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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,104 1,901 2,344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.09% 8.30% 7.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.92% 8.80% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,332 1,678
10th Percentile £500 £513 £505
25th Percentile £563 £573 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £700
90th Percentile £794 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £658 £650
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.23% +8.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 13
10th Percentile - £55.10 £52.60
25th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year - +14.90% +3.10%
75th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £80.37
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 19,265 21,604 29,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,031 20,565
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,082 1,393
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.19
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
South East +5 679 £650 - 133
North of England +19 488 £625 - 152
South West +5 464 £650 -2.69% 74
North West +23 311 £630 +2.48% 93
Midlands +11 253 £625 -3.85% 120
West Midlands +6 174 £650 -3.24% 83
East of England +10 163 £618 -8.65% 43
Yorkshire +8 163 £600 -7.69% 42
Scotland +4 96 £675 +3.85% 27
East Midlands +2 78 £567 -14.09% 37
North East +15 17 £631 +5.21% 17
Wales -10 12 £600 - 24
Northern Ireland +7 10 £650 +18.18% 10
Isle of Man - 3 - - 3
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,001 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 467 (22.20%) DV Cleared
3 449 (21.34%) SC Cleared
4 352 (16.73%) Azure
5 347 (16.49%) Agile
6 334 (15.87%) Social Skills
7 275 (13.07%) Finance
8 256 (12.17%) Public Sector
9 238 (11.31%) Microsoft
10 232 (11.03%) DevOps
11 226 (10.74%) AWS
12 221 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 208 (9.89%) Roadmaps
14 202 (9.60%) Degree
15 183 (8.70%) Migration
15 183 (8.70%) Windows
16 176 (8.37%) WAN
16 176 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
17 157 (7.46%) Firewall
18 151 (7.18%) Cisco
19 149 (7.08%) TOGAF
20 143 (6.80%) Security Architecture
21 137 (6.51%) LAN
22 136 (6.46%) Telecoms
22 136 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture
23 133 (6.32%) Project Management
24 122 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
25 121 (5.75%) Network Management
26 117 (5.56%) Active Directory
27 115 (5.47%) Business Strategy

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 38 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.28%) Confluence
3 18 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.33%) CMS
6 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.24%) Appian
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
9 2 (0.095%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.048%) Drupal
10 1 (0.048%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.048%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.86%) AutoCAD
2 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.095%) Revit
6 1 (0.048%) CATIA
6 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 8 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.38%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.33%) SAP SD
6 7 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 6 (0.29%) SAP FI-AP
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 352 (16.73%) Azure
2 226 (10.74%) AWS
3 83 (3.94%) SaaS
4 76 (3.61%) PaaS
5 63 (2.99%) IaaS
6 61 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 55 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (2.47%) GCP
9 50 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.28%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.09%) Serverless
14 22 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (0.90%) Amazon S3
16 15 (0.71%) OCI
17 12 (0.57%) Boomi
17 12 (0.57%) GitHub
18 11 (0.52%) Azure Stack
18 11 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 176 (8.37%) WAN
2 157 (7.46%) Firewall
3 137 (6.51%) LAN
4 92 (4.37%) VPN
5 76 (3.61%) SSL
6 54 (2.57%) MPLS
7 48 (2.28%) Network Security
8 40 (1.90%) BGP
8 40 (1.90%) SD-WAN
9 38 (1.81%) Cisco Firepower
10 37 (1.76%) VoIP
11 36 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
12 35 (1.66%) PBX
13 28 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (1.24%) DNS
15 18 (0.86%) DHCP
16 16 (0.76%) WLAN
17 14 (0.67%) SAN
17 14 (0.67%) SDH
18 13 (0.62%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.76%) Data Lake
4 30 (1.43%) Big Data
5 26 (1.24%) Power BI
6 24 (1.14%) Metadata
7 22 (1.05%) Oracle Database
8 19 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 13 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 12 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.57%) OLAP
10 12 (0.57%) OLTP
11 11 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.48%) Data Mining
13 8 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
13 8 (0.38%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (2.61%) JIRA
2 24 (1.14%) Git
2 24 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (0.62%) MSI
5 13 (0.62%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.33%) GitLab
7 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.19%) kappa
8 4 (0.19%) Selenium
9 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.14%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.095%) webpack
11 1 (0.048%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.048%) ERwin
11 1 (0.048%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.048%) Terragrunt
General
1 334 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 275 (13.07%) Finance
3 256 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 136 (6.46%) Telecoms
5 122 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 98 (4.66%) Banking
7 96 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 66 (3.14%) Electronics
9 59 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (2.38%) Aerospace
11 45 (2.14%) Marketing
12 29 (1.38%) Retail
13 26 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (0.86%) Local Government
15 17 (0.81%) Legal
16 14 (0.67%) Automotive
17 13 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (0.52%) Back Office
19 8 (0.38%) Billing
19 8 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.66%) Web Services
2 50 (2.38%) Node.js
3 36 (1.71%) SOAP
4 32 (1.52%) Middleware
5 31 (1.47%) SAML
6 30 (1.43%) REST
7 29 (1.38%) .NET
8 28 (1.33%) XML
9 27 (1.28%) Kafka
10 26 (1.24%) OpenID
11 25 (1.19%) OAuth
12 19 (0.90%) RESTful
13 18 (0.86%) JSON
14 16 (0.76%) LDAP
15 14 (0.67%) HTML
15 14 (0.67%) J2EE
16 13 (0.62%) SailPoint
17 12 (0.57%) React
18 10 (0.48%) OpenGL ES
18 10 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 90 (4.28%) Data Centre
2 86 (4.09%) PKI
3 74 (3.52%) Public Cloud
4 72 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 38 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.66%) Analogue Electronics
6 35 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 23 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 19 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (0.90%) Operational Technology
12 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
13 17 (0.81%) SCADA
14 16 (0.76%) NHS
15 15 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
17 11 (0.52%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (8.70%) Windows
2 86 (4.09%) Windows Server
3 64 (3.04%) Linux
4 55 (2.61%) Android
5 54 (2.57%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.48%) Unix
11 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.19%) VMS
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.095%) Solaris
13 2 (0.095%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.095%) zOS
14 1 (0.048%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (16.49%) Agile
2 232 (11.03%) DevOps
3 221 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 208 (9.89%) Roadmaps
5 183 (8.70%) Migration
6 176 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
7 149 (7.08%) TOGAF
8 143 (6.80%) Security Architecture
9 136 (6.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 133 (6.32%) Project Management
11 121 (5.75%) Network Management
12 115 (5.47%) Business Strategy
13 114 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
14 106 (5.04%) Customer Requirements
14 106 (5.04%) IT Strategy
15 105 (4.99%) CI/CD
16 103 (4.90%) Project Delivery
17 102 (4.85%) Cybersecurity
18 98 (4.66%) Risk Management
19 95 (4.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 98 (4.66%) Java
2 74 (3.52%) SQL
3 68 (3.23%) Python
4 65 (3.09%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.38%) C
6 19 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 18 (0.86%) C++
8 17 (0.81%) C#
9 11 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.33%) ABAP
11 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.29%) Bash
12 4 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.095%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.095%) SOQL
15 1 (0.048%) PHP
15 1 (0.048%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.048%) Tcl
15 1 (0.048%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,001 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 467 (22.20%) DV Cleared
3 449 (21.34%) SC Cleared
4 202 (9.60%) Degree
5 41 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.47%) CCNP
10 26 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.19%) CISSP
12 17 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.81%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.71%) CCIE
13 15 (0.71%) HND
14 13 (0.62%) CISM
15 12 (0.57%) ISACA
15 12 (0.57%) PhD
16 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.48%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.04%) QA
2 42 (2.00%) NIST
3 34 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.24%) JSP 440
6 22 (1.05%) GDPR
7 21 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.95%) NCSC
9 15 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.67%) SLA
11 12 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 9 (0.43%) COBIT
13 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (0.33%) RMADS
14 4 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.14%) GRC
16 2 (0.095%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.095%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 117 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 73 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (1.24%) Docker
4 23 (1.09%) vSphere
5 21 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.19%) XenApp
9 4 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.14%) KVM
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.048%) ACF2
11 1 (0.048%) HDFS
11 1 (0.048%) IAG
11 1 (0.048%) UAG
11 1 (0.048%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (2.71%) Terraform
2 32 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (1.33%) Ansible
4 26 (1.24%) Endace
5 14 (0.67%) WMI
6 11 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.48%) CSIRT
7 10 (0.48%) SCCM
8 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.19%) Grafana
9 4 (0.19%) OPNET
9 4 (0.19%) PowerCLI
9 4 (0.19%) SCOM
9 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.19%) VxRail
10 3 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.14%) Podman
10 3 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 238 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.18%) Cisco
3 110 (5.23%) Juniper
4 100 (4.75%) VMware
5 85 (4.04%) SAP
6 59 (2.80%) Oracle
7 48 (2.28%) F5
7 48 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.23%) Google
9 36 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 35 (1.66%) IBM
11 29 (1.38%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.19%) Databricks
12 25 (1.19%) Dell
13 23 (1.09%) Nokia
14 17 (0.81%) Adobe
15 16 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.71%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.71%) Sparx
17 14 (0.67%) Zscaler