07%) LAN
6 24 (1.51%) VPN
7 17 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 17 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.01%) VoIP
9 14 (0.88%) NetScaler
10 10 (0.63%) CTI
10 10 (0.63%) MPLS
11 9 (0.57%) 4G
12 8 (0.50%) ATM
12 8 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.50%) WLAN
13 7 (0.44%) 3G
13 7 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 40 (2.51%) Power BI
4 34 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 34 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.70%) Big Data
6 23 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 22 (1.38%) Metadata
8 21 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (1.19%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.88%) Apache Arrow
10 14 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 14 (0.88%) Dremio
10 14 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
12 12 (0.75%) OLAP
12 12 (0.75%) OLTP
12 12 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.69%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.63%) DB2
Development Applications
1 37 (2.32%) JIRA
2 18 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.82%) ERwin
3 13 (0.82%) Git
4 6 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.19%) GitLab
6 3 (0.19%) Selenium
7 2 (0.13%) Bugzilla
7 2 (0.13%) JMeter
7 2 (0.13%) JUnit
7 2 (0.13%) Postman
7 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.13%) TestNG
7 2 (0.13%) TestRail
7 2 (0.13%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.063%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.063%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.063%) MSI
General
1 384 (24.12%) Finance
2 286 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 221 (13.88%) Public Sector
4 173 (10.87%) Banking
5 96 (6.03%) Telecoms
6 77 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 54 (3.39%) Retail
8 51 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 48 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.76%) Marketing
11 22 (1.38%) Electronics
11 22 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 15 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (0.94%) Front Office
14 13 (0.82%) General Ledger
15 12 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.69%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.08%) Web Services
2 46 (2.89%) .NET
2 46 (2.89%) REST
3 39 (2.45%) SAML
4 38 (2.39%) Middleware
5 33 (2.07%) JSON
6 28 (1.76%) OpenID
7 25 (1.57%) SOAP
8 24 (1.51%) React
8 24 (1.51%) XML
9 23 (1.44%) Node.js
9 23 (1.44%) OAuth
10 20 (1.26%) SailPoint
11 19 (1.19%) Kafka
12 18 (1.13%) RESTful
13 17 (1.07%) LDAP
14 15 (0.94%) GraphQL
15 14 (0.88%) gRPC
15 14 (0.88%) Protocol Buffers
16 13 (0.82%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 42 (2.64%) Data Structures
2 40 (2.51%) PKI
3 36 (2.26%) Cloud Native
3 36 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 33 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 29 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.38%) Mainframe
10 17 (1.07%) Derivative
10 17 (1.07%) IVR
11 16 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.01%) Operational Technology
12 15 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (0.94%) Mobile App
12 15 (0.94%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.88%) Equities
13 14 (0.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.83%) Windows
2 40 (2.51%) Linux
3 17 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.94%) Android
5 14 (0.88%) Unix
6 11 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.44%) Solaris
9 6 (0.38%) VMS
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.13%) AIX
12 2 (0.13%) CentOS
13 1 (0.063%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (15.64%) Agile
2 221 (13.88%) Migration
3 189 (11.87%) DevOps
4 180 (11.31%) Roadmaps
5 149 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (8.42%) Data Modelling
7 125 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (7.54%) Microservices
9 108 (6.78%) Change Management
10 105 (6.60%) Enterprise Architecture
11 97 (6.09%) TOGAF
12 95 (5.97%) Analytics
12 95 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
13 93 (5.84%) Security Architecture
14 86 (5.40%) Architectural Design
15 84 (5.28%) Data Architecture
16 81 (5.09%) Business Intelligence
17 80 (5.03%) CI/CD
18 78 (4.90%) Data Management
19 68 (4.27%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 100 (6.28%) Python
2 85 (5.34%) SQL
3 82 (5.15%) Java
4 55 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.88%) C#
6 24 (1.51%) TypeScript
7 21 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.69%) C++
10 10 (0.63%) C
11 8 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.38%) ABAP
13 5 (0.31%) Go
13 5 (0.31%) Scala
14 4 (0.25%) Bash
14 4 (0.25%) Bicep
15 3 (0.19%) Clojure
15 3 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.19%) PHP
15 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 376 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 308 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.92%) Degree
4 96 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.26%) CISSP
7 34 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.57%) CISM
11 24 (1.51%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.13%) CISA
15 13 (0.82%) CCNP
16 11 (0.69%) SAP Certification
17 8 (0.50%) CCIE
17 8 (0.50%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.96%) NIST
2 45 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 45 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (2.70%) GDPR
4 31 (1.95%) NCSC
5 27 (1.70%) QA
6 18 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.57%) COBIT
9 8 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.44%) GAAP
10 7 (0.44%) SLA
11 6 (0.38%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.19%) GPG13
14 3 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 82 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.51%) Docker
3 22 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.44%) RACF
6 6 (0.38%) vSphere
7 5 (0.31%) KVM
8 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.063%) ACF2
10 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.063%) IAG
10 1 (0.063%) UAG
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (3.14%) Terraform
2 32 (2.01%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.94%) Ansible
6 6 (0.38%) VxRail
6 6 (0.38%) zSecure
7 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.25%) SCCM
9 3 (0.19%) Grafana
9 3 (0.19%) Kibana
9 3 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) Consul
10 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.13%) logstash
10 2 (0.13%) Packer
10 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 185 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.53%) SAP
3 89 (5.59%) Oracle
4 51 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.14%) Cisco
5 50 (3.14%) Google
6 42 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 35 (2.20%) Databricks
8 33 (2.07%) VMware
9 28 (1.76%) IBM
10 27 (1.70%) Sparx
11 26 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 26 (1.63%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.51%) F5
13 20 (1.26%) Citrix
13 20 (1.26%) Genesys
14 18 (1.13%) NetApp
15 17 (1.07%) Okta
16 14 (0.88%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.88%) Pega